Evan Selleck

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Evan Selleck

Evan is a Contributing Editor for PhoneDog. He's been in the mobile industry for more than seven years, in one capacity or another. He's always had a passion for technology as a whole, but smartphones will always hold a special place of interest for him. He's a father, a student, and a lover of food. His other passions include hockey, soccer, baseball, video games, and movies. He'll talk your ear off about all of those things, if you give him the chance.

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Will RIM forget about BlackBerry 6?

The upgrade situation for smartphones has become something like an obstacle course for phone manufacturers. Way back when, before smartphones were the new feature phone (based on popularity, not...

Was the Netflix launch for Android a bust?

Application jealousy is something that everyone suffers from at some point or another. No matter which platform you find yourself on, there’s probably one application (or more) that your friends...

Should the Nexus lineage be updated yearly?

Keeping track of a device’s lineage isn’t all that hard. If a particular device is a success on the market, then a successor is usually a lock. We’ve seen it plenty of times in the DROID line-up on...

Why didn't Verizon skip the HTC Merge?

When you get to a certain point, let’s say almost a year, before a company launches a device, I think it’s safe to say that a lot of the anticipation for the device has waned. In fact, considering...

Was Google's Music Beta worth the wait?

Anticipation is an odd sort of thing. There’s a fine line between disappointment and excitement, and the more you anticipate something, the more defined that line becomes. When it comes to a certain...

How will Apple implement artificial intelligence into iOS 5?

Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., is an element that has been a staple in science-fiction for about as long as science-fiction has been around. But in the real world, especially when it comes to the...

Is WiFi calling something the general consumer wants?

Making phone calls may not be the highest priority for some who own their phones, but it’s obviously still an integral part of the device. And carriers are more than happy to make us pay for that...

Is the HTC Flyer's stylus priced too high?

Buying expensive gadgets is what we do. It’s not that we necessarily like paying money for expensive gadgets, or that the gadgets we know and love so much are so expensive (sometimes), it’s just the...

Does iOS 5 really need over the air updates?

At some point not too long ago, we –as a society – decided that we didn’t want to be connected to anything anymore by physical wires. Unlike other trends in the technology market, the need to go...

Why I don't want the BlackBerry Bold 9900

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is finally real. There was plenty of speculation out there, about whether or not the next generation BlackBerry device would be anything to get excited over, and then RIM...

Should Verizon be targeting specific genders with devices?

One of the great things about smartphones is that they aren’t gender specific. While a device may look designed specifically for one particular gender more so than another, they are generally...

Does a lack of Flash support in BlackBerry 7 make sense?

The more people talk about Research In Motion’s progression into the future, the more it feels like the company continues to take one step forward and two steps backwards. We watch as the company...

Are the carriers in the wrong for blocking access to tethering apps?

Android’s impossibly fast adoption since its debut isn’t due to just a single feature or element. It’s the concoction that Google created in their popular mobile operating system that has people...

Are microtransactions within games the standard for the future?

If you own a smartphone, especially one that runs one of the most popular mobile operating systems out there, then you’ve probably got a few games on there. Of those games, you probably paid for at...

Why is RIM launching a Facebook application before stock apps?

Even before Research In Motion’s first tablet device, the BlackBerry PlayBook officially hit store shelves, there were questions: would the device be the true iPad killer? Would the specifications...

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