Hot on the heels of LG's teaser for MWC 2013, Taiwanese firm Asus has released a fairly bonkers video to get you in the mood for the Barcelona event.

In the video we see an alien invasion sweep over the Catalonian city, with the shiny metallic spaceship landing on the famous Sagrada Familia church.

A crazed onlooker (read: bad actor) in the video declares, "Wait! Is that a metallic object flying across the sky? It's landing... it's docked into the church!", as the message "ultimate craftsmanship, today" resonates on screen.

Embrace the metallic miracle

It all seems a bit much and Asus leaves us pondering a request at the end of the bizarre teaser: "Join Asus to embrace the metallic miracle."

What does this all mean? Well hopefully it's not the end of the world and merely the fact Asus has a lovely, fully metallic tablet or smartphone ready to delight us.

Now we're not afraid of an Independence Day style attack here at TechRadar, so we're taking it upon ourselves to indeed join Asus in Barcelona and find out what the hell it's talking about.

Expect to hear us muttering "everyone's trying to get out of Barcelona, and we're the only schmucks trying to get in" sometime next week (and if this is lost on you, then you need to go and watch Independence Day stat).

It's a little over a month after the iOS version, but the BBC's dedicated Sports app has today made it onto Google Play.

The free mobile app has been designed to play nicely with screen sizes all the way up to 7-inch tablets, meaning you 10-inch owners may not get the best experience.

It'll work with all versions of Android from 2.2 (Froyo) onwards. If you're still languishing on Eclair then it may be time to consider upgrading.

Old sport

Like the iOS app before it, the Android app brings sporting news, live scores, commentary and analysis as well as live and on-demand video because, let's face it, seeing sport happen is much more exciting than just reading about it.

The video and audio features may require you to download the BBC's Media Player app too, depending on your handset.

Keith Mitchell, BBC Sport's mobile technical lead, let slip that a couple of additional features are coming soon to the app: "These include customisable quick links for the main navigation, team customisation and home screen widgets."

So if you thought it was all over… you were wrong.

Out now on Google Play, the BBC Sport Android app will also be heading to Amazon's app marketplace in the near future.

In the run up to MWC 2013 next week in Barcelona LG has released a teasing video to whet your appetite.

It looks like LG may well be going big on NFC this year with the video declaring that "you can tag what you want" and ordering you to "tag and stand apart from others".

That's not all though, with the video also hinting at potentially four new handsets set to be unveiled at the event, possibly in the Optimus L, Optimus G, Optimus V and Optimus F ranges.

F me

LG already has handsets which fall under the first three letters with the L-Style series of handsets launched at MWC last year alongside the Optimus Vu, while the Optimus G launched during the second half of last year and has been recently usurped by the Optimus G Pro.

The F category is something we haven't come accross before and could mean LG is about to unleash a completely new range at the show, with the video referring to it simply as "The Freedom".

Throughout the video we get glimpses of handsets, although never in their entirety with LG teasing us with corners, logos and rounded edges.

The video finishes up with "see the difference right here in Barcelona" and TechRadar will be in attendance at the show to bring you all the latest from the LG camp.

The always-riveting 4G spectrum allocation has been completed in the UK, and it seems most firms got something they wanted.

The auction, which has been running from the tail end of last year but has been under negotiation for years, sees the combined total for the HM Government tip 'only' £2.3bn, rather than the £3.5bn George Osborne was looking for.

Vodafone put up the most cash after an exhausting 50 rounds of bidding, spending £790m to gain 85MHz of both the long-range 800MHz frequency and the more city-friendly 2.6GHz spectrum.

Vodafone UK chief executive Guy Laurence confirmed the network had gone after such a range of spectrum to allow it to penetrate more areas: "[The 4G auction results] will enable us to deliver services where people really want it, especially indoors… the next generation of mobile internet services will bring real benefits to both consumers and businesses."

Bring on BT

BT was the winner out of the three new candidates, through its Niche Spectrum Ventures, but this will very likely be for pumping out broadband to the harder-to-reach places in Britain, as the network told TechRadar last year.

Intriguingly BT only got spectrum in the 2.6GHz band, which is touted as being less able to spread widely, but that certainly doesn't rule out being able to supply rural broadband, so it will be interesting to see how the company brings 4G to its market.

O2 was the big surprise in the auction results, as while it got a good chunk of the sought-after 800MHz range, it only got 20MHz. We've polled the network to see how this fits into its plans given major rival Vodafone has got plenty more MHz, but at least the bubbly provider only paid £550m for the privilege.

Three was widely believed to be missing out on the 800MHz band, especially as it already has bought some spectrum from EE last year as part of the deal to allow the Orange- and T-Mobile-merged brand to deploy 4G in the UK early but it picked up 10MHz in the longer range space, but still paid £225m.

EE opens its pockets again

And of course EE was in there too, chucking £588m into the pot to gain even more spectrum at both the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands – perhaps that will see the supplier lowering prices to compete with Three's pledge to not increase any prices when it brings 4G live in the summer.

The auction isn't over yet though; we still have a round of bidding for each winner to decide where in the spectrum their allocation will sit, as this can have effects on cost-efficiency and coverage.

And spare a thought for the likes of MLL Telecom Ltd and HKT (UK) Company Ltd – both lost out in the auction and won't get to see that £100,000 non-refundable deposit again.

Ofcom has stated that it believes this auction will lead to more price drops in the mobile broadband space, and will see almost blanket coverage of 4G in the UK by 2017.

The networks will also have to pay up for their auction wins by 22 February – if a man in a Vodafone suit pops round asking to borrow a tenner, at least you'll know why.

The popular SwiftKey application which offers up a clever and highly accurate typing solution has added another string to its bow in the form of SwiftKey Flow.

Now in its fourth iteration SwiftKey users can now take advantage of the swiping feature we've seen on other Android keyboards, allowing for a fluid input style which requires the use of a single thumb - perfect for one handed manipulation.

It's not your standard swiping action however, as SwiftKey has taken it one step further with its "Flow Through Space" feature, allowing you to input a continuous string of words by swiping your finger over the space bar between each one.

Hit and miss

For anyone who hasn't experienced gesture typing yet SwiftKey Flow may feel rather alien and tricky to master as it's a very different way of bashing out your missives.

It does require you to spend some time with the system, to learn how it works and allowing it to fine tune its prediction engine to suit your style of writing and vocabulary.

Don't worry if all this gesturing business isn't your cup of tea as SwiftKey 4 still offers up its normal keyboard and next word prediction technology in the standard format, which has made it a firm favourite here at TechRadar.

The prediction engine, word correction facility and language options have also been given a boost in a bid to offer a more accurate and quicker input method.

Best-selling

Believe it or not, but SwiftKey was the best-selling paid-for app in Google Play in 2012 - now that's quite an achievement considering a keyboard managed to beat off the likes of the ever popular Angry Birds and co.

If you fancy taking the plunge then SwiftKey 4 is available over on Google Play, although it will set you back £1.49 on Android smartphones and £2.99 for those plumping for the Android tablet option - with both prices set to rise after a promotional period.