Why Nokia is swapping luxury Vertu phones for Scalado Nokia’s rethinking where it splashes its cash and it looks like we’ll see some amazing photo tricks in the next Lumia phones Diamond-clad phones are out and PhotoBeamer is in at Nokia’s Espoo and Lund HQs this week. The Finnish phone-makers are streamlining their finances with three execs hitting the block, 10,000 planned job cuts and the sale of luxury brand Vertu, which designs some seriously up-market handsets like theconcierge-toting Constellation T....

Wi-Fi-toting Sony NEX-5R revealed Sony’s latest compact system camera boasts app support and a faster new autofocus system Sony has announced a new addition to its line-up of compact system cameras. The NEX-5R is outwardly similar to the existing NEX-5 (read our review), but sports a handful of standout additions to the feature list. There’s a new 16.1-megapixel CMOS sensor, but perhaps more interesting is the addition of Wi-Fi and a newly-developed autofocus system....

Will we be saying goodbye to rubbish earphones with the iPhone 5? Those terrible Apple earphones you get with the iPhone? Could be a thing of the past Got your bag of salt ready? Good. It’s rumoured Apple may be ditching its rubbish earphones in favour of something new, potentially starting with theiPhone 5‘s rumoured September launch. The purpoted replacements, as you can see in the image found by Vietnamese website Tinhte....

WisePilot Navigator Europe comes to Windows Phone For those without Nokia Drive, there’s a turn-by-turn navigation app ready for you to find now Nokia Lumia and HTC owners might be zipping about town easily thanks to Nokia Maps and the HTC Locations app – but other Windows Phone owners may, until now, have found themselves going in circles. Now WisePilot’s come to their rescue with the WisePilot Navigator Europe app....

Xbox 720 announcement coming in April with Illumiroom? Microsoft shows off new tech at CES that makes games explode out of the screen – could the Xbox 720 turn your living room into a holodeck? If you weren’t already itching with excitement about Microsoft’s next console then this demo of its new Illumiroom technology will have you tingling. The Microsoft Research project – shown off in a video at the Samsung CES keynote – uses a Kinect and projector to extend your TV display onto the entire wall....

YotaPhone E Ink and LCD dual-screen smartphone out late 2013 Yota Devices has joined forces with Bookmate to offer a better E Ink reading experience The world’s first dual-screen smartphone with LCD and E Ink displays – YotaPhone – has been a long time coming.We first spotted it exclusively at CES 2012, then it wasofficially announced in December 2012 with a 2013 released date. Now it’s confirmed to be launching internationally in the second half of 2013....

YouTube app update for Google TV announced YouTube just got faster and easier to use – bravo Google TV The YouTube app for Google TV getting an update might not be the most glamorous announcement, but it certainly is useful. The latest update from theAndroid Marketsees a faster app with a better search experience. Apart from working faster the app also uses Discover, a feature that lets you browse YouTube channels by category....