The iPhone 5 will be launching in September with a souped-up processor and camera, according to Bloomberg. Two unnamed sources are reported to have risked the wrath of Jobs by confirming the facts. The CPU will be bumped up to the same A5 chip that’s used in the iPad 2. The camera sensor will grow …

Our seventh sense is sensing a sensation: the HTC Sensation is free of Vodafone and now on sale at Three, O2, and Orange. The humble looks of the Sensation hide a powerful dual-core processor running Android 2.3 Gingerbread software with added whizziness from a revamped HTC Sense interface. It also has that unique concave screen, with lovely crisp graphics. Let’s …

It’s been about five months since Apple’s iPhone debuted on Verizon’s network and already it’s the carrier’s top-selling handset. This according to BTIG Research (registration required), which spent the past three weeks asking 250 Verizon and AT&T stores across the United States to name their No. 1 smartphone. Of the Verizon stores surveyed, 51 percent said the iPhone was their …

Slap on those legwarmers and get ready to sweat with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active, a rugged Android smart phone. Up until now, those of us who like to get dirty only had one smart-phone option, the excellent Motorola Defy. But the rubbery phone population is about to double, with the dust- and water-resistant Active due to launch in the …

The long-awaited Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo is set to land in July. The Android phone with Sony’s camera and movie technology could be on sale in Europe as soon as next week, according to Sony Ericsson in Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. Yes, next Friday is 1 July, despite what it looks like out of the window. The phone …

Welcome to the 411, my column answering all your questions about cell phones and cell phone accessories. I receive plenty of questions about these subjects via e-mail, so I figured many of you might have similar queries, too. At times, I might solicit answers from readers if I’m stumped. Send your questions and comments to me at [email protected]. If you …

Is the iPod Touch just a 3G connection and iOS 5 upgrade away from reshaping how we think about smartphones? Josh P. Miller/CNET The iPod Touch has always played second fiddle to the iPhone. Most people can’t even get the name right. More often than not I hear it referred to as the “iTouch.” When asked to describe it, though, …

Aww, thanks for saying I’m awesome last week, you guys! Speaking of awesome, we take a look at the Nokia N9, which despite its cool exterior is sadly saddled with MeeGo, an operating system with no future. We also go in-depth into Windows Phone Mango, talk rumors of a new Nexus and a new iPhone, and learn Bonnie’s take on …

We’ve been waiting a long time for that Huawei phone that puts the lesser-known manufacturer (at least in U.S. circles) on America’s smartphone map. It’s possible the Huawei Glory (Huawei M886) is the handset to do it. Our friends at PC Magazine went hands-on with the device, a souped-up Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone with a 1.4-GHz Qualcomm MSM8655T processor (Huawei …

The Sony Ericsson Xperia family grew by two today with the introduction of the Xperia Ray and Xperia Active. The two Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphones, which were announced at CommunicAsia 2011 in Singapore, are expected to ship in Q3 to select markets worldwide–specifics, such as pricing and U.S. availability, were not revealed at this time–and offer two different areas of …

With Facebook and Twitter on the go, texting is officially old school. So if you’re keeping it real OMG LOL, take a look at the Sony Ericsson txt. Unlike its similarly-named sibling, the Sony Ericsson txt pro, the txt doesn’t have a sliding keyboard. Instead, it’s a BlackBerry-style candybar phone with a full Qwerty keyboard. It also has a shortcut …

AT&T has confirmed that the LG Thrill 4G will arrive in stores this summer, though no specific date was provided. The carrier announced this, along with a suite of preloaded 3D content, at the 3D Summit in NYC. The apps include YouTube 3D, plus 3D games like Let’s Golf 2, Asphalt 6, and N.O.V.A. If users aren’t satisfied with those …

A follow-up to Lenovo’s current LePad (shown here), the IdeaPad K1 tablet, could launch soon. Lenovo Lenovo’s new IdeaPad K1 tablet could launch soon with a $500 price tag, according to a photo allegedly of an OfficeMax store placard leaked today to Engadget. With a launch date that Engadget says “looks to be fast approaching,” the K1 is expected to …

You’ve just dropped your new tablet. Time slows to a crawl and your body moves as if in treacle as you lunge in vain for several hundred quids-worth of consumer electronics, plunging inexorably to its floor-related doom. Unless it’s a Pansonic Toughbook tablet, a new Android tablet designed to be sturdier than the average slate. The Toughbook tablet just maybe …

Nokia evidently still has some love for its Symbian operating system as it will soon be shipping four of its newest phones with the latest version — Anna — and will be launching 10 Symbian-based handsets within the next 12 months. From July, Nokia’s N8, E7, C7 and C6-01 handsets will begin shipping with the new version of Symbian pre-installed …