The HTC Explorer was realesed on the 29th, September 2011 and came with a 3 megapixel color camera, records video in mp4 format and amoungst other things an Internal GPS antenna.

With 2012 almost here and smart phones becoming more and more powerful and feature rich what can we expect for 2012?

We can expect faster Quad-Core Processors with Qualcomm, planning to launch quad-core Snapdragon 2.5GHz CPUs and with quad-core Adreno graphics processors for gaming.

BBC's iPlayer app has had an update that allows it to stream video over all of the UK's 3G mobile networks.

The BBC's iPlayer app new feature works on Apple's iPhones and iPads.

What or how is the GALAXY NEXUS better or worse than Apple's shiny Iphone 4S? 

All Hardware specifications are almost equal throught both mobiles, the only main difference is the operating system.

• Galaxy Nexus runs on Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich,
• Iphone 4S runs on Apple's IOS 5.

T-Mobile are releasing a handset called the Vivacity. The mobile is a low cost Android handset that has quite a few nice features for the money.

The Vivacity as a prepay will cost just under £100 which is a price that few other smartphones have been able to hit.

Apple is on the look out in the UK for repair specialists for iPhone and iPads as an alternative to China.

At the moment companies in the UK are accredited to deliver Level 1 repairs but CAN offer higher level repairs at lower costs.

Is the future where consumers will be able to pay for high street items with their mobile phones in 5 years? 

PayPal commissioned Research by Forrester and found that 2016 will be the year when UK shoppers will be able to use their mobile phones to pay for things on the high street with digital money rather than cash, cheques or cards”.

SMS was the original “killer app” for mobile. In terms of the volumes involved and the revenues generated, it is arguably one that has never been bettered. According to the ITU, there were a staggering 6.1 trillion SMS sent globally last year, a figure that has tripled since 2007. Assuming an average cost of US$0.07 per message, the ITU reckons that SMS traffic generated about US$14,000 every second for operators in 2010. Not bad for a service that was originally designed simply to push network notifications to SIM cards.

Smartphone and account for almost 70% of all recent mobile phone sales but you need to make sure you're aware of the security risks too.

Holidaymaker returns from US to £4,000 mobile bill after being wrongly sold £6 roaming bundle