Let’s be frank for a moment: most smartphone and tablet accessories are garbage. Countless companies race to the bottom and do everything they can to flood the market with cheap cases, chargers, charms, covers and anything else they can churn out of factories in China. As a result, it can be painfully difficult to find high-quality accessories because we often have no choice but to dig through a mountain of trash to get to them.

If you’re looking for a stylus for your iPad, Android tablet, iPhone or Android phone, I’ve done the digging for you.

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BlackBerry is feeling very good about its new BlackBerry Passport. In fact, the company feels so good about it that it’s even decided to quote a BGR post as proof that the new device is going to be a hit with consumers.

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Samsung’s sales are finally starting to slow as increased competition at the low end of the smartphone market and saturation at the high end hit simultaneously to create the perfect storm. The company’s profit declined for the third consecutive quarter, plummeting to a two-year low in Q2 2014. Samsung is going to have to make several huge adjustments to reverse the trend, and one is to launch new high-end phones that offer truly compelling differentiation to combat Apple’s upcoming iPhone 6 handsets — Samsung’s latest flagship phone, the Galaxy S5, is not the exciting new handset fans were hoping for.

As it turns out, the soon-to-be-announced Galaxy Note 4 could be just what the doctor ordered.

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It really is easy to forget just how incredible our smartphones are, especially now that they’re capable of doing things that we used to have several different gadgets for. Tech Guru Daily has posted an infographic produced by U.K.-based office supplies retailer Viking that shows just how many different gadgets that our smartphones have made redundant or obsolete just over the past few years.

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With all of the leaks, renders and mockups we’ve seen of Apple’s upcoming iPhone 6 over the past few months, you would think this would start to get old. If anything, however, readers’ interest in iPhone 6 leaks is still growing. Apple’s upcoming iPhone 6 will be the biggest smartphone launch of the year and with the phone’s expected release now just about two months away, leaks and rumors are in full swing. We have seen a number of dummy iPhone 6 units that are reportedly based on leaked schematics, but they all lack the refinement Apple’s hardware will undoubtedly have.

Now, however, a stunning new render of Apple’s next-generation iPhone 6 gives us a different perspective.

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Samsung may be getting ready to launch a new flagship smartphone in the coming months – other than the already released Galaxy S5 and the upcoming Galaxy Note 4 – whose purpose is to compete directly with the iPhone 6 that’s set to arrive in September. Korean publications ETNews and The Korea Herald have learned from sources familiar with the matter that Samsung’s response to the iPhone 6 is a device made of metal called Galaxy Alpha, likely an internal name for the premium handset as opposed to a final product name.

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If one were to wager on which new smartphone will be the most popular model of 2014, the smart money would likely be on Apple’s upcoming new iPhone 6. With pent-up demand for an iPhone with a larger display dating back several years now, Apple will almost certainly sell as many new iPhones as its partners can manage to churn out of their factories when the iPhone 6 finally launches later this year.

Just how much bigger will the iPhone 6 be? We’ve seen plenty of comparisons between previous-generation iPhones and fake iPhone 6 mockups, but now we have another basis for comparison that uses seemingly authentic iPhone 6 front panels to measure the size of Apple’s upcoming new iPhone model against current phones.

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One of Google’s main I/O 2014 announcements is the company’s new design language – dubbed Material Design – which will be applied to all of Google’s properties, including Android L, Android and iOS apps, and web apps. Google has already demoed its Material Design concepts, providing explanations for its design choices and vision, but Android Police has obtained more details about what Material Design means for Google’s content store, sharing images of the upcoming Play Store redesign.

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While Apple is expected to launch two bigger iPhone models this year, including a 4.7-inch iPhone 6 model and a 5.5-inch iPhone 6 (or iPhone Air) phablet, a new research note obtained by MacRumors from well-connected Apple insider and KGI Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo says that the latter model might hit stores next year.

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The iPhone 6 is not official and its first clone has already been spotted somewhere in Asia, Nowhereelse reports. The iPhone 6 clone is apparently a device built using one of those iPhone 6 dummy units that flooded the Internet, and seems to be running a version of iOS 7. It’s not clear who assembled the unit and for what purpose – so far, the leaked iPhone 6 dummy units were not functional.

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