The next next version of Android is Key Lime Pie. After Ice Cream Sandwich, and after Jelly Bean, your Android phone or tablet will update to the taste of the Florida-born dessert. The Verge reports the name, but details of the release date and version numbers are yet to emerge. At least it’s shorter than …

The Apple event to allegedly announce the iPad 3 is tomorrow and this is as good a time as any to talk about what’s in store for the OS that will eventually run on it. iOS 5 brought us notifications, Twitter integration, and more cloud support, among other things, but what’s next for Apple’s mobile OS? There are many rumors …

Carphone Warehouse has listed the Nokia Lumia 900 on its site with an ‘expected’ May release date, meaning the UK will likely be getting to grips with the Windows Phone-powered device in less than three months’ time. Getting to grips is probably the right term, as the Lumia 900 boasts a palm-stretching 4.3-inch display, and plays bigger brother to the …

Here at Samsung’s product showcase in New York, multimedia connectivity played a big role. The company talked up its rebranded AllShare Play technology, not to be confused with Google Play, which was previously called AllShare. Essentially AllShare Play allows owners of Samsung tablets and smartphones, Samsung Galaxy Tabs and Galaxy Nexus devices for instance, to push media files such as …

With a lovely Mediterranean location, an Olympic history, and a wealth of Modernisme architecture, Barcelona, Spain, is one of the planet’s top tourist destinations. And if city officials have their way, the Catalan capital will be known as the “Mobile World Capital,” as well. Since the annual Mobile World Congress trade show moved to Barcelona from Cannes, France, in 2006, …

Now playing: Watch this: Sony’s Foldable Touch Screen Tablet 2:29 “The Sony DS?” That was my first choice for the headline of this piece, but I felt it was a bit too cute and somewhat misleading. No, it’s not the Sony DS, but it does have dual screens, but do dual screens improve or hinder the tablet experience? Design The …

Samsung already knows how to draw a crowd to the Samsung Galaxy Note, an unusually large smartphone for AT&T with a 5.3-inch screen and a stylus for writing and sketching. At shopping malls, conferences, and popular plazas around the world, hired caricature artists in red berets sketch the likeness of passersby and then offer to print the resulting image on …

At long last, Verizon is giving us a taste of the Ice Cream Sandwich update plan we’ve been hungering for ever since Google made the operating system available to developers. HTC HTC ThunderBolt HTC Droid Incredible 2 HTC Rhyme HTC Rezound LG LG Spectrum Motorola Motorola Droid Bionic Motorola Droid Razr Motorola Droid Razr Maxx Motorola Droid 4 Motorola Xoom …

See what the online Play Store looks like at play.google.com. Screenshot by Sharon Vaknin/CNET Google, which has been largely criticized for fragmenting its offerings, is taking a step toward unifying its digital media services. Today, Google announced Google Play, a service that combines Google Music, Books, Movies, and Apps into one entertainment hub. Pin It 1. Here’s the scoop. In …

In preparation for Wednesday’s launch of Apple’s next-generation iPad, CNET’s been contacted by a few accessory manufacturers gearing up to release “new” products that will work with the iPad 3–or whatever it’s called. Those quotation marks around “new” are there because it appears that while all the new accessories announced out of the gate will be billed as iPad 3 …

Apple A report from Reuters this morning claims it has the inside track on the iPad HD (or is it iPad 3?) specs, namely that 4G is going to be included in Apple’s tablet update tomorrow. Also in on the rumor act is tech blog iMore, which claims to have a source within Apple who actually knows what’s going on. …

Now playing: Watch this: MWC big phones comparison 3:04 Tech fans got an eyeful of some monstrous mobiles at Mobile World Congress this year as Samsung, LG, HTC and Panasonic whipped their huge handhelds out in a big blower phone-off. I got my hands on the lot of them to see how they measure up and perform in this video. …

I bet chances are good you haven’t owned a Sony smartphone in a dog’s age. In fact if you live in the U.S. you may have never purchased one of the company’s mobile communication devices, let alone fallen in love with one. This isn’t an enviable position to be in for any electronics manufacturer, especially one that harbors aspirations to …

Verizon Wireless will soon offer its 4G LTE service to people who can’t get wired broadband service. But the service won’t come cheap. And there will be restrictions. The company today introduced its HomeFusion Broadband service, which can deliver download speeds between 5 megabits per second to 12 Mbps and upload speeds up to 4 Mbps. The service is specifically …

To celebrate the launch of its new Google Play Store, the search-giant-turned-media-middleman is putting some of its top downloads on sale. The former Android Market’s top 25 paid apps are now available for 49 cents each, while the rental prices of selected movies have dropped to 99 cents each. Some of the discounted apps include popular hits like Shadowgun, NFL …