The life of an oversized smart phone has just recently begun to break the mold of the more tame sized handsets. Blame it on the Dell Streak, or blame it on the Galaxy Note the oversized phablets as some are calling them are invading our smart phone space! Right around the time Samsung launched the ...

The first Motorola Atrix was announced and shown off last year at CES to much fan fare. It was one of Motorola’s initial offerings for its lap dock revolution, it came with a built in biometric fingerprint scanner and was one of the first handsets in the world to rock a dual core chipset. As ...

  OK, Xperia go! Sony is on a roll with their recent departure from Ericsson taking the solid Xperia name sake into oblivion with many different model options. Recently the Xperia U made its way to the UK with an excellent build, a few color options and a really cool built in transparent bar that houses ...

At least five smart phone or tablet manufacturers will be using NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipsets in their devices in 2011. That’s according to DigiTimes and most of the manufacturers the website lists as Tegra 2 users for 2011 have already announced plans to use the chips. Motorola will be releasing at least two smart phones ...

RIM’s BlackBerry line of smart phones could be looking at a complete makeover next year. Think dual-core processors, QNX’s new tablet OS making the transition to RIM’s phones and possibly even glasses free 3D displays. Excited? I am. Dual-core BlackBerry smartphones: Like with desktop and laptop PCs, multi-core processors are the inevitable next step in smart phone ...

Near field communications (NFC) is expected to come of age in the United States next year after Google implements support for the wireless, mobile payment system in Android 2.3 ‘Gingerbread’. The Samsung Nexus S is widely expected to receive an NFC chipset inside and now Samsung has officially announced its line of NFC chips for ...

Apple’s follow up to its insanely successful iPad tablet could be a lot closer than we all thought. According to Digitimes sources, three suppliers for the printed circuit boards (PCBs) in the iPad 2 have already been named and the device will start shipping in February when four more suppliers will be added to keep ...