Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET Some aspects of iOS 7 are pretty clear — swipe up to access Control Center? Got it — while others, not so much. In fact, I suspect that after installing the new OS (or buying a new iPhone that has it preinstalled), you’re going to find yourself scratching your head over …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Spotting an app in the App Store you want to purchase, but not being sure if you’re ready to pull the trigger, or wanting to wait until it goes on sale is common. Same goes for a movie, book, or album in the iTunes Store. In the past, iOS left you to remember what content it was you …

BlackBerry said on Friday that it expects to lose $950 million to $995 million in the fiscal second quarter and announced a change in strategy amid continued struggles selling its new BlackBerry smartphones. The company said it would shift its focus toward business and the “prosumer” market, a concession that its BlackBerry 10 smartphones can’t compete in the brutal market …

Jason Cipriani/CNET For the first time since the introduction of the first iPhone and iOS, apps can run in the background, carrying out whatever tasks are requested. Until now, location services, music playback, and VoIP calls were the only types of apps that could run in the background on iOS. The biggest factor that kept Apple from opening up background …

Vodafone is set to launch a 4G version of its budget own-brand Android phone, the Vodafone Smart 3. That’s according to a cache of documents on the US FCC website, spotted by Engadget, which shows a Vodafone Smart 4G seeking approval to use the American airwaves. Quite why it’s bothering is not clear — Vodafone doesn’t operate in the US …

iOS 7 is out now, and across the world phone fans are racing to update iPhones and iPads with the dramatic new facelift to Apple’s software. Except quite a few people can’t. Error messages abound as overworked servers labour to distribute the iOS 7 update to eager Apple fans. Even those that have started the download are facing a wait …

The iPhone 5S and 5C are nearly upon us — and so are the fervent Apple fans who’ve lined up outside, in a bid to be the first to get their mitts on the colourful pair of new smart phones. Central London plays host to two major Apple stores — one on Regent Street and the grand flagship shop in …

iOS 7 has smashed records, doubling Internet traffic as phone fans race to download the software and update iPhone and iPad. The new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C — on sale today — may have left many of you cold, but iOS 7 proved enormously popular with owners of older iPhones and iPads. Broadband bigwigs BT Retail told the Guardian that British …

Sprint on Friday confirmed its own early-upgrade program, “One Up,” that will allow customers to pay in monthly installments and change their phones once a year. The program comes with an introductory offer of a $15 discount on its Unlimited, My Way, and All-In plans, one of which must be selected for One Up. The company noted that for a …

Now playing: Watch this: Fix iOS 7’s most annoying quirks 2:47 I’ll see your large text size and raise you larger text size. As previously discussed, iOS 7 features Dynamic Text, which lets you change the default size of text across the entire device. The slider for Dynamic Text can be found via this path: Settings > General > Text …

Apple has admitted there’s a bug in its brand-new iOS 7 software that lets you access and share photos without unlocking the phone. The bug, which was discovered by Jose Rodriguez, a soldier from the Canary Islands, takes advantage of the new control centre in iOS 7. Control centre is a set of essential phone functions such as the camera, …

Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET My review of Apple’s iOS 7 went up Wednesday morning, but since then I’ve been writing posts about what I think are the seven best and seven worst things about the new mobile OS. Related stories As Worries Grow Around Russian Cyberattacks, Update Your Operating Systems You’re not still sharing iPhone photos with a USB thumb …

NEW YORK — You can’t have an ad campaign mocking people waiting in line for the iPhone and then wish you had the same lines. Or can you? Apparently Samsung thinks it can. Along with the hundreds of consumers, reporters, and app promoters converging Friday on Apple’s flagship store on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue for the iPhone 5S/5C launch were employees …

Dan Graziano/CNET Google introduced the world to its mobile payment system more than two years ago. Google Wallet was meant to revolutionize the future of mobile payments; however, soon after launch the company faced a number of unexpected obstacles. Google Wallet transformed NFC-equipped smartphones into digital wallets that could be used to make in-store purchases at various locations across the …

It’s fitting that on the same day BlackBerry announced it had lost nearly $1 billion in the past quarter thousands of Apple fans were lined up to buy a new iPhone. The juxtaposition between the have (Apple) and have-not (BlackBerry, obviously) couldn’t be more clear, and it only underscores the fact that the reinvented BlackBerry never really had a chance …