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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How do you communicate best with your smartphone?

When it comes to modern smartphones, there is no shortage of ways to communicate. With wireless data speeds that match – and often surpass – your home Internet speeds, it makes just about any form...

Don't spring for the discounted iPhone 4S just yet

When Apple took the stage just over a year ago and announced the Apple iPhone 4S, it's safe to say many of us were disappointed. It's not that the 4S is a bad device, by any means. But we all were...

Is LTE a must-have feature for you now?

4G is a feature we all have become accustomed to over the span of the last year or so. The term has found itself embedded in the names of new devices, in carrier branding and as the subject of hot...

What are the outstanding problems with smartphone battery life?

I've touched on the topic of battery life a lot lately. The consensus is that, in general, smartphone batteries suck these days and, like many others, my phones rarely last an entire day without...

Have you ever shattered the display on your smartphone?

Being that the front of most of our smartphones are now covered with glass instead of a thin, flexible plastic, they tend to be a bit more fragile. Unsightly scratches still may occur. But there's...

Take charge of your phone's notifications with Pushover

If you're anything like me, your notifications are a mess. No, I meant it. A complete, total mess. Almost as bad as my address book. (Don't believe me? Look here.) I have so many applications,...

Would you leave your phone at the door for a discount on your meal?

Cell phones and technology have seeped into virtually every part of our lives, leaving only a few nooks and crannies completely tech-free. I am hardly ever more than a few inches from both of my...

Which cell phone habits annoy you?

More than once now, we've been over how cell phones have negatively affected our lives, especially phones of the more intelligent type. On one hand, smartphones have enabled us to remain connected...

Is your mobile address book a complete mess?

When I got my first cell phone, around the time I turned 15, I started collecting other people's numbers. My address book started filling up quickly and all things were great. I took the time to...

Could a folding display be the next generation of phablets?

The smartphone and tablet markets are currently in an era of exploration and experimentation. Smartphones and tablets, in respect to other personal electronics such as PCs, are very much new. And...

Inside the Dog Pound: Taylor Martin

You see the names pop up all the time on the site, but what really makes the PhoneDog crew tick when they're not hard at work writing about phones?  Welcome to Inside the Dog Pound, where we...

Which rumored smartphone are you looking forward to the most?

In case you hadn't noticed, we're over halfway through August, which means a couple things. First and foremost, temperatures here in North Carolina (and across the nation) are slowly trickling back...

Is rapid charging the answer to current battery life woes?

In general, smartphone battery life is miserable, especially in comparison to what it was just a few short years ago. While the pocket-sized, personal computers are immensely more capable and...

What are some of the best uses for mobile devices in the classroom?

Like it or not, it's that time again. Schools across the nation are back in session (or will be soon enough) and it's time for students to get back into the learning, studying and testing mindsets....

Priced at $199, I would buy two Microsoft Surface tablets

I have been loosely following Windows 8 tablet news ever since Microsoft unveiled its lineup of Surface tablets and their partners earlier announced Windows RT tablets. Being the tablet fiend that I...

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