AT&T continues its 4G LTE push with the goal of reaching 270 million people by the end of the year. The carrier announced Wednesday that it has flipped the LTE switch on 13 new markets, bringing its total to 437 locations across the US. With the latest additions, AT&T’s LTE network is now available to …

T-Mobile now has a nationwide LTE network of its own. The carrier said Wednesday that its LTE network now covers more than 200 million people in 233 metropolitan areas, exceeding its year-end target a few months early. Related stories When Does My Phone Unlock? And How Can I Get My Carrier to Do It? Best T-Mobile Deals Available Now Best …

Pantech, apparently not wanting to miss out on all of the phablet fun, appears ready to unveil one of its own. The Vega Note has a fair number of similarities to the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, including the large screen and a stylus. Related stories: The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is a multitasking marvel Supersize me: Giants of the smartphone …

Now playing: Watch this: Meet the Samsung Galaxy Gear 2:40 As promised, U.S. Cellular starts selling the 5.7-inch Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone and Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch on Wednesday. The carrier will stock the black version of the Note phablet, which is distinguishable by its Android 4.3 operating system, top-rate quad-core processor, and smarty-pants stylus. Related stories Fully reviewed: …

Clear your schedules and make a date in your diary: Apple is making an announcement on Tuesday 22 October — probably trumping Nokia and Microsoft in the process. AllThingsD reports that Apple’s next big announcement will take place on 22 October, revealing the next generation of iPad, which could also boast a fingerprint-reading home button. That’s the same day Nokia …

Motorola could be ready to take on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and other phablets with a 6.3-inch device of its own. According to a “trusted” Weibo source, the so-called Moto Xplay is in development with an estimated arrival in 2014. Related stories Samsung’s most high-powered phablet yet (video) Motorola’s impressive new smartphones Early Droid 5 details and photos emerge …

This time next week, HTC’s going supersize. The Taiwanese phone maker has sent out invites for a bunch of events around the world next week, with the main one in China on Tuesday 15 October — and it’s dropping heavy hints that it’ll be the well-rumoured HTC One Max on show. The oft-quoted “people familiar with the matter” told the Wall …

LG’s chemical technology division has developed new batteries that aren’t tied to the traditional rectangular form factor, opening the door for a new wave of flexible and bendable smartphones and tablets. LG has already shown off its flexible smartphone displays, but is also developing bendable batteries. (Credit: Nick Hide/CNET) LG Chem, the company’s chemical development arm, announced that it has …

Samsung looks to be readying yet another quad-core beast of an Android, but with a more olde tyme shape: the humble flip phone. Related Samsung stories: Samsung Galaxy Round brings curve to smartphones China gets Samsung’s Android Hennessy flipper Behold, the Samsung Galaxy Golden Android flip phone The third Android-power flip phone to emerge (after the Galaxy Golden and Hennessy), …

Samsung’s on a roll. The newest addition to its sprawling family of Galaxy phones is the Galaxy Round, a curvy version of the Galaxy Note 3 that you can roll towards you. Unlike LG’s take on the curvaceous concept, the LG G Flex (aka LG Z), which bends from top to bottom, Samsung’s bendy blower curves from left to right. …

The original Archos GamePad didn’t attract much attention, despite the fact that it offered what a lot of hardcore gamers seemingly wanted: built-in game controls in the form of dual control sticks and lots of buttons. It was, for all intents in purposes, an Android-powered Sony PSP, though with a bigger screen and a lot more games to choose from. …

Can you say flip-flop? The iPhone‘s 64-bit chip is not a “a gimmick” after all, says Qualcomm in an embarrassing U-turn. “The comments made by Anand Chandrasekher, Qualcomm CMO, about 64-bit computing were inaccurate,” says Qualcomm, hanging the hapless marketing wonk out to dry. “The mobile hardware and software ecosystem is already moving in the direction of 64-bit; and the …

Hey, America, have you got a second? We need to talk. It turns out we’re not doing so well in literacy and math compared with most of the developed countries in the world. We also may not be as knowledgeable about our world as we think we are. According to this article in the New York Times, a recent study …

Remember the self-funded high-end smartphone with an approach to security so strong, it promises to rebuff data thieves? Well, startup QSAlpha announced on Wednesday that its Quasar IV Android smartphone is now going into production. Related stories Read all about the Quasar IV ‘ninja phone’ Samsung amps up business push with Knox security software What’s more, the company reveals that …

Jason Cipriani/CNET One of the advantages that iMessage has over text messaging is that an indicator is displayed when the other person in the conversation is typing a message. This simple animation gives you a heads-up of an incoming message; I often find myself staring at the dancing dots until the message eventually comes through. That same feature can also …