LAS VEGAS — BlackBerry will likely have at least two smartphones hitting the market this year. That’s according to BlackBerry CEO John Chen, who spoke to the media in a roundtable at the Consumer Electronics Show here Tuesday. The company is working on a Foxconn-built touch-screen smartphone that he said will be priced under $200. …

Android devices will wend their way to more than 1 billion people in 2014, research firm Gartner predicted on Tuesday. The 1.1 billion shipments would render Android far and away the leader among all PC, tablet, and mobile phone operating systems. Windows was tagged for second place with 359 million shipments, followed by Apple’s iOS and Mac OS with 344 …

Late last year BlackBerry said it would enlist Chinese manufacturer Foxconn to assist in cutting production costs. BlackBerry CEO John Chen at a press roundtable session at the Consumer Electronics Show. (Credit: Roger Cheng/CNET) Now, at CES 2014, BlackBerry CEO John Chen has said that Foxconn will produce a sub-US$200 touchscreen phone, but Chen also teased that BlackBerry is working …

After years of banging on about Samsung short-changing punters with its rubbish Galaxy S Minis, it’s a delight to see a company other than Apple taking small-screened phones seriously. Sony’s new Xperia Z1 Compact is exactly what it says on the tin — just as good as its flagship Z1, but packed into a smaller body. Out in the UK …

Razzie-award winning director Michael Bay has explained — if not apologised for — what went wrong during his brief appearance at Samsung’s press conference in Las Vegas last night. “Wow! I just embarrassed myself at CES — I was about to speak for Samsung for this awesome Curved 105-inch UHD TV. I rarely lend my name to any products, but …

LAS VEGAS — Televisions have already made a huge splash at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Samsung unveiled the world’s largest curved UHD TV as well as an 85-inch bendable LED TV, while Sony promoted 4K resolution at an affordable price for everyone. Check out these unveilings and more in our video roundup. And continue to check back for more …

Founded in 1980, Krell Industries‘ amplifiers have long set the benchmark for sound quality, and at CES 2014 the company took the wraps off its latest generation iBias, high-efficiency power amps. That’s a really big deal because while Krells have always sounded great, they sucked a lot of AC power out of the wall socket. They ran hot, so hot …

Thinking about upgrading to a 4K Ultra HD TV this year? Maybe you should consider Samsung’s 8K TV? We jest of course — 4K is barely out of the starting gate and Samsung’s 8K TV is just a concept model at the moment. But as concepts go, it’s a doozy: a massive 98 inches in size with a resolution of …

Samsung Electronics said Monday it expects to record an operating profit of 8.3 trillion won ($7.8 billion) for the fourth quarter of 2013, an 18 percent drop from the previous quarter’s record earnings due to smartphone market saturation and increased competition from Apple. The guidance, issued ahead of the release of full quarterly financial results later this month, was lower …

Bad luck if you were hoping to see Samsung’s next flagship phone at CES next week. Because the handset is destined to launch at Mobile World Congress in February, Samsung has confirmed. Samsung’s executive vice president and head of design strategy, Dong-hoon Chang, said that rumours that the S5 would rock up at Mobile World Congress were “about right”, Korean …

LAS VEGAS — Steve Mollenkopf, the new CEO at Qualcomm, took to the stage at CES on Monday to take questions from the press with a broad message of “steady as she goes.” There were a few interesting titbits: firstly that he continues “to be optimistic of the future of the Windows ecosystem.” He refused to comment on rumors that …

Most of us may have already jacked in our new year’s resolutions, but Samsung has only just made one. So what’s it going to do? Lose some weight? Get more exercise? Well possibly, but it could also do with focussing less on hardware, according to its boss. In his annual speech to employees, chairman Lee Kun-hee said the company needed …

We’re sure to see a host of new wrist-worn devices at CES — LG and Samsung are just two companies rumoured to be readying their own fitness trackers — but here’s one that’s ridiculously, unashamedly lavish. It’s designed by Miami-based tech wearables firm Christophe & Co, which has a partnership with Pininfarina, the company that has designed Ferrari’s cars since …

Now playing: Watch this: Pebble introduces Steel smartwatch, app store 5:05 If 2014 is to be the year of the wearable it’s at least partly thanks to the success of the Pebble in 2013. Sure, it was 2012 that the company’s smartwatch hit Kickstarter and promptly blew the minds of many would-be entrepreneurs, raising a record-breaking $10 million on the …

A woman from County Durham has been jailed for two years for scamming hundreds of people in an iPad swindle, the BBC reports. Kirsty Cox duped customers into thinking she could get them the tablet PC at a reduced price. The scam went on between March and December 2012, and was worth £450,000. Customers paid the 37-year-old for the devices, …