Verizon Wireless may be looking at new phone pricing options, but that won’t affect service plan pricing, Verizon’s financial chief said Tuesday. Fran Shammo, speaking at the J.P. Morgan tech conference, said the company has looked at T-Mobile’s new phone and service plan options “a number of times,” but Verizon won’t change the service pricing …

New Nokia news! The doors are open at Nokia’s exclusive London launch, and the CNET team has already taken its front-row seats ready to bring you the news, first impressions and photos as they happen — and here’s where you can follow Nokia’s announcement, live on CNET. We’ve got a live blog covering every detail as it unfolds, featuring detail …

Nvidia’s Android-based portable gaming device known as Shield will be released in June with a $349 price tag, the company said Tuesday. Preorders for Shield — no longer dubbed “Project Shield” — began Tuesday for those who had signed up to receive Shield updates from Nvidia. The general public can preorder Shield starting Monday, May 20. Related stories: Best Gaming …

In the event’s most closely fought battle in years, the Samsung PNF8500 series plasma TV emerged as the winner of the annual Value Electronics Flat Panel Shootout. It narrowly defeated the Panasonic VT60 and ZT60 series plasmas in the final voting by the public in attendance. The event, in its ninth year, included a field of three Panasonic TVs (ZT60, …

Sony is launching a new Xperia smartphone designed to be dunkable. Announced on Monday, the Xperia ZR phone can stay under as much as five feet of water for up to 30 minutes. Using the phone’s 13-megapixel camera, you can shoot underwater photos and videos in full HD. The dedicated camera key also allows you to quickly take a shot …

Nokia has teased its newest gadget ahead of next week, when the Finnish firm has a bash planned to show off the mystery mobile. The clip of the cryptically concealed mobile appeared on Channel 4, during a break in The Inbetweeners Movie. There’s little to glean from the chic teaser, though the new device looks to be — predictably enough — …

The Samsung Galaxy S4 family is set to explode, and new pictures and clues have emerged about the hotly tipped Galaxy S4 Zoom and Galaxy S4 Mini spin-off smart phones. Samsung hasn’t made an official announcement about any of the rumoured spin-offs to the S4, but hints are popping up all over the show in leaked photos and listings for the …

4G isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? 5G. Samsung claims new 5G tests have hit dizzying speeds and could be ready for you to use by 2020. 4G is barely kicking off in this country, but technology giants are already working on the next level of high-speed wireless data connections for sending data between computers and mobile devices. Korean news …

Last year, Google I/O — Google’s annual event for the developer community — treated us to skydiving, arena-cycling Google Glass wearers, and a whole crazy landscape of wearable tech. This year, Glass is finally in the hands of thousands of developers, tech journalists, and other early adopters, but as we head back to another Google I/O, there’s a lot about …

Android head Sundar Pichai might be new to the job of leading Google’s mobile operating system, but he’s already working at improving the update process for that software. In a Wired interview published Monday, Pichai acknowledged that update paths to new versions of Android can be difficult, but that he and his team “are thinking about how to make Android …

Sony’s bringing out a new improved waterproof Xperia just in time for summer — the Xperia ZR. The aquatic mobile can enjoy freshwater dunkings down to 1.5 metres, and its 13-megapixel camera will be perfect for recreating the best bit of Licence to Kill in your holiday pool. Don’t fret if you’ve just splashed out on an Xperia Z though …

Nokia is shining a light on the camera and flash of a new Lumia smartphone. A video posted on YouTube today takes us on a tour of the phone from the camera to the lens to the flash, promising “more than your eyes can see” and telling us that “the new Nokia Lumia is coming.” So, just which model Lumia …

As BT prepares to go toe-to-toe with Sky, the company has revealed that profits are up and over 1.5 million people are using its superfast fibre broadband. In today’s financial results, BT also confirms it spent £200m on 4G. BT’s superfast Infinity service uses fibre optic cable and promises speeds of up to 76Mbps. With 1.5 million people already using …

Phone network EE has denied any wrongdoing in a privacy brouhaha that sees another firm accused of trying to sell EE customer data to the Metropolitan Police. Despite officially having access only to anonymous data on EE customers, market-research company Ipsos Mori is alleged to have offered the Met personal data, a claim EE calls “misleading”. In a deal between …

If you’re lucky enough to have planted your hands on a shiny new Samsung Galaxy S4, you’re no doubt itching to make the most of its extensive range of cutting-edge features — one of which is the excellent 13-megapixel camera. Mobile snappers are becoming increasingly complicated — almost rivalling dedicated point-and-shoot digital cameras, in fact — so I’ve compiled this …