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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Should every flagship phone come with a MAXX-like variant?

Battery life has always been a fairly major concern for us power users, particularly with the current and last-generation smartphones. The days of BlackBerry were great, at least in terms of battery...

How much does display quality matter to you?

Mobile displays have advanced faster than I think any of us imagined possible. Just three years ago, it wasn't uncommon for devices to come fitted with displays smaller than 3.5-inches. Now it's...

If you could have any phone in any color, what would it be?

The supply of smartphones is never-ending. Hundreds of new phones are announced and released every year. On top of that, some get mid-cycle refreshes that may come in the form of a slight...

A $99 tablet could tarnish Google's Nexus brand

With millions of units selling each quarter, it's safe to say tablets are no longer questioned as serious products. The initial skepticism stemmed from the questionable pricing Apple brought to the...

Will you switch carriers to get the phone you want?

Samsung generally catches a lot of flack for shadowing a lot of the things Apple does. In the past, Samsung has taken many design cues from the Cupertino-based firm, mimicked many of the iOS...

The J Butterfly isn't the HTC phablet I was hoping for

This year, I've made it sufficiently clear that I love phablets. I may not have been a fan of behemoth phones when the original 5.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note was but a mere rumor, or even after the...

Quick Settings in the stock Android notification shade is long overdue

Ever since Google picked up design guru Matias Duarte, Android's stock interface and user experience has done a complete 180° turn. Before it was rugged, heavily engineered and, to be frank, quite...

ASUS should definitely make one of the Nexus phones this year

In the mobile space, ASUS has really only made a name for itself in the tablet sector. It's bread and butter is its PC lineup, namely the recent ZenBooks. But the Transformer tablets (and more...

I'm a minimal, pull-tab pouch kind of guy

I make no bones about it, I am an accessory junkie. Whenever I get a new device, be it a new phone, tablet or even a camera, I search the Web high and low for any sort of case, attachment and add-on...

Mobile gaming is quickly closing in on console-like quality

Let the naysayers say what they will, but mobile gaming is really starting to come around. I can think back to a time where mobile gaming was nothing more than taking some generic PC card games –...

Why I'm wary of switching to Windows Phone 8

I've said at least 100 times before that Windows Phone shows great promise. Windows Phone 8 is just a few short weeks ahead, and I'm getting quite excited for what it has in store and what Nokia and...

Do you still handwrite notes?

It's no grand secret that our mobile devices can do more than ever before. As I've expressed in every way I know how, high powered processors, endless lists of third-party applications and large,...

Wireless charging on Nokia's upcoming Lumias isn't going to come cheap

Back at the beginning of September, when Nokia took the stage in New York to unveil its latest work, the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, we all were in awe. The Lumia 920 is arguably the best Windows Phone...

What's so hard about making smaller high-end phones, OEMs?

Back in July, I asked readers what their idea of the perfect smartphone size is. With just shy of 250 responses, the answers varied from 3.5-inches to phablet extremes beyond 5-inches. Just skimming...

Are Apple Maps in iOS 6 sufficient for your needs?

Unless you were suffering an Internet outage for the last two weeks in September, chances are you at least heard about the unprecedented scrutiny Apple faced over scrapping Google Maps for the...

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