Samsung today revealed more details about its TV discovery service — except for the finalized name for the U.S. version — as the Korean electronics giant gears up for the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. Related stories: Samsung’s video search tool for TVs will be coming to tablets, too How Samsung might actually get …

Qualcomm introduces two new entry-level and mid-range series of Snapdragon processors. Qualcomm Qualcomm today announced a pair of new mobile processors designed for entry-level and mid-range smartphones. Expected in handsets later this year, the Snapdragon 200 and 400 balance the high-end 600 and 800 processors introduced in January. Related stories: Qualcomm debuts chips with 75 percent better performance Nvidia unveils …

A short video shows off the power of Intel’s Clover Trail + platform on the Lenovo K900. A still from the video. (Screenshot by Nic Healey/CNET Australia) Intel’s Clover Trail + is still a bit of a mystery, with more details expected to be revealed at Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year, …

David Katzmaier and I have gotten e-mails asking a seemingly odd question: how high can plasma TVs go? These e-mails, from videophiles living in high-altitude places such as Denver and Santa Fe, are concerned plasmas either won’t work for them, or will have a loud buzzing. Turns out, they’re sort of right. A cutaway diagram of a plasma television. The …

Now playing: Watch this: The HTC One’s BlinkFeed and new Sense 5.0 features in… 3:21 Nothing sums up the HTC One’s new look better than its revamped clock-and-weather widget. Gone is the trademark retro flip clock, which has been a fixture on marquee HTC Android phones since the Hero debuted more than three years ago, and in its place is …

Nvidia’s big chance to expand into smartphones has arrived and it’s called Tegra 4i. The company today unveiled its new mobile chip that integrates its app processor and 4G LTE on the same piece of silicon. The processor, previously codenamed “Project Grey,” includes 60 Nvidia GPU cores, a 2.3 GHz quad-core CPU based on ARM Holdings’ R4 Cortex-A9 architecture, a …

HTC’s freshly unveiled HTC One smart phone will be out in the UK in a number of weeks, slated to hit shops on 15 March. The Taiwanese phone-maker’s newest smart phone, which has a 4.7-inch 1080p display and a 9mm metal chassis, will be lining the shelves of British brick-and-mortar shops in less than a month, HTC has confirmed to …

Nvidia’s plucky new Tegra 4i processor will soon be powering the next generation of mid-range smart phones. Its increased power and small size means it’s apparently able to deliver performance easily matching today’s super-phones while keeping both size and costs down. The 4i might have its sights set on the lower end of the phone spectrum, but there’s nothing basic …

Today Canonical, makers of the Linux-based Ubuntu OS, unveiled Ubuntu for tablets. Specifically targeting those of the Nexus variety. The OS will be available for the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 beginning Thursday. Owners of the Nexus 4 and Galaxy Nexus smartphones will receive access to the OS on the same day and the OS will be featured at Mobile …

Nokia could unveil four phones in less than a week. Clues point to a quartet of new Windows Phone 8 devices in the Lumia line-up, including the already-rumoured Lumia 520 and 720. The unknown phones have appeared in logs for US network Verizon, spotted by Windows app wonk Alan Mendelevich. The gang of mystery blowers consists of the Nokia RM-914, …

BlackBerry’s new Z10 smart phone may cost you an arm and a leg to acquire, but a recent teardown reveals that BlackBerry isn’t spending nearly as much on actually bolting the thing together. The analysis was conducted by the intrepid chaps at TechInsights, who pulled a 16GB model of BlackBerry’s new blower apart and tallied the cost of each individual …

Samsung’s shaggy old St Bernard phone, the Galaxy Note, is being taught some new tricks with an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The upgrade is reportedly rolling out now either as an over-the-air update or using Samsung’s Kies desktop software. The update brings a brandy-barrelful of new software features, including the split-screen app view first seen on the Note …

Google has something special up its search-engine sleeves for the next Nexus phone’s camera capabilities, a holiday-bound Google exec has hinted. Google’s vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra, who last year posted holiday photos from the then-unreleased Nexus 10 tablet, took to Google+ to discuss camera tech, saying “We are committed to making Nexus phones insanely great cameras.” In the …

HTC will try yet again to mount a comeback with a flagship smartphone, and you can get all the details right here. HTC is planning a global launch of its latest big product at an event that kicks off at 7 a.m. PT today. The company is readying simultaneous events in New York and London, and CNET will be at …

As sexy as the HTC One is, it is doomed to failure if the company doesn’t quickly shake things up. HTC’s design and software teams did their jobs in creating an attractive, unique, and premium-feeling phone, taking Apple’s love for metal construction and taking it to the next logical progression. But guess what? HTC’s One family of phones met with …