First Impressions

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

The Pantech Marauder is unique for a couple of reasons. For one, it's one of the few phones out there that have a physical QWERTY keyboard. You just...
12 years 4 months ago
Much like the iPhone 4S was to the iPhone 4, Apple's new iPad is an evolutionary upgrade from the iPad 2.  Featuring Apple's A5X dual-core CPU that...
12 years 9 months ago
The Nokia Lumia 710 represents Nokia's initial push into the US market with Windows Phone, and some are quick to paint it as a failed move by Nokia...
12 years 11 months ago
The Samsung Focus S is one of the second-generation Windows Phone devices, and it's arriving just in time for the holiday season.  Focus S is a...
13 years 2 weeks ago
The mobile market is always evolving, but I'll say this: if Nokia brings Windows Phone devices like the Lumia 800 to the US next year, I could see...
13 years 1 month ago
After 16 months of waiting, Apple's (sort of) next generation iPhone went on sale this Friday. After the disappointment following Apple's keynote on...
13 years 2 months ago
The Facebook Phone. For a while it was just one of those mythological phones that was real, then not real, confirmed, then denied, and for a time...
13 years 5 months ago
Though the term "DROID" now refers to a series of well-marketed Verizon smartphones - or perhaps more commonly, a misnomer for "Android" itself -...
13 years 5 months ago
I want to love the TouchPad.  It's the first webOS tablet, and while I'd appreciate the ability to choose between a number of devices sporting the...
13 years 5 months ago
When most people think of being "green" they think of buying a hybrid car or taking the train or maybe even buying those swirly light bulbs that...
13 years 6 months ago
I've spent the weekend toying with the LG Revolution, and sadly, I've been very disappointed.  After hitting it out of the park with the T-Mobile...
13 years 6 months ago
The LG Phoenix may not be one of the most highly anticipated phones to hit AT&T, but in a lot of ways, it should be. Similar to the Galaxy S...
13 years 8 months ago
After a late entry into the Android game, US Cellular is "full steam ahead" with the Android devices, one of which happens to be the Samsung Gem. ...
13 years 8 months ago
HTC has built up a solid reputation in the smartphone world as having top-of-the-line products and one of the best User Interfaces in the business...
13 years 9 months ago
At this point, I think I've driven the pun phrase "the Arrive has arrived" into the ground.  At any rate, the HTC Arrive is in my hands, and after...
13 years 9 months ago
It feels like it was just yesterday that the original iPad launched. Here we are, eleven months later and the iPad 2 is finally among us. Apple...
13 years 9 months ago
After nearly four years of hype and anticipation, the Verizon iPhone is finally among us. Being the long-time BlackBerry and Android fanatic that I...
13 years 10 months ago
Overall, Dell did a nice job with the Venue Pro, and after an hour of working with it, I'm amazed at how much of a drastic improvement it is over...
13 years 11 months ago
The Transform has been on the market for a while now and we had an unboxing a couple of months ago, but somehow the phone fell through the cracks...
14 years 1 week ago
So, say you're the kind of person that's a little rough on their phone. Maybe you work outside or you do a lot of traveling and your phone tends to...
14 years 1 week ago

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