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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In-app purchases are ruining mobile games

Yesterday, Taylor Martin offered you up a brief summary on in-app purchases, related to mobile games. Near the end he asked you if you, Dear Reader, are apt to purchasing in-app content for your...

Do you use one app to check multiple services?

Over the years, we have been given the opportunity to cut back on the number of devices we carry at any given moment, all courtesy of consolidation. Our favorite manufacturers do their best to cram...

Which smartphone features can you live without?

We have talked about what kinds of things take up space on your phone, and Taylor Martin asked you what you’re essential applications are. So let’s move to the other end of the spectrum, and shift...

Is Google's social strategy the wrong one?

Having an effective strategy for doing just about anything is probably one of the most important parts of succeeding. Sure, sometimes you get lucky, but the best strategy usually wins out in the end...

Apple could expand their ecosystem with a video game console

Apple’s focus on gaming in the mobile space has grown almost exponentially since 2008. So much so, in fact, that there are some who believe Sony and Nintendo, which have traditionally dominated the...

Should Microsoft create their own Windows Phone device?

Around the mid-afternoon mark yesterday, news started finding its way around the Internet that Microsoft wouldn’t be making its own Windows Phone-based device. This probably wasn’t a shock to most...

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.8 isn't a bad deal

It has only been a few days since Microsoft took the stage and showcased the next evolution of their mobile operating system, Windows Phone, but as you can expect people are still talking about it....

What do you fill your phone's memory with?

Not too long ago, after it became known that the Galaxy S III on some carriers wouldn’t be allowed to take advantage of a cloud storage deal, I asked you if you thought that the carriers should...

Why are you making us wait for Surface, Microsoft?

Yesterday, Microsoft managed to reign in all the speculation, rumors and everything in between to step up on stage in Los Angeles, California and showcase what they’ve been hard at work on. it didn’...

Does every major phone release have to revolutionize the market?

There are a lot of new devices released every year from several different manufacturers. However, while there may be more announced in a year than we’d like to count (or even pay attention to),...

Cross-platform should be part of the game plan as well

If you are invested in an ecosystem just as much as you are totally enamored about a particular manufacturer, then you probably don’t think too much about cross-platform capabilities. The fact that...

Microsoft's Metro makes for the perfect complimentary software

I have a pretty firm belief that a device plays a specific, if not integral role in our lives. All things considered, most of the gadgets we use aren’t all that cheap, so when we put down our money...

Augmented reality could make driving a lot more interesting

Augmented reality. While I’ve wondered in the past what ever happened to augmented reality, it’s good to see that almost a year later, it’s starting to make a comeback. Not so much on its own, in...

Verizon's new Share Everything plans make sense and save money

I don’t know anyone personally who doesn’t like to save money, in some fashion or another. I know people who like to save a lot of money every month, and others who just pick a “small” amount and...

Did Apple play it too safely with iOS 6?

Yesterday we saw the Internet freeze in place while Apple took the stage at their first day of the Worldwide Developers Conference and introduced iOS 6. It’s around this time of year that we get to...

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