Apple has announced that the iPhone 6 Plus will be a 5.5in screen, making it a 'Phablet' (a size in between phone and tablet guys, keep up), and HTC has taken to Twitter to 'congratulate' its competitor on finally creating a big phone - noticeably quite a while after all the other brands. As an…

Well, we all had our fingers, toes and everything else crossed that Apple wouldn't just be launching the iPhone 6 tonight and we weren't disappointed. Tonight at the highly-anticipated Apple event in Cupertino, California, Apple's Tim Cook unveiled the Apple Watch. That's right, it's not the iWatch, but the Apple Watch. The wearable comes in…

Apple has just announced that the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus will go on sale in the US and eight other territories on 19th September. There isn't word on which territories these are, but presumably the UK will be one of them. Pre-orders open this Friday, 12th September. Want to read more? Here’s our…

You don't always have signal when you need to make a call, whether you're on the tube, the train, or even at work. But chances are that you will have Wi-Fi in many of those places. Thankfully, the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus will let you make calls via Wi-Fi so that you're…

You'd think with Apple being able to create two gorgeous new iPhones and all, Tim Cook and co would've made sure that the live stream for the launch of the iPhone 6 was actually working, but, alas, it got off to a shaky start immediately, as live viewers (including us) were left constantly refreshing the…

At today's highly-anticipated Apple event in Cupertino, California, Apple's CEO Tim Cook has unveiled not one but two new models of its super popular smartphone, the iPhone. The first is called the iPhone 6 and its bigger brother is the iPhone 6 Plus. A slow-mo (or at least we think it was slow-mo, the live…

You just can't move for stories about 'wearables' at the moment. It seems every five minutes a company is launching a new smart watch or a fitness and wellbeing tracker that monitors everything from your sleeping patterns to how quickly you can run round the block. But this is just the beginning of what's sure…

Back in May Tesco announced that it would be following up its well received Hudl tablet with a Hudl smartphone, one that was supposed to be comparable with the Samsung Galaxy S5. Sadly Robin Terrell, Tesco's multichannel director, has revealed that plans for the Hudl smartphone have been put on hold, perhaps indefinitely. In a…

If you're a big company like Amazon, you're bound to get some criticism every now and again -- some of it worse than others. So how do you take pre-emptive measure to ensure that this criticism doesn't turn into a PR disaster? You buy up all the domains that could cause you issues. Case in…

Over the next week the shinyshiny team will be exploring the worlds of fashion and technology. We're going to be showing you the exciting ways brands are enhancing our buying experiences, rounding up some of the most stylish accessories for your tech, letting you in on our favourite online shopping secrets and taking a peek at…