What Mobile takes a look at the CAT B15, the rugged phone which can withstand water, a fall from 1.8m – and a dog’s appetite.

What Mobile takes a look at the larger Kindle Fire HD offering, the 8.9″, and how it measures up in a world of tablet-enabled e-readers.

The ZTE Blade III performs well beyond its super-budget price tag…

The HTC One is a stunning looking phone and an excellent performer – but is it enough to topple Samsung, Sony and Apple?

It took its time getting here, and while the Motorola Razr HD is a great phone it is a victim of its delayed UK release and a high price.

We review the Lumia 620, Nokia’s newest entry level device – how does it stack up?

£439.99 samsung.com/uk Is this the Windows Phone version of the Galaxy S3? Very nearly. It’s very tempting to see Windows Phone as a two horse race between HTC and Nokia. HTC inked a deal with Microsoft to make its Windows Phone 8 handsets the official launch phone for the new OS; Nokia meanwhile has thrown […]

This Nexus 7 slate rival has a great screen and is perfect for kids… but for anyone else? You might not have heard of Barnes & Noble before, but it’s one of the leagest booksellers in the US. It’s an American Waterstones, if you will. Imagine if Waterstones one day decided to fight the digitisation […]

Put simply, the Nexus 10 is the first tablet to match up to the iPad. The phrase ‘iPad killer’ has been around for as long as the iPad – an oxymoron since there has yet to be any true challenger to the industry’s flagship tablet PC. With the Nexus 10, Apple’s two biggest enemies, Samsung […]

HTC’s pimped up the unfairly ignored One X for late 2012. Is it second time lucky? HTC ONE X+ £474 (contracts start at £31p/m) Reviewer: Philip Brown The HTC One X+, like its forebear, is in danger of being cruelly overlooked. It’s a shame, as it just might be the best Android phone available right […]

A curiously unfocused tablet, but full of potential Even as I sit down to write this review, I still have no idea what market the Surface is aimed at.   Its advertising campaign suggests its a hip, indie-kid cool device that will change the way you use a tablet ‘ an attempt to out-do Apple’s […]

HTC Windows Phone 8X £399 htc.com/uk Reviewer: Michael Garwood HTC proves it’s more than just the ‘other’ Windows Phone 8 manufacturer HTC must be one of the most hard done by phone companies in the business – no matter how good its devices prove to be, they just don’t seem to get picked up in […]

iPad Mini From £269 www.apple.com/uk Is smaller always better? So where does the iPad Mini fit in Apple’s grand scheme of things? It is, quite simply, a smaller version of an iPad 2 – despite Apple’s claims to the contrary. Apple finally decided to take a dip into the 7-inch tablet market, the idea being […]

Sony has had an impressive run of late, releasing a stream of high-quality phones at all price points. It’s now aiming for its biggest launch yet with the Xperia T – a feature-packed Android device billed as its new flagship smartphone. Even James Bond has been spotted using one in the movie, Skyfall. When we […]

While many manufacturers are putting all their effort into creating the most feature-packed touchscreen phones, Swedish firm Doro takes a different approach by focussing on ease-of-use for elderly phone users. The PhoneEasy 612 is its latest flip-phone and offers a durable and easy way for less tech-savvy people to make calls, send texts and take […]

When Samsung launched the original Galaxy Note late last year, the unique smartphone/tablet hybrid’s huge screen and impressive performance made it an ideal choice for multimedia fans. Its successor is now bigger than ever and packed with stunning power and features, but you’ll need big hands and a large wallet to fully enjoy it. The […]

While Nokia’s Lumia Windows Phone smartphones get the lions share of press for the Finnish firm these days, its Nokia Asha feature-phones are the unsung heroes that are quietly shifting plenty of units throughout the world. Packing easy usability, eye-catching looks and low prices the Nokia Asha range offers great value for anyone that doesn’t […]

Following the launch of the original Motorola Defy and the Motorola Defy+, the Motorola Defy Mini is the smallest model in the Google-owned manufacturer’s line of water-resistant, dustproof smartphones. The previous two models offerered decent attempts at finding a compromise between the sophisticated technology needs of urban users and the demands of outdoorsy-types who want […]

The ZTE Grand X Android smartphone is a breath of fresh air. For once we’ve got an Android phone that is running the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system as Google intended. But is that enough of a selling point in 2012? It’s a funny thing, Android. Google’s mobile operating system is the most […]

Until recently Hannspree has mainly been associated with producing televisions and PC monitors. But following the success of the Apple iPad and the resurgence of tablet technology, it entered the tablet market with the original Hannspree Hannspad. While it didn’t set the world alight, the first Hannspree Hannspad provided a functional and affordable alternative to […]

When Samsung launched the original Galaxy Note last year, the unique phone/tablet hybrid won us over with its great multimedia abilities. The huge 5.3-inch screen made it completely impractical as a phone, however, so Samsung has opted to ditch phone functionality for its successor and instead create a dedicated tablet. With rivals such as the […]

While Samsung is still riding high on the success of the Galaxy S III, it also offers a range of affordable entry- and mid-level smartphones that provide great usability at a low price. The latest is the Galaxy Ace 2, an Android-powered handset that packs plenty of value for money. Building on the foundation of […]

Following the Samsung Galaxy S III and the Samsung Galaxy Mini 2, the Samsung Galaxy S Advance is aimed squarely at the middle of the smartphone market and, as such, it has ended up decidedly middle of the road. For some the handset’s solidity and design consistency may be charming, however, and anyone looking for […]

The LG Optimus L3 is the lowest ranked handset in LG’s L Series – which also comprises the LG Optimus L5 and Optimus L7 – but you can’t tell by looking at its design. It’s not a great-looking handset, but in a world where the trend for devices is to get bigger and bigger, almost […]

Over the years, Intel has achieved dominance in the PC market, putting huge pressure on rivals such as AMD. But in the smartphone market it’s been a different story. Chips based on designs by UK firm ARM have been ruling the roost, because they have offered the energy efficiency needed for such portable devices. But […]

The Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 were well-received debuts for Nokia’s first Windows Phone range back in 2011. The Nokia Lumia 900 is even more significant as it’s the first Nokia Lumia flagship phone for the all-important US market. And it’s now arrived in the UK.

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 […]

Touchscreen phones and smartphones are permanently inter-twined, thanks to Apple’s pioneering iPhone. But not all smartphones are touchscreens – see BlackBerry – and the Alcatel OT-602 touchscreen phone is definitely not a smartphone. At just £20 on Pay As You Go, it’s a teeny, tiny, first mobile for tweens, with just enough features to keep […]

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 […]

Nokia has been in freefall for years now, rapidly losing smartphone market share: sure, it’s still the world’s biggest mobile manufacturer, but that just means it’s had further to fall. The company’s partnership with Microsoft to produce Windows Phone devices, aimed at stemming the flow and announced early last year, bore fruit in October, with […]

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 […]

Whatever business you’re in, everything is mobile now. That’s become especially true in recent years for the world’s leading PC and laptop manufacturers, who’ve slowly cottoned on to the fact that they can’t let the likes of Apple hoover up all of the tablet and phone market. We’ve seen the likes of Asus and Dell […]

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 […]

RIM’s fallen on troubled times, with deflating shares and its next-generation operating system, BlackBerry Ten, not set to appear until the very end of the year. In the meantime, the Canadian company is pushing the Bold 9790, a slimmer version of its successful QWERTY smartphone for business professionals. The Bold 9790 design may not win […]

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 […]

The HTC Sensation XE is a familiar phone. Just six months ago HTC launched the Sensation (see review on p58) and this modest update doesn’t mess with the impressive Android formula. What you’re looking at is a striking, curved design carved out of cool machined metal, a 4.3-inch, sharp 540×960 16.7 million colour screen, a […]

The former king of the phone market is back and it wants to barge into the ring occupied by Apple and an army of Android phones. Every contestant wants to rule the world and the Lumia 800 is the latest uppercut by Nokia… The Lumia 800 is more than a phone, it’s the first viable […]

It’s an almost imperceptible trend, so slow has it been, but make no two ways about it: phones are getting faster – and bigger, not smaller. While Apple has been content to stick with a 3.5-inch screen on every iteration of its iPhone, rivals have been slowly and surely pushing the limits of acceptable ergonomics, […]

The iPhone 4 was a massive upgrade to the iPhone family and it’s fair to say the smartphone market was never the same again. The Retina screen stunned the most cynical of onlookers and the enhanced processing power kick-started the next generation of apps and games. Rivals were left open-mouthed and have been playing catch-up […]

Phone manufacturer Huawei and its rival ZTE are just about the biggest companies you’ve never heard of, and it may surprise you to know that both have been selling handsets in the UK for aeons, typically under the guise of network-branded models such as the T-Mobile Pulse (Huawei) and Orange San Francisco and Monte Carlo […]

Affordable phones often struggle to stand out from the pack, so it’s refreshing to see one with a clear, no-nonsense selling point. In the case of the Samsung Solid Immerse, it’s an ability to withstand the sort of treatment that would swiftly transform most rivals into a useless brick. Yes, this is a tougher cookie […]

BlackBerry returns with an update of the classic 9000 – but is the Black Berry Bold 9900 for you?

Produced by Huawei, the Orange Stockholm certainly looks the part, but as a budget Android smartphone does it have the features to match?

What’s in a name? HTC’s two phones with Facebook access have dance-related monikers. There’s the Salsa and this one, the ChaCha (you can just call it your Facebook phone)

Before I got my hands on Sony Ericsson’s Xperia neo, I figured I had the review sussed. On paper, the Xperia neo is near identical to the Xperia arc, bar the smaller size. So a nice easy search and replace job of my old review then?

It’s smaller than most current tablets, runs on an older OS and includes an old-fashioned stylus-like pen…how on earth will the HTC Flyer compete?

With the HTC Sensation, it’s perhaps easy to raise concerns that HTC is at risk of getting a reputation for releasing too many minor upgrades to their range, with so many handsets similar in both looks and features as the model released before it.

All screens bright and beautiful, all features great and small, all things wise and wonderful, is LG’s Optimus Black best of all?

We’ve finally got our hands on Motorola’s new dual-core smartphone, but that’s not all; we’ve also been given all the accessories that makes the ATRIX much more than any old Android smartphone…

Look around and you’ll see no shortage of smartphones with huge screens, but what about the people ready to get their first smartphone that don’t fancy something the size of a DVD case in their back pocket?