Apple isn’t the only company itching to get its hands on the wristwatch market. A Samsung executive tells Bloomberg that it too has been working on wearable devices that act like smartphones. “We’ve been preparing the watch product for so long,” Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile business, said during an interview …

The first pricing details concerning the Samsung Galaxy S4 have emerged, hinting that Samsung’s next smart phone will be cheaper than its Apple-flavoured rival. Samsung has kicked off a US online giveaway that awards Galaxy S4 smart phones to lucky winners. As GSMArena spied, the competition small print specifies that the phone’s ‘approximate retail value’ as $579. That translates to roughly £383, …

Sony today unveiled two new Xperia phones for people who may find the 5-inch Experia Z and ZL too big to handle. The Xperia SP offers a super-bright 4.6-inch 720-pixel HD Reality Display. Sony’s Reality Display borrows technology from the Bravia TV lineup, which the company says enhances the brightness and picture sharpness. Courtesy of the Mobile Bravia Engine 2, …

Gmail for Android updated today to let users respond to e-mails directly from push notifications. That’s not all: the update also allows archiving and searching Gmail from the notifications window. The company suggests tweaking your settings to limit the amount of push notifications you get for e-mails: “You can combine this with existing notification features like the ability to customize …

ST-Ericsson, the chipmaking joint venture between STMicro and Ericsson, announced today it will dissolve its partnership, dividing up the parts of the business between the two. Market share for ST-Ericsson in the mobile space has shrunk as rival chipmakers Nvidia, Intel, and Texas Instruments succeeded in getting their components into popular mobile devices. As top customer Nokia lost market share …

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins thinks it’s about time Apple starts innovating again. Speaking to the Australian Financial Review in an interview published today, Heins acknowledged that Apple “did a fantastic job in bringing touch devices to market [and] they did a fantastic job with the user interface,” but he thinks the company might have become too complacent. “History repeats itself …

Samsung has already said it would launch phones that use the Tizen operating system, but now here’s confirmation the company will launch a high-end device running that OS at the end of the summer. “The Tizen phone will be out in August or September, and this will be in the high-end category. The device will be the best product equipped with …

Having ruled out the stetson and the fez, the Doctor’s new headware is set to be a tin-foil hat. Doctor Who returns in less than two weeks’ time with a new companion, new monsters — and a Wi-Fi warning. Matt Smith is back as everybody’s favourite Time Lord, joined by Jenna-Louise Coleman as mysterious companion Clara Oswald. And in the …

Pinch of salt time: a render of what purports to be the Nexus 5 has surfaced online, along with a spec list. There are plenty of reasons to think it’s fake, but a few that hint it could be the real deal too. An anonymous source claiming to work for Google sent the image and specs to Android and Me. …

If you’re having problems with your Samsung Galaxy S3 or other Samsung Galaxy, it could be down to your SanDisk memory card. SanDisk has owned up to microSD cards causing problems with Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets. S3 owners and owners of other devices, including the Galaxy Note, report cards failing in both their phone and computer. Even worse, some cards …