Kickstarter has birthed some pretty cool accessories for iPhones, iPods, and iPads. The ChargeCard, for example, which I recently saw and loved at CES. And the Woxom SlingShot video stabilizer/tripod. If you sometimes feel like you might be missing out on the good stuff, or perhaps you just don’t have time to troll Kickstarters listings …

Now playing: Watch this: HTC One wows with stunning design, premium parts 3:17 With its new flagship phone, the 4.7-inch HTC One, HTC has made the seemingly baffling choice of opting for a 4-megapixel camera, instead of an 8- or 13-megapixel unit of the kind seen on the high-end smartphones of its rivals. That doesn’t seem to bother the Taiwanese …

Take that, Apple. HTC believes it has one-upped its competition — including the marquee iPhone 5 — with its latest flagship smartphone. The HTC One features an all-aluminum construction that the company believes will set the phone apart at retail stores. “This takes premium to the next level,” Scott Croyle, HTC’s design guru, said in an interview with CNET. “It …

Now playing: Watch this: HTC One wows with stunning design, premium parts 3:17 NEW YORK — HTC gets another shot at a turnaround with its One smartphone. The company unveiled its latest Android smartphone today in a global launch that included simultaneous events in New York and London. HTC is getting even more serious about its push to streamline. Following …

Nvidia hopes to challenge Qualcomm in the smartphone space with its Tegra 4i chipset. The Tegra 4i.(Credit: Nvidia) It’s no secret that flagship phones are getting faster and faster as processor speeds previously only seen in the likes of tablets make their way onto smartphones. At the moment, the market is mostly dominated by Qualcomm and the Snapdragon series of …

Ubuntu for tablets is a new operating system for slates, joining Ubuntu for phones — and you can try out features such as phone apps sharing the screen with tablet apps on your Google Nexus 7 or Nexus 10. Although it’s optimised for the ARM chips that power tablets, the tablet version of the OS shares most of its code with …

Wireless carrier T-Mobile expanded its prepaid offerings today with the nationwide launch of GoSmart Mobile, a budget wireless service targeting consumers interested in low-cost unlimited plans. The service, which has been in beta mode in nine markets since December, is geared toward consumers more interested in voice and text services than high-speed Internet access. As such, GoSmart’s target audience includes …

The HTC One has taken the pixel density crown, leaving phones like Retina iPhone 5 in the dust. First, to get a sense of the HTC One screen’s density, a quick comparison to Microsoft’s Surface Pro, which has also been praised for its display chops, puts this into perspective. The Surface Pro packs a resolution of 1,920×1,080 into a 10.6-inch …

Is your Android phone too easy to use? Worry not! Canonical, the company behind the mildly popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, has promised an exclusive preview version of its Ubuntu Phone software will be available to download from 21 February — this Thursday. It won’t be open to every Android user though, with only two lucky Nexus devices able to install …

HTC’s big event today isn’t enough to overshadow an issue the company is having with Germany’s customs officers. According to the company, customs officers at the Frankfurt-Hahn airport held up HTC device shipments between February 4 and February 10. The seizure resulted from an ongoing patent war HTC is waging against patent-licensing company IPCom. Foss Patents was first to report …

It seems 4G isn’t for us after all. As EE’s 4G headstart fast runs out, it seems the lure of the Samsung Galaxy LTE, BlackBerry Z10 and Nokia Lumia 920 hasn’t seen British customers signing up to 4G in droves. The number of people to sign up to the UK’s first 4G network is one figure notably absent from EE’s …

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Jony Ive has won the highest honour in the land: a gold Blue Peter badge. In a glimpse behind the scenes at Apple, the London-born design guru joins the likes of David Beckham, JK Rowling, Jessica Ennis, David Tennant and the Queen in the most exclusive club there is. Following on from last year’s knighthood, which made him Sir Jonathan …

The Nexus 4’s camera may not be such a bad option, but it’s far from the best currently available — something Google’s Vic Gundotra says the firm is in the midst of changing. Over at Google+, a photography-themed discussion relating to the quality of DSLR cameras and image quality versus the nuisance of carting around heavy pieces of equipment led …

The rumour mill is running hot with the suggestion that the next Samsung Galaxy phone will be announced by mid-March. The successor to the S3 might see the light of day on 14 March. (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) Samsung seems to be approaching Apple levels of consumer hype, with big rumours arriving regarding the Galaxy S4 just days after the possibility …