Jay-Z’s new album Magna Carta Holy Grail will be released early and for free to 1 million Samsung Galaxy S4, S3 and Note 2 owners, in a multi-million dollar promotional deal announced last night. If you’re packing one of the flagship smart phones, you can download a free app from 24 June that’ll unlock the …

AT&T is deploying solar-powered charging stations to help keep smartphones and other mobile gadgets juiced up in parks throughout New York. The 25 stations, which each feature a microUSB, iPhone 4, and iPhone 5 plugs, as well as USB ports for other devices, are being set up in various parks this summer and offer a free recharge. They can be …

The claws are out in the Dish Network-Sprint Nextel tussle for Clearwire. Dish slammed Sprint’s lawsuit on Tuesday, calling it a “transparent attempt to divert attention from its failure to deal fairly with Clearwire’s shareholders.” Related stories T-Mobile Laying Off More Workers Post-Sprint Merger Mint Mobile, Xfinity Mobile, Google Fi, Visible: Which Wireless Networks Do Smaller Providers Use? I’m Racing …

Kazam! Just like magic, a new smart phone maker has appeared. Kazam is a UK-based brand of blower founded by former HTC execs — and is absolutely not to be confused with Kazaam, the mid-90s Shaquille O’Neal vehicle in which the gigantic basketballer plays a hip-hop loving genie. So don’t confuse them. Forget I made that reference. And don’t watch …

LG’s Optimus G Pro has reached 1 million unit sales a few months before its predecessor, the company announced on Tuesday. LG posted the news to its Web site (Translate), saying that it has sold 1 million units in Korea. The device hit the Korean market in February, meaning it took about four months for the Optimus G Pro to …

Those eyeing Virgin Mobile’s prepaid phones now have another Android 4.1 smartphone to choose from. Starting Tuesday, the Jelly Bean-filled Samsung Galaxy Ring debuts with decidedly entry-level features that are aimed for the budget-minded. Let’s start with the 4-inch display, backed by a 5-megapixel camera with HD video recording, and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. The Swype keyboard comes preinstalled, and …

Is thin better? Huawei seems to think so, if its Ascend P6 — launched recently in London — is anything to go by. The Ascend P6. (Credit: Huawei) The 4.7-inch Android phone is just 6.18mm thin, making it the world’s slimmest smartphone currently available. The P6 also boasts a full HD screen, a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, an 8MP camera and …

The Snapdragon 800 seems to represent a new level of speed for mobile processors. Here it is getting disgustingly high framerates in the 3DMark benchmark. Eric Franklin/CNET The Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 will destroy your mobile processor. Not literally, of course. I’m strictly referring to its ability to render real-time graphics so fast as to make your current mobile processor — …

Reuben Lee/CNET Asia (left), Nic Healey/CNET Australia (right) Both Samsung and LG, two of the biggest players in the burgeoning world of organic light-emitting diode televisions, have announced (or depending on where you live, are selling) curved OLED screens to go along with traditional “flat” OLED screens. Curved screens have been used in theaters for decades, and more recently in …

If you’ve got a spare twelve grand in your sky rocket and a bare wall the size of, well, a sky rocket, then have we got news for you: Sharp’s 90-inch telly — largest LED TV in the world! — is now on sale in Europe. Sharp reckons the Sharp Aquos LC-90LE757 is the biggest yet and we can believe …