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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Up-trading mobile devices for newer ones is becoming increasingly expensive

Much like many of us enveloped in the tech world, I have cell phone A.D.D. Generally, I get bored with a phone or tablet after just a few weeks with it. I use it religiously for a month or so. After...

Voice Input Challenge: Closing thoughts

Ever since last Monday, I have been using only voice input – or dictation – to enter text on my phones. That means no keyboards, no typing, no word prediction. Just speaking and going all-in on...

Support for multiple user accounts on Android was a long time coming

Mobile operating systems are still a long way off from becoming viable replacements to the desktop operating systems we've come to know and love, such as OS X and Windows. Android, iOS and Windows...

Should Sony uphold the manufacturer warranty after a user unlocks the bootloader?

One week ago, I came across a story on XperiaBlog claiming that Sony is denying warranty repairs to handsets with common hardware issues, such as a known yellow-tint display problem. While users...

Voice Input Challenge: Life with dictation is getting easier

I'm on day four of the Voice Input Challenge, but it has felt like an eternity since I woke up on Monday morning and realized it would be another seven days before I could grace my thumbs with the...

Will Apple's next iPad gambit be a Smart Cover with an additional display?

Ever since Microsoft canceled the Courier project in early 2010, the two-screen tablet concept has become a unicorn of the gadget world. Sony attempted it with its Tablet P, but was only met with...

These are perfect examples of how Apple could improve iOS

If you take a look at iOS now and iOS from around the time of its induction, it's not hard to see that the visual changes are few and far between. Apple has relied and coasted on the familiarity and...

How do you monitor your data usage?

Having come from an era where mobile data usage was once unlimited, it can be a rough transition from the lax world of unlimited data to the hardships of having to deal with data caps with overages...

What I hope the next Nexus will entail

While most of the recent rumors and leaks have focused on the forthcoming iPhone, it's hard to ignore the fact that Google, too, will soon be aiding in the production of one of the market's next...

Voice Input Challenge: Off to a rocky start

To be honest, when I came up with the idea of the Voice Input Challenge, I knew it would be tough and that it would press some boundaries, specifically those that pertain to my sanity. Yesterday...

The T-Mobile Note is a perfect example of how carrier exclusivities can ruin a device

Earlier today, you may have noticed that reviews and other content surrounding the T-Mobile Galaxy Note went live. Our own David Beren of TmoNews provided a quick look into the gigantic phablet for...

What is your idea of the perfect smartphone screen size?

There is constantly a ton of hubbub about the size of smartphones, how easy (or difficult) they are to use and hold, and how much pocket space they take up. Just this morning, a couple of colleagues...

Voice Input Challenge: Going all-in on dictation

Aaron and Sydney have both made the rounds with their own set of challenges. Aaron has spent 30 days with a BlackBerry Bold 9930, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia Lumia 900 and the...

I like the early iPhone prototypes better than the rumored iPhone 5 design

With the next-generation iPhone somewhere on the horizon, people across the World Wide Web are digging deep for any information they can scrounge up. For just shy of a year, various rumors of the...

Will price be the nail in the coffin for Surface?

Since long before the announcement of the original iPad, tablets have been a relatively tough sale for retailers. When working for an electronics retailer, I constantly met consumers who would ask...

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