One X owners brace yourselves for an Android update being released by HTC today. No, not Jelly Bean. Don’t get overexcited. This is an iterative change to Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). The Android 4.0.4 update brings improvements to phone functions such as the camera, a smoother screen rotation performance and general stability improvements, according to …

Android purists will tell you there’s no finer sight than Google’s mobile OS free of pesky manufacturer tweaks — and that there’s no better phone than a Google Nexus. But are they right? Well, that’s up for debate. One thing the Android hardcore certainly are not is in the majority though. Proof, if proof were needed, that pure, unskinned Android …

Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET Most of the time I put together an iOS app collection of the week, but on the momentous occasion of classic console game Pitfall’s 30th anniversary (was it really 1982?), I’m going to take a deeper dive into the completely remade game. Many old-school gamers will remember Pitfall, a must-have on the Atari 2600, in which …

Vodafone has announced that the Jelly Bean update for its customers with the Google Nexus S is rolling out now as an over-the-air update. (Credit: Google) The new firmware had been scheduled for release three weeks ago, but was delayed due to concerns that the build of Jelly Bean, which had been ready in July, didn’t comply with Australia’s emergency …

Motorola Editors’ note: This article was originally published on July 26, 2012, and updated August 10 with more details. When we first heard of Motorola’s upcoming Motorola Photon Q, we thought that the keyboarded Android smartphone would serve as a nice lifeline for disillusioned and disenfranchised BlackBerry refugees fleeing the sinking ship. Running Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich and driven …

Your iPhone comes packing a pretty decent camera, but there’s no camera on the planet that doesn’t benefit from the stability of a tripod. Just one problem: Tripods tend to be long, large, unwieldy accessories, not the kind of the things you can just slip into your pocket. Until now. Photojojo’s Tiltpod Mobile puts an iPhone tripod on your keychain. …

Cut-price dish-free Sky channels are now available on YouView — for free. You can watch Sky’s online service Now TV on your YouView set-top box, bringing Sky Movies to your goggle box without coughing up for a Sky subscription. Now TV is free for the first month — so that’s 30 days of movies from Sky’s film channels, long before they …

Now playing: Watch this: Inside Scoop: Cell phone radiation warnings up in the… 2:55 Updated at 12:56 p.m. PT: with additional information and background An attorney representing the wireless industry said Thursday that San Francisco’s attempt at educating the public about cell phone radiation was “laughable,” asking the court to put a hold on the city’s ordinance requiring cell phone …

T-Mobile USA continues to bleed its most valuable customers as the carrier struggles to keep up with its fellow national rivals. The carrier, a unit of Deutsche Telekom, said today it lost 205,000 net customers in the second quarter, largely due to a defection in customers with long-term contracts. T-Mobile posted a second-quarter profit of $207 million, down slightly from …

At the risk of dating myself, I’m old enough to remember Pitfall, the iconic 1982 Atari game of running, jumping, and swinging. Old enough, in fact, to have owned an Atari 2600 and a Pitfall cartridge. Perhaps it was inevitable that the game would get a modern makeover, and so today brings us Activision’s Pitfall for iOS. Yep, Pitfall Harry …

A new, press-ready image of the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze Q has been spied online, potentially hinting at its launch date. TmoNews, which has anticipated an August 15 debut for the smartphone, recently obtained the image you see to the right. Details about the Android-powered handset haven’t been confirmed just yet but it’s reported to include a sliding QWERTY keyboard …

A newly revealed document from within Samsung reveals that the South Korean company went to great lengths to ensure its Galaxy S smart phone was a lot like the iPhone. The translated 2010 internal report, which comes from Samsung’s product engineering team via AllthingsD, was admitted into evidence this week, giving it weight in the legal conflict between the two …

Research In Motion has succeeded in getting overturned a verdict that would have forced it to pay $147.2 million in patent-infringement damages to mobile device management company Mformation. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has overturned a trial verdict and granted RIM’s “motion for judgment as a matter of law.” According to RIM, the court found …

With the release of iOS 6 highly likely in September (concurrent with the expected iPhone 5 announcement), the rumors around unannounced feature changes at tech sites are reaching an all-time high, so I decided to round up some of the big ones here. We already know about the main features in iOS 6 Apple announced at WWDC in June, but …

Samsung Electronics didn’t waste time nipping that rumor in the bud. The Korean conglomerate has flat-out told Reuters that it isn’t interested in buying Research In Motion or licensing its next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system. “Samsung Electronics has not considered the acquisition of Research in Motion or licensing BB10,” a representative told CNET. The comment came after an analyst speculated …