This week, Amazon launched three new Kindles, including the Fire, the company’s first Android-based color tablet. Next week, on October 4, Apple is having a big press announcement to talk iPhone 5, and maybe other stuff. These are two major companies battling it out for the same customer, media sale, and hardware niches. So let’s discuss.

Our experts today are all CNET writers on these topics: Donald (more…)

The iPhone 4′s radio woes are well-documented. The most recent tests, like our own, show dramatic radio performance issues when a part of the external antenna is gripped.

This week on the Roundtable, we delve into the electronic and radio engineering issues affecting the iPhone 4′s antennas, as well as other phones. Our guests are CNET’s own Maggie Reardon, author of 5-bar phone signal: What’s it get you?, and AnandTech’s Brian (more…)