Apple iMessage RCS

Apple Didn’t Announce RCS for iMessage at WWDC

Google really wants Apple "to fix texting." Their campaign to try and convince Apple to include RCS within iMessage has not slowed and is very much an ongoing focus of their messaging pitch. In fact, at Google I/O a couple of weeks ago, Google once again made...
Phones - Samsung iPhone OnePlus Google-1

If Buying a Phone Today, Who Makes It?

About a year ago I shared an opinion I had about the state of Android smartphones and how so many of you seemed uninterested in any device not made by Samsung. The title was "You Dislike Every Phone Unless Samsung Makes It," and it ran through all of the...
Apple AirTag

Google Could be Making Their Own AirTag Device

Tracking tags like Apple's AirTag and Tile sure seem to be popular. What was once a category of product that people mostly used to track luggage, these tracking devices are now being used for all sorts of ideas or to attach to items that you might not want to...
OnePlus 10 Pro

In 2022, We Didn’t Love: $1,000 Phones

A couple of years ago, when Samsung dropped the Galaxy S20 series on us, with price points starting at $$1,000 for the lowest-end model, I was worried. It sure looked like the beginning of a move toward the smartphone industry adopting a pricing scheme where...
Galaxy S22 - OnePlus 10 Pro - iPhone 14 Pro

In 2022, We Loved: All of the Frosted and Matte Glass

We were one of the earliest in this space to share our distaste for the excessive use of glass in smartphone designs. We questioned why anyone would call glass "premium," when it is without a doubt an incredibly fragile material that can be easily scratched or...