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 1 month 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 6 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 8 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...
12 years 9 months 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...
12 years 10 months 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...
12 years 11 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 5 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 7 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 9 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...
13 years 9 months 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...
13 years 9 months ago

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