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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Vibrant is the new black, at least for Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone has always carried an air of promise. Its creators and their largest partners – Nokia, HTC and Samsung, at least here in the States – continue to convey their confidence in the fresh...

The Samsung Galaxy Note II could be the phone of the year for me

In January when I was glumly leaving CES, out of the thousands of nifty gadgets and flashy new prototypes at the show, there was a single device that I just could not wait to get my hands on....

We need better battery life and more storage space before 1080p displays arrive

Considering the vast majority of smartphones look a lot alike, manufacturers are digging deep for that key differentiating feature that makes consumers want their devices. Some of these features,...

How often do you clean unused apps off your phone?

I am a proud and practicing mobile application hoarder. I love applications, and I love finding new apps to incorporated into my daily routine. Nothing gives a warm and fuzzy feeling quite like...

What form factors would you like to see in the near future?

There are hundreds of mobile manufacturers working hard to churn out another smartphone as groundbreaking and game-changing as the first-generation iPhone, OG Motorola DROID or even the HTC EVO 4G....

Has the iPhone 5 stolen your attention from other upcoming smartphones?

While some readers persist in disproving me, the general reaction to the iPhone 5 remains the same. Just like the iPhone 4S before it, the iPhone 5 has mostly been received as a disappointment,...

I'm not ready to go prepaid just yet

Back in June, when Verizon came forward to announce their Share Everything plans, I didn't take the news too lightly. Big Red made no bones about their endgame: they want everyone on Share...

Is simultaneous voice and data an important feature to you?

As we transgress into mobile data era, consumers have grown to expect a multitude of things from both their smartphone and their wireless provider. One of the expectations is 4G speeds from their...

What would have made the iPhone 5 less disappointing?

It doesn't take a lot of digging to find that yesterday's iPhone 5 announcement yesterday was overall accepted as "disappointing" or a "letdown". In my post-announcement piece which I published...

Is the Apple iPhone 5 everything you were hoping for?

For two and a half very long years, Apple fanatics have been trying to piece together what it is Apple has had up its sleeve for the iPhone 5. Leading up to Apple's announcement, we were asking...

How long can Apple emulate Steve Jobs?

Anyone remember Fake Steve Jobs, the satirical blog created by Newsweek's Dan Lyons? How could we forget? Well, the site itself and the persona are long gone. Lyons had a moment of morality when the...

Motorola of all manufacturers should release new phones with current software

In July, following the Jelly Bean announcement at Google's I/O developer conference, I wrote New Android phones on old software will eventually become a thing of the past. During the opening keynote...

Are you looking for a last-minute trade-in for your old iPhone?

Well, it's that time again, folks. We're one day out from what we can only believe is the announcement of the new iPhone. Tomorrow we all will be on the edge of our seats, tapping our toes and...

Motorola's big gambit is extra large batteries - and it might just work

Having ragged on Motorola so much over the past few days, I felt compelled to take a step back and look for the good in the announcements from last week. Being so critical of everything all the time...

Do you prefer on-screen, capacitive or physical buttons?

With more than a couple hundred Android phones having been released, there is no shortage of one thing: choice. You can find smartphones in just about any price range shy of $800 (sans contract, of...

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