Vodafone has started pushing out the Android 2.2 Froyo update to the HTC Legend — and amazingly, it seems to have appeared before HTC has updated unlocked handsets. In a surprising turn of events, the Vodafone and XDA Developers boards have lit up with delighted Vodafone users expressing their surprise at receiving the Legend update, …

Vodafone today announced a new range of plans offering unlimited calls and messages to Australian phones for less than half the price of its nearest competition. (Credit: CBSi) Calling its new plans “Infinite”, the just-announced capped plans start from AU$45 per month and offer unlimited calls to landlines and mobiles in Australia, as well as unlimited texts excluding messages to …

It was announced this week that Tesco Mobile is to sell the iPhone. Reactions ranged from amused disdain to utter joy: is this the end of the MessiahPhone‘s premium cachet, or is it just the start of a price revolution that will put the world’s favourite mobile Web-browsing device in the hands of the masses? The iPhone 3G and 3GS …

The Palm Pre 2 has been unveiled as HP’s first sortie into the smart phone jungle, and it’ll run the brand-new webOS 2.0 software. The Palm Pre 2 will be released in France this week, unusually. So far HP hasn’t given us any information on UK availability or pricing, but we’ll be a little surprised if the handset doesn’t arrive …

We now have pictures of the next Android super phone, a successor to the Google Nexus One. It won’t be the Google Nexus Two though — it’s called the Google Nexus S. US retail chain Best Buy has accidently leaked information on the the Samsung-made Gingerbread-running phone. Photos published by Engadget show the Nexus S looking very much like previously …

We can’t get away from those persistent Angry Birds. To go with the film, the cuddly toys and Halloween costume, we now have an iPhone 4 case winging its way to us, courtesy of O2 and HMV. On a landing page, O2 has the Gear4-made case marked for a November release, with designs based on the famous red bird, the …

We don’t need to tell you about the HTC Desire HD‘s huge screen, Android 2.2 operating system, 8-megapixel camera, and aluminium frame — we know you want one. All you need to decide now is where to get it. The phone is available with deals on 3, T-Mobile and Vodafone, so we’ve compared over 100 of their deals to see …

Two of HTC’s better-known handsets, the Droid Incredible and the Evo 4G, are currently receiving software updates. Unfortunately they aren’t Gingerbread some are anxiously awaiting, but instead are typical maintenance releases and tweaks. Some of you may have already received these files, as they started rolling out over the last day or so. The update hitting the Droid Incredible sees …

Forgive us for missing this blog the last few weeks, but we’re back to report on the mobile happenings at the Federal Communications Commission. Outside of the appearance of the Samsung GT-i9020, aka what could be the Nexus S, it was a tablet week at the FCC’s certification labs. We spied the upcoming Sharp Galapagos and the AT&T and international …

A Nobel prize-winning physicist says that graphene, the exotic material that won him the top science gong, could end up on touchscreen phones as early as next year. Last month, the Nobel prize in physics went to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselo, of Manchester University, for coming up with graphene, a one-atom-thick transparent sheet of carbon. Graphene is more conductive …