Use a Stylus Practice, Practice, Practice Auto smoothing FTW! Watch That Wrist — And Those Fingers The iPad’s ability to register Multi-Touch gestures has allowed developers to create some truly innovative applications. Unfortunately, Multi-Touch is the pits when it comes to taking hand written notes on a screen. Most of us have spent the bulk [...]

The hottest new Android smartphone contender to the wildly successful iPhone 4S will be launched by Samsung and Google in Hong Kong within 12 hours, insiders say. Called the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the smartphone would be the first to run Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, the mobile operating system that unifies tablet [...]

Two researchers from UC Davis have successfully created a proof-of-concept keylogger using a smartphone’s built-in gyroscope. TouchLogger was written for Android, but there is no reason the same couldn’t be done for iPhone or any modern smartphone or tablet for that matter. Many modern gadgets feature a three-axis gyro to gather device-orientation data for the [...]

The Windows 8 Start screen (click to enlarge).Windows 8 is a bold new take on computing, unifying tablets, desktops, laptops, the Internet, and smartphones under one Windows roof. With only a brief introduction to the operating system here at Microsoft’s BUILD conference, we are seeing Microsoft skillfully bridge today’s computing habits into the future–otherwise known [...]

Premiering alongside the Grid 10 tablet, Fusion Garage revealed its new Grid 4 smartphone also running the Grid OS. The Grid 4 features a front-facing camera, a 4-inch display, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and 16GB of onboard storage. The phone will retail unlocked for $399, though there hasn’t been any word on which carrier the [...]

Google’s planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility will force the search giant into a whole new set of relationships with mobile operators, which could benefit the carriers but also create tension. The dramatic success of Google’s Android OS has further eroded the power of carriers, which had already seen their influence over phone software diminished by [...]

[UPDATE: Upon further reflection, this seems to be a student project created for the class, not research by Galletta himself. And as I said, it's not clear how serious a test it was or what the methodology was. (I do note that the end credits list a "cast." My bad for jumping to conclusions after [...]

It remains to be seen if the long-awaited Droid Bionic from Motorola can live up to its own hype and compete with the iPhone 5, whenever it finally drops, but at the very least it looks like the Bionic is a tiny wonderland for tinkerers and DIY types. Miroslav Djuric from the iFixit crew declares [...]

The Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch for Sprint is an absurdly thin and lightweight Android phone with a gigantic 4.52-inch display. It’s gorgeous, yet compared to the AT&T Galaxy S II version, feels a bit less refined. The incredibly thin Epic 4G Touch The Epic 4G Touch-the only Galaxy S II version to [...]

Photo Credit: Shamleen / Shutterstock.comMotorola’s Atrix and newly announced DROID Bionic smartphones can dock into laptop accessories, but they have nothing on this transforming device: A KT Spider smartphone hybrid that can turn into a laptop, tablet, or even a PSP-like handheld gaming device. The Spider Phone, developed by Korean company KT, runs Android 2.3.4 [...]