Best budget phone 2025: The top cheap smartphones in the UK, as tested and reviewed by us
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Play review
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A good idea, but we're not sure the execution is great enough to bear the weight of a whole new gaming format.
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£460 inc VAT
Parrot Minikit Smart review
Mobile phonesA very clever piece of kit, but the speaker is too quiet and call quality wasn't as good as we were hoping for.
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£100 inc VAT
Opera Mobile 11.10 brings the mobile browser wars
Mobile phonesKat tries out the mobile browser that gives HTML5 support to almost any smartphone
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 review
Mobile phonesThe X8 has some clever features, but it can't match Motorola’s Defy on contract. It’s a good choice on prepay, though.
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£149 inc VAT
Vodafone network temporarily wiped out after break-in
Mobile phonesCustomers have lost voice and data connections as a result of break-in at Vodafone.
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HP Veer and webOS demonstration
Mobile phonesIt's not all Android at Mobile World Congress, with HP's very impressive webOS also being demonstrated on new hardware.
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Acer Iconia Smart – the super widescreen smartphone
Mobile phonesAcer's brave new smartphone design incorporates a super-long 21:9 display
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Nokia ditches Symbian for Windows Phone 7
Mobile phonesNokia and Microsoft form strategic alliance
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iPlayer App for Android available now, but it’s buggy
Mobile phonesMobile site still a better option than app
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Alcatel-Lucent LightRadio promises UK mobile broadband everywhere
Mobile phonesShrinks a base station into a tiny cube
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