AT&T is about to put its money where its mouth is. The first offer in a brand-new customer rewards program dubbed AT&T Thanks hits today, with the carrier promising one free movie ticket when you pay for the first one at full price. On a Tuesday. This summer. At AMC or Regal theaters. After validating …

At T-Mobile’s prepaid brand, MetroPCS, it’s about to start raining iPhones. Four of Apple’s iconic models will begin selling nationwide: the iPhone 6S, 6S Plus, SE and 5. Select stores in Florida will get the first haul, starting July 1, but T-Mobile promises that the phones will roll out across the rest of the country “soon.” Here’s what you’ll pay …

Let’s say all the rumors are true and Google did make its own house-branded phone by the end of 2016, which is soon. The question, then, with all the givens in place, is which direction Google would take: a superpremium device to battle Apple’s iPhone in hand-to-hand combat, something simple like the Nexus series, or an avant-garde approach, say a …

Google Project Fi‘s wireless phone network is getting stronger. An update to the Google Fi app for Android now includes support for US Cellular, a regional carrier with coverage predominantly in the Midwest. US Cellular is a brand-new partner for Fi, which Google calls a “network of networks” to connect its users to the strongest network around, be it 4G …

You don’t have to know the name “Mobile World Congress” to appreciate what the annual blockbuster conference means for anyone who loves phones, tablets, smartphones, and really, anything that has to do with the wireless world. After all, it’s at this trade show each February that Samsung typically unveils its flagship phone, like this year’s Galaxy S7. Starting September 2017, …

If the iPhone were a person, what would it look like? What about a Samsung Galaxy phone, or even Android software? CNET’s talented summer video intern, Bailey Whitehead, reimagined today’s top phone brands and software as teenage girls hanging out in front of their high school lockers. And ohmigod, it’s like, pretty freaking awesome. Now playing: Watch this: If phones …

Drowning in a sea of black and metallic rectangle sameness, mobile manufacturers sometimes take a chance on design: an uncommon color, unusual materials or maybe a curved screen here and there. Previous years brought us out-there designs like a totally round phone and a handset with eyeballs. But lately, “difference” takes the form of more subtle and hidden-away designs. Editors’ …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Vocally activating your phone, your watch, your car and your home is where the future is headed. And the question of who has the best “voice-triggered assistant” — or artificial intelligence platform — is an important one. Whoever does it best might not …

Now playing: Watch this: A phone you can bend around your wrist 1:47 The fact that Lenovo beat Samsung with a public concept design for a bendable, flexible phone that wraps around the wrist has got to sting. After all, Samsung was the first to market a curved-screen phone. Lenovo’s surprise demo of the CPlus prototype on Thursday in San …

If your brain, like mine, is already stuffed to the gills with passwords, then the prospect of using one single sign-on to get into your paid streaming TV apps will come as sweet relief. People who pay for TV from cable companies Comcast, Cox and MediaCom will soon see a new standard, called TV Everywhere (TVE), which will use their …