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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Apple, ditch Notification Center for Dashboard on iOS already!

Last June, Apple took the stage for their annual Worldwide Developers Conference and made several new hardware and software announcements to developers and fanatics alike. Updated MacBooks and iPods...

Would you use your phone to withdraw cash from an ATM?

I am all for letting my smartphone do everything it possibly can. I use it for all the typical smartphone stuff like emailing, browsing the Web, Facebook, tweeting, taking pictures and notes, etc. I...

A Microsoft-built Windows RT tablet may be my next big purchase

I find it difficult to get excited over Windows-related news these days. Windows 8, for instance, looks pretty nice. It's a much-needed refresh of the aging operating system that is Windows, whose...

I hate when great apps and services get bought

The mobile industry, much like all other industries, is constantly contracting and expanding. Thousands of startups flood the market, a larger company likes a startup's idea and said startup gets...

Should manufacturers do more to keep new phones under wraps?

Rumors and leaks are one of the larger driving forces in this industry. Hundreds of phones are released each year and the prying eyes of the tech journos are searching the far corners of the...

This Apple patent application will make iPhonographers happy

Over the last few years smartphone camera technology has come a very long way. It is now to the point that some seriously impressive images can be taken with a pocketable smartphone. Each generation...

Is HTC finally starting to get the gist of how Android works?

What used to be one of the most unique aspects of Android was choice. Devices, much to the dismay of manufacturers, come in three tiers that have sort of self-formed over the years: high-end, mid-...

Verizon's Share Everything plans are the last thing I want

On three of the nation's four largest carriers, unlimited data finally saw its way out last year and was immediately replaced by less-than-desirable tiered data plans. The move was a rather poor...

Though still a gimmick, I may actually start using Siri

Around this time last year, Apple announced the current version of iOS, version 5.0. During the announcement, Apple revealed that iOS 5 came packed with over 200 new features, such as Newsstand,...

Do you care about interface changes in major software updates?

Some would say the actual appearance of a mobile operating system's interface plays a major role in their opinion of it. For most of us who care to take the time to read and/or write about phones,...

Are multi-core processors really detrimental to the Android experience?

In light of mobile platforms that operate as smooth as butter, such as iOS or Windows Phone, performance of Android devices has been under constant scrutiny. In the two most recent Android versions...

Is iOS 6 the 'world's most advanced mobile operating system'?

Heading into the WWDC keynote this year, we had a pretty good idea as for what to expect. There has been talk of slimmer and more powerful MacBooks with Retina Displays, new Macs and even the...

I am beginning to miss the universal inbox from BlackBerry OS

I'm part of a dying breed; I actually miss the BlackBerry days. While I'm finally starting to get over the waning importance of the physical keyboard, there are quite a few features of BlackBerry OS...

Last-minute feature requests for iOS 6

We've been expecting the next major iOS upgrade, predicting new features that may come and anticipating updates or redesigns of existing ones. Many expected the software upgrade, iOS 6, would be...

I might open a third line for the Virgin Mobile iPhone

At long last, Apples ever-popular iPhone crossed a major threshold last month, at least in the U.S. On June 22, the iPhone 4 and 4S will officially be offered as pre-paid devices on Cricket Wireless...

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