Feast your eyes, tablet fans, on what’s reported to be an early look at the rumoured forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab 8-inch. Yes folks, just what the world needs: another 8-inch tablet! The new Tab will follow the Galaxy Tab 2 7-inch and Galaxy Tab 2 10.1-inch, splitting the difference on size. The difference between the …

Sprint Nextel has acquired Handmark and its unit OneLouder Apps to boost its Pinsight Media+ advertising service, the wireless carrier said Monday. Related stories: Sprint grabs U.S. Cellular spectrum, customers for $480M Clearwire board urges shareholders to OK Sprint offer Dish to sell $2.5B in debt to fund Sprint bid The deal for the mobile app developer and advertising company …

SoftBank made a bold move in its ongoing battle with Dish to acquire Sprint. The Japanese wireless carrier gave Sprint a special waiver on Monday to let it go into more broad talks with Dish. While this seems counterintuitive, SoftBank said that it believes further talks between Dish and Sprint will only show the U.S. wireless carrier that SoftBank is …

AT&T customers should be able to use any mobile video chat app before too much longer. Preloaded video-chat apps will work over AT&T’s cellular network for all customers, regardless of device or data plan, by the end of 2013, according to a statement from AT&T. Customers with unlimited data and an LTE device should expect to be able to use …

More customers are satisfied with Apple’s phones than any other handsets, but they’re not as happy as they were last year, a new report said. According to an American Customer Satisfaction Index report issued today, Apple received a score of 81 (on a scale of 100) in terms of customer satisfaction. But the company dropped 2 percent from its 2012 …

4K is getting closer to becoming something you don’t have to be a Russian oligarch to afford, as Samsung reveals a 55-inch and 65-inch UHD TV. 4K — also known as ultra high definition — is the next generation of eye-meltingly detailed home cinema. It’s also wallet-meltingly expensive, but with these two new models Samsung is joining Sony in bringing …

It’s one thing to share your photos on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but sometimes you just want old-fashioned prints. You know, the kind you can stick to your fridge, clip to a board, hang on a wall, and so on. That’s especially true if you want to share fond memories with friends or family members. You know, the kind you …

Like a geeky stepson, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is very clever but we’d like to toughen it up a bit. Enter the rugged Galaxy S4 Active, glimpsed for the first time in leaked photos — and for my money, looking even better than the original. The Active is reported to be a ruggedised version of the S4, Samsung’s flagship Android smart …

Samsung may do something it has never done: Put an Intel chip in a Galaxy Tab. The Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Android tablet is expected to sport a dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom CloverTrail+ chip, industry sources familiar with the product told CNET. The plus sign means the CloverTrial chip packs a high-performance PowerVR SGX544 MP2 graphic processing unit from Imagination Technologies. …

LG Display is preparing to demonstrate a new, flexible smartphone panel that promises to be unbreakable. The new screen is set to pop up at the Society for Information Display’s annual exhibition, Display Week 2013. The event, which showcases display products, is taking place this week in Vancouver, Canada. The OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology used in the LG screen …

LG has long been our go-to gadget maker for bonkers phones, with its see-through phones, ultra-wide phones, slo-mo phones and even an ahead-of-its-time watch phone — but this might be the craziest thing it’s made yet. This bendy 5-inch screen is LG Display’s first OLED screen made of plastic, meaning it’s flexible, and crucially for mobile devices, much less vulnerable …

Do you love gold — only gold? Then golden words will pour in your ear when you’re talking on your gold-plated £1,700 Samsung Galaxy S4. The gold-loving mad Midases at Goldgenie are behind the gold-plated S4. These are people who never laid on eyes on something they couldn’t drape in gold, securing backing from James Caan along the way on …

LAS VEGAS — When Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Lopez are the biggest draws for a technology show, there’s a problem. The CTIA Wireless trade group’s spring show officially kicks off for the last time on Tuesday. It marks an unceremonious end to the conference, which next year will merge with its sister show in the fall to better align itself …

CNET Whether technology saves more time than it squanders is an open question. Some of us may dream of a life off the grid and out of range, but by choice or necessity, we spend much of our waking life connected to the world through some electronic device or another. If your network device of choice is an iPhone, these …

Satellite phones may seem like a niche technology, and in many ways they are. You won’t need one while roaming city streets, but they can be invaluable if you’re ever trekking far from civilization — though that didn’t stop this guy from using the HTC One on Mt. Everest. If you’re an in-the-wilds type, then Spot has a new option …