Jason Cipriani/CNET As of last week, iOS users can now take advantage of Google’s Play Music service. The service lets you upload music you already own, create random playlists, and use Google’s All Access Internet radio service. The iOS app has some limitations, however, and does require some workarounds in certain instances to accomplish what …

Students looking to slash the cost of a mobile phone plan will now find a new option available through Sprint. Announced on Monday, the My Way Student Promotion provides students with a full year of free calls, text messages, and data from Sprint. To qualify for the offer, buyers must purchase a Sprint phone at the student activated price through …

Hey students, your report card can now earn you a free cell phone plan. Best Buy and Sprint announced Monday that they’ve teamed up to offer free unlimited talk and text, plus 1GB of data, for one full year to students. Related stories Massive HTC One Max lands at Sprint on Nov. 15 for $250 Best Buy promises $100 trade-in …

Another company will soon join the smartwatch craze. Qualcomm, a company perhaps best known for its wireless technology components, has announced the upcoming launch of a new smartwatch it’s calling Toq. The device was designed by its subsidiary Qualcomm Connected Experiences, and is compatible with Android. The Toq comes with what Qualcomm calls Mirasol display technology. With that, the device’s …

The Retina iPad Mini can’t compete with its bigger brother at showing the same wide range of colors, according to tests run by tech review site Anandtech. Putting the new Mini through its paces, Anandtech discovered that its color gamut hasn’t changed since the first model was introduced in 2012. Further, the Retina Mini’s sRGB coverage is limited compared with …

Apple’s latest tiny iPad shows fewer colours than rival tablets, according to screen-crunching tests. While the iPad mini with retina display packs a massively improved number of pixels into its 7.9-inch panel, it displays the same range of hues as last year’s mini, AnandTech’s screen tests show. Moreover, it displays a smaller gamut of colours than the iPad Air, Google’s …

Verizon customers may get first dibs on Nokia’s Lumia 929 phone. Citing a tip from an alleged Verizon insider, blog site NokiaPowerUser said on Sunday that the rumored Lumia 929 smartphone will land at Verizon on Thursday, November 21. Not much is known about the 929 since Nokia has yet to even officially announce it, but recent reports claim the …

If Kickstarter is any reflection of the zeitgeist, one of the biggest problems plaguing humanity is an insufficient selection of wallets. And judging by the projects building out those wallets, there’s an unmet need for minimalist designs, those that hold a few bills or none at all and a small selection of plastic cards. Meanwhile, it seems you can’t buy …

Beautiful devices and apps from third-party developers are the two crucial elements to the success of a mobile operating system, according to Lee Epting, a vice president at Samsung’s European Media Solutions Centre. “I think that the success of an OS is based on [two] key things. One and most importantly, you have to make beautiful devices — consumers want …

The Android 4.3 update for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is reported to be imminent, finally bringing new features from the Note 3 to the Note 2. SamMobile claims to have got its mitts on Android 4.3 test firmware version N7100XXUEMK4, which it claims to be one of the last trial versions before the official release. The leaked software update brings features …