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...

Should Motorola have skipped the BIONIC altogether?

The DROID BIONIC was originally announced at CES in January this year and released just last month. Between then and now, the BIONIC has been delayed, canceled, redesigned, reworked, re-announced...

Do you choose durability and materials over design?

Maybe it's because phones are becoming more fragile as they become larger and more advanced, but I've been compelled to focus on the durability of phones, or how to better protect your phone, lately...

How much would you pay for cell phone customizations?

Without the inclusion of physical QWERTYs attached to the face of devices, smartphones have taken a fairly significant turn in terms of design. Many manufacturers have swapped archaic physical...

What are your must-have features in a cell phone?

Over the course of four short years, our idea and definition of what a smartphone truly is has greatly changed. In that transformation, phones have become larger, more powerful and have begun...

Should developers offer universal application purchases?

As many of you may know, I spend a good deal of money on mobile applications. Whether it is to test something interesting or because I need an application to perform a certain function, I "swipe"...

Apple iPhone 4S First Impressions by Taylor

After 16 months of waiting, Apple's (sort of) next generation iPhone went on sale this Friday. After the disappointment following Apple's keynote on the 4th, we were all wondering how the 4S would...

Is Siri a game-changing feature or just a novelty?

Happy iPhone 4S day, all. To all of those who pre-ordered an iPhone 4S or stood in line for one this morning, you probably have your iPhone by now – or you will in the next few hours, if you pre-...

Do you protect your smartphone in a case or with screen protectors?

Over the years, smartphones have grown substantially in terms of capability, size and function. They've undergone several changes in design and materials. And with the inclusion of large, glass...

How are carriers going to respond to mass instant messaging adoption?

The threat that the sudden growth of instant messaging poses to carrier text messaging is nothing particularly new. In fact, I wrote a piece about it shortly after the Facebook Messenger...

Now that iOS 5 is finally here, are you impressed?

Happy iOS 5 day, folks! (I know, I'm a little late to the party.) Apple announced their major update, iOS 5, back in June at WWDC, along with several of the 200 plus improvements it brings. Last...

Could the ongoing BIS outages be fatal for RIM?

The rut only gets deeper for Research In Motion. On top of doubt from investors and shareholders, tumbling market share and stock prices and the limited success of the BlackBerry 7 effort, RIM has...

Should Android OEMs officially support CyanogenMod?

It's no secret that one of the persisting issues with Android is the associated firmware update process (or lack thereof, in many cases). Currently, there is no structure and no rhyme or rhythm to...

Is 3.5-inches the perfect touchscreen size?

After 16 months of escalating rumors and speculation, Apple officially announced the iPhone 4S a week ago to quite a bit of disappointment. The disappointment isn't because the 4S is a bad device....

Has Samsung surpassed HTC to become the king of Android makers?

A lot has drastically changed within the Android camp over the past year. Even if we set aside all the improvements we've seen in display, processor and wireless technologies, phones aren't quite...

What do you do with all of your old cell phones?

Thanks to software licensing and component manufacturers, cell phones now release faster than ever before. The estimated life cycles of phones used to be roughly three years. Some people would sign...

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