SAN FRANCISCO — For Samsung, courting developers isn’t just a nice side project. It’s a push that’s vital to the company’s future. The Korean company is the world’s biggest mobile phone and TV vendor. It sells more Android smartphones than LG, Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE, and Motorola combined, and many consumers equate Samsung’s Galaxy brand with …

Global smartphone shipments have reached an all-time high for the third quarter, according to a Strategy Analytics study released Monday. For the first time ever, more than 250 million smartphones were shipped worldwide in a single quarter, which is a 45 percent increase over last year. And Samsung topped all other phone makers for global market share. “Samsung shipped over …

In white. 11/1. pic.twitter.com/5SSmtTGUg7 — @evleaks (@evleaks) October 27, 2013 The not-so-mysterious Nexus 5 rears its head again. The latest leak comes from @EVLeaks, which has generated a decent track record of posting pictures of devices ahead of their launch. It features a tweet showing a white version of Google’s latest pure-Android smartphone, clad in white with a black front …

Quixey has a novel way to shake up how we find mobile apps: let people type in their requests using normal language, and the company will dig up the appropriate program. Sounds pretty basic, right? Unfortunately, it’s not how the big app stores operate. Unless you know the name of the app, or are willing to scroll through lists of …

LG is flexing its innovation muscles with the new LG G Flex, with the Korean company apparently confirming rumours of a bendy new blower. The G Flex boasts a 6-inch 720p curved screen to fit snugly round your phizzog — but British bonces should expect to remain sadly uncuddled. The G Flex was named by industry sources talking to my …

Now playing: Watch this: Meet the Samsung Galaxy Gear 2:40 Samsung made it official on Monday that it’s readied an Android 4.3 Jelly Bean software update that will let certain US smartphones pair with the company’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch. This announcement dovetails with an earlier statement that Samsung would push out the update on a global scale. The Premium Suite …

Screenshot by Geoffrey Morrison/CNET This thing is huge. There’s just something about a TV this size that dominates a room. Even a big room. It plays tricks on the eyes, in a way, as your brain isn’t accustomed to seeing a TV of such girth. The UN-85S9 isn’t just massive in size (85 inches, 189 pounds), but massive in price …

LG has officially detailed the specs for its G Flex curved smartphone. (Credit: LG) After many rumours and leaks, the official news came via the Korean Newswire website, although the release seems to have been later removed from that site. Both The Verge and Engadget reported on the release, with Engadget having a Google Translation of the original press release. …

LG’s much-rumored G Flex will feature a 6-inch 720p curved display, according to specifications released Sunday by the company. Weighing in at 177 grams, the G Flex measures between 7.9 and 8.7 millimeters thick at various points along its vertical arc. The handset is powered by a 2.26GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and sports 2GB of RAM, a 13-megapixel camera, …

If you’re getting a little tired of having to replace your mobile every time it breaks, this could be the concept for you. It’s called Phonebloks, and is a phone that you build yourself, like Lego. This means you can swap out any parts that have stopped working, effectively meaning it’ll last forever. Dutch designer Dave Hakkens got the idea …

Sony just recently pulled back the curtain on the Xperia Z1F, a shrunken version of its flagship Z1 handset. But now it’s rumoured to be readying two more Android smarties for early next month. The Sony Xperia Tianchi is said to be a budget handset, but it sounds like an absolute monster, if the specs are to be believed. There’s …

Now playing: Watch this: Nokia Lumia 2520: Nokia’s Windows RT Surface rival 2:07 Nokia’s new Windows RT tablet turns the Finnish handset maker into Microsoft’s rival, but at least one Nokia partner says there’s really no competition. Nokia earlier this week unveiled the Lumia 2520, the company’s first tablet and the second current device in the market to run Windows …

You might not have heard of Micromax, but in its native India it’s the second biggest mobile company after Samsung. And it could be about to launch in the UK, Android Community reports. Its latest handset, the Canvas Turbo, has just launched in India, and will hit Russia in December. If that’s successful, then Europe is next. Then the world, …

Last weekend in NYC John La Grou was a keynote speaker at the Audio Engineering Society convention. He based some of his assumptions about how recorded music will evolve on Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors squeezed onto integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. That prediction was made in 1965, and if anything, Moore underestimated the …

If you own the rather marvellous HTC One, then it’s about to get some extra powers. That’s because the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update is winging its way to it right now. It brings with it HTC’s Sense 5.5 UI and some extra Google Drive storage. The update has been available in the US, Canada, and Asia for weeks already, …