The Alin comes with four screen protectors and a plastic snap-on alignment tool for getting the protective fit just right. Tylt Congrats to Gregory M. of Whitmore Lake, Mich., for winning a Yantouch Diamond+ Bluetooth speaker in last week’s giveaway. Got a Samsung Galaxy S5 ? You’ll like this week’s prize. The Energi Sliding Power …

US Cellular’s Moto X will come with black, leather, or bamboo backplates. Josh Miller/CNET US Cellular is the latest carrier to pick up Motorola’s vivacious Moto X , selling the personality-driven smartphone for $100 with a two-year contract, or for a total of $480 without one (you can break this up over a period of 24 months). That’s for the …

Apple may host an iPad event at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. James Martin/CNET It’s time for Apple product launch No. 2. According to a new report from Recode, Apple plans to hold an event October 16 to introduce its newest iPads and Macs. The site said the launch will be “a more laid-back affair” compared with the iPhone launch …

What’s better than one 13-megapixel camera? You already know the answer. Aloysius Low/CNET HTC could soon introduce a smartphone with two — count ’em, two — 13-megapixel cameras. Indeed, a selfie-centered handset may be approaching. Related Links HTC sends invites for mystery event on Oct. 8 HTC prepping yet another One M8 variant, leaks suggest HTC clings to profit as …

How does HTC follow its critically praised, but only modest selling, One M8? The company intends to answer the question on Wednesday. HTC As suggested by the “Double Exposure” title of the New York event, HTC’s announcement may be related to a camera, which would be a deviation from its usual focus on smartphones. HTC is reportedly developing a waterproof …

Matt Elliott/CNET Do you miss scrolling through your Camera Roll? I do. With iOS 8, Apple removed the default Camera Roll album that housed all of the photos and videos on your iPhone and replaced it the Recently Added album that lets you view only photos and videos from the last 30 days. To browse through photos older than 30 …

The Windows 10 preview welcomes back the Start menu. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Microsoft has a unified vision for its Windows operating system that involves the same OS running across any device, from smartphones on up to desktops. It took a solid stab at this concept with Windows 8, but ended up alienating many Windows users who didn’t like …

The iPhone 6 will go on sale in China on October. 17 CNET Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus scooped up 4 million reservations in China by Friday, according to Chinese media estimates cited by Fortune. A single e-commerce site called Jingdong is responsible for 2.3 million reservations, Fortune reported, citing Chinese website Tencent. The new iPhones went on …

Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET Microsoft has launched new plans for subscription-based service Office 365 that the company says are designed to better meet the needs of business users. Available as of Thursday, the three new plans are called Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business and Office 365 Business Premium. As described in a Microsoft blog post, the new plans …

Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Google Glass is fitted with a microphone and installed with speech-recognition software, which allows the wearer to talk to the device to give it instructions. This software has been refined to a point where it is now reasonable to expect very few errors — but what Google Glass is not so good at is picking up …

Already available for sale in Asia, the lowest-cost Lumia yet heads to the U.S. Nokia Microsoft’s lowest-cost Lumia phone, the Nokia Lumia 530 , brings its colorful polycarbonate style and money-saving mobile computing to the US this month. Cricket Wireless will be the first to sell it, in cyan, for $50. That begins tomorrow. T-Mobile follows suit with the white …

The Bing Translation extension shows its job is complete. Jason Cipriani/CNET Ever visit a website that’s in a foreign language while using Safari on your iOS device? If so, you’ve already experienced the disappointment of realizing that Safari lacks the ability to translate the page for you. Prior to iOS 8, I kept Google’s Chrome app installed on my iPhone …

The latest iPhones will go on sale in China on October. 17 CNET The iPhone 6 is already a hot commodity in China, based on initial reservations through mobile carriers and retailers. A report posted Thursday by Chinese website Sina cites “incomplete statistics” indicating that Chinese carriers and retail outlets took in 2 million reservations for the new iPhone 6 …

The maker of Angry Birds is trimming some of its workforce. Rovio Angry Birds developer Rovio is cutting jobs after admitting that it hasn’t grown as rapid as expected. In a blog post Thursday, Rovio CEO Mikael Hed said that the Finnish company has been building up its team based on “assumptions of faster growth.” With that faster growth failing …

Evernote CEO Phil Libin. James Martin/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — Today at Evernote’s Developer conference, company CEO Phil Libin unveiled a few new features for the collaborative note-taking system. The two biggest are Work Chat and Context, and are both designed to make the system easier to use and, more importantly, make it more valuable to business users who pay $10 …