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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Will CTIA Wireless 2012 be an uneventful show?

Upon entering 2012, many people had this year pegged as an exciting year chock-full of various improvements to smartphones and countless, high-profile devices. We're almost a week into the fifth...

Taylor's Top 5 upcoming devices (May 2012)

As per usual, we're quickly approaching the release of several high-end and highly-anticipated mobile devices. With two of the year's biggest trade shows behind us, one in the week ahead and...

If Apple wants to improve the iPad keyboard, they need to hire Daniel Hooper

I've said it a million times: software keyboards are alienating and clunky. They're not exactly comfortable to use and making mistakes is much easier to do on a virtual keyboard than it is on a...

Is stock Android 'just not good enough'?

Love or hate them, custom Android interfaces are here to stay for the foreseeable future. They serve a general purpose and, according to their creators, usually make the Android experience more rich...

More manufacturers should use Scalado's camera technology

The future of BlackBerry in the mobile space has come into question a lot lately. Research In Motion (RIM) has certainly seen better days, and the adequacy of their newly appointed CEO, Thorsten...

Is the Samsung Galaxy S III everything you were hoping it would be?

Rumors surrounding Samsung's next Galaxy have stretched far and wide over the last several months. In the wake of the wildly successful and popular Galaxy S II and the second coming of HTC, people...

Should developers be able to pull paid applications without warning?

Of all the people I know (except for maybe David Beren, AKA Mr. TmoNews), I am the least hesitant when it comes to buying applications. I see one I like or need, and a few clicks and a couple...

I don't care about cores or clock speeds, I just want performance

When it comes to picking a new smartphone out of the crowd, it now only comes down to a few differentiating features. While each manufacturer has their own tendencies when it comes to make and...

When it comes to tablet applications, is function more important than form?

Today's mobile application offerings are a far cry from just three years ago. In late April 2009, there were roughly 35,000 applications available for download in Apple's App Store. In March 2009,...

I hope the next iPhone looks something like this

Back in October, many (myself included) expected Apple to announce an iPhone with a new design and a larger display. Despite nearly 18 months of rumors pointing to a radically different iPhone,...

How do you use your cloud storage space?

In the post-PC world that the late Steve Jobs imagined, the cloud is the common factor that links our arsenal of electronic devices together. A file system that is remotely available to a family of...

Can we put an end to this tablet-phone hybrid ROM trend already?

When the Android team built Android version 3.0, more popularly known as Honeycomb, it was built atop the phone-specific version of Android, Gingerbread. Instead of using the typical phone interface...

Do you like the idea of paying with your phone?

We are currently on the brink of what many believe will be a revolution in the way that consumers pay for things. Some believe we may soon adopt a new currency model, one that plays a little more...

How much do you spend on data per month?

From the time that smartphones and tablets started to become more and more popular, data prices have been on the rise ... sort of. Providers have begun building out expensive wireless networks that...

As purported Galaxy S III specs reenter the atmosphere, are you still interested?

Over the last few weeks, Galaxy S III rumors have started flowing in faster than we can process them. Everyone is so excited or anxious to see what exactly Samsung has up its sleeve that people are...

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