Odin Mobile added LG’s Nexus 4 smartphone to its lineup, the company announced on Monday. Related stories Newly minted Odin Mobile sells phones for the blind Read CNET’s full Nexus 4 review The Android smartphone is the most feature rich handset that the newcomer carrier stocks for its customers, who are blind or have limited …

Related Nokia stories Reviewed: Nokia’s 6-inch Lumia 1520 HTC One Max’s pros and cons Samsung Galaxy Note gets it write (review) The tide has turned, dragging in new supersize smartphones with screens larger than 5 inches. Nokia’s Lumia 1520, HTC’s One Max, and Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 are the three top extra-large handsets sold through US carriers. Each has its …

Related stories Hands-on with an early YotaPhone prototype Android, e-ink YotaPhone mashup arrives December Smartphones with unique designs We knew that YotaDevices, makers of the rather individual YotaPhone, had a December launch date in mind, but now it’s official. The event that kicks off one of the more interesting smartphone concepts we’ve seen this year takes place in Moscow on …

It may sound obvious, but it’s important to keep phones out of reach from opportunistic thieves. Josh Miller/CNET At one point or another, every cell phone owner has experienced the onset of panic and despair that hits your gut the moment you realize your phone is missing. This has happened to me more times than I care to admit, and …

Microsoft’s buyout of Nokia’s cell phone branch will benefit everyone, the two companies’ CEOs say. The direct reach into Microsoft’s deep pockets will give Nokia phones the financial backing they need to make an even firmer marketing push. What’s more, integrated hardware and software teams spell faster releases. Making Nokia’s celebrated design aesthetic the vanguard of a new hardware-focused Microsoft …

Now playing: Watch this: Lumia 1520 brings quad-core to WinPho 3:44 I’ve handled a lot of oversize smartphones in my years as a reviewer. That’s a bit of a trick statement, I’ll admit, since both handset screen sizes and our perception of them as large or small have grown throughout the years. Today, phablets like the 5.7-inch Samsung Galaxy Note …

For about as long as there have been cell phones, US carriers have had a stranglehold over the purchasing experience. The two-year contract has reigned supreme here in the States, with providers heavily subsidizing the cost of high-priced handsets. But for some buyers, times are changing. T-Mobile’s brassy, vocal assault on the status quo is making the retail cost of …

Now playing: Watch this: First Look at Samsung’s Youm flexible display tech 1:11 Samsung, LG, and others have been showing off flexible displays and even a prototype phone for years, but it’s only now that bendy screens are going commercial. Samsung’s Galaxy Round and LG’s G Flex raise a lot of questions about what a flexible display is and isn’t, …

Este viernes, Sprint será la primera proveedora de telefonía celular en ofrecer el primer “tabléfono” de HTC, el HTC One Max. Con su enorme pantalla de 5.9 pulgadas de alta resolución 1080p, una cámara de 4 “ultrapixeles” y el procesador Snapdragon 600 de Qualcomm de 1.7Ghz con cuatro núcleos, sin duda intenta recuperar algo de la excelencia que HTC ha …

Now playing: Watch this: Wild YotaPhone marries e-ink with Android 4:00 Yota Devices, the company behind the Android and e-ink YotaPhone, will start selling its unusual smartphone creation “in time for Christmas 2013,” the company said in an e-mail. We’ve seen dual-screen handsets before, but this one is unique in pairing a high-resolution LCD screen in front with an e-ink …