Smartphones are finally getting weird again, and I love it. Just a couple years ago, the landscape was a lot different than it is today, with a lot more variety in the sort of models that were coming out – for better or worse. We had that brief fling with autostereoscopic 3D phones, saw a number of models with multiple screens, and had manufacturers experimenting with some pretty elaborate form factors – heck, sometimes even doing more than one of those at a time, like the Kyocera Echo with dual screens and a crazy convertible tablet mode. But now: slate, slate, slate, slate. Even the ...

Samsung been talking a lot about the future lately; we only just looked at where the company's heading in terms of device resolution. Of course, resolution is only one of many factors we look at when evaluating displays, and it can be just as important to talk about the underlying technology. While there are plenty of different ways you can implement things, it often boils down to LCD versus OLED. We love the rich saturation and outstanding contrast OLED displays afford, but they've largely been constrained to smaller screens; we saw Samsung deliver the Galaxy Tab 7.7 with an OLED display, ...