Sometimes companies just make things because they can. That seems to be the case with Acer’s Predator 21 X (the X is for EXTREME), a hulking beast of a laptop that weighs 8 kilograms, or 17 pounds, and features a 21-inch curved display. The curved display is a world’s first, and even the size is …

ZTE’s Axon 7 phone now has a little brother. The Chinese phone maker on Thursday unveiled the Axon 7 Mini, which rocks a 5.2-inch 1080 display. That compares to the 5.5-inch Axon 7. The phone, which costs 299 euros (likely about $300), was announced ahead of the IFA trade show in Berlin. It will be available on September 7. The …

Yes, the Samsung Gear S3 will work with the iPhone. But the company’s still working the kinks out. Samsung is still studying what the experience between the iPhone and the Gear S2 would look like, and has launched a beta in South Korea to test things out. The company promised to make the Gear S2 compatible with Apple’s iOS software …

Look at Samsung’s lineup, and you get the sense that “bigger is better” is a mantra the company takes seriously. Its greatest contribution to the mobile world, for example, is arguably the proliferation of jumbo phones known as phablets. Next up: a supersized smartwatch. Samsung on Wednesday unveiled the Gear S3, its latest entry into the burgeoning market of wearable …

Give up my physical keyboard for a touchscreen phone? I don’t think so. –Any BlackBerry user, circa 2008. It wasn’t long ago that power users would scoff at the thought of banging out an email on an iPhone, preferring the tactile precision of physical keys. Fast-forward to today, and touchscreen typing is the norm. A BlackBerry, or really any phone …

Sprint now has an unlimited plan for people who can’t get enough video on their phones. The nation’s fourth-largest carrier unveiled “Unlimited Freedom Premium,” which offers the same free-for-all as its “Unlimited Freedom” option, but also throws in high-definition video. The plan costs $80 a month, a $20 premium over its basic unlimited plan. Sprint is following in the footsteps …

The back-and-forth over which carrier has the best network continues, with Verizon Wireless taking the latest win. The nation’s largest carrier also proved to be the best, according to the results taken from the first half of the year from testing firm RootMetrics. Along with the best overall performance, Verizon took the top spot in reliability, speed, data, calling and …

Has T-Mobile finally jumped the shark with its latest “Uncarrier” move? The wireless carrier’s industry-shaking announcements, such as eliminating phone subsidies and offering free international data roaming, helped it amass a legion of followers over the last three years. But the backlash was swift and harsh for T-Mobile’s Uncarrier 12, which scraps its lineup of wireless plans in lieu of …

It’s AT&T’s turn to shake up its wireless plans. The nation’s second-largest carrier on Wednesday introduced new wireless plans that offer more data — but at a higher starting price. The changes echo the shift Verizon’s making with its new plans, introduced last month. AT&T says it’s offering you a better deal on the price per megabyte of data. The …

The pieces are slowly coming together for the Nokia phone to make a comeback. In May, Microsoft unloaded the phone business it purchased from Nokia on Foxconn’s FIH Mobile and on HMD Global, a Finland-based company founded that month and tasked with selling phones and tablets under the Nokia brand. Former Nokia executive Arto Nummela was chosen as HMD’s chief …