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...

Does the HP Slate stand a chance?

We are on the brink of a tablet outbreak, folks. The iPad has been around since April, the Galaxy Tab and BlackBerry PlayBook are both market-bound, and as of Thursday, we have the HP Slate 500....

What to expect from Gingerbread and future Android updates

Over the past few months, Gingerbread (Android 2.3 as they're now calling it), has been all the buzz from Android users all around. Honeycomb and Ice Cream are making their way to headlines on a...

HP releases Slate 500 for $799.00 and catches us all off guard

Rumors of the HP Slate 500 have been floating around the interwebs for quite some time, as far back as January of this year at CES. I remember hearing that the whole project had been scrapped...

AT&T relying less on iPhone and adjusting their smartphone lineup

  AT&T has been riding the iPhone wave for over three years now and driving their iPhone sales hard for the entire time. With an exclusivity on such a hot item that essentially sells itself, can...

How mobile websites, Web apps, and HTML5 are good for everyone

A company named dotMobi ran a survey that returned some interesting results on major Internet players and their mobile sites. Between 2008 and this year, the the number of mobile sites has rose from...

Samsung stops Galaxy S Froyo upgrade and plans to roll it out again in November

You probably all remember the Froyo update for the Galaxy S that started rolling out last Friday, right? Well, Samsung has apparently pull those updates due to less-than-fascinating results. They...

Verizon will begin launching LTE in West Virginia

It looks like Big Red didn't like MetroPCS getting the jump on them. We knew Verizon had planned to start rolling out LTE later this year, and yes they were running out of time, but we didn't expect...

Should AT&T's phone prices change because of early upgrade fees?

  So, you saw that AT&T had upped the early upgrade fee last week and thought you would just avoid that and buy the device outright. You can go ahead and scratch that idea too, as they have also...

MetroPCS goes live with LTE in Detroit

If you live in or around Detroit, you may now rejoice. MetroPCS has brought LTE to your doorstep. Unfortunately, there is only one device at this time that can utilize the newly activated LTE...

How to suit up your Android device for Halloween

It's hard to believe it's already October and that we're over halfway through it already. Halloween is right around the corner, and quite honestly, I'm excited. This year, I have really started...

Should Verizon customers have to pay to improve their wireless service?

Carriers all around are well known for pinching every last dime out of their users' pockets for every little thing they can find. Verizon Wireless is notorious for being one of the most expensive...

Verizon Wireless 3G Network Extender now available

Are you a Verizon Wireless customer and find yourself holding your phone up in the air for signal while sitting on the couch at home? If so, I have good news for you! Verizon has just released their...

Rumor: Android 3.0 engineer sample tablets by December, Android 4.0 in second half of next year

In addition to all of the recent Gingerbread details leak, here breaks some more information regarding the status of future Android build versions. The report comes from DigiTimes who claims that...

Original myTouch 3G gets updated to Android 2.2

That's right, the near forgotten myTouch that release just last year has finally got a serving of its very own Froyo. Very late to the party, the myTouch Android 2.2 update process is now underway...

Will BlackBerry devices with QNX software and the PlayBook be enough to save RIM?

It's no secret that RIM has been on an unfavorable path for some time now. They have sat on their heels, riding the wave of the same operating system with minor UI changes here and there for years...

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