Now playing: Watch this: Lenovo teases flex phone of the future 1:03 Forget curved phones! Lenovo’s new concept smartphone uses a flexible screen and segmented body to deftly convert from watchband to handset and back again. We finally got our wrists under this bendable marvel, which was trapped beneath glass for most of the day …

Samsung wants to sell customers on its Gear VR headset in a big way, so much so that it’s giving away its virtual-reality headsets for free to anyone who buys one of six phones. Between now and June 9, buyers who pick up a Galaxy S7, S7 Edge, Note 5, S6, S6 Edge or S6 Edge+ will also walk away …

Amazon Prime members stick around. That’s according to survey data published by a group out of Chicago, the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), which found that 73 percent of the folks who started a 30-day trial wound up paying their $99 membership for the full year. The renewal rate is even higher for first-year members signing on for a second …

When the floor-stomping, party-throwing, trash-piling people who used Airbnb to rent the place near yours get too obnoxious to handle, you now have an outlet for complaint beyond angry rants on Twitter and Facebook. You can tell Airbnb directly. A new section of the site launched Tuesday welcomes permanent inhabitants to tattle on temporary neighbors, without sharing their own name …

Sony announced pricing and availability for all four (count ’em, four!) phones in its Xperia X range: the midprice X (fully reviewed here), budget XA, upmarket X Performance and large-screen XA Ultra. But what’s the difference? The chart below helps you hunt out details in size, specs and price, but here’s a simpler take-away to keep in mind as you …

The Sony Xperia X is one of four phones in the Xperia line, which can already get confusing. But if you’ve decided it’s the phone for you — after reading CNET’s full Xperia X review, of course — then you’ll want to know if it’s the right phone to buy compared to other Androids out there. This specs chart breaks …

One killer messenger app. That’s all you need. Not the four that Google seems to think you do. At Google I/O, the Internet giant’s annual conference for developers, Google unwrapped two new, very distinct messenger apps that will work on iOS and Android phones “this summer.” There’s Allo, for messages and emojis, and Duo for videoconferencing. This is already on …

Google’s digital voice assistant was already miles ahead of Apple’s Siri even before Google’s announcements on Wednesday at its annual I/O conference. But given what the search giant showed off yesterday, Siri will shrink further in Google’s rearview mirror in the near future. What we currently call Google Now is getting another name, Google Assistant — and it’s going to …

If you’ve got an HTC 10, One A9, One M9, you’re getting Android N. Google announced more additions to its forthcoming software for mobile phones at Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference that it uses as a stage to share major changes for the year. HTC took advantage of the excitement (and trust me, there’s a lot of that) …

The LG G5 is a different kind of phone, and that’s exactly how LG wants it. In an industry where nonremovable batteries are increasingly the norm, the G5’s battery slides out, allowing you to replace it. Even more wildly, that battery attaches to modules you can swap in to give the phone better audio and a sturdier camera grip. And …