Angry Birds is winging its way to the Amazon Android Appstore. Angry Birds Rio will only be available from amazon.com/angrybirds, a huge boost for the bookselling website’s new rival to Google’s own Android Market. Google’s operating system for mobile phones and tablets allows you to buy apps for your Android device. Amazon is starting a …

San Francisco-based designer Seth Quest needs help. In return, he’ll help you solve what he thinks is a common problem with the iPad–how to use it hands-free. With the successful Kickstarter funding of many iPhone and iPad accessories, Quest is hoping to get his product in the mix. Hanfree aims to solve a relatively common issue many iPad users face. …

The Motorola Xoom Motorola Mobility The Wi-Fi-only versions of Motorola’s Xoom and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablets could reach consumers very soon, at least according to a couple of product flyers discovered by the folks at DroidLife. Displaying what appears to be an upcoming flyer for Staples, DroidLife has zeroed in on a launch date of March 27 and a price …

Ever since the debut of the Palm Pre, I’ve been enamored with inductive charging. After all, what could be easier than recharging your phone just by laying it on a special pad or dock–no cord required? Nothing, that’s what. Straight outta “Star Trek,” inductive charging relies on an electromagnetic (i.e., wireless) transfer of energy between devices. Yet phone manufacturers still …

Apple’s iPad 2 went on sale in the US on Friday, with technical experts already tearing the first models apart and benchmarking its new A5 processor to get a proper handle on the device. The results make for interesting reading. iFixit got in early with its teardown (pictured above), finding that the iPad 2’s battery is a 3.8V 25W-hour unit …

There are some angry AT&T customers out there, and rightfully so. Over the past few weeks, there have been mounting complaints and reports against the carrier about capping upload speeds on its 4G devices, specifically the HTC Inspire 4G and the Motorola Atrix 4G. AT&T remained mum on the subject until late last week when a customer filed a complaint …

Apple In what may have been nothing more than a minor footnote to Friday’s launch of Apple’s iPad 2, shipping times on Apple’s Web site quickly jumped from 3 to 5 business days to 2 to 3 weeks. Interestingly, according to a report from AppleInsider, AT&T is already shipping iPad 2s to customers, with some expecting to see theirs as …

Bought an Apple iPad recently? Feeling pretty chuffed with your new purchase? Yeeeahhhh, there’s something you should know: yesterday, Apple went ahead and unveiled the iPad 2. We may have mentioned it. The iPad 2 arrives in the UK on 25 March. Apple has dropped the price of the original iPad in the meantime, so it now starts at £329 …

Just like it did last week, the Federal Communications Commission gave the nod to a lot of new cell phones and tablets this week. Among the highlights were Sprint’s quirky new Kyocera Echo, the LG Revolution and the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook. Because the FCC has to certify every phone sold in the United States, not to mention test its SAR …

Waiting impatiently for the first proper Windows Phone 7 update to hit your handset? Join the crowds. The phone-bricking installation bugs that afflicted some users with the pre-update ‘update’ in February have delayed the launch of the full thing. Microsoft is referring to the next update as the ‘copy-and-paste update’, since that’s the major new feature, along with a better …

We were psyched when we learned Sony Ericsson was making a PlayStation Phone running Android. Not only could this be the gaming phone we’ve always wanted, it could make up for the lingering disappointment of the PSP, with its dearth of decent games and thumb-cramping controls. But then confusion struck. Sony announced a new PSP, mere weeks before the PlayStation …

An iPad without apps is like a book without verbs. In honor of today’s iPad 2 launch, I’ve put together a list of 10 “verbs” that’ll turn your tablet into a book you can’t put down. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, e-book apps make an appearance.) Whether you’re jumping on the iPad bandwagon for the first time or swapping your original model for …

James Martin/CNET As the iPad juggernaut continues with today’s launch of the iPad 2, can any other tablet maker truly compete with Apple? The odds seem to be against it, at least according to the results of a survey released yesterday by ChangeWave Research. Questioning more than 3,000 consumers last month, ChangeWave found that 27 percent of them plan to …

As new smartphones and tablets come on the scene and as operators tweak service plans with new pricing, it’s getting harder to figure out how to get the most bang for your buck. In this week’s Ask Maggie column, I try to help readers figure this out. I offer some advice on whether one reader should splurge on the 3G-enabled …

The Apple iPad 2 James Martin/CNET On the day the Apple iPad 2 goes on sale, CNET Senior Editor Donald Bell will be live-blogging his full review. Follow along for his complete analysis of the design, features, and performance. Updates will be added throughout the day. The competition must really hate Apple. The Apple iPad wasn’t just a successful tablet …