The ability to charge a smartphone by simply placing it on a tabletop has been around for a while, but it’s more of a novelty, for early adopters and gadget buffs. Wireless charging cases, back covers, and pads are out in the market, and the Palm Pre memorably championed its Touchstone charging stand a while …

Striving to play catch-up with Verizon, AT&T has doubled the reach of its LTE network from a year ago. The carrier’s 4G LTE network now covers more than 150 million people across the U.S., double the number at the end of last year. With its rollout ahead of schedule, AT&T aims to reach 250 million people by the end of …

Note to Apple: Nice job with the cameras and all, but Camera Roll? Not so great. See, browsing photos on an iDevice kind of sucks. You’re stuck either swiping through tiny, disorganized thumbnails or paging through endless full-screen snapshots to find what you’re after. Flayvr for iOS turns your Camera Roll into nicely organized albums, offering a much cooler way …

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Oh Google — how did it come to this? The Google Nexus 4 has turned from triumph to disaster in less than half an hour. That’s how long the Nexus 4 took to sell out on Google Play, leaving some very angry potential customers struggling with a broken website and an empty shopping basket. But even if you were one …

Sony’s mobile division is gunning for Apple and Samsung, one of its executives claims. In an interview with Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) published yesterday, Sony Mobile sales and marketing head Dennis Van Schie said his company is planning to announce a “flagship model that can [compete] with Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy S3.” Van Schie wouldn’t say what his company …

Vodafone’s new ‘Red Hot‘ phone-rental service lends you an iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3 or Samsung Galaxy Note 2 on a 12-month deal. Sounds great — who wants a phone for two years? — but the monthly line rental is more, and at the end of the year you won’t own the phone. So is it worth it? The upfront …

HTC could be cooking up a 5-inch smart phone for the UK, if new leaks are to be believed. A render of the so-called HTC Deluxe was posted to Twitter by mobile tipster evleaks, and is apparently a “global edition” of the phone. It’s always worth taking rumours like this with a pinch of salt, though there are other 5-inch …

Samsung Galaxy S3 users may soon see their handset acting more like its bigger brother, the Galaxy Note 2. That’s because according to the SamMobile blog, the Galaxy S3 will soon receive Samsung’s MultiView feature as part of a coming 4.1.2 update. In addition to Multi-View, which lets the user run and view two applications at the same time, the …

One of the headline features of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 2 could be headed to the popular Galaxy S3 (GS3) smartphone, too. A screenshot of the Multiview feature in action. (Screenshot by CNET UK) “Multiview” is Samsung’s name for the multitasking feature, first introduced on the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, which lets users have two applications open at the …