Brad Chacos

Interested in picking up a big-screen smartphone but don’t have the $300 the Galaxy Note II costs on-contract? It looks like the low-cost Samsung clones are a-coming. First up: The Star S7180, a 5.5...

Loosening the iPad's iron grip on the tablet market has proven to be a difficult task for would-be usurpers to the mobile throne; in May, IDC reported that the iPad accounted for 68 percent of all tab...

Maybe there's some credence to all the talk about "showrooming" being an epidemic after all. Showrooming—the practice of physically checking a gadget out in-store, then whipping out your phone in buyi...

It's all too easy to grow lazy and complacent when you're the king of any given hill, but according to a new report, Verizon hasn't let its lofty position as the largest carrier in the land dull its g...

The rumored LG Nexus 4 smartphone just showed off its bedazzled backside in some of the most remarkably clear leaked photos we've ever laid our eyes on. These candid shots show the same design as the ...

Just in time for the holidays, Apple has started selling the iPhone 5 unlocked and free of carrier subsidies or subscription requirements. The price tag for this stocking stuffer prohibits it from imp...

Star Wars and Angry Birds: two great, iconic tastes that taste great together? We'll know before long whether or not bad piggies and angry Wookies play nice, as Rovio just announced that Angry Birds S...

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new champion: Samsung's spunky Galaxy S III toppled Apple's iPhone 4S in third-quarter sales, Strategy Analytics reports, seizing the crown to become the world's best-s...

It's shaping up to be a busy September in the mobile tech world, and the multitude of companies with major announcements up their sleeves have started sending out a slew of teasing videos to act as a ...

It's no secret that Apple likes to keep things secret. The company's aversion to disclosure is legendary -- as are the swift punishments handed out to any Apple employee foolish enough to open his mou...

The Roku Streaming Stick first caught our eye back in the beginning of the year with its promise to deliver the full Roku set-top box experience in a flash drive-esque form factor that plugs directly ...

The mobile industry is firing on all cylinders this week. Major press events from Nokia, Motorola and Amazon are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, but the opening volley goes to Samsung and Verizo...

Samsung's bouncing back from its devastating $1 billion courtroom loss to Apple with both fists swinging. While Judge Lucy Koh was busy lifting the preliminary sales injunction against the Galaxy Tab ...

Amateur photographers won't feel a lot of love for the Google Nexus 7's sole front-facing 1.2-megapixel webcam, and its standard-resolution videos won't please budding videographers, either. The legen...

The Retina displays found in Apple’s iDevices just beg to be used for HD video, but the itty-bitty hard drives in the iPhone and iPad fill rapidly under the weight of 720p and 1080p videos. Sick of ...

Wi-Fi-enabled storage devices aren't anything new, but HP's just-announced at CES 2013 Pocket Playlist introduces an intriguing twist to the now-familiar formula. At a basic level, the Pocket Playlist...

Mere days after HTC's first 5-inch Android phone broke cover (and hearts, with its Japan-only exclusivity), leaked images of its U.S.-focused counterpart have hit the web. The 5-inch, quad-core HTC DL...

What do you look for in a keyboard made for tablets? Portability? Wireless capabilities? Cross-platform support? Genius has checked all three of those boxes with its new LuxePad 9100, which the compan...

Microsoft's Windows Store might have more than a few big-name apps missing when it officially launches alongside Windows 8 on October 26th, but Skype won't be one of them. Today, the Microsoft-owned v...

An Samsung tablet isn't the only Nexus device rumored to be heading our way sometime soon. Earlier this week, rumors about a new Nexus phone manufactured by LG started swirling around the web, based ...

In a move that surprised exactly nobody, Dell vice chairman Jeff Clarke took the floor at the Dell World Conference in Austin and announced that the company is officially slamming the brakes on its sm...

Part of Android's appeal lies in its flexibility; Apple's iPhone may be a sleek and beautiful wonder of modern technology, but it's basically one size fits all, a handful of simple storage and connect...

September's shaping up to be a busy month for mobile. Samsung has promised "something big" at IFA on the 1st of the month, the much-anticipated iPhone 5 is widely believed to be unveiled at a press ev...

Earlier this year, a raging controversy blew across the Web when it was reported that some organizations were threatening disciplinary action if employees and job candidates refused to hand over their...

Photosynth may be a Microsoft product, but the software's app availability has nevertheless been limited to Apple's iPhone for more than a year. That ended yesterday, however, when a Photosynth app ap...