Taylor Martin

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Taylor Martin

Taylor Martin is the Managing Editor for PhoneDog and has over six years of experience with BlackBerry and two or more years of hands-on experience with mobile platforms like Android, webOS, and iOS. When he isn't writing into the wee hours of the morning, Taylor is hacking, tweaking, and modding one of his phones or tablets to do his laundry and cook his breakfast. Away from cell phones and other gadgets, Taylor spends his time with friends and family and enjoys playing video games, eating sushi, tweeting, and watching anything of worth on Netflix – especially documentaries. If you have any Netflix recommendations or tech-related questions, follow him on Twitter. Just remember to keep it under 140 characters, folks.

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The Best Smartphones: Week 45

It's time for another round-up of last week's OSR action. Taylor is back in another weekly recap of PhoneDog's Official Smartphone Rankings™. In week 45, ending January 13, the Samsung Galaxy Note II...

HTC DROID DNA Challenge: Day 1

Taylor accepts his first 30-day challenge on the heels of the largest tech show of the year, CES 2013! Taylor takes on 30 days with the only 1080p smartphone available in the U.S. market, the HTC...

What was your favorite gadget at CES 2013?

The largest tech show of the year is behind us and, well, there's a lot to say about everything that was there. On the mobile side, everything was mostly serene. There were very few surprises and...

ZTE Grand S Gallery

I knew ZTE would announce the Grand S prior to going to CES. It was publicly available information as it was listed on the CES Press Events page, but no one actually knew what the Grand S was...

Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Hands-On

Samsung announced the LTE variant of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for Verizon and our own Taylor got some hands-on time. Very little has changed as far as design or specifications go. There is a...

Verizon Samsung ATIV Odyssey Hands-On

At CES 2013 in Las Vegas, Taylor gets some hands-on time with the newly announced Samsung ATIV Odyssey. As far as specifications go, it's nothing spectacular: 4-inch (480 by 800 pixel resolution)...

Huawei Ascend W1 Hands-On

Taylor gets some hands-on time with the recently announced Huawei Ascend W1, Huawei's first Windows Phone device. It has a 4-inch (480 by 800 pixel resolution) display, 4GB of built-in storage and...

ZTE Grand S Hands-On

Taylor gets some hands-on time with the recently announced ZTE Grand S at CES in Las Vegas. It is yet another 5-inch 1080p smartphone with a 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset, 2GB RAM, 16GB...

T-Mobile CES press event liveblog!

We're here at The Venetian for the T-Mobile press event at CES. We're not sure what's going to happen here. There have been some rumblings of an LTE announcement. I don't know for sure, but our own...

Sony Xperia Z Gallery

Last night, Sony announced its two latest handsets at CES in Las Vegas, the Xperia Z and Xperia ZL. The differences between the two are minimal. They both have a 5-inch 1080p display, 2GB RAM, 16GB...

Sony Xperia ZL Gallery

Late last night at CES, Sony brought everyone in to showcase all its latest devices. Among those were the new Xperia Z and Xperia ZL smartphones. Below is a photo gallery of the Sony Xperia ZL....

Huawei Ascend D2 Gallery

Yesterday in Las Vegas, Huawei announced two new phones, the Ascend Mate and Ascend D2. I had a chance to get some hands-on time with each. The Ascend D2 is the smaller brother of the Mate,...

Huawei Ascend Mate Gallery

We're here in Las Vegas at CES 2013 where Huawei recently announced two smartphones in its 2013 lineup, the Ascend Mate and Ascend D2. With a giant, 6.1-inch display, the Ascend Mate is the larger...

Sony Xperia Z Hands-On

Taylor gets some hands-on time with the recently announced Sony Xperia Z. The Xperia Z has a 5-inch 1080p display, 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset, 16GB built-in storage, microSD card...

Sony Xperia ZL Hands-On

Taylor gets some hands-on time with the recently announced Sony Xperia ZL. It has a 5-inch 1080p display, 2GB RAM, 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset, 16GB built-in storage, microSD card slot...

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