If rumors are true Samsung will soon be adding another branch to Galaxy family tree. According to a report from SamMobile Samsung will be making two new devices this year one with a 5.8 inch screen and the other with a 6.3 inch screen. These will be the first two devices in their new "Mega" line of devices.

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Nokia has been burned in the past for missing out on what they deemed "trends" than not moving quickly enough to get on board with the trend till it was too late. Two great examples from modern history was the flip phone and the touch screen. I can clearly remember Nokia being late to flip phone game and almost catching up when the craze had passed only to be replaced almost immediately by the touch screen. Which Nokia was just as late too, however this time the consumer stuck with the touch screen long enough for Nokia to catch up. What's the latest "trend" Nokia is missing out on? Phablets.

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There has been no shortage of rumors floating around about BlackBerry upcoming devices and now there is another one. The above "leak" is from a Twitter account called BB10Leaks who has no profile picture, no description, is following no one, and has a whopping two tweets to it's name. So lets take that into consideration as you read this rumor.

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According to a site called Patent Bolt and bunch of confusing diagrams Microsoft has patented two new gestures for their future devices. One is called "tilt to talk" in which "inverse tilt" orientation and the gestural interface triggers initiation of a search application wherein the input mode is voice input. The second one is called "Point to Scan" in which detecting elevation of the top end of the phone indicates the user's intention to initiate a search using camera images as input to the search engine.

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I am exactly one week into my month long "Android experiment" where my Windows Phone loving keyster will be using an Android device for nothing but a month and I can't power on my beloved Nokia Lumia 822 once. So lets stop all the idle chit-chat here and get down to it.

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We reported a little while back that Sprint after months of fence sitting was finally going to get on board with all the other major US carriers and start to offer Windows Phone 8 devices this summer. They stated they would stock two of them but didn't announce what those two devices would be. Now the Verge has found out that those devices will be the Samsung Ativ S and the yet unannounced HTC "Tiara" handset.

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I am going to drop this squarely in the rumor category for now but there is news floating around that the Nokia Lumia 928 may have solar charging as one of it's features. To sum up what we know  both the Nokia Lumia 928 and a solar powered smart phone was supposed be unveiled by Nokia at Mobile World Congress neither showed up. Nokia has been posting pictures on their official pages of just a Nokia Lumia in direct sunlight in some type of tease ad. Nokia and Sun Group Partners have been working together to develop something  and Sun Group has this "Wysips technology" who's only goal is to solar charge smartphones.

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It has occurred to me that I have been using Windows Phone devices non-stop for almost a year and half now while most of the general readership out there has been using Android devices. Being a Nokia user most of my life I have looked at Android from a distance and thought "that is what Symbian could have been if Nokia played their cards right in developing it." Android is very "Symbian like" in the many surface features and this means perhaps I could be happy using it for a while. So I have decided to shelve my Nokia Lumia 822 for AN ENTIRE MONTH and use only an Android device.

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