Now playing: Watch this: Sony’s Foldable Touch Screen Tablet 2:29 “The Sony DS?” That was my first choice for the headline of this piece, but I felt it was a bit too cute and somewhat misleading. No, it’s not the Sony DS, but it does have dual screens, but do dual screens improve or hinder …

Samsung already knows how to draw a crowd to the Samsung Galaxy Note, an unusually large smartphone for AT&T with a 5.3-inch screen and a stylus for writing and sketching. At shopping malls, conferences, and popular plazas around the world, hired caricature artists in red berets sketch the likeness of passersby and then offer to print the resulting image on …

At long last, Verizon is giving us a taste of the Ice Cream Sandwich update plan we’ve been hungering for ever since Google made the operating system available to developers. HTC HTC ThunderBolt HTC Droid Incredible 2 HTC Rhyme HTC Rezound LG LG Spectrum Motorola Motorola Droid Bionic Motorola Droid Razr Motorola Droid Razr Maxx Motorola Droid 4 Motorola Xoom …

See what the online Play Store looks like at play.google.com. Screenshot by Sharon Vaknin/CNET Google, which has been largely criticized for fragmenting its offerings, is taking a step toward unifying its digital media services. Today, Google announced Google Play, a service that combines Google Music, Books, Movies, and Apps into one entertainment hub. Pin It 1. Here’s the scoop. In …

In preparation for Wednesday’s launch of Apple’s next-generation iPad, CNET’s been contacted by a few accessory manufacturers gearing up to release “new” products that will work with the iPad 3–or whatever it’s called. Those quotation marks around “new” are there because it appears that while all the new accessories announced out of the gate will be billed as iPad 3 …

Apple A report from Reuters this morning claims it has the inside track on the iPad HD (or is it iPad 3?) specs, namely that 4G is going to be included in Apple’s tablet update tomorrow. Also in on the rumor act is tech blog iMore, which claims to have a source within Apple who actually knows what’s going on. …

Now playing: Watch this: MWC big phones comparison 3:04 Tech fans got an eyeful of some monstrous mobiles at Mobile World Congress this year as Samsung, LG, HTC and Panasonic whipped their huge handhelds out in a big blower phone-off. I got my hands on the lot of them to see how they measure up and perform in this video. …

I bet chances are good you haven’t owned a Sony smartphone in a dog’s age. In fact if you live in the U.S. you may have never purchased one of the company’s mobile communication devices, let alone fallen in love with one. This isn’t an enviable position to be in for any electronics manufacturer, especially one that harbors aspirations to …

Verizon Wireless will soon offer its 4G LTE service to people who can’t get wired broadband service. But the service won’t come cheap. And there will be restrictions. The company today introduced its HomeFusion Broadband service, which can deliver download speeds between 5 megabits per second to 12 Mbps and upload speeds up to 4 Mbps. The service is specifically …

To celebrate the launch of its new Google Play Store, the search-giant-turned-media-middleman is putting some of its top downloads on sale. The former Android Market’s top 25 paid apps are now available for 49 cents each, while the rental prices of selected movies have dropped to 99 cents each. Some of the discounted apps include popular hits like Shadowgun, NFL …