Can I be brutally honest? Much as I like my iPad, I’m just not using it much. (No, you can’t have it.) Turns out my iPhone is still my go-to device for e-mail, e-books, games, and other day-to-day stuff. Needless to say, it troubles me to see that beautiful (and expensive) screen just sitting there …

Now playing: Watch this: Motorola Droid X 2:09 Editors’ note: This post was last updated on July 16, 7:22 a.m. PT. If you weren’t one of the lucky few to score a free Motorola Droid X, the good news is that you can get one of your own: the Android superphone is now on sale. Available at Verizon and Best …

Since our report of possible stereo Bluetooth issues on the iPhone 4 a few weeks ago, several CNET readers have written in reporting that the problem extends beyond just the iPhone 4, and beyond just stereo Bluetooth. Indeed, many of our readers wrote that they’ve experienced odd Bluetooth glitches with their iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G loaded with the latest …

Times are tough for the nation’s newest terrestrial broadcaster — long gone are the heady Spice Girls days. Five, which doesn’t currently make a profit and has been put up for sale by its parent company RTL, recently announced that it was pulling out of Project Canvas. But every cloud has a lining of some sort, and this one is …

Yee-haw! We’ve long complained that gadget names — especially home-cinema products — are incomprehensible strings of letters and numbers. Sony has taken our grousing to heart, and gone down the unexpected route of naming its latest surround-sound system after a redneck licence plate. Say howdy to the Sony HT-AS5. This fine piece of HT-AS5 has plenty of junk in its …

Opera continues updating the “Mini” version of its mobile browser for Android phones with some noticeable tweaks and enhancements. The Wednesday release of Opera Mini 5.1 for Android brings sundry features such as setting Opera Mini as the default browser, and seeing the entire screen when you switch to full-screen mode. The best addition is that Opera Mini can save …

To help you keep in touch with your overseas pals, Boost Mobile just announced an International Connect enhancement to its monthly unlimited plan. For $10 a month, you’ll get unlimited calls to landlines in more than 150 cities in Mexico; to landlines in the Dominican Republic; to a few Asia Pacific countries (including China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea, and …

The follow-up to the Samsung Galaxy Spica has made its way online, and it looks a tad familiar. We first reported on the Samsung i5800 last month, referring to it as the Galaxy 3 phone. It appears we were only half right, as this phone looks to pick up the name of Galaxy Teos when it hits carriers around the …

We’re fickle followers of fashion here at Crave, and we find it seriously tiresome that most mobile phones give you so little choice of design. Black or white for the iPhone 4? Where’s the individuality, darling? Where’s the expression of personal creativity? We have a real soft spot, then, for the Modu 1, a long-awaited modular mobile now finally arriving …

The iHound app transmits your iPhone’s location at regular intervals so you can track it online. iHound If you’ve been thinking about subscribing to Apple’s MobileMe service just to get the peace of mind that comes with Find My iPhone, there’s an alternative that’s $84.02 cheaper. It’s called iHound, and it tracks lost and stolen iPhones. This app’s been around …

Though Samsung’s :)–that’s Smiley for the uninitiated–has us all riled up, it’s hardly the the first cell phone to bear a rather silly or baffling name. True, Samsung, tends to be the worst offender in this area, but other manufacturers have left us just as perplexed. That’s why we took this opportunity to take a trip down memory lane for …

In our eyes, the BBC is nearly perfect. We love its TV stations, its Web sites and all of its radio stations that don’t have One in the title. But when it comes to iPlayer support on mobile devices we have a bee in our bonnet and that bee is angry and very stingy. Why? Because we think the BBC …

Editors’ note: Each day for the next 10 business days, CNET personalities you know and love will publish slideshows of their 10 personal favorite iPhone apps. With each post, you get a chance to vote for your own favorite app. Two weeks from now, we’ll collect the full list of 100 apps and announce the 10 that you, our readers, …

I can’t tell you how many people I’ve talked to this summer who have told me that they had finally made their decision to get a new smartphone only to have their plans thwarted when they got to the store and their well-researched choice was unavailable. This is exactly what happened to my former college roommate, Stephanie Rahill. After months …

I’m not the first to report this, but it’s hit me hard over the last few weekends: it’s getting a bit difficult to be an iPad owner amid all this iPhone 4 to-do. As if a front-facing camera and higher-res Retina Display weren’t already envy-inducing, to add insult to injury the iPhone already has iOS 4, with multitasking, folders, and …