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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The Top 5 changes I hope to see in the next iPhone

Apple Is believed to be releasing their next version of the iPhone sometime in the next five months. (Some rumors are pointing to a June-July release, but a fall release is more believable...

Developers, ads do not belong outside your app

I love helping developers. They’re the ones that make our smartphones useful and entertaining. They're the ones who make applications like Pocket, Spotify, Plume, Camera+ and the other various apps...

How far do you go to extend your phone's battery life?

Battery life has been an issue with nearly every phone I have owned since jumping the BlackBerry ship. Larger touchscreen displays, faster, more power-consuming processors and GPUs and faster...

HTC, please make your integrated batteries larger

I have been using the HTC One X since just before noon on Sunday. For the time being (and for the foreseeable future), it has replaced the gigantic Galaxy Note as my primary device and is easily one...

What is your 'read later' app of choice?

Every day, I constantly stumble across awesome headlines, videos, pictures and other various Web content. But it isn't alway possible or convenient for me to drop everything I'm doing to read an 11,...

A few must-have Instagram applications

No matter how you look at it, and whether or not you love or hate retro filtered pictures, Instagram is one of the most popular ways to share those pic-worthy moments via mobile. Just snap a picture...

Should you spend your money on an Android tablet or an iPad?

Love or hate them, tablets are here to stay. In just two (very) short years, they have come to be a popular household item, one that both children and parents are fighting over. They've stolen a...

Don't expect a better mobile Facebook experience anytime soon

Any given day, I can peruse my Facebook News Feed and find more than a few friends complaining about their Facebook experience via mobile. "Facebook for iPhone sucks! You would think a company as...

Sense 4 is the first non-stock interface that I actually like

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been an Android purist. I've used all the different custom interfaces – Sense UI, MOTOBLUR, TouchWiz, Motorola Applications Platform, LG's 4.0 interface (read:...

Will you trade unlimited for shared family data?

”Data demand will outpace capacity by 2014 if we don't make more spectrum available.” Those are the words that came out of Verizon Wireless President and CEO Dan Mead’s mouth during the CTIA...

I am officially done with HD Super AMOLED displays

My last two devices were Samsung devices. I used (and loved) the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and only retired it when I discovered I could get the AT&T Galaxy Note to work on T-Mobile’s 3G and HSPA+...

Google needs to lead by example with its Android apps

The first thing you will notice about some of the newest Android devices is that they no longer sport the four capacitive buttons (Back, Home, Menu and Search) below the display like their legacy...

If you could, how would you change iOS in the next update?

Apple announced the iPhone and its respective operating system in January of 2007. Since then, it has undergone four major updates and countless smaller ones. While the latest iteration, iOS 5,...

Why are there so few high-end smartphones under 4-inches?

Bigger is better. Or so the cell phone makers want us to believe. Three years ago, smartphones larger than 4-inches were a rarity. By comparison, they were quite large in respect to the average-...

The HTC One X camera and ImageSense are actually very impressive

I'm a sucker for a smartphone with a nice camera. It isn't an absolute necessity – I did own the Galaxy Nexus for four months, after all – because I generally carry an iPhone as a secondary, and it...

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