Motorola ATRIX to arrive March 1st?

After playing with the ATRIX 4G at CES this year I am excited to see what it brings to the table when it comes to Android based smartphones. I tend to not get excited about specs alone on any phone but this model stands out as being one that will shine. The ATRIX itself is an impressive phone but the real added value comes when you add the “optional” accessories such as the laptop dock as well as the multimedia dock. If you have ever... Read More

At what point will dumb-phones no longer be considered dumb

Every day more and more consumers are upgrading to “smartphones”. Some knowingly, others because their friend’s friend has one just like it and they feel compelled to fit in. Will the time come when dumb-phones no longer exist? Even today if we evaluated the usage of the so called feature phones you would easily see that the majority of them can handle social feeds, email and more. So one has to question where is the line drawn when... Read More

What is your definition of a smartphone?

The term smartphone is used very loosely these days. Just a couple of years a go a smartphone was defined by a phone that has an operating system that allowed you to develop and run third party applications through a standard interface. Today carriers label a phone as a smartphone if it contains a qwerty keyboard of any sort including an on screen touch keyboard. From a carrier’s standpoint this is the perfect way to provide a tool to convince... Read More