First Impressions

What's good, What's bad, and the Veridict!  Our editors give you their first impressions of devices they have reviewed.

After spending some brief hands-on time with the HTC One (M8) and then unboxing the Verizon model, we're now ready to take our first long look at...
10 years 6 months ago
After appearing in a steady stream of leaks over the past several months, the HTC One (M8) finally made its official debut today. It's got a design...
10 years 6 months ago
The Nokia X is Nokia's first attempt at an Android phone, featuring a 4-inch 800x480 display, dual-core 1GHz Snapdragon S4 processor, 512MB of RAM,...
10 years 7 months ago
Sony’s Xperia Z2 Tablet is the company's thinnest and most powerful slate yet. Measuring in at only 6.4mm thick with a 2.3GHz Snapdragon 801 quad-...
10 years 7 months ago
ZTE recently took to the Mobile World Congress stage to unveil the Grand Memo II LTE, the phablet follow-up to 2013's Grand Memo. As its name...
10 years 7 months ago
The newly-announced Huawei Ascend G6 features a 4.5-inch 960x540 display, 1.2GHz quad-core processor, Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and 4G LTE connectivity...
10 years 7 months ago
Samsung announced the second generation of Gear smartwatches at MWC this year, just months after the original Galaxy Gear hit store shelves. The new...
10 years 7 months ago
Samsung has sprung into the fitness tracker market with the new Gear Fit. It’s a small, Nike FuelBand-like wearable from Samsung that runs Tizen, the...
10 years 7 months ago
Sony recently took to the MWC 2014 stage to announce its latest flagship, the Xperia Z2. The successor to 2013's Xperia Z1 features a larger 5.2-inch...
10 years 7 months ago
The highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S5 is finally here! We spent some quality hands-on time with the new flagship, which features a 5.1-inch 1080p...
10 years 7 months ago
Samsung's newest fleet of tablets, which were officially unveiled at CES, are almost here. The first one to hit our shores is the Samsung Galaxy Note...
10 years 7 months ago
The Nokia Lumia ICON, also known as the Lumia 929, has finally made its way to the PhoneDog offices. This long-awaited device features a very special...
10 years 7 months ago
We’ve already got a pretty good idea of what makes the LG G Flex tick: We’ve got our hands on the device at this year's Consumer Electronics Show and...
10 years 8 months ago
It's first impressions time!  Aaron takes a look at the Moto G, Motorola's newest smartphone.  The Moto G offers up a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon...
10 years 9 months ago
The Nokia Lumia 1520 joins the fray of gigantic smartphones like the HTC One max and Samsung Galaxy Note 3.  Featuring a 2.2 GHz quad-core CPU, the...
10 years 10 months ago
Aaron gives some first impressions on the HTC One max, HTC's supersized flagship smartphone.  Internally, the device packs some similar features as...
10 years 10 months ago
Aaron's back with first impressions of the Oppo N1, the Chinese company's newest smartphone.  From a specifications perspective, the N1 has a lot...
10 years 10 months ago
Aaron gives some first impressions of the Nexus 5.  At $350 unlocked, the Nexus 5 offers a 2.26 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU, 5-inch 1080p HD...
10 years 10 months ago
We've had a brief hands-on with it, but I'm going a bit more in-depth with HTC's newest flagship smartphone, the HTC One, at Mobile World Congress...
11 years 7 months ago
The iPhone 5 is a device we have been talking and writing about for the better part of two years. The fact that I can finally talk about it in the...
12 years 1 week ago

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