Published on Monday, July 19, 2010 by Phil Nickinson  We've had a ton of touchscreen technology thrown at us in the past year -- hell, in the past several months. We've gone from LCD (liquid crystal display) to OLED (organic light-emitting diode) to AMOLED (active matrix OLED) to the brand-new Super AMOLED, which we saw debuted at Mobile World Congress in February. Each has its merits. OLED and AMOLE...

Published on Monday, July 12, 2010 by Phil Nickinson What good is a 4G network if you don't have more phones to run on it? That's the hand Sprint is currently playing and that has been briefly detailed in a story at the Wall Street Journal's website. The Macquarie Group tells WSJ that 300,000 Evo 4Gs have been sold, but the phone (again) is listed on Sprint's site as being unavailable, and one cannot sell what once does...

Published on Friday, June 18, 2010 by Phil Nickinson The touchscreen on the HTC Aria touchscreen doesn't offer as much real estate on which to work as the Evo 4G, Droid Incredible or Nexus One. But how does its multitouch capability match up? We put it through its paces after the break. Posted originally at Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories ...

Published on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Phil Nickinson [YouTube link]Another welcome feature uncovered by many of you in Android 2.2 is the ability to work in apps through 270 degrees of rotation. That is, if you turn the phone to the landscape position to the left, it'll rotate. And it'll rotate to the right now, as well.But, wait, there's more. The car app has gotten smarter. So when you're using the car dock and n...

Published on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Phil Nickinson [YouTube link] Let's take a quick look at multitouch on the Sprint Evo 4G, shall we? In daily use, it's been holding up just fine. Pinch-to-zoom works as it should, and the touchscreen is as responsive as you'd expect. In comparing it to the Nexus One -- which has well-documented quirks with its touchscreen -- the Evo 4G seems to pass our little test OK. (And here...

Published on Friday, March 19, 2010 by Phil Nickinson What started as a rant from the less-than-Google-friendly Boy Genius Report is slowly starting to become a thing. We're talking about the screen on the latest batch of Google Nexus Ones, whose only discernible difference from the original was supposed to be that it supports AT&T's flavor of 3G.Instead, we're seeing color variations. They're ranging from &quo...

Published on Monday, February 8, 2010 by Casey Chan  Remember that weirdly designed Motorola Android device, the Motosplit? Well, if these new rumored details are to be believed, that weird Motosplit is going to get even weirder. Yeah, we didn't think it was possible either. To quote:The keyboard keys are inset and probably have no tactile feedback, however, they should be quite easy to use. It looks like the cuto...