Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Captivate Glide 0:53 It’s been a while since AT&T has had a higher-end, QWERTY smartphone in its lineup, but keyboard-loving customers should start warming up their thumbs for the upcoming Samsung Captivate Glide. Announced at CTIA 2011, the Captivate Glide sports a slider design that combines a 4-inch Super AMOLED …

Sound ID’s latest Bluetooth headset is called the Six, and it promises to be the company’s most advanced headset yet. Sound ID stands out in the field of Bluetooth headset makers because the company was founded by an ear doctor from Stanford University, and the headsets are therefore designed with strong knowledge of the human ear. Sound ID headsets have …

A few months ago, I wrote the provocatively titled “Why all HDMI cables are the same.” There was a ruckus. Which I expected. But the post also generated some great questions. Which I hadn’t. So let’s take a look at some of the more common and persisting questions from my article, and flush some more of the myths surrounding the …

I nearly did a double take when lifting AT&T’s HTC Vivid out of its cardboard box. It’s one of the first HTC phones in a long time whose form looked cheap to my eyes. Shiny black plastic all around with just a thin metal plate on the battery cover, the handset lacks the thoughtful build quality typical of most HTC …

After more than a year of rumors, and six weeks after its official debut, the Amazon Kindle Fire is now in the hands of reviewers. Although it’s not being touted specifically as an Android tablet, the 7-inch device certainly will affect the landscape of “iPad killers.” With upwards of 5 million Kindle Fires on order for the fourth quarter alone, …

Now playing: Watch this: Amazon Kindle Fire 2:44 Writing CNET’s official review of the Kindle Fire was probably the toughest assignment I’ve had all year. This is a tablet that wears its price tag like a bulletproof vest. The standby criticisms don’t work. Holding it up to an iPad, I may as well be comparing a Vespa to a Mercedes. …

By next year, you’ll be able to place an order for a book on Amazon by tapping your smartphone to your ultrabook. At least, that’s what Intel and MasterCard are envisioning. The companies said today they were working jointly to allow customers to pay for online purchases by tapping special MasterCard-powered PayPass cards or phones by their computer. The introduction …

Crack open the bubbly: Nokia is planning a new Windows Phone codenamed Champagne. The fizzy phone will join the Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710. Champagne is likely to be a code name; Nokia’s first Windows Phones were known as the Sea Ray and Sabre while in development, but became the Lumia 800 and 710 when announced. Expect a …

According to CNET UK’s Crave blog, in a recent survey conducted by coupon site MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, out of a group of 1,531 U.K. iPad owners, many claimed their iPads were largely going unused. We want to know what our readers think. According to the poll, 26 percent of iPad owners responding to the poll only use the tablet once per week …

Sprint Nextel wants to make sure its iPhone 4S customers are going to stick with it. The wireless carrier plans to begin locking the SIM on iPhone4S devices today, as first reported by SprintFeed. The company will only unlock the SIM when the phone is taken abroad. Sprint confirmed that the SIM is locked for both domestic and international calling …