Editors’ note: This post was updated December, 2013, with two new products from Lifeproof and Seido. iPhone owners have always had a variety of cases and covers to choose from, but the Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 are among the few ultrapopular Android smartphones that have spurred cottage industries of cases and covers. In boiling …
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In case you haven’t already figured it out, there are a lot of good free games on the iPad. In fact, free-to-play might be the future of mobile gaming, period. Look to Candy Crush Saga and Plants vs. Zombies 2 if you need any convincing. See for yourself in the slideshow below, and click through for our picks. Board games, …
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The best and worst part of getting a new phone? Setting it up. Josh Miller/CNET For smartphone nuts, few things top the excitement of powering up a brand new handset for the very first time and diving right in. By the nature of my work, I have a well-established routine for setting up a new phone when I review it. …
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Yup, the upcoming Geeksphone Revolution, a handset that’ll run either Google’s Android or Mozilla’s Firefox OS, uses an Intel processor. Specifically Geeksphone Revolution will employ a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z2560 processor when it ships in the first quarter of 2014, the Spanish company said Friday. The company teased the Geeksphone Revolution in November, with one employee hinting that it had …
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AT&T has joined Verizon Communications in publishing a report that details how many surveillance requests it gets from law enforcement. The company announced Friday that it will begin publishing a semiannual report offering details of requests it has received from law enforcement. This comes one day after Verizon announced a similar plan. AT&T and Verizon have each come under pressure …
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Many iPhone users store hundreds, even thousands, of snapshots on their mobile devices, only to realize too late that they have no backup. If the phone gets lost, stolen, or broken, those photos could be gone for good. Related stories Apple’s iOS 16 Update Is Here. Follow This Checklist to Get Your iPhone Ready Chris Evans Wants the iPhone’s Home …
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It may not have seemed possible, but the news keeps getting worse for BlackBerry. The staggering mobile phone maker announced Friday a third-quarter loss of $4.4 billion, a stunning freefall from the loss of $965 million suffered in the second quarter of this year. Revenue also tumbled, nestling in at $1.2 billion, down from $1.6 billion in the prior quarter. …
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Google has given a festive thumbs-up to CyanogenMod. A special edition of the Oppo N1 is the first officially-sanctioned CyanogenMod phone, and it’s on sale on Christmas Eve. The price is yet to be confirmed, but the current N1 — pictured above running Oppo’s Color interface on top of Android — costs £444. It’s a 5.9-inch full HD phone powered …
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BlackBerry has announced its earnings for the third quarter of 2013 — and once again, it ain’t pretty. The struggling Canadian company made a loss of £2.69bn between September and November. Today’s results see new interim CEO John Chen discussing the company’s performance with investors, as revenue halved from the same time last year. It’s been a tough year for …
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The Motorola Moto G is cheap as chips — and you’re about to get even more for your Moto money, as Motorola updates the super-cheap smart phone to cutting-edge KitKat. The Moto G costs just £130, and will soon add Android 4.4.2 KitKat software to its solid list of specs. That makes it a pretty wallet-friendly way to get hold of …
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Got a beef about your iPad, Surface, or Kindle tablet? Join the club. The new holiday report from Q&A site FixYa sifted through thousands of problems reported by its Web site users to determine the most common grievances. The tablets that faced the firing squad included Apple’s iPad Air and Retina Display iPad Mini, Microsoft’s Surface 2, and Amazon’s Kindle …
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The HTC One Mini will definitely be receiving an update to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, HTC has confirmed. The Taiwanese phone-maker told CNET UK that the update will be hitting the UK in over-the-air form ‘live from now’, also bringing version 5.5 of HTC’s Sense interface to the diminutive blower. Although HTC says the update is out now, it’s not …
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Come Christmas Eve, CyanogenMod will be the first third-party version of Android to ship on a phone out of the box. Noted CyanogenMod and Android developer Koushik Datta revealed that Google has approved of a CyanogenMod version of the Oppo N1 to ship on December 24. No other details were revealed in the post, although the currently available version of …
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Samsung’s GamePad, a controller that’s designed to make it easier to play games on mobile devices, will come in a bundle, a new leak suggests. The folks over at All About Samsung in Germany on Thursday released a leaked image of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Game Edition. The bundle includes a Galaxy Tab 3 8.0, HDMI adapter, and the …
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Samsung may be targeting a new lineup of Galaxy Pro tablets for the first quarter of 2014. Based on a tidbit from an unnamed insider, SamMobile said on Friday that Samsung is prepping three Pro tablets as well as a lite version of the Galaxy Tab 3. The pro lineup would include the Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4, the Galaxy Tab …
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