The Acer Iconia Tab A510 uses a normal LCD (not an IPS panel) as its screen technology. As you can see, the colors don’t exactly pop from the screen, and the viewing angle is less than satisfying. Josh Miller/CNET The first quad-core tablet, the Asus Transformer Prime, launched in December 2011, but the adoption rate …

Vodafone Australia is pushing out a maintenance update for the HTC One X from this morning, addressing the stability of the system and improving its battery life. (Credit: CBSi) According to the Vodafone customer blog, the update is available today, and can be downloaded over the air. The file to be downloaded is 27MB in size. The blog points to …

The name of Samsung’s ‘next Galaxy’ smart phone is still secret, but an apparent listing inside the company’s own software hints that it will indeed be going with the ‘Samsung Galaxy S3‘ moniker. In a week filled with exciting Samsung-related tidbits, SamMobile has spotted two versions of the Galaxy S3 in Kies, the horrible bit of software that owners of …

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest consumer electronics maker, reported a record quarterly profit Friday on the strength of its smartphones. The South Korea-based company said net profits rose 82 percent to a record 5.05 trillion won, or about $4.45 billion, for the fiscal first quarter ending March 31, compared with 2.78 trillion won a year earlier. Samsung also recorded record …

The Nokia Lumia 900 has been delayed. The 4.3-inch Windows Phone, expected to hit shop shelves this week, has been pushed back to next month as American phone fans snap them up. The 900 will arrive on 14 May or thereabouts, delayed from the original release date of 27 April, as quoted by retailer Phones4U. Update: Nokia told us that …

Those waiting for BlackBerry 10 will need to hold on for a few more months, according to a new report. BlackBerry-focused blog N4BB reported, citing a source, that Research In Motion (RIM) plans to unveil its first BlackBerry 10 device in August. The company will then release the handset toward the beginning of October. Previous reports suggested RIM might launch …

Google’s earliest vision of Android has been unearthed from the vaults. Feast your eyes on what might have been with Google’s 2006 prototype for Android phones. The picture above shows Google’s prototype for a Google Mass Market Phone, sporting a “basic phone user interface”. It was shown to phone network T-Mobile, along with a plan for Google to pay for …

Today, Google has launched its movie-rental service to Australian users across its mobile and web platforms, with rentals available through Google Play and YouTube. The service launches with thousands of movies and prices, ranging from $3.99 for back-catalogue SD to $6.99 for new-release HD. The Movies store on Google Play. (Credit: CNET) The service can be accessed on Google Play, …

SAN FRANCISCO — In Wednesday’s episode of the Oracle-Google trial at U.S. District Court here., a November 2006 presentation outlining a vision and plan for a Google phone came into evidence. Related stories Android chief: We didn’t believe we needed a license from Sun Google’s Andy Rubin dodges David Boies’ bullets Images: Oracle, Google chiefs on witness stand Oracle, Google …

Take a gander at this picture: this is what the Samsung Galaxy S3 won’t look like. Or might look like. Who knows? Anyway, look at all those buttons! The photo is the latest leaked image of the hotly-anticipated successor to the phenomenally successful Samsung Galaxy S2. But just like previous images, it doesn’t necessarily give an insight into the final …

During Apple’s second quarter earnings call yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook dismissed the idea of Apple releasing a MacBook-iPad hybrid device, saying such convergence was a “compromise” to the end user. “You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator,” Cook said, “but those things are probably not going be pleasing to the user.” Well, the folks behind The Oona smartphone …

If you haven’t noticed, Google Docs for Android has just morphed into Google Drive. Or perhaps more accurately, it has been sucked up by the brand-new file-syncing and file-sharing app. This means that not only does it give you access to all of your old Docs, it also lets you access and store any kind of file in your cloud-enabled …

You might recognize the Wi-Fi-enabled Archos 101 G9 from our previous review, but it’s back and it’s been “Turbo-fied.” At least, that’s what the manufacturer has tacked on now that the tablet’s dual-core processor has been bumped up from 1GHz to 1.5GHz. The device also has more storage space, touting a 250GB hard drive. And for all you Android lovers …

Here in the U.S., the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows phone has sold better than Nokia expected, but significant profit loss elsewhere has led to some vocal — and colorful — opinions from a former Nokia executive. Speaking exclusively to CNET UK, Lee Williams, who served as Nokia’s senior vice president of Symbian Series 60 OS from 2006 to 2009, paints …

Seemingly everyone is on pins and needles awaiting an LTE-capable iPhone. One company that may want to hold off on the enthusiasm is Sprint Nextel. A new iPhone could actually hurt Sprint’s competitive standing among the major wireless carriers. If the next iPhone is capable of tapping into LTE networks — which is a virtual certainty given the emergence of …