Today’s smartwatches are more capable than ever. Andrew Hoyle/CNET You say the idea of owning a smartwatch intrigues you, and it rightly should. These gadgets do way more than sport interchangeable watch faces, eye-catching though they might be. From pushing timely phone notifications for email, text messages, and social-media pings right to your wrist, to …

Aio Wireless AT&T’s prepaid branch Aio Wireless thinks ordinary family plans are old news. The service just announced a “Group Save” plan, which not only serves up discounts for additional phone lines added but lets subscribers fold in coverage for friends as well as immediate family members, too. Aio says that users who purchase wireless plans at the $40 range …

The new Klout app urges users to share more with content it suggests. Klout Klout just took a second swing at a mobile app, and this time around the software takes a new approach. Now Klout’s main task is to push users to engage with their social networks more aggressively and with smarter things to say. As a matter of …

Sorry, iPhone — advanced Android is more my speed. Jason Cipriani/CNET I’ve written about and reviewed mobile phones for almost a decade and a half. Everything from flip phones, to BlackBerrys, to today’s hottest Android models, and yes, Apple iPhones, have passed through my hands. That experience is why, more than anything, I’ve ultimately settled on Google Android as my …

The Jawbone Up24 now enjoys full Android support. (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) Until today, Android phone users couldn’t experience the power, simplicity, and allure of the Jawbone Up24 activity tracker first-hand. That’s all in the past because the wireless gadget and superb companion mobile app have now officially found a home in the Google Play store. Despite its lack of a …

The Triflat Xperia theme has sleek, colorful style. Brian Bennett/CNET Love your new Xperia phone’s water-proof design but not so much its software UI? Apparently Sony feels your pain. The company has been at it again, touting the virtues of its Xperia Theme Android skins. First announced as part of Sony’s Xperia phone upgrade to Android 4.3, the device maker …

For some of you, there’s no such thing as too huge when it comes to smartphone screens. The larger the display, the more space you have for reading e-books and news stories, playing games, and immersing yourself in photos and video graphics. Whether you have enormous mitts, the desire for a smartphone that performs tablet functions, or just a penchant …

Jawbone, maker of the popular Up24 fitness tracker, has just launched two new pieces of mobile software coded to foster better sleep. Called Up Coffee and Up 3.1, one keeps an eye on your caffeine intake, while the other strives to correlate personal physical movement with sleep performance. To be clear, the Up application isn’t completely novel; rather it’s an …

BARCELONA, Spain — Smartphones are the traditional draw here at Mobile World Congress, but this year wearable tech products created lots of buzz as well. In fact, many industry heavyweights and electronics giants chose the conference to make significant wearable technology product announcements. We saw Sony’s first foray into activity tracking, the SmartBand, which boasts impressive and insanely detailed life-logging …

BARCELONA, Spain — At MWC 2014 I managed to sit down with former Summly founder and recent A-level Yahoo hire Nick D’Aloisio. He spoke to me hot on the heels of Yahoo bringing its News Digest app to iOS device users in the UK. Edited automatically by brainy software but curated by real, live people, Yahoo’s graphically flashy mobile application …