Here’s a juicy morsel of semiconductor industry gossip (not a phrase I’ve ever written before) — Apple is planning a larger screen for its next-generation iPhone 5S, and the switch could lead to the flagship phone being delayed until the end of the year. Apple’s release schedule for its major gadgets is usually regular as …

BlackBerry has slashed production of the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 by half because of disappointing BB10 sales, according to an industry expert. Jefferies & Co analyst Peter Misek reports that production of both models has been reduced to a combined total of just 1m phones per month. The Z10 and Q10 were the first phones showing off the new …

The UE Boom from Logitech is a small, 360-degree speaker designed for outdoor use. (Credit: Logitech) Just 18cm tall and around 540g in weight, the speaker has a stain- and water-resistant coating on the fabric cover. Logitech claims a 15-hour battery life for the device. The Boom uses Bluetooth to pair, and can actually pair with two separate devices simultaneously, …

Smartphone adoption is heating up in the United States. Around 583,000 people in the U.S. per week are buying smartphones, Asymco analyst Horace Dediu said in a blog posted on Wednesday. That figure is up from the average 572,000 per week witnessed over the past 41 months. Assuming Dediu’s estimates are accurate, that means the mobile industry will snare more …

iPhone owners who use WhatsApp for their instant messaging needs will now have to pay 99 cents a year for the privilege. Following a new version of WhatsApp for iPhone released on Tuesday, the developer unveiled the new pricing scheme. Previously, iPhone users made a one-time payment of 99 cents for WhatsApp with no annual charge. Folks on Android and …

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Is a top-notch photo-blower the new must-have for every aspiring phone-maker? It certainly seems like it. Pics and other purported details have appeared online for Sony’s rumoured Xperia i1 camera phone, and as well as its whopping 20-megapixel camera, it looks to take on the likes of the Nokia Lumia 1020 and Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom with some serious speccage. …

CNET There has never been a “handier” computer than the iPad. Yes, that’s a bold statement. Here are seven tips that back it up. Use your thumbs to type letters that have no keys When it comes to entering text on an iPad, many of us are all thumbs. The device’s split keyboard lets you type characters with your thumbs …

Samsung might skip the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update in favor of the 4.3 release for the Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy S3, according to a new rumor. Related stories Android 5.0 coming to Samsung Galaxy phones, reports say Is Android fragmentation over with Jelly Bean’s rise? Nope The Galaxy S4’s Key Lime Pie problem As some readers know first-hand, …

Clinkle, the secretive mobile-payments service backed with $25 million in early investments by some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names, will soon allow more college students to sign up. The company is still in stealth mode, with a pilot program at Stanford, but plans to launch at other colleges within the next year. It won’t be available to the general public, …

Time Warner Cable and Cablevision are bulking up the Wi-Fi service at New York City parks. New York City said on Tuesday that it had partnered with the two cable providers to deliver Wi-Fi hotspots throughout parks in the five boroughs. The agreement includes a $10 million investment fund for Wi-Fi deployment in parks and public spaces. The cable companies …

It’s Verizon Wireless’s turn to show off its next big smartphone. The nation’s largest carrier just sent out invitations to an event on July 23. Verizon promised to show off “the next generation of their most popular family of devices.” While the invitation was light on the specifics, it’s almost certainly going to be the next round of Droid smartphones. …

Sony might have something up its sleeve, if recently leaked images and specs are to be believed. Taiwan-based news site ePrice published images Tuesday of what it claims is the long-rumored Sony i1 Android-based smartphone. The device, believed to be codenamed “Honami,” has popped up in rumors from time to time and is supposedly shipping this fall as Sony’s flagship …

Google has pressed play on a new look for Google Play, as the online store becomes more like the app on your Android phone or tablet. The Google Play Web Store now has a handy sidebar listing categories of stuff you might want to browse and download: apps, movies, music and so on, as well as a category for devices …

Samsung’s dominance in the Android world is borne out by a new report from Chitika. Among all Android smartphone and tablet vendors in the U.S. and Canada, Samsung scored 47.2 percent of all online traffic seen by the advertising and Web analytics firm. The percentage is based on the number of ad impressions recorded by Chitika from June 17 to …