Smartphones are more interesting now than they've been in years

If you think smartphones are boring right now, you haven't been paying attention.

Four or five years ago, you would have been dead on. At the time, smartphone design had basically settled on gray slabs of plastic, aluminum, and glassWindows Phone and BlackBerry 10 were still in the mix with Android and iPhone, but even though there was more variety in platforms there wasn't in experience. Feature differences mostly amounted to who had the best camera or whether or not you liked Swype.

Fast-forward to today: Right now we're experiencing an inflection point both in smartphone design and their supporting ecosystems, and it means what you get by choosing one phone over another diverges considerably. From home buttons to biometrics to camera tech to AI, there's more separating today's smartphones than there has been in a long time.  Read more...