Anthony Myers

Black Friday is all about finding the best deals, and the Samsung Focus Flash and HTC Wildfire S are two of the best deals on smartphones this year. They aren't being sold at discount prices, it's just that they don't have the features to keep up with the main big ticket smartphones. They are both available for under $100, however, and you still get plenty of tech gadgetry in either one.

Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and the Sony Tablet S are two similar tablets that could be on many people's Black Friday shopping lists, so we lined them up to get a better idea of what separates them. Besides being a couple inches bigger than the Tab 7.0 Plus, the Sony Tablet S is shaped a bit different than most tablets

Droid Razer will be a top seller during the Black Friday rush, but if you're heading out to the doorbuster and bargain sales, the Samsung Focus S is worth checking out. It's $100 less than the Razr, but has a 4.3 Super AMOLED Plus screen for super bright colors and eye-popping contrast. This is classic Samsung tech, and it's the type of display seen on other high-end devices like the Samsung Galaxy S2.

Regardless of the type of camera you have on your Apple or Android device, one thing you've no doubt noticed is there are a ton of photo editing apps available for both systems. Google and Apple have noticed too, so in their recent mobile software updates, Ice Cream Sandwich and iOS 5, they've implemented some of those features that so many apps already have.

Smartphone cameras are dangerously close to surpassing the image quality of point and shoot cameras, but shooting video is different. No smartphone cameras, including the iPhone 4S, shoot video well enough to ditch your camera, but since it is fun to make movies, it's a good idea to find out which smartphones do the best at video production.

Research in Motion, the company that makes BlackBerry smartphones, plans to slash $300 off the price of its tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook. $200 seems to be the magic number because that's how much Amazon is selling its already popular Kindle Fire for. Tech blog Apple Insider reported the RIM price drop in a blog post, and it spark yet another tablet war this holiday season.

Android phones for less than $100 don't have to be more than two years old, and as fast as technology is moving today, you can get some decent tech for much less than $100. Pantech, a company new to the U.S. is selling a brand new device for $100 with a two year contract from Verizon.

iPad 2 is a 10-inch tablet and the T-Mobile Springboard is only a seven inch device, so they are different animals in that way. But, where they do compare is on some other features, and because the Springboard isn't made by Samsung, it's not getting the attention it should. Springboard is the T-Mobile version of the Huawei MediaPad, and it's 4G enabled along with standard Wi-Fi

Droid Razr is an amazing feat of engineering in many ways, but mostly because of how much tech is jammed into its 7.1 mm thick frame. The thinnest smartphones on the market don't differ by much, only a couple of millimeters somethimes, but Droid Razr is the thinnest by about 1.5 mm over the Samsung Galaxy S2.

Many people prefer texting to speaking on the phone, but for those times when a phone call is necessary, it's good to know which smartphones are good at it. Samsung's Galaxy S2 Skyrocket has good call quality, but not quite as good as the iPhone 4S or the Galaxy Nexus S.

Three of the most feature-rich smartphones of 2011 face off again in a battle of file streaming apps. Droid Razr's MotoCast, Samsung Galaxy S2's AllShare and iPhone 4S' AirPlay all stream content back and forth from your smartphone to your HDTV or laptop in one form or another. But only one of them is easy to use, simple to set up and does what is says it's supposed to.

I want the Android phone, should I buy a Motorola Droid? Droid and Android are very similar sounding names, but they are not the same thing. The Motorola Droid line of phones are a make and model name of particular devices. Android is a mobile operating system used in many different makes and model of smartphone.

Galaxy Nexus went on sale Nov. 17 in the UK, so many of the mainstream media have gotten loaner models from Google, and now that they've had the phone for a day or so, they've got some first impressions for us.

It's a trick question. Galaxy Note is only available in an unlocked version for over $600, and HTC Titan is $200 with a two year contract from AT&T. However, there is a catch because only the Galaxy Note runs the Android system. HTC Titan is powered by Microsoft, but it is an intriguing device because of its 4.7-inch screen. But, that's why we compare them, because these are two of the most intriguing devices on sale this holiday season

iPhone 4S has incredibly high screen resolution, so high in fact, one of the top most wanted features of the hoped for iPhone 5 was to have a bigger screen. If you are doing more than just making calls and sending messages with your smartphone, you may already know that screen size is not as important as how sharp the images are.

Two highly stylized devices have recently launched that have elevated the design aesthetics of mobile phones to a whole new level. Droid Razr is a marvel of thin design and a dazzling display, and the Xperia Arc S is an elegantly crafted model of technological wonder

Most new mobile phone buyers are now purchasing smartphones, and while many of them are first time buyers or people upgrading from feature phones, some are invariably ditching their old smartphone. First, don't even think about throwing any type of electronics in the garbage

A virtual army of mobile devices are now running the Android operating system, and there are several different Android versions among them. Furthermore, there is a separate version that only works on tablets, so not everybody is talking about the same thing when they discuss their Android device

Smartphones are evolving into mini portable computers that can do so many things, yet their small size has made it difficult to really ramp up the camera technology. That goes for pretty much everything in a smartphone, even the iPhone 4S. The small size is a challenge for many of the components, especially batteries.

Seven inch tablets really took off in 2011, and the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is the lightest of the bunch coming in at 345 grams. That's less than a pound, and most of the seven inch tablets out there are near the one pound mark which is also at the low end of the 10-inch tablet world.

Near field communications technology is evolving to the point where it is being used in more and more consumer electronics devices like the forthcoming Android Beam-enabled Galaxy Nexus smartphone. The futuristic sounding feature is simply a microchip that senses when it is near another NFC chip, and that enables both sensors to send messages to each other, usually in a mobile payment system.

HTC, the company that made the 10-inch Jetstream tablet that dared to challenge the iPad 2 in the over-$700 category, has decided to take the next step and launch an even higher-end device next year. HTC announced they would produce a quad-core tablet using the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, a move that seems like an all-or-nothing bid to capture people's imaginations the way the iPad has.

Samsung's Galaxy S2 and Captivate Glide are two very different devices, mostly because the Captivate Glide has a slide-out keyboard for improved typing. A physical keyboard? What is this, 2009? No, the Captivate Glide is not an old clam shell feature phone or anything like that. Some people really just love to have a physical keyboard to type on.

Google sent the source code for its Android 4.0 system update to developers in early November, and they are now free to tinker with the system and add different features to the customizable operating system. One of those features includes hacking Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and building a version that can be downloaded before the official version is sent out to certain devices.

More and more people are buying smartphones than ever before, but iPhone 4S users especially are seeing how important it is to have the best battery life. Really the only way to compare which devices have the best battery life is by comparing how much talk time each one gets.

Apple-made smartphones and Android-based smartphones are the two most widely used smartphones in the world, but one way to really tell them apart is by seeing which is easier to use. That means turning on an iPhone or an Android-powered device and measuring which software system is easier to navigate and figuring it out just by playing around with it for a little while.

Shopping for a smartphone is quite a maze these days, and although iPhone 4S is one of the most popular devices out there, there are at least five other phones to consider before picking one up.

Galaxy Note by Samsung will debut in the UK soon but in October, HTC debuted another large smartphone, the 4.7-inch HTC Sensation XL. It's not as big as the forthcoming Note's 5.3-inch screen but even 4.7-inches could be too large for some.

Droid Razr, Motorola's new flagship device, is now on sale, but there is still no word on when it will get the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system update from Google. As the top new smartphone from Motorola, it's sure to get the update, but it might not happen until January.