While there’s no firm UK date yet, Samsung have confirmed that the Galaxy S Advance will arrive in Europe next month. With a 4-inch super AMOLED screen, 5-megapixel camera and Android 2.3 Gingerbread installed the Galaxy S Advance isn’t quite a Galaxy Nexus beater.

The Samsung Galaxy S Advance may have a dual-core processor but it only runs at 1Ghz although the 768MB of RAM is comparable to many high-end handsets. The Galaxy S Advance will come in both 8GB and 16GB flavours although the microSD slot will allow you up to 32GB of storage.

The Galaxy S Advance resembles the Galaxy S II in both looks and hardware specs although the overall inferiority of the Samsung s Advance should mean it will be cheaper than its bigger brother. While the Galaxy S Advance will certainly cost more than the Galaxy Ace Plus it should still come in at a price which makes it a godo choice for anyone after a mid-budget Android handset.

Three’s popular ‘The One Plan’ has long been one of the best value deals on market, with high allowances for calls, texts and data at a great price few plans from other networks come close. Until now that is as T-Mobile have now revealed a rival to Three’s ‘One Plan’ with their ‘Full Monty’ deal.

The Fully Monty starts a £36 a month for a 24 month contract and includes unlimited calls to other T-Mobile customers (don’t worry, you get a comfortable 2,000 minutes to other networks), unlimited texts and unlimited data. Starting a £41 a month is an even more unlimited package with unlimited calls to all networks, unlimited texts and unlimited data.

These deals sound surprisingly cheap considering T-Mobile claim they are truly unlimited with no fair use restrictions on calls, texts or data.  Even more surprisingly some top phones are available with the deal for free such as the Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC Sensation XE although on the lower deals phones such as the iPhone 4S 16GB will cost around £99.

The first details are shown on T-Mobile’s Website although more detailed information is due to follow later in the week. Although some prefer cheaper deals at just £36 with a top handset the Full Monty certainly sounds like a deal worth getting.

The Motorola Defy+ is already one of the more rugged handsets on the market but the new Defy+ JCB Edition is an even tougher version designed to cope with the demands of being used in a construction environment.

The Defy+ JCB Edition is protected by JCB’s visco-elastic protective sleeve which not only provides some protection from knocks and falls but protects the screen from dust and dirt too.

Installed on the Defy+ JCB Edition is the JCB Tool Box, you get a torch app which uses the camera flash, a digital spirit level, a decibel meter and other handy tools that will come in handy both at work and around the home.

With the same specs at the standard Defy+ you get a pretty decent piece of hardware with a 1Ghz processor, a 5 megapixel camera and Android 2.3 installed. With such protection from the dangers of the workplace the Defy+ JCB Edition is one of the few higher-end handsets which won’t shatter from the tiniest fall (we’re looking at you iPhone 4) and at £259.99 it’s a good value device too.

Although most women have no problem owning a sleek and stylish handset such as the iPhone 4S in a colour such as black or white, it seems most handsets aimed solely at women are fairly low-spec devices which rely entirely on feminine-friendly looks for their appeal.

It’s nice then to see Samsung are lining up a pink version of one of the hottest handsets on the market right now, the Galaxy S II. With a excellent 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen, a dual-core processor and a great 8 megapixel camera the Galaxy S II is a fantastic handset and to our knowledge must be the best pink coloured handset on the market.

Arriving just in time for Valentines Day on February 13th, the pink Samsung Galaxy S II might be the perfect gift for those with a few hundred pounds to spend on their loved one. Phones 4U have confirmed they will be stocking the Samsung Galaxy S II in pink.

The latest Xperia handset from Sony has been announced and one thing is for sure, it’ll take a while to get used to seeing just the word ‘Sony’ rather than ‘Sony Ericsson’ on new handsets from the Japanese manufacturer. Simply called the Xperia S the latest Sony handset looks like a very decent phone.

Samsung set a new benchmark with the Galaxy Nexus by including a 1280×720 resolution screen and the race is now on for other manufacturers to get 720p screens crammed into their new handsets. While the Xperia S has a smaller screen than the Galaxy Nexus it is still a comfortable 4.3 inches and the smaller size means the pixel density is even higher than the Galaxy.

Sony phones have long been known for their high-quality cameras and the Xperia S is no exception, the 12 megapixel camera features the Sony Exmor R low light sensor, this means just like some of the other recent Sony handsets the Xperia S will be able to take fantastic shots even in poorly lit locations. Sony also claim the Xperia S will be able to snap pictures with 1.5 seconds of unlocking the phone from standby mode.

Powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor the Xperia S should be fast and responsive and the 32GB of memory will give you plenty of room to store pictures, videos, music and games. Sadly the Xperia S will launch with Android 2.3 but Sony promise an update to Android 4.0 will be available later this year.

The Xperia S also features an NFC chip which will become more useful as NFC enabled devices become more common and being PlayStation Certified means you’ll be able to play some top PS1 classics on the move. O2 and Phones 4U have already revealed they will stock the Xperia S which is believed to arrive around March, with a white version being exclusive to Phones 4U.

The Nokia Lumia 800 may have only just been released but that hasn’t stopped Nokia announcing the Lumia 900, a bigger brother to the Lumia 800.

At a glance this appears to be almost the same phone, it also has an 800×480 resolution screen, the same 8 megapixel camera and the design is pretty much identical too, but put this next to the Lumia 800 and you’ll immediately notice that the Lumia 900 features a much larger 4.3-inch screen.

A North American release has been announced on AT&T but there’s currently no date set for a UK launch let alone news of which networks it may be available on. With many 4.3″ Android handsets available Windows Phone 7 could do with a few more devices with larger screens so hopefully the Lumia 900 will arrive on UK shores soon.

While Apple have made no announcement yet it’s pretty safe to say there will be a new iPad released this year, whether it’s a major overhaul or an updated version of the iPad 2 is the only mystery.

Trusted  Apple orientated website 9to5 Mac have discovered that buried deep within the latest iOS 5.1 beta is support for not just the dual-core A5 processor found in recent iPhone and iPad models but support for quad-core processors. It seems fairly logical to assume that this means Apple are at least in the planning stages of releasing a device with a quad-core processor.

With the possibility of a major iPhone update later this year it’s widely expected that we’ll see a new iPad in the first half of the year which may be the first device to use Apple’s quad-core processor. This massive increase in processing power could open the doors to professional-quality video editing software, more advanced versions of popular image editing apps and even more detailed and complex games.

Some may question the need to keep increasing the processing power of tablets when very few apps currently utilise the computing power already available to developers, after all if the new iPad used the older dual-core A5 processor it may allow Apple to release the device at a lower cost.

An announcement from Apple is expected in the coming months and any major changes to the iPad 3 hardware could be a hint towards the changes we might see to the iPhone 5. Although the iPhone 4S was released after the death of Apple CEO Steve Jobs the iPad 3 will be Apple’s first real chance to make a clear statement about the direction they will take without the man responsible for many of their most popular and successful products.

For the past few years, partly influcenced by the Apple iPhone most new mobile phones seem to be going for a very black colour scheme, thankfully in another iPhone influenced move most manufacturers are now releasing a white version of many top handsets.

The attractive but rather plain (so plain it doesn’t even have real hardware buttons on the front!) Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the set to receive a white alternative early next month but unlike the Samsung Galaxy S II and iPhone 4S only the back of the phone will be white. It’s a matter of personal taste but the contract between the black front and white back is certainly quite eye catching.

The Galaxy Nexus is still one of the few handsets to run the latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. Although the Galaxy Nexus is a fairly large phone it needs to be in order to incorporate the huge 4.64″ screen and with 720p resolution it looks great too. The speedy 1.2Ghz dual-core processor and 1GB RAM complete the package and make the Galaxy Nexus one of the top handsets on the market right now.

HTC have produced some excellent handsets over the years but it has only been since the introduction of Android that they have managed to make a big splash in the mainstream mobile phone market. HTC have a history of being among the front runners when it comes to exciting innovations bit they were a little behind the curve when it came to introducing dual-core processors to their handsets.

It looks as though they don’t want to make the same mistake when it comes to the quad-core generation of phones. Rumour has it that HTC will announce their first quad-core handsets next month at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. With the only officially announced quad-core Android device being the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet HTC could lay claim to being the first manufacturer to release a quad-core Android phone.

Since HTC’s long standing partner Qualcomm currently only offer quad-core chipsets which are built around LTE connectivity, since this wouldn’t be of much use for most of Europe it looks as though they may use the Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset for their UK bound quad-core devices.

While it might not be on par with the HTC Sensation or it’s bigger brother the Samsung Galaxy S II, the Samsung Galaxy Ace has proven to be a very decent mid-priced Android handset and has been a great option for those who want a solid handset that doesn’t three or four hundred pounds.

Improvements over the original Galaxy Ace aren’t huge but with a 200Mhz bump to a 1Ghz processor and a larger 3.65″ screen there’s no doubt that the Galaxy Ace Plus is a more capable handset. Disappointingly the Galaxy Ace Plus still only has a 320 x 480 pixel screen which is an even bigger drawback when you consider even some low-end handsets feature 480 x 800 pixel screens or more.

It comes as a bit of a surprise to see that the Galaxy Ace Plus looks very similar to the iPhone 3GS, something you’d think Samsung would be keen to avoid considering their recent legal battles with Apple. A price is yet to be revealed but it can be assumed the Galaxy Ace Plus will cost somewhere around the £200 mark.