Those eyeing Virgin Mobile’s prepaid phones now have another Android 4.1 smartphone to choose from. Starting Tuesday, the Jelly Bean-filled Samsung Galaxy Ring debuts with decidedly entry-level features that are aimed for the budget-minded. Let’s start with the 4-inch display, backed by a 5-megapixel camera with HD video recording, and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. The …

Is thin better? Huawei seems to think so, if its Ascend P6 — launched recently in London — is anything to go by. The Ascend P6. (Credit: Huawei) The 4.7-inch Android phone is just 6.18mm thin, making it the world’s slimmest smartphone currently available. The P6 also boasts a full HD screen, a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, an 8MP camera and …

The Snapdragon 800 seems to represent a new level of speed for mobile processors. Here it is getting disgustingly high framerates in the 3DMark benchmark. Eric Franklin/CNET The Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 will destroy your mobile processor. Not literally, of course. I’m strictly referring to its ability to render real-time graphics so fast as to make your current mobile processor — …

Reuben Lee/CNET Asia (left), Nic Healey/CNET Australia (right) Both Samsung and LG, two of the biggest players in the burgeoning world of organic light-emitting diode televisions, have announced (or depending on where you live, are selling) curved OLED screens to go along with traditional “flat” OLED screens. Curved screens have been used in theaters for decades, and more recently in …

If you’ve got a spare twelve grand in your sky rocket and a bare wall the size of, well, a sky rocket, then have we got news for you: Sharp’s 90-inch telly — largest LED TV in the world! — is now on sale in Europe. Sharp reckons the Sharp Aquos LC-90LE757 is the biggest yet and we can believe …

Lovefilm, Amazon’s £5 per month UK video streaming service, has signed up a bunch of family-friendly movies from Disney — not the entire House of Mouse canon, but a great sample nevertheless. Highlights include Pixar’s peerless Up, Wall-E and Ratatouille, and cheerful animated fare such as The Aristocats, Lady and the Tramp, Dumbo, Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers, Treasure …

Samsung is ready to launch a new Galaxy S4 that will be capable of connecting to the Internet through the LTE-Advanced 4G technology. Speaking to Reuters in an interview published Monday, Samsung Electronics CEO J.K. Shin said that his company will launch a Galaxy S4 Advanced device designed to connect to the next generation of 4G LTE networks, dubbed LTE-Advanced. …

AT&T appears to have quietly begun rolling out nationwide support for Apple’s FaceTime videoconferencing app for iPhone on its cellular network. While AT&T has made no official announcement about beginning a nationwide rollout, the move would be a major step toward fulfilling a promise it made in May that its LTE customers would be able to use video chat apps …

Verizon Wireless could be making its way to Canada, a new report claims. The U.S.-based carrier is considering a plan that would see it acquire a smaller carrier in Canada and then compete to buy wireless spectrum that Canada is auctioning off this year, The Globe and Mail is reporting on Monday, citing people who claim to have knowledge of …

Sprint Nextel has filed a lawsuit against Dish Network and Clearwire seeking to prevent Dish’s takeover of the wireless broadband provider. The No. 3 wireless carrier filed a lawsuit Monday against the two companies in Delaware Court of Chancery, alleging that Dish’s tender offer violates the rights of Sprint and Clearwire’s shareholders and the laws of the state of Delaware. …

Two former HTC executives are hoping for a fresh start with their own company. Michael Coombes, former head of U.K. sales at HTC, and James Atkins, former U.K. marketing head for the company, said on Monday that they are launching smartphone manufacturer Kazam. The two executives are promising smartphones that are about “stunning design, robust hardware, and intuitive technology, underpinned …

Editor’s note: This contest is now closed. The world’s fastest-selling Android phone just got a little savvier. CNET How To is bringing its very best, unpublished advice to our newest e-book, “Mastering the Galaxy S4.” New to Android? We’ve got you. Google maven? You’ll find plenty of hidden tips here, too. We’ve tapped through every last feature, button, sensor, shortcut, …

Ever since Google bought Motorola, there has been hope for a perfect marriage between Google software and Motorola hardware. The upcoming Moto X smartphone just may not be that union. Motorola moto x: 1.7GHz dual-core MSM8960 Pro, 720p, 2GB/16GB, 10MP/2MP, Android 4.2.2 — @evleaks (@evleaks) June 15, 2013 According to a Friday tweet from anonymous leaker @evleaks, the Motorola Moto …

Sprint confirmed on Monday that another 22 markets have officially started seeing the network’s 4G LTE data speeds. With the addition of nearly two dozen new areas, Sprint’s LTE footprint now reaches 110 markets across the United States. The new markets are:  Related stories: AT&T’s 4G LTE wins award for ‘fastest mobile network’ The inner workings of a Sprint 4G …

Father’s Day is lasting a little bit longer than usual, at least in the land of Barnes & Noble. The retailer revealed on Monday that it’s stretching its special Father’s Day sales prices on the Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets. Kicked off on June 10, B&N’s self-dubbed “best prices ever” promotion will now last for an extended but limited …