Now playing: Watch this: Ep. 208: The deal with Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx 50:29 Looks like AT&T just can’t stop complaining about the FCC meddling in its business, but CNET mobile section editor Kent German just isn’t having it. We also discuss exactly how awesome we think the Motorola Droid Razr is, but is it …

Samsung may not have made up its mind about when we’ll see the Samsung Galaxy S3, but in the meantime it’s preparing to advance with the Samsung Galaxy S Advance. Philipino tech blog Hardwarezone says it’s got its hands on the Advance, a dual-core Android smart phone with the model number GT-i9070. It’s likely to take a bow at the …

Though new rumors are suggesting that we won’t see a Samsung Galaxy S II sucessor at next month’s Mobile World Congress, it’s pretty much guaranteed that Samsung will introduce something in Barcelona, Spain. Yes, according to new rumors currently spreading across the Internet, Sammy instead will unveil a 2GHz dual-core Galaxy Tab instead. Word of the device first surfaced in …

This year at CES 2012 Sony announced just ten total televisions–a pittance compared with last year or any of its Korean of Japanese competitors. Maybe the company is holding out and will announce more models, perhaps including an XBR, later this year, but for now the chart below, with its seven lonely models, is it. Moreover the TVs detailed below …

iPlayer is coming to Sky for the first time. To make sure everyone can catch up on BBC shows such as Doctor Who and Sherlock, Sky is opening up Sky Anytime+ — its on-demand service you watch via your Sky box — to any Sky viewer, not just those on its broadband package. ITV Player also arrives on Anytime+ this …

There were a few new buzzwords floating around at this year’s CES, and among “OLED” and “4K resolution” came another: “gesture control.” What is it? Why, it’s the new touch, according to its inventor, PrimeSense. But instead of touching the screen you wave at it. But the technology isn’t brand new; if you’ve seen an Xbox Kinect you’ve seen gesture …

Sharp is hawking sub-$2000 70-inch LCDs for the big game, and in 2012, its TV lineup will only get bigger and, I’ll wager, more affordable. Last year Sharp switched marketing gears from Quattron’s wacky yellow pixel (have a nice day, lab-coated Takei) to a new focus on the “meganormous” (howdy, fat-head dudes). Its lineup emphasized models 60 inches and larger, …

Japan’s NEC will cut nearly one in ten of its workers as the iPhone continues to gobble up the market for smartphones. The company said this week that recent poor performance stemmed from the popularity of the Apple iPhone in Japan, an increase in the number of foreign rivals it faces in the IT infrastructure market, and trouble expanding beyond …

The New York Times today published a long piece about Barnes & Noble taking on Amazon in the “fight of its life.” Buried in the middle of the two-page article is a small mention of engineers “putting the final touches on their [Barnes & Noble’s] fifth e-reading device, a product that executives said would be released sometime this spring.” No …

Nokia Australia today announced its “return to the Australian smartphone market”, with plans to start selling the Nokia Lumia 800 in Australia in March. (Credit: Nokia) The new handset will be for sale through “Optus, Telstra, Vodafone and all major retailers”, according to Nokia’s press release, though pricing wasn’t mentioned. The handset will be released in four colour variants: black, …

A stunning Android phone that really does look like it arrived from the far future, Sony’s gorgeous Xperia S is likely to hit AT&T’s airwaves. New reports assert that the Xperia S is making its way through FCC approval with a quad-band GSM/UTMS/HSPA radio (850, 900, 1900, 2100MHz). As tech blog Engadget deduces, that sounds a whole lot like the …

Okay, now Research In Motion is all about change. Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins RIM That’s according to new CEO Thorsten Heins, who backtracked and clarified earlier comments that he didn’t believe RIM need to make any real changes to the business. In an interview with Crackberry, Heins said that there have been plenty of ongoing changes with the …

Now playing: Watch this: Hands-on with touchy-feely new iPad game, Fingle 1:44 Valentine’s Day approaches, and in case you’re one of those odd ducks wondering about the Most Intimate iPad Game, here’s your slam-dunk recommendation: Fingle. Based on my time with it here at the office, it’s earned nothing but awkward blushes. Fingle’s an iPad-only app because you wouldn’t have …

Gameloft today announced that it has become the latest brand to join Sprint’s growing line of ID Packs. The two bundles each bring Sprint consumers four of Gameloft’s popular Android games along with direct access to news, updates, and more. Depending on what type of gamer you are, or how powerful your handset is, you can install either the HD …

Will they or won’t they? That’s the question on everybody’s lips as conflicting reports clash over the launch of the hotly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3. We had our fingers crossed the S3 would be revealed in the next month, until reports began to surface that the S3 will be delayed. Now it seems Samsung is still trying to make up …