Combining a comfortable fit with excellent sound for the money, Klipsch’s Image S4 and S4i have long been some of our favorite earphones here at CNET. That said, I’ve seen some complaints about them not being durable enough, especially for sporting activities. Well, Klipsch has apparently heard those criticisms and smartly made a ruggedized version …

You can’t fault HTC for being persistent. The Taiwanese company, best known for its line of smartphones, will again try to breach the tablet market, according to a report from PC Advisor, who cited a company representative. Beyond acknowledgement of another tablet in the works, the report has little other information on timing, specifications, or price. HTC declined to comment …

For the past few years, we’ve kept a running list of top titles not out on Blu-ray. It started out with 40 titles and has been whittled down to 15 in more recent months. “Chariots of Fire,” which won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1981 and hit stores yesterday (just in time for the Olympics), is the latest …

Edifier, which has made a few funky-looking media speaker systems over the years, has now added another aesthetically interesting unit to its lineup: the Prisma, a 2.1 Bluetooth speaker system that just hit the market for $129.99. Aside from the design, Edifier is highlighting the fact that the Prisma has a 48-watt power rating and its wired remote control is …

Now playing: Watch this: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean a sweet Android update 3:32 After releasing the operating system source code yesterday, Google announced that those who have Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ devices will be able to update their handsets to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean starting today. Users will be prompted with an alert about the update over the next few days. …

Sony is working on a successor to its Tablet S it seems, after plans were submitted to the FCC, the US phone governance body, for a tablet with the designation ‘SGPT1211’. The filing, spotted by Xperia Blog, doesn’t cover just one device, but six. Three for the US, and three for Canada, named SGPT121, 122 and 123. The original Tablet …

If you thought the Samsung Galaxy Note was big, wait until you get a load of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 — it’s set to be even bigger than the ginormous current model. The Note 2 is reported to be a 5.5-inch slab of a phone, a slight but potentially noticeable size increase over the current version’s 5.3-inch screen. Korean …

A bunch of potential new Nokia Lumia phones powered by Windows Phone have whispered their names online. Various clues suggest a new Nokia Lumia 910, a Lumia 1001, a Lumia 920 and a Lumia 950. Oh, and something called a Dogphone. Other codenames appear in developer’s logs spotted by Chinese blog WPDang, including the Nokia Fluid, Nokia Phi, P4301, and …

Just when you thought that T-Mobile couldn’t possibly confuse us more with its myTouch family of smartphones, here come reboots of the myTouch and myTouch Q, this time made by Huawei rather than by LG. The two new Android 2.3 Gingerbread handsets feature 4G, a 4.0 WVGA touch screen, a 1.4GHz processor, a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, and a …

Local handset makers are giving Nokia a run for its money in Asian markets such as Indonesia and India, where the Finnish company has traditionally been strong in. In a research note released yesterday, ABI Research stated that the Asian handset market will see 624 million devices sold by the end of the year, thus representing a 6.9 percent year-on-year …

Frank Boulben, the new chief marketing officer at Research In Motion, did his homework before joining the company. Boulben, who jumped off the sinking ship that was wireless startup LightSquared, tapped his Rolodex of contacts and friends within the carrier and developer communities to see if the RIM position was a job worth taking. To his surprise, he found there …

A new update for the Kobo Touch adds recommendations, a wish-list function and an improved user interface. (Credit: Michelle Starr/CNET Australia) Version 2.0 of the Kobo OS was released today, making the e-reader much more streamlined. Among the improvements are a streamlined home screen, personalised book recommendations based on what’s in your Library, Font Tuning to make text sharper and …

Motorola Mobility today announced a pair of new Android-powered smartphones set to arrive in Canada in the coming weeks. Both the Atrix HD LTE and Razr V are expected to run Android 4.0, feature Kevlar fiber protection, and offer similar form factors. While they might look similar on the surface, there are a number of differences tucked under their hoods. …

As Apple and Samsung spar over universal search in the new Galaxy Nexus, it appears Samsung has quietly removed the feature from the Galaxy S3 in an effort to keep the new smartphones on retailers’ shelves. Soon after a U.S. judge denied Samsung’s request earlier this month to suspend a ban on U.S. sales of its Galaxy Nexus phone over …

Amazon is already testing a smartphone with Asian component suppliers that could be in production as early as this year, the Wall Street Journal reports. The smartphone that Amazon is currently testing has a screen size of between four and five inches, one of the Journal’s sources says. The report seems to support a Bloomberg report last week that the …