Apple now spends more money on patenting stuff than it does on coming up with …

To you and me it’s a big phone, to wilful language manglers it’s a “phablet”. Either way, Samsung’s 5.5-inch monster Galaxy Note 2 stretches the boundaries of mobile gadgets as much as it does the sinews of your mitts. With its ingenious S Pen stylus and Samsung’s pen-driven TouchWiz tweaks to Google’s latest Jelly Bean Android software, there’s a bunch …

Uncork the champers, string up the bunting and activate the Queen — Windows Phone 8 is primed for a very British debut on 29 October, the same day that Microsoft’s new operating system goes live in the US. We’ve been sent a ‘save the date’ invitation to a London-based box social in just under three weeks’ time, where we’ll doubtless …