Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Transfix (Cricket) 1:18 Samsung may have crushed our CTIA dreams by pulling back on its biggest announcement here at CTIA, but thankfully it still introduced a number of new handsets. The Samsung Transfix sits on the opposite end of the grandeur spectrum from the Galaxy Nexus we were all anticipating, …

Research In Motion has posted an update on its Web site listing the current status of service for its beleaguered worldwide e-mail and messaging service. RIM Chief Information Officer Robin Bienfait noted that e-mail systems are working worldwide, though the company is continuing to clear backlogged messages. In the United States, Canada, and Latin America, the BlackBerry Messenger and browsing …

BlackBerry subscribers throughout the world continued to experience disruptions in service for a third consecutive day as problems with Research In Motion’s equipment in its data centers appears to now be affecting North American subscribers as well. Customers using Research In Motion’s BlackBerry smartphones in the U.S. and Canada are now also without access to e-mail and BlackBerry messaging in …

SAN DIEGO–It could cost the the GPS industry as much as $400 million for gear to protect its precision devices from interference caused by LightSquared’s planned wireless network, although the company believes the figure will be ultimately be lower. LightSquared Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben told CNET on Wednesday that there are roughly 500,000 commercial precision GPS devices in the …

Even as we lick our lips over Google’s upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich update to Android, I’m impressed that even the more modest new Android phones are on board with Gingerbread. The ZTE Score is one of them. First introduced exclusively through Best Buy, the Score is also Cricket’s latest Muve Music phone. ZTE Score (photos) +2 more See all photos …

The iPhone 4S sure looks identical to the iPhone 4, right? Wrong. The buttons have been moved slightly, which could mean iPhone 4 cases don’t fit the new phone. The hold button and the two volume keys have shifted slightly up the side of the phone. There appears to be a couple of millimetres difference for the hold button, possibly …

SAN DIEGO–Without a doubt, the biggest highlight of CTIA was spent in the company of fellow journalists touring Nokia’s testing facilities here, otherwise known as the chambers of torture. It’s here that testing engineers inflict a variety of mechanical and chemical abuse on their electronic quarry. Make no mistake: destruction is the labs’ principal goal. As the phones get smashed, …

It looks like BlackBerry is still down for users around the world — on the day Apple releases iMessage, Apple’s rival messaging service. Cut off from BlackBerry Messenger, BBM addicts are descending into madness, their only contact with the outside world being angry tweets, Facebook updates and comments on this very site. iMessage is built in to iOS 5, the …

The BlackBerry outages are all down to a message backlog, apparently. A backup failure in Europe meant undelivered messages broke the entire global network, BlackBerry makers RIM said in a press conference this evening. It’s working to fix the situation, but users all over the world are still suffering, with some with no BBM, others no email or internet as well. Read …

They’re tough, they’ve got rock-hard bodies, and they can communicate. We’re talking about the Kyocera DuraCore and DuraMax phones, of course, the first two in Sprint’s lineup to use push-to-talk over 3G CDMA. While not exactly twinsies, the handsets are quite similar, with the DuraCore being the more basic of the two. Both feature phones operate under the Direct Connect …

Six HDTVs participated in the 2011 Value Electronics shootout. Robert Zohn The winner of the 2011 HDTV shootout put on by Value Electronics last weekend was the Sharp Elite, an LED-based LCD TV with a full-array local dimming backlight that sells for around $5500. According to the event scorecard (PDF, shown below), the Elite handily won two of the four …

Sony is recalling 1.6 million of its Bravia TVs around the world, after it emerged that the LCD sets are prone to melting and catching fire. Here in the UK, if you own one of the affected sets, a nice man will come and fix it for you. Sony was ordered to recall the tellies by Japan’s trade ministry, citing …

You won’t need 3D glasses to read this guide, but you will if you want to take advantage of today’s 3D televisions. CNET To help you, prospective TV shopper, get a handle on 3D terminology and determine whether it’s something you should care about, we’ve put together this handy guide. We think it’s a worthwhile read for any TV shopper, …

Sky Anytime is heading to Virgin Media, flooding Virgin’s on-demand service with tonnes of new TV shows at no additional cost to Virgin Media customers. Like the love between Kermit and Miss Piggy, a deal between Sky and Virgin Media might seem frightening and wrong at first. But it will soon have you feeling all warm and fuzzy, because it …

Sony has issued a consumer alert for three of its 40-inch Bravia LCD TVs, as a component inside the televisions can potentially overheat, ignite and melt the upper rear portion of the TV case. If you own either a KDL-40X3100, KDL-40XBR or KDL-40W3100 contact Sony’s customer care line on 1300 137 669 to arrange for a free inspection, and possible …