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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Should all Android manufacturers make a flagship device for the Ice Cream Sandwich debut?

Up to this point, each major version of Android – save for Cupcake and Donut – has had a flagship device to show off the new software. Google introduced the world to Android with the G1 (HTC Dream)...

The truth about Android task killers and why you don't need them

My sister and brother-in-law just upgraded from their old feature phones to new Android smartphones. Luckily (and unlike a lot of friends and family who ask for my advice), they listened to me and...

Should tablet manufacturers slow things down a bit?

Upgrade time has finally come. You head to the local carrier store to pick up the phone you've been reading rumors and news about for months. All of the tech sites' reviews are up and the phone is...

Does device arrival lag time hurt smaller platforms like webOS?

It seems almost as if there is a new Android device being released every week. In the past month, we have seen the Sensation 4G, LG Revolution, HTC Merge, Droid X2, LG Genesis and more reach...

How Nokia botched yet another would-be awesome handset

Oh, Nokia. Where do I begin? I want to love you, I really do. But I just can't. Yesterday, Nokia confirmed our long-lived suspicions of yet another handset from the Finnish company. The 3.9-inch...

Is this the beginning of the end of RIM?

RIM will deny it until the final nail is driven into their coffin. They have been on a downward spiral since the smartphone boom took off a few years ago. As other companies and platforms have grown...

Are Verizon's tiered data prices too high?

Since the beginning of this smartphone boom, America's wireless networks have been taking the biggest portion of the abuse. All while calling less and less, people have begun using their phones more...

Will there ever be another Android phone with as much impact as the EVO 4G?

Two years ago, if you threw the word “Android” around in conversation, the eyes of the people you are talking to would probably glaze over and you would be met with an empty, “Huh?” Sure, a few tech...

Is NFC as a mobile payment option doomed due to hardware requirements?

The idea of quick mobile payment options are nothing new. NFC has been in use in other countries for some time and is now beginning to gain a lot of traction on an international level. Swipe your...

Why I have kept my HTC ThunderBolt for so long

From the time I bought my first smartphone, I have had cell phone ADD. Partly due to a short attention span and getting tired of things quickly, partly due to a new phone releasing each week, it...

Top 5: Taylor's top five tablets (June 2011)

Many will argue to the grave that modern tablets are just a fad and have no place in the future. They are supplementary devices that offer slightly more usability than a smartphone but less...

Is transferring data between devices by using the camera the way of the future?

As the functionality of smartphones expands and they begin to take over some of the roles of the home computer, the need to transfer data between multiple devices is growing at an astounding rate....

Should Android manufacturers make affordable tablets for underprivileged students?

Of all the devices to surface over the past few years, tablets have arguably had the hardest time proving themselves in the vicious mobile market. Constantly battling the functionality of laptops,...

Will Ice Cream Sandwich remove the need for physical buttons on Android phones?

Since we were first met with Honeycomb (and we actually got to see how different it really is) speculation about Ice Cream Sandwich and what it would entail has sky rocketed. Many were up in arms,...

Is Windows Phone 7 doomed thanks to carrier rep biases?

It's pretty obvious that Windows Phone 7 isn't nearly as successful as Microsoft was hoping. Even in the vicious market ran by Android and iOS, the platform captivated the market and headlines alike...

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