Thanks to an over-the-top Super Bowl ad, millions of people have heard of Samsung’s Galaxy Note smartphone — but for the wrong reason. Although the Galaxy Note’s stylus was the focus of the commercial ...

The first Samsung Galaxy Note was unveiled in 2011, and it immediately became popular for its large size and the inclusion of the S Pen stylus. Over the years, the Note line continued to set the ...

Steve was a Senior Writer at AP, where he covered over 40 smartphones a year. Steve has carried the latest and greatest around in his pocket for nearly 30 years, with everything from Motorola StarTACs ...

The Galaxy Note 7 is done. Kaput. Samsung chased its obsession with Apple's design language right into a garbage fire. But the very fact that Samsung is so crazed about Apple—to the exclusion of every ...

There was a time when I thought 4 to 4.3 inches was the ideal screen size for a smartphone. This was before Apple upsized its iPhone 5, but after other phone makers had starting creeping into the 4.7- ...

Samsung's side button on Galaxy phones can be a power-off button, a key to summon assistants like Bixby or Gemini, and a ...

Smartphones with physical keyboards are scarce these days, the same applies to slider phones. This is why a new project adds a touchpad and keyboard to a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, which should make it ...

Nick is a Features author who's been writing for fellow tech geeks since 2011. While he's mostly focused on phones, he's also thrilled by cameras and audio gear of all shapes and sizes. On weekends, ...