Apple has issued a statement confirming there is an issue with the iPhone 4S battery, and that a software update is coming in the next few weeks to fix it. This follows 4S owners complaining the new smart phone has a ridiculously short battery life. Last year, Apple acknowledged the iPhone 4 had a problem …

To absolutely nobody’s surprise (twice), HTC today announced the HTC Rezound for Verizon, the first U.S. smartphone to use HTC-owned Beats Audio. Originally known as the Vigor, the Rezound is HTC’s stateside answer to Europe and Asia’s HTC Sensation XL with Beats Audio, which CNET got a chance to see in early October at CTIA. The Rezound, which features the …

Editor’s note: We used Cover It Live for this event, so if you missed the live blog, you can still replay it in the embedded component below. Replaying the event will give you all the live updates along with commentary from our readers and CNET reporters. To get the key points from today’s announcement, you can check out a summary …

Smartphones keep luring more mobile users, especially those under the age of 45, according to a new survey from Nielsen in the US. (Credit: Nielsen) Only 43 per cent of all mobile users own a smartphone, Nielsen noted in its third-quarter survey. That figure covers the gamut of 13 to over 65. But ownership has hit more than 50 per …

Sony has just switched on Quickflix’s movie-streaming service for the company’s internet-enabled TVs, Blu-ray players and home theatre systems. The service is priced at AU$14.99 per month, and allows customers to watch an unlimited number of movies from Quickflix’s catalogue of available movies. If you already participate in Quickflix’s DVD rental scheme, movie streaming can be added for a reduced …

The $50 Roku LT showed up in the CNET office today, and it lives up to the hype. We were worried that Roku would have to cut some serious corners to hit the $50 price point, but after some quality hands-on time with Roku’s new budget streaming-video box, it looks like a winner. It delivers everything that’s great about the …

Editors’ note: The chart doesn’t list every streaming-media service available on each manufacturer’s TVs; for the sake of simplicity, we chose those we considered most important. Today, many TVs are able to connect directly to the Internet. A few of them include QWERTY keyboard remotes and actual Web browsers, but most lack these PC-like extras. Instead they’re designed around a …

The iPhone 4S is on sale now — so what’s the best deal for the latest Apple smart phone? Three, O2, Orange, Tesco Mobile, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U are selling the iPhone 4S, and we’ve waded through the various options so you don’t have to. We’ll be updating this page when new deals emerge. (Latest update: 13 October, …

The iPhone 4S goes on sale on 14 October, and for once we don’t have to wait to get our hands on the latest Apple gadget. You can order it this very week and you’ll have your mitts on it by the end of next week, but it’ll cost you at least £500. The new iPhone, unveiled today, hits shops …

We may have been sad not to have been given a totally new iPhone 5 at Apple’s launch event, but the iPhone 4S packs some great features and some pleasing improvements over previous models. Let’s take a look at how it stacks up against the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS. Design Outwardly, the new iPhone 4S shares the same …