Verizon and Motorola may boast that the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, on sale beginning today, has a boosted battery capable of lasting a full day and night. What they won’t tell you is that the Razr Maxx was an accident. A Motorola engineer was playing with the idea of packing on a higher capacity battery …

A closeup of a plasma TV’s pixels. Geoffrey Morrison Editors’ Note: An updated article entitled Why Ultra HD 4K TVs are still stupid was published on January 28, 2013. The latest TV technology buzzword is “4K.” This magical alphanumeric represents a quadrupling of the now-standard 1080p resolution found on Blu-ray and most HDTVs. Have no doubt, manufacturers are going to …

Now playing: Watch this: Yamaha YAS-101 2:28 Yamaha basically created the sound bar category and continues to sell its best-in-class Digital Sound Projector line, but it can be hard to recommend the company’s sound bars when they generally cost in excess of $1,000. The YAS-101 ($250 street price) is Yamaha’s entry into the increasingly crowded budget sound bar field, and …

Massive numbers of new 2012 TVs were announced at CES 2012 earlier this month, and digesting them all is easier with a table than umpteen blog posts. Hewing close to hoary CES tradition of yore, LG was the first major TV maker to hold its CES press conference. The company also gave CNET the most information prior to the show …

So you want to share photos, watch videos, or play computer games on the expansive screen of your HDTV? On one hand, this is a really simple how-to: use HDMI! That, of course, isn’t the whole story. Not all computers, and not all TVs, can output or input a signal via HDMI easily. There are also a few tricks to …

The chart has been updated with information from Samsung’s March 7th line show but the rest of this article (aside from the Changelog below) has not. See the line show article for the latest information on Samsung’s 2012 TVs. Samsung will ship gobs of different TV models in 2012, and CES provided our first peek at the details. Unfortunately the …

Apple is making a move to break into South America–and Brazil is ready (and willing) to help. According to a report from Brazilian newspaper Folha (via MacRumors), Foxconn will begin producing iPads in its Brazilian factory after being officially granted a batch of tax incentives from the Brazilian government. Cult of Mac As Tim Cook noted in his quarterly earnings …

A mysterious-lookin’ mobile has popped up in a Samsung promotional video — could the South Korean tech giant have accidentally leaked the fabled Galaxy S3? The video, spotted by Italian blog Android HD, rounds up the best bits of the company’s CES press conference in only 10 minutes (so many precious memories — we’ll never know how they managed to …

If you’re like me, you can get pretty tired of smashing your gadgets to the floor just to see what’s inside. For one thing, it’s a fairly expensive method and for another, it gets messy. All the guts and glory inside the Samsung Galaxy Note. Samsung Tomorrow Fortunately, Samsung Tomorrow took it upon itself to digitally rip apart the Samsung …

Android still leads the UK smart phone market despite Apple’s staggering results, announced today. The iPhone has overtaken Android in the US, but the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S2 still keep Google-powered phones on top on these shores. A third of smart phones sold in Britain are iPhones, but Android phones still make up nearly half of the market. …

With Mobile World Congress bearing down on us next month, Android-related leaks continue to surface. Such is the case with an oft-rumored Samsung Galaxy S II successor. If history is any indicator, then we should expect to see Samsung announce a followup device to last year’s wildly popular Android smartphone. And why not? It was at Mobile World Congress, after …

The 4G trial run by Everything Everywhere and BT in Cornwall has been extended until next summer. The trial of next-generation Internet access is pointing the way to a potential future of wireless web connection in rural areas. Everything Everywhere — the network merging T-Mobile and Orange — and BT Wholesale today have been running the trial in and around …

Ever since Google officially revealed the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system in mid-October, Android fans have been hungering to try it out on their Gingerbread smartphones. I can’t say I blame them. The OS is bold and beautiful, without too many hiccups and with a few more tips and tricks to try out. With only the Sprint version of the …

Update: O2 claims to have fixed the issue — and indeed, two O2 phones we’ve tested are no longer displaying their numbers on the test site. Read more about O2’s response here. Original story follows: As O2 customers are getting riled up over news that the bubbly-blue network has been sharing your mobile number with websites you visit from your …

The retailers over at Dead Zebra Inc. rang in the year of the dragon today by selling special edition Android figurines that feature the three Chinese gods known as Fortune, Blessing, and Longevity. Android says “kung hei fat choi” with these adorable collectibles. Dead Zebra Because the figurines come shipped in their own window boxes, you’ll also be saved from …