From CNET: Despite competitors like LG and Samsung announcing smartphones with 2K ("quad HD") displays (2,560x1,440 pixels), Sony is sticking to its guns with its flagship Xperia Z3, which has just a full HD display (1,920x1,0800 pixels).

Calum MacDougall, Sony's director of Xperia marketing, said...

From DailyTech: If you're sick of hearing about selfies, or you're a celebrity with a penchant for risqué "private" photography, this may come as bad news for you -- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has become the latest phonemaker to offer up a "selfie phone". The announcement came on Thursday at the IFA...

From GreenBot: A little more than six months after HTC revealed the 5.5-inch Desire 816, the company is following up with its successor, the Desire 820. The new phone announced at IFA Berlin on Thursday is notable for its future-proof double-quad-core 64-bit processor and insane, selfie-ready 8...

From PC World: Lenovo will ship a 64-bit Android smartphone, the Vibe Z2, later this month in China, rolling it out to other regions in October.

Lenovo joins HTC, which announced the Desire 510 last week, and Apple in offering a 64-bit smartphone, with more handset makers expected to follow in the...

From CNET: Playstation 4 users will be able to travel through the worlds of Minecraft a day ahead of their Xbox One counterparts.

The Minecraft PS4 edition will starting selling at Sony's PlayStation Store in the US on Thursday sometime before 12 p.m. PT, Sony said in a blog post Wednesday. The...

From DailyTech: Currently sitting in the doldrums with 2.5 percent of the global smartphone market, Microsoft is looking to revamp its Lumia family from top-to-bottom in an effort to carve out a bigger piece of the pie for itself. Earlier this summer we saw the introduction of the Lumia 530 — the...

From TechHive: After several weeks of teasing, Asus officially debuted its first entry into the burgeoning field of smartwatches on Tuesday at IFA Berlin. Dubbed the Asus ZenWatch, the new wrist wearable is loaded with Android Wear and, similar to other first generation Wear devices we've seen, it...

From CNET: Acer is keeping the hybrid faith, unleashing a slew of new half-laptop half-tablet gadgets upon the world, including the new hinge-swivelling Aspire R13 series.

The R13 (shown above) brings a swivelling hinge to the mix, of the kind we've seen before from the likes of Dell. By swinging...

From DailyTech: Apple has been dragging its feet in providing any meaningful hardware updates to its MacBook Air family of laptops, but that isn’t stopping the competition from upping the ante year after year. ASUS is the latest company to up the stakes in the ultrabook category with the new Zenbook...

From InfoWorld: Advanced Micro Devices is targeting mid-range desktops with its latest high-end FX chips based on the Piledriver architecture.

The three new FX processors each have eight cores. They chips are designed for home PC builders looking to make their own desktops for just under US$1,000...