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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Taylor's New Year's tech resolutions for 2013

Today is the last day of 2012, so there's no better time than now to reflect on how things have gone this year. And there's no better day than today to determine which areas need improving. There's...

Do physical keyboards still have any appeal?

I started my smartphone days with a keyboard. In fact, I wouldn't dare use a phone without a physical keyboard for the first three or four years I used a smartphone. Not long after I bought my...

Do Tweet Seats have a place in theaters?

It's almost deplorable how attached to our phones and the online world we are. I explained just before Christmas how afraid I am to stay disconnected for too long, that I'm afraid I will miss an...

I don't see the appeal in Snapchat or Poke

In this day and age, everything leaves a figurative paper trail. Clearing your browsing history may save you and what you've been ogling from being discovered by your significant other (or your...

Do you use your cell phone at work?

There are few hours of the day when I don't pick up my phone for one reason or another. It's been that way for years now. I constantly check notifications, text someone, take a picture, upload a...

How Blocking Mode and Do Not Disturb saved my sleep

I have hardly had a decent night's rest in the last four or five years. Part because I snore and have sleep apnea and part because I just have trouble laying down and dozing off. Unlike a few years...

I can't live without LTE anymore

In case you have missed the handful of lists I've made, my weekly OSR rankings and dozen or so pieces I've written on it, I love the Galaxy Note II. It is a fine specimen of what many years of...

Why six of my top 10 iOS apps were for Google services

After countless requests, I composed two lists over the holidays, one for my top 10 Android apps and, likewise, a list of my top 10 iOS apps. These lists are always changing as I find new...

What tech gifts did you receive this holiday season?

With the number of sold out gadgets left out of stock in the wake of the holidays, it's apparent how tech-crazed consumers are and how popular mobile devices have become as perfect holiday gifts....

Taylor's Top 5 tablets (December 2012)

I'm a tablet lover. I always have been and likely always will be. I love the extra display space, ultra portability and fantastic battery life. And when applications are optimized for the display...

Taylor's Top 10 iOS apps (December 2012)

After detailing my favorite application for 2012, I was asked what my top 10 Android applications are. Inevitably, since I use both Android and iOS in smartphone and tablet form, I was also asked...

Taylor's Top 10 Android apps (December 2012)

Lately, I've explained several times that I'm a fiend when it comes to mobile applications. I'm an impulsive and compulsive buyer and, arguably worse, I'm a hoarder. Luckily, being any of these...

What is the absolute worst smartphone of 2012?

This year has been an incredible year for smartphone lovers. Dozens of high-profile smartphones have reached the market and, likewise, consumer hands. And manufacturers have pushed the boundaries...

Are you going to disconnect for the holidays?

Back before Thanksgiving, I wrote a piece detailing how I needed a break, just one single day of no Internet, no phone, no computer and as close to no technology as I could possibly get. The plan...

Do you have to immediately Google search everything from your smartphone?

There was once a time that I knew everything. Okay, I thought I knew everything. We all did at some point. But my hunger for knowledge, the absolute need for an answer, began when I was roughly six...

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