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Motorola ATRIX 4G review

By: |Feb 9th, 2011 at 03:00PM
Filed Under: Mobile, Review
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The Motorola ATRIX 4G is the fastest smartphone not yet on the market. Come March 6th, however, it will be. AT&T has landed a screamingly fast Android device courtesy of Motorola, and that’s not all. The device is so powerful that it can power a laptop with full Firefox browser, and spit out 1080p video like it’s nothing. We’ve spent almost a day time with the phone and thought it was sufficient for a review, so read on past the break for what we think, alright? (more…)

New Apple patents include tactile/haptic feedback, fingerprint ID and RFID tag readers

By: |Jul 2nd, 2009 at 10:00AM
Filed Under: Apple, Features, Handsets, Services
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A trio of Apple patent applications unearthed this morning may help shed some light on future features and functionality headed to a new crop of iPhones. Then again we all know how easy it is for patents to lead absolutely nowhere. The first and most notable of the bunch is a haptic feedback concept employing a “grid of piezoelectronic actuators” that combine to form a fully tactile touchscreen. In theory, the device could vibrate these actuators in different combinations and at different frequenc...