Hooray — the Samsung Galaxy S3 is on sale today! After excitement built to fever pitch over the past few weeks and months, the new Android powerhouse has finally hit shops — so we’ve rounded up everything you need to know. We’ve put the quad-core, Ice Cream Sandwich-packing behemoth through its paces with a gamut …

Now playing: Watch this: Huawei Ascend P1, a stylish Android 4.0 smartphone (Unlocked) 2:17 Huawei and “premium” don’t often appear in the same sentence when you’re looking at the company’s smartphone history in the U.S. Yet, the unlocked, global version of the Huawei Ascend P1 offers a glimmer of hope in its eye-catching black-on-white design, its 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen, …

Some LG smartphone owners will be receiving the latest version of Android early next month. An LG Korean news item (English translation) points to the Optimus LTE Tag and the Optimus Vu as getting a dollop of Ice Cream Sandwich — aka Android 4.0 — starting on June 4. As Engadget points out, it’s a bit tough to decipher the …

A group of regional wireless carriers is calling AT&T’s bluff when it comes to claimed interference issues in the lower spectrum bands of the 700 MHz frequency. On Tuesday, Cavalier Wireless, C Spire Wireless, Continuum 700, King Street Wireless, MetroPCS Communications, U.S. Cellular, and Vulcan Wireless filed a report to the Federal Communications Commission detailing results from a test conducted …

Now playing: Watch this: How to go back to a stock Android ROM 2:34 Hacking your phone and installing custom ROMs is a riveting pastime, packed with thrills, danger and plenty of skipped heartbeats. It can also give you a user interface that’s slicker, faster and generally more suited to your own tastes. But even the most dedicated hacker sometimes …

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is on sale today at all the major networks and phone shops. Today we can add Tesco to that list — and you can get it half price with your Clubcard. Sign up to any phone network’s phone contract through Tesco and you can use Clubcard points to pay the upfront cost of the S3. For …

Several other blogs have already highlighted a new Kickstarter project, Twig, a Gumby-esque iPhone docking cable, but I thought I should also throw some props its way as well. As you can see from the video below, Twig has a few things going for it. For starters, it’s compact. It also bends into a tripod stand. And finally, it’s affordable …

Now playing: Watch this: S3 vs 4S vs One X vs Xperia S camera test 2:25 Very high-end smart phones can now also be excellent cameras — so don’t assume you have to make do with grainy, blurry snaps just because you don’t have your digital SLR to hand when your pet is doing something especially cute. If you’re willing …

The Apple iPad is a deceptive little monster. And the companies that are getting caught up in its deception are paying dearly for it. HP Palm fell for it. RIM fell for it. Others fell for it to a lesser degree, and some are still in danger of suffering from it. The problem is that when most of the traditional …

An “Alvin and the Chipmunks”-themed tablet just for kids? Sounds great, but the skeptic in me says it’ll be underpowered and overpriced. At $129.99, the Archos ChildPad definitely isn’t overpriced, especially when you consider that “adult” tablets (like the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet) start at around $200. As for power, one could argue that younger kids don’t need much. …

As tablet popularity rises, display makers LG and Samsung are losing some ground in the fast-growing market for tablet screens. The two South Korean companies still dominated the tablet display-panel market in 2011, accounting for more than 80 percent of all shipments. That figure, though, is down from 98 percent in 2010, according to an IHS iSuppli market report. That …

Now playing: Watch this: The Toshiba Excite 10 flexes its huge memory expansion… 2:27 Not two months after its release of the “thinnest and lightest” tablet, the Toshiba 10 LE, Toshiba is back with a new 10-inch tablet: the Toshiba Excite 10. It’s not thinner or lighter than the LE, but the Excite 10 does bring Android 4.0, a Tegra …

The wireless industry is likely to shrink down to two or three players, roughly half the roster across the U.S. today, according to an AT&T executive. John Stephens, CFO of AT&T, spoke at a Nomura investment conference on Wednesday. Stephens was asked about consolidation in light of AT&T’s failure to acquire T-Mobile. Regulators panned AT&T’s T-Mobile acquisition over competitive worries. …

It’s no secret that more of us are picking up Web-connected mobile devices. But the growth with which that’s happening is nothing short of impressive. At the D10 Conference today, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers (KPCB) partner Mary Meeker revealed that at the end of 2011, there were 1.1 billion mobile 3G subscribers around the world, representing 37 percent growth over …

Sony’s crafted a brand-new Android smart phone capable of surviving an accidental dive into your pint. The Xperia Go is a 3.5-inch, dust-fighting rugged phone that Sony reckons is ideal for outdoorsy types. Whether you’re scaling Everest or drunkenly stumbling into a lamppost while texting, the Xperia Go has been built to resist life’s untoward elements. You get a scratch-resistant …