These days, with phones that let you navigate streets, peer at augmented reality and share videos on Facebook, text messages don't seem very exciting. In fact they seem quite dull and 90s. However, let's not underestimate them. I've had a couple of discussions recently with people who had a lot to say about text messages.…

If you thought it was hard to charge more than 59p for anything on a phone - you might be surprised to hear that we are already spending megabucks through mobile commerce - buying £50,000 cars on mobile phones for example. People are clearly willing to make massive transactions on their mobiles - and we're…

The big selling point of this phone, Samsung's only Windows 7 device is the huge glossy Super AMOLED screen, good for game-playing on that Xbox application.. The Omnia 7 is powered by a 1 GHz processor and has a 8GB of onboard memory for storing files. Other features include a 3.5 mm headphone socket, GPS…

Three of the six Windows 7 phones that will on sale in the UK will be made by HTC. They include the glam HD7 which features an enormous 4.3" screen and was the one that got Stephen Fry rooting for Microsoft - is it really that good? The Mozart packs many of the same features…

With a kooky slender design, this handset from LG stands out for looks - but what else sets it apart from the other five Windows 7 phones launched yesterday? It has a couple of software tricks up its sleeve as Anna demonstrates in the video...

Microsoft threw down a challenge to the apps-based model of iPhone and Android by basing their new Operating System around Hubs and Tiles. Windows Phone 7, launched yesterday, works around six hubs: People, Pictures, Office, Music, Video and Games Hub. Microsoft spokesman Aaron Woodhouse claimed that they make for a quicker and more integrated user…

Stephen Fry was one of the first people in the country to fall for the "delightful" new Windows 7 phones and he came on stage at the UK press conference to tell us just how much he liked it. And he was not getting paid for this he said. After comparing Windows phones to 60s…

We were flashed through a range of the new windows 7 phones from glamourous and giant HTC HD7 - with kickstand - to the slender LG Optimus. Here are the six they are launching in the UK HTC Mozart - exclusively on Orange Samsung Omnia 7 - very bright, 4 inch Amoled screen, on Vodafone…

We're used to thinking of the developing world as a place where we dump our second-hand technology. Old mobiles, cheap laptops and bashed-up computers - Asia, Latin America and Africa get the specced-down cast-offs of what we use in the West. But - as one fascinating talk at CityCamp London yesterday pointed out - we're…