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.

Author's latest articles, videos, reviews and more...

Verizon and Motorola need to chill with all the DROIDs

One of the largest complaints from the Android camp as of late has been the fire hosing of new devices. Between November 2010 and the beginning of November this year, roughly 103 handsets were made...

Cheap pre-paid smartphones for the holidays

Smartphones make for great holiday gifts. Unfortunately, when gifting a phone, opening a new post-paid account or adding a secondary line to your existing account isn't always possible or necessary...

Do you ever feel the need to totally disconnect?

Unfortunately, Turkey Day is now over. Everyone's stomachs should be full of turkey, stuffing and too much dessert, and I'm sure many of you are dreading the trek back home or the abrupt crash...

Great deals on smartphones for the holidays

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving, all! Here's to eating too much turkey, watching football (I'm not really a football fan, by the way), being with family and being ... well, grateful for all the...

Cheap tablets for the holiday season

(Note: We had our doubts at first, too, but we are now 100 percent sure Aaron is not the real Santa Claus.) Tablets galore! Last year at this time, the whole idea of modern tablets was a relatively...

Would you trade current display tech for better battery life?

The smartphone has faced countless improvements over the past year, largely in terms of both hardware and software. Some of the biggest improvements have come in the form of faster, multi-core...

Cheap smartphones for the holidays

Over the last few years, smartphones have certainly grown in importance and become an all too common household item. No longer are they solely a luxury, but a lifeline for many of us. Being so, they...

Taylor's Top 5 Holiday Gifts

Well, it's that time again, folks. The holiday shopping season kick-starts in just a few more days. Not before we fill our stomachs with a little too much turkey and stuffing and pass out on the...

Google is losing the initiative with their Nexus line

Google has had something golden. The Nexus One and Nexus S were two of the most iconic Android phones to date. As I clarified in my article about why the Galaxy Nexus is so significant, there is...

Should mobile applications have a rating system?

A lot has gone down in the mobile application realm since July 10, 2008. This was the date that Apple's App Store for iOS opened. Since then, App Store's repertoire has grown to more than 500,000...

Will you be taking advantage of holiday specials on phones?

Over the past three or four years, owning a cell phone has become an increasingly expensive thing to do. While calling plans and text messaging have remained mostly the same price, pricing on data...

Which material do you prefer your phones to be made of?

When it comes to smartphones, we all have our preference when it comes to design, size and even the materials the device is made of. Some prefer plastic, others tend to err on the side of metal and...

Amazon Kindle Fire Written Review by Taylor

Out of all the tablets we have managed to review here at PhoneDog, the Amazon Kindle Fire is easily the most unique. It straddles the line between tablet and eReader and brings a previously...

Why is the Galaxy Nexus so significant?

As you all probably know by now, I'm not exactly happy about the situation surrounding the Galaxy Nexus launch. An entire month has passed since the device was officially announced by Google and...

If the Galaxy Nexus doesn't launch until December, I may buy something else

The launch, or lack thereof, of the Galaxy Nexus is frustrating, to say the least. Google and Samsung took the stage just over one month ago and announced the Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich....

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