Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos CNET Amazon’s expected smartphone may come with all the bells and whistles of the world’s top devices, but the selling point, as with most Amazon products, will have to be its price tag. If the Seattle-based online retailing giant wants to make a mark in the smartphone world, as it is …

Steve Guttenberg/CNET The Pono music player might be the sweetest part of Neil Young’s new venture. Ayre Acoustic’s Charles Hansen had a hand in the design, and he’s a supertalented audio engineer. So I’m assuming the player will sound great, but high-resolution portable players have been around for years. Nothing new about that — look at the gorgeous new FiiO …

You don’t actually have to be a developer to get this version of the Galaxy S5. Josh Miller/CNET Samsung’s Galaxy S5 will come in at least one other flavor, the developer edition that has an unlocked bootloader. Related stories Samsung Galaxy S5, fully reviewed Galaxy S5, HTC One M8, iPhone 5S camera shootout GS5 specs vs. HTC One M8, iPhone …

Apple Bloom.fm, a London-based streaming-music service that offers everything from access to free radio to song borrowing, believes Apple is scared of its operation. Speaking to CNET on Friday, a Bloom.fm spokesman confirmed that the company’s ad-spend on Apple’s mobile-advertising platform iAd has been banned by the iPhone maker. The only suitable reason for that, the spokesman argues, is that …

The Samsung Galaxy S5 hits shop shelves on 11 April. Andrew Hoyle/CNET The hotly tipped Samsung Galaxy S5 is finally on sale. The 5.1-inch smartphone will cost you a pretty penny — but what price can you put on a fingerprint scanner, heart-rate monitor and cutting-edge Android 4.4 KitKat software? About 500 quid plus whatever your contract costs, as it …

Best Buy employees get the Samsung section of the store ready for customers. Roger Cheng/CNET NEW YORK — The Galaxy S5 is no iPhone when it comes to launch-day craziness. But that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A cursory visit to a handful of stores in the New York City area for the Galaxy S5 debut Friday found no lines …

Now playing: Watch this: BlackBerry Diaries: the verdict 1:54 Well, it’s been a full week since I set up the Q10, and I have one thing to say: I was wrong. I chose the Q10 to use with BlackBerry 10 because, to me, it was ‘classic’ BlackBerry. As an old Bold fan, I wanted to use something that felt like …

Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer at the time of his arrest. Washington County Sheriff’s Office A federal appeals court on Friday vacated the conviction against hacker and Internet troll Andrew Auernheimer. Auernheimer, a security researcher who goes by the nickname “Weev,” was found guilty of hacking in 2012 for accessing a non-password protected portion of AT&T’s Web site to obtain the email …

Now playing: Watch this: Instant foreign menu translations 5:34 Vacations don’t excite me — eating excites me. Your city may have the most breathtaking vistas, and the most beautiful museums, but when all is said and done, my best traveling memories revolve around food. And nothing bums out my travel gluttony more than a menu I can’t decipher. Fortunately, whether …

And what if iPhone 6 looks like this? ConceptsiPhone/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The last time teenagers were consistent was the first time teenagers were consistent. Their winds of change rarely abate and their judgments are as instant as the worst coffee. Yet they seem to have a weird thing for Apple. Piper Jaffray’s Taking Stock With Teens report for …