The marriage between T-Mobile and Sprint may be over before it even begins. Sprint’s parent company, Japanese carrier SoftBank, plans to break off merger talks, according to a new report from Nikkei. The publication cited a dispute over ownership of the combined entity. SoftBank may approach T-Mobile’s parent company, German carrier Deutsche Telekom, as early …

You had to be quick to nab an iPhone X. Preorders for Apple‘s newest phone began at 12:01 a.m. PT Friday. A few models of the device were still available online for a Nov. 3 ship date, the day it hits stores, for the first 10 minutes. After that, delays started creeping in. AT&T, for instance, wouldn’t ship for two …

Apple v. Samsung is headed back to court in mid-May.  The two companies, in a joint court filing Wednesday, proposed that a retrial to determine damages for patent infringement take place that month. District Court Judge Lucy Koh, in a hearing later Wednesday, agreed with their timeline. The trial is scheduled to kick off May 14 and last for five …

Now playing: Watch this: New trial may recalculate what Samsung owes Apple for… 1:12 Get ready for Apple versus Samsung, round number — oh, forget it, we don’t remember, either.  The two tech giants will head back to district court for yet another trial looking into design patent infringement. Judge Lucy Koh, in an order signed Sunday, has told the …

Will foldable phones be the hot trend of 2018? China’s ZTE kicked things off this week by introducing the Axon M, a phone with two screens that fold out to form a single larger display. Samsung said it’s aiming to bring out a phone with a foldable display by next year. And now another major player is getting into the …

Your appliances are about to get a lot smarter.  Samsung on Wednesday said the second generation of its Bixby digital assistant will be coming to its various non-mobile devices including its smart TVs in the US and Korea in 2018, as well as its Family Hub refrigerator. The company also announced a new SDK for developers to make apps that …

After three years, the iPhone redesign is finally on its way. But it may not be for you.  Apple on Tuesday is widely expected to launch its next flagship phone, which, if rumors are true, will end up coming as three different models. One — a pricey version commonly dubbed the iPhone 8, iPhone X or iPhone Pro — is expected …

Samsung may have just hosted a major event in New York, but there’s no way it was going to sit out the biggest tech show in Europe. That’s IFA, held each year in Berlin. And Samsung did have plenty of news (even if it all was pretty minor compared with its new flagship Note 8 smartphone).  Samsung’s now best known …

Samsung’s crammed tons of features into its newest smartwatches, but one thing is missing: its Bixby voice assistant. Samsung introduced its new Gear Sport smartwatch and Gear Fit 2 Pro, which are waterproof enough for swimming in the ocean, at the IFA electronics trade show in Berlin on Wednesday. Both have GPS and can automatically detect and track what fitness …

Samsung’s long appealed to the fashionistas with its smartwatches. It now wants to go after the jocks too. When Samsung first jumped into wearables three years, it took pains to emphasize the look of its Gear smartwatch. It partnered with a fashion designer to make special accessories to go with the watch, and it sought to show its wearables were …