Samsung will join the growing smartwatch market with a new device slated to debut early next month, according to the folks at Bloomberg. Citing information from “two people familiar with the matter,” Bloomberg said on Friday that Samsung will reveal the Galaxy Gear on Wednesday, September 4, two days before the IFA trade show opens …

Verizon customers are finally going to get their hands on the flagship HTC One smartphone. Related stories Verizon bringing HTC One into the fold Verizon launches sign-up page for HTC One HTC debuts full ad with popular ‘Iron Man’ star After months of begging and pleading, Verizon subscribers will be able to purchase the HTC One starting from August 22. …

Nokia’s long-rumoured Windows tablet has been spotted in the wild, in a scarlet-tinted snap that points to Windows RT, and 4G-capability. The picture above appeared at Chinese-language site Weibo, and plainly shows a red slab of what can only be a tablet, proudly bearing the Nokia logo. The edges look to be slightly tapered, like those of Nokia’s Lumia smart …

Will Apple announce an iPhone 5S next month? And, if so, will that model come with a biometric fingerprint sensor? A new set of leaked photos add fuel to the rumor fire. Speculation over this feature began last year when Apple acquired fingerprint-recognition chipmaker AuthenTec, then ramped up again last month when an eagle-eyed beta tester discovered biometric scanner code …

AT&T subscribers will have a first crack at Motorola’s Moto X smartphone. The new phone will arrive at AT&T on August 23, the carrier revealed Friday. Buyers will be able to pick up the phone at AT&T’s retail stores or at its Web site. Customers who opt for the standard two-year agreement can get the 16GB Moto X for $199.99 …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere took to Twitter late Friday to update customers about a network service issue that had been vexing some subscribers. Given that he has fewer than 9,000 followers, the majority of the affected T-Mobile subscribers probably didn’t catch his tweets, but he heard their complaints. Sorry. There is/was a network issue in a few areas. I am …

LG Editors’ note: This post was updated August 16, 2013, with new information. Rumors are still flying about the next great TV technology: organic light-emitting diode. It’s difficult to pry info out of the companies involved, but I figured it was worth putting down what we know, what we think we know, and what we know we don’t know, ya …

LG was the first manufacturer to ship large-screen OLED TV to Korea and Europe, and today the company claims “first” for its U.S. model. The LG 55EA9800, a 55-inch OLED TV with a curved screen, will be available for preorder today at a price of $14,999. According to James Fishler, senior vice president of marketing, it will ship to the …

Two of the most interesting products this year are built around the same idea: now that so many people own a smartphone or tablet, why not use that screen to control your TV? It seems like a logical progression, with Logitech’s Harmony Smart Control promising to turn your smartphone into a true universal remote and Google’s Chromecast relying on mobile …

The Ashton Kutcher-starring Steve Jobs biopic is now out in US cinemas — but critics are less than impressed. The movie, which has a 25 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, focuses too much on Jobs’ career and leaves little room for a human connection according to The Washington Post, which writes that director Michael Stern’s effort spends “way too much …

Now playing: Watch this: Lumia 1020: Calling all photogs 2:44 Nokia is expanding the reach of its Lumia 1020 smartphone to the large Chinese market. The phone took center stage Thursday morning at a launch event held by Nokia China’s general manager, Erik Bertman, and several partners, according to blog site Tech in Asia. Noted for its 41-megapixel camera, the …

Sony’s long-rumored flagship smartphone, codenamed “Honami,” could be capable of shooting 4K video, according to a recently leaked presentation slide. A user on China-based social-networking site Weibo on Thursday published a photo claiming to show a presentation detailing Sony’s upcoming handset. The slide shows a Sony handset and says that it’ll be capable of recording 4K videos. Rumors have been …

AT&T has been working hard to improve its customer service and purchase experience. And it looks like the hard work is paying off. On Thursday, J.D. Power announced that AT&T took the top position in its consumer purchase experience poll. And in early August, J.D. Power also named the company tops in solving customers’ problems. In the consumer purchase poll, …

The UK will be getting its mitts on two versions of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, each with its own processor, freshly leaked information suggests. The next version of the Note will come in both 3G and 4G-capable versions, both of which are heading to the United Kingdom, SamMobile reports, citing information courtesy of ‘insiders’. A version of the Note …

Yet another leak! The hotly-tipped cheap iPhone 5C has appeared on video, side by side with the Apple iPhone 5. The new three-minute video compares the new plastic iPhone to previous models. It’s only the casing, rather than the whole phone, so we get an idea of the forthcoming phone’s size and shape, but not how it works. The rumoured cheaper iPhone …