Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy Tab S: Premium Android tablet line has… 3:13 The Wi-Fi version of Samsung’s two Galaxy Tab S tablets go on sale in the US in a few weeks, arriving on June 27. Amazon, Best Buy, and Sears are a few of the retailers selling the 8.4-inch and 10.5-inch slates, …

Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET First things first: You’ve got just one more day to enter the NeatConnect scanner giveaway contest! As of right now, there are under 4,000 entries, so your chances are pretty darn good. Second things second: What can I tell you about audiobooks that I haven’t already said a dozen times? If you’re taking a long trip, …

Flurry In the world of mobile apps, 2014 appears to be shaping up to be the year of the fitness fanatic. A new report by app analytics company Flurry shows that health and fitness apps are surging — in fact, they’re growing at a rate 87 percent faster than the rest of the app industry. After studying more than 6,800 …

The Nokia Lumia 635 with Windows 8.1 and Cortana. Nokia You can get colourful with Windows 8.1 at a wallet-friendly price on or around 3 July with the arrival of the new 4G Nokia Lumia 635 , set to cost £145. And you might not have to wait too long to be chatting up Microsoft’s Siri rival Cortana either. Microsoft …

Josh Miller/CNET The rumor mill keeps churning about Apple’s hotly anticipated smartwatch, and this time it appears production will start soon on a device with a “slightly rectangular” display. Apple has hired Quanta to start mass producing its wearable next month to prepare for launch as early as October, according to a report Thursday from Reuters, which cited anonymous sources. …

An artist’s rendering of what an iWatch could look like. Sarah Tew and Christopher MacManus/CNET Perhaps it’s no coincidence that 2014 is the year of the Horse on the Chinese zodiac and Apple finally appears ready to start producing one of its long-awaited unicorn-like products in locales including China. Yes, we’ve been hearing about the prospect of an Apple wearable …

Amazon shows off the Fire at the gadget’s unveiling. James Martin/CNET Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos doesn’t think his company’s Fire Phone is a late entry into the smartphone business, despite the myriad devices already available. In fact, he thinks the e-commerce company is early. “I think in the whole evolution of this, we’re still pretty early. I don’t want to …

Panasonic’s AX800 4K TV showing the My Stream predictive content feature. Nic Healey/CNET Panasonic may have said goodbye to plasma, but according to the company it’s definitely committed to 4K Ultra HD for 2014 and beyond. In fact, it’s expanding its 4K TVs into two series — the AX800 and AX900 — although that’s only four separate units. There are …

Lego Fusion lets kids play in both the physical and virtual worlds. Lego Legos have always been firmly in one world or another — physical, as in iconic plastic bricks, or virtual, as in video games or more recently, the ” Lego Movie.” But for the first time, the toy giant is straddling both, giving kids a way to mix …

Adidas If the World Cup has you hankering after a kickabout in the park with jumpers for goalposts, but your trainers are too embarrassing to be seen in, you can get a free pair of personalised Adidas kicks with the flagship HTC One M8 or the HTC One Mini 2 from Phones 4U. From today, when you buy either phone, …

BlackBerry Z10 Josh Miller/CNET BlackBerry and Amazon have formed a strategic partnership that will see the Seattle e-commerce giant’s app marketplace make its way to BlackBerry devices. When the BlackBerry 10.3 mobile operating system launches this fall, users will have access to the Amazon Appstore, BlackBerry announced Wednesday. The move is meant to make BlackBerry devices more appealing to consumers …

AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega on stage at the Fire Phone launch. James Martin/CNET Amazon’s Fire Phone will enjoy the full marketing muscle of partner AT&T. That’s according to Jeff Bradley, head of AT&T’s devices business, who said the Fire Phone would be the carrier’s flagship smartphone for the summer. “We’ll give it the classic full hero treatment,” …

Now playing: Watch this: Try out an iPhone 5S for free with T-Mobile Test Drive 2:04 SEATTLE–T-Mobile is daring consumers to give its wireless service a whirl. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier by subscriber on Wednesday unveiled a new program, dubbed “Test Drive,” that would give people a week to test out its service for free. It is working with …

Vodafone’s message to customers about the network outage. Vodafone Two of Australia’s biggest telcos have been hit with a network outage, leaving many customers without access to calls or data. Vodafone first acknowledged an outage for West Australian customers via social media this afternoon, informing them of the “service disruption” and adding that engineers were working to restore the network …

Peer around pictures with Dynamic Perspective With the Fire Phone, Amazon is introducing a new way to get around your smartphone’s interface, with 3D effects. Wait no, come back! This isn’t the pop-out-of-the-screen 3D we’ve seen attempted to ill effect so often in the past, as Amazon is betting it can outdo those old attempts with something the company is …