Most new-device launches go the same way: usually the press gets review units before they’re widely available, and we get to use them for a few days -or a week if we’re lucky- as we work on our review. Then press day arrives. The embargo on media coverage lifts, and everyone posts their reviews and videos at the same time. It’s a huge frenzy, commenters go nuts, ...

Sprint's Kyocera Torque is a real monster. A rugged phone for the rough-and-tumble construction crowd, the phone features mil-spec toughening to the 810G and IP67 standards for dust, shock, extreme temperatures and pressures, solar radiation, blowing rain, salt fog, and immersion for up to 30 minutes in up to a meter of water. When we reviewed it several months back, ...

Topic Jolla unveiled their first phone this week, together with "the other half", which brings an interesting concept to the mobile world. HTC's executives are leaving the company which makes us wonder whether this is a good or a bad things. Samsung officially sold 10 million Galaxy S 4 units through its global channels and unofficial sources talk about 5 million HTC ...

Are you ready for the latest round of gossip about Apple's upcoming gear? This time we get to hit all the big players, with details showing up that concern the flagship iPhone 5S, the rumored cheaper iPhone, as well as the next iPad. Some if this is minor stuff, like a tweaked shape for the rear microphone near the iPhone 5S's camera. The 5S could also get a bigger ...

Back in March, we heard about an upcoming Huawei flagship that – if the rumors were true – would take the top spot as the world's thinnest smartphone. We had heard similar rumors earlier in the year which ended up missing the mark, so we didn't give it an overabundance of attention. Since then, more evidence has arrived showing-off a 6.2-millimeter thick handset ...

The Google Galaxy S 4 will be here in just over a month, but even if the idea of that flexible, hackable GS4 has you salivating at the thought, there are a number of serious limitations that could stand in the way of your being able to enjoy the handset. Beyond the fact that the Google GS4 will (at least at first) be a US-exclusive, it's also incompatible with CDMA ...

When someone uses a particular platform for any given time, they become invested in the ecosystem – the apps, the built-in and related services, and the way everything syncs up perfectly and seamlessly. You become invested in the platform and the user experience. And switching to any other platform is certainly more difficult than just a context switch and getting ...

Google I/O may be over and done with, but San Francisco's Mocone Center won't get much of a reprieve before smartphone fans are back in hordes, with Apple taking over the same venue in just a few weeks for the Worldwide Developers Conference 2013. The whole thing is a grand affair, running from June 10 through June 14, but where's the actual meat – when can we expect ...