Steve is a Senior Writer at AP, where he covers 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 ...

With the prospect of price hikes and RAM shortages on the horizon, we might remember the current era as a good one for smartphones – even if phone design has actually hit a pretty boring plateau.

A phone called Xeta One is in the crowdfunding stage. It’s a QWERTY phone that cannibalized the LG Wing, one of LG’s last smartphones. You should definitely not back this phone’s crowdfunding campaign ...