The new iPad will play host to the iPhone 5S‘ fingerprint scanner, a freshly leaked picture suggests. The above snap, which surfaced on Chinese site CtechCN, appears to show an iPad that features Apple’s ‘print-scanning home button — easily distinguishable from a regular home button by the missing square in the middle. To our eyes, …

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Expandable storage has long been a prominent and coveted feature in Android devices, but some of them — the HTC One, Motorola Moto X, and Google Nexus 7, to name a few — don’t have it. However, as I noted recently in “How to use external storage to expand unexpandable Android devices,” you’re not totally out of luck. Thanks to …

Nike appears set to unveil the next iteration of its FuelBand fitness tracker, and you can get all the details right here. The company is holding its NikeFuel Forum in Manhattan on Tuesday starting at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET. While details are sparse, you can expect FuelBand talk and likely an update to its proprietary fitness metric, NikeFuel. The …

Nike is only shooting itself in the foot with its stubborn reluctance to work with Android. The athletic apparel company on Tuesday introduced its second-generation fitness tracker, the FuelBand SE, which worked beautifully on Apple’s iOS devices and computers. Missing from the presentation, however, was any mention of Android. It’s a glaring omission that Nike still doesn’t offer support for …

It’s been three years since Microsoft rebooted its Windows Mobile operating system as Windows Phone, but the operating system’s mobile future is still in flux. The optimist would say that Windows Phone’s prospects have never been brighter. The pessimist would disagree. On the bright side, Microsoft just announced Windows Phone 8 Update 3, which includes new support for quad-core CPUs …

Update: We’ve given the One Max the full review treatment. Read our thoughts here. HTC’s long-rumoured One Max smart phone is finally official, and sports a 5.9-inch 1080p display, as well as a fingerprint scanner on the rear. The phone has the same metallic style as the smaller HTC One, but will stretch your palms with its enormous dimensions. It …

Sapphire is becoming an increasingly popular material for smartphones, a new study from research firm IHS discovered. Last year, global demand for sapphire ingots used to make substrates in electronics hit 32 kilometers — the unit by which usage is calculated — and that figure is expected to reach 54 kilometers by the end of this year. By the end …

Prepaid carrier Cricket next week will become the latest wireless carrier to offer Apple’s iPhone 5S and 5C. Cricket Communications, which is owned by Leap Wireless and is about to be purchased by AT&T, will offer Apple’s newest smartphones to its customers starting October 25, Cricket said Monday. Customers can preregister their interest at Mycricket.com/register. It’s unclear how much the …

Apple’s colourful plastic smart phone doesn’t appear to be as popular as its fingerprint-scanning big brother, as new research suggests the iPhone 5S is outselling the 5C two to one. 64 per cent of all iPhone sales in September were people snapping up the high-end iPhone 5S, according to figures from CIRP, published on AllthingsD. That’s compared to just 27 …