Huawei drops MediaPad 7 budget tablet

Huawei has just dropped what looks like a rather interesting new tablet. The MediaPad 7 Youth, is as you'd expect a seven inch tablet aimed at a younger audience but its has a rather striking looking aluminum metal unibody which is both skinny and light. Spec-wise it isn't bad either,. You get With a 7-inch…

Forget smart watches, are smart textiles and implants the future?

We are only months away from an almighty battle for the smart watch market. Apple is rumoured to be beefing up its iWatch team, Samsung is working on a similar device and Sony has been in the market for a while with its range of watches. Might however the smart watch be a small blip…

HTC One Mini UK launch confirmed – EE and Phones 4u first in line

HTC has finally confirmed that it is going to debut a smaller version of its best selling HTC One Android smartphone.The HTC One Mini basically keeps much of what makes its larger sibling great, but in a smaller package with a tidier screen size - 4.3-inch 720p screen (1280 x 720). Ironically though that still…

Is Apple delaying the iPhone 5S to increase its screen size?

So you are Apple and are working on the iPhone 5S. Yet that screen that you lined up - the four inch one that was also on the iPhone 5 - now looks a little undernourished compared with the huge screen mobiles churned out by Samsung and Sony? What can you do? Well according to…

The Lytro – a unique camera – finally lands in the UK

It has been a long time coming but the Lytro camera finally arrives in the UK today going on sale in a variety of stores with prices starting at £399. So why is this a big deal? Well in case you missed the hype the Lytro, which has been in existence since 2011, offers users…

Samsung revives the Flip Phone – in the guise of the Galaxy Folder

Aaah mid noughties nostalgia. Remember when we all used to crave flip phones? Well it appears that we might do again, for Samsung is on course to launch an Android powered, Galaxy monikered touch screen phone as a flip! Samsung has already launched a pair of flips in its domestic market this year and now…

HTC to take on Samsung and Sony with HTC One Max Phablet

If you want any more evidence after this and this, that this is the summer of the really big phone, we have got some gossip about HTC. German phone site Mobile Geeks has suggested that the HTC One Max, which will be a rival for the Sony and Samsung big screen titans, will be out…

FT hints at issues with Apple's iWatch

There's an interesting snippet in the FT today which reports that Apple is in the midst of a hiring spree as it seeks to put together a team to build the company's much vaunted iWatch. It is reading between the lines but that does suggest that the iWatch is no way imminent and probably won't…

Leave it out Thom Yorke! Why musicians need to stop bashing Spotify!

If you were to tell me I had to lose every single website and app but could keep one (on my desert island apps interview) I would keep Spotify. I adore the music service and have been a subscriber since it first made its apps available. The way in which I can listen to music…