BlackBerry CEO John Chen at CES earlier this year. Roger Cheng/CNET So…BlackBerry isn’t selling its smartphone business after all. BlackBerry CEO John Chen said in a blog post on Thursday that he is still committed to the phone business. Chen was “clarifying” comments made to Reuters on Wednesday in which he said he would consider …

The Samsung GS5, HTC One M8, and Apple iPhone 5S go head-to-head in our camera battle. Josh Miller/CNET Powerful, fast, and now even water resistant, the Galaxy S5 is Samsung’s latest offering into the hyper-competitive smartphone industry. Thrusting in everything from a crisp 1080p screen, to an agile quad-core Snadragon 801 processor, Samsung isn’t holding much back to ensure that …

Apple/USPTO Apple may cook up a pair of goggles for your own personal viewing pleasure. Published Thursday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, a patent application dubbed simply “Head mounted display” describes a head-mounted goggle system that could serve as your personal TV away from home. The device would display movies and TV shows from your phone or tablet, …

Galaxy S5’s teardown. iFixit Samsung’s latest flagship handset, the Galaxy S5, isn’t easily repairable, a new teardown from iFixit has revealed. iFixit, which provides periodic teardowns on tech gear and also sells products that DIYers can use to repair devices, gave the Galaxy S5 a repairability score of five out of 10. The device earned praise for a battery that’s …

Now playing: Watch this: BlackBerry Diaries: day four 0:50 It’s day four of the BlackBerry Diaries and I find myself in a position that’s perfect for a user and dreadful for a tech writer: everything is working just fine. In an ideal world, I’d have encountered some unexpected issues that I’d have to find my way around and we’d all …

This concept imagines the iPhone at its thinnest ever. Video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET The lead-up to the release of each new highly anticipated smartphone like the iPhone 6 is always marked by a handful of interesting concept videos with some innovations that might not be practical or cost-effective for the mass market, but are nonetheless awesome to consider. Case …

Now playing: Watch this: HTC One M8 camera review 5:25 Lusting after the exterior of a handset might not be the expected reaction when conducting a review of a smartphone camera. Yet that’s exactly what happens when first glancing across the smooth surface of the HTC One M8. There is absolutely no questioning the stunning appearance of the M8’s form …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Samsung has changed how the settings menu looks on the new Galaxy S5, and it doesn’t look horrible, but the change might be a bit much for some. Thankfully, with just a few minutes of your time, you can easily change the look and feel to your liking. To start, launch Settings and tap on the menu icon …

If you bought an Australian version of the Galaxy S5, you may notice there are some quirks that prevent you from fully customising your handset. Here’s how to get around the locked dock. TouchWiz is Samsung’s custom interface for Android. In the Galaxy S5, Samsung has cleaned up this interface quite a lot from previous versions, like those present on …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere Lori Grunin/CNET In part two of his three-part plan to “revolutionize a broken, arrogant, and stupid wireless industry,” T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere announced Thursday that tablet owners will soon find a cheaper option for wireless data through his company. Starting Saturday, current and new postpaid T-Mobile subscribers can add an LTE tablet to their existing …

Western Australia has introduced holiday double demerit point penalties for using a phone while driving. We know it’s illegal, but where do you stand on a state-by-state breakdown of the law? A 2011 study of road accidents in New South Wales and Victoria found that only 0.9 per cent were attributed to using a mobile phone, but with more and …

Josh Miller/CNET Amazon’s app store now has 200,000 apps, CEO Jeff Bezos announced Thursday in a letter to investors. The store has nearly tripled in size over the past year and is now in almost 200 countries, Bezos wrote in the letter, which also covered the rest of Amazon’s multitude of services, including Prime, Instant Video, Amazon Web Services, and …

Now playing: Watch this: Transfer data from an iPhone to a Galaxy S5 2:05 It’s natural to dread the process of changing from iOS to Android. To begin, Apple does the inexplicable by holding your phone number hostage with iMessage, and getting your vital information from iOS to Android can be a chore. Then there’s figuring out how to get …

Google’s Chromecast dongle. Sarah Tew/CNET Aereo announced Thursday that it’s bringing its online over-the-air broadcast TV steaming and recording to Google’s Chromecast dongle on May 29. The feature will be available via an Aereo app for Android on Google Play. This Aereo app brings back a novel idea: it means users can tune into television on their televisions — rather …

There was no surprise around the news that Game of Thrones had, once again, broken torrent records with the premiere episode of season four. (Screenshot by Nic Healey/CNET Australia) What was surprising was that, according to Torrentfeak, Australia accounted for a full 11.6 per cent of torrent traffic, making us the number one GoT downloaders in the world, up from …