It’s almost a year since HTC overtook Nokia in terms of market value. Admittedly, Nokia was in an almightily pickle at the time but hey, it’s not bad for a company that, 15 years ago, was churning out generic PDAs under the dated guise of ‘High Tech Computer Corp’. Fast-forward to 2012. HTC co-founder Cher […]

The LG Optimus L3 E400 is the sub £99 Android from LG that looks set to go against the Huawei Ascend G300, Samsung Galaxy Ace and own brand network offerings. The budget spec starts with a 3.2 inch screen, which means the body is small and slim – palm size in fact at just 102.6 […]

In February last year, Nokia dropped a bombshell on the mobile world: its new CEO, Stephen Elop, stood on stage in London with Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer to announce that it would begin to make Windows Phone devices. That was a remarkable about-turn for Nokia, but it also spelt the end for Symbian, the operating […]

Let’s get this clear from the start. The Vodafone 155 is not one of the new breed of feature phones aping the functionality of more expensive smartphones. Where Nokia’s new Asha S40 handsets can surf the web, navigate, chat with iPhone and Android users on WhatsApp and even play Angry Birds, the £25 Vodafone 155 […]

HTC, like Samsung, has made a name for itself by producing high-tech Android phones with big screens and high-end specs, yet both companies have dabbled in entry-level smartphones for years. 2012 is where the battle really kicks off. HTC’s affordable Android heritage can be traced back to the 2009 Tattoo, which featured a tiny 2.8-inch […]

Welcome to the world’s most expensive disposable razor. Amazon’s business model for its first all-streaming, all-dancing colour Kindle device is just like your triple-bladed shaver: sell the hardware at a loss, lock in your customer base and get rich on the consumables. Here, of course, the consumables are not aloe vera moisturising blades but a […]

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei might not have established itself in the UK, but it’s already thinking big. Over the next ten years it expects to boost turnover from $6billion to $100billion – grabbing a slice of the tablet market in the process. First step to realising those rather lofty ambitions? The MediaPad, the company’s first […]

HTC’s design language is pretty distinctive. The company has said it would like you to know it’s an HTC even if the label fell off. The Sensation XL is the latest handset in the Sensation series, and the second to feature the Beats Audio logo on the back. HTC now part-owns Beats and is making […]

When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad in January 2010, Apple jumpstarted a tablet market that had never really taken off. Naturally Google, as the company behind the Android, had to get involved but it was caught off guard by the iPad’s success, and it took some time to modify Android for use on larger, higher […]

At its core, Android is an open source operating system. Not only does that mean that any manufacturer can do what they like with it, but they can put it on whatever they like too. As a result there’s a growing line of budget Android smartphones out there, running Google’s mobile OS on barebones specs […]

Video-beatboxing crossed with Max Headroom? There’s an app for that! Seriously. It’s called MadPad, and it’s the work of US developer Smule, which has previously found fame with music apps like Leaf Trombone, Magic Piano and the Glee Karaoke app.

Yes, there’s been a YouTube app on Android from the beginning. That’s kind of the point, though – the YT app has always been inextricably tied in with the Android OS. youtube mp3 converter

We’ve covered similar apps on other platforms before, but Blog Radio is the first Ovi example we’ve featured.

It could be said that Dukto, an open source means of transferring your files from Symbian phone to computer (and vice versa), adopts the opposite philosophy to equivalent Nokia services like PC Suite and Ovi Suite.

The default Games section of your spangly new Windows Phone 7 device is all very nice, but Xbox 360 console gamers will want a little more.

Gordon Ramsay is on his best behaviour for his iPad app this month, but The Thick Of It star Malcolm Tucker has no need for restraint in his own iPhone app.

Google’s Latitude location service has been available on Android and other smartphones for ages, but technical issues (and a rumoured block from Apple) kept it off iPhone.

So, the Facebook massive didn’t manage to derail the X Factor’s Christmas chart train this time.

“Have you ever wanted to cook with Gordon Ramsay in the comfort of your own kitchen?” asks the blurb for this app. Frankly? No, not unless he gets a bit less shouty.

We always wanted a Babel Fish, ever since reading about it in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

David Guetta is a globetrotting superstar DJ who’s also found time to produce artists like Rihanna, Madonna and the Black Eyed Peas. A man with clout, in other words.

There isn’t so much as an inch of fat on Translate’s bones – even the title drops all but the most essential of words. This is a strictly functional translation app, but it works very well indeed – you choose your languages, type a phrase and tap to translate.

You can’t argue with robots. Well, you can, but it might end badly for humanity. We’ve had a fascination with all things android (note lower-case ‘a’) for nearly a century, right back to the earliest science fiction.

There is no shortage of ways to share photos from your iPhone, with the Facebook app the most popular by far. However, new app Path has been launched as a counterpoint to that, promising to create a ‘personal network’ limited to just your closest friends and family.

There’s already one Jamie Oliver app available for iPhone – Jamie’s 20 Minute Meals – and it’s been very popular. Its follow-up is free, but uses in-app payments to sell you bundles of recipes according to theme. Classic Comfort Food, Tasty Tray-Bakes and the like.

Children love pull-out wooden puzzles, where they have to fit shapes into holes by dropping them in. The only problem is the inevitable tears when a shape goes missing.

The Internet is rather big, isn’t it? As if that wasn’t enough, you now have thousands of mobile apps to trawl through. StumbleUpon helps alleviate such information overload and makes good old fashioned web surfing fun and relevant again.

If you’re reading this just before Christmas and panicking about festive food, Waitrose’s classy Christmas app is an essential download.

StartTalking takes advantage of Google’s excellent voice-recognition and synthesis software to create a completely hands-and-eyes-free messaging system.

For those who spend much of their working lives out on the road, figuring out your mileage at the end of the month can be a monotonous task – particularly when you haven’t kept proper tabs on where you’ve been.

It might strictly speaking fall under the category of ‘game’ rather than ‘app’ (developer Rovio made Angry Birds) but Ovi Maps Challenge is as much a light-hearted educational tool as anything. Dare we use that dreaded term “edutainment”? Too late – we just did.