Evaluating Samsung's QHD AMOLED Displays
Recently, a package showed up at my door. While this is normally not worth talking about, the Galaxy S5 Broadband LTE-A happened to be in the box. For those...
71 by on 7/16/2014The LG G3 Review
While the enthusiast segment is no stranger to LG smartphones, for the most part LG hasn’t received nearly the amount of attention that Samsung has. At first, it doesn’t...
174 by on 7/4/2014Samsung Announces the Galaxy S5 Mini
Today Samsung announced the Galaxy S5 mini, which continues the Galaxy S mini line the same way that the One mini 2 continued the One mini line. Interestingly enough...
34 by on 7/1/2014First Impressions and Hands On of Android L
Today, Google finally posted the system images for Android L on the Nexus 5 and 7, so I decided to take a look at them to see what’s going...
64 by on 6/26/2014HTC Commits to Android L For One (M7) and (M8)
In a rather surprising move, HTC is the first OEM to promise an update to Android L. HTC has stated that this policy is part of their HTC Advantage...
11 by on 6/25/2014Razer Announces Micro-Console Running Android TV
Today, Razer is one of the first OEMs to announce an Android TV solution. It seems that this will compete with systems such as the Amazon Fire TV and...
8 by on 6/25/2014Samsung Launches the Galaxy S5 Broadband LTE-A: First Snapdragon 805 Phone, First 20nm Modem
While this launch is Korea-only, Samsung recently announced a new version of their Galaxy S5 smartphone, dubbed the Galaxy S5 Broadband LTE-A. Naming aside, this makes this phone the...
40 by on 6/19/2014T-Mobile Unveils Unlimited Music Streaming and unRadio
T-Mobile has been a significant disruptor in the US operator business as of late with John Legere at the helm. Previously, they’ve gotten rid of contracts, introduced free global...
32 by on 6/18/2014T-Mobile Announces Test Drive, A Free Trial for a Week
Today, T-Mobile announced that they have already rolled out wideband LTE to 16 markets and VoLTE to 15 markets, with 100 million people currently covered by the 15 VoLTE...
9 by on 6/18/2014Manual Camera Controls in iOS 8
For the longest time, iOS had almost no camera controls at all. There would be a toggle for HDR, a toggle to switch to the front-facing camera, and a...
42 by on 6/18/2014Huawei Ascend Mate 2 Review: Incredible Battery Life & Value
The commoditization of the smartphone segment has been predicted for more than a while now. It's almost obvious in a way though, especially when one looks at the progression...
50 by on 6/12/2014Qualcomm Atheros Launches FSM90xx SoCs for LTE Neighborhood & SMB Small Cells
Today, Qualcomm Atheros is announcing a new line of SoCs targeted at residential deployments, along with small and medium business. The FSM90xx line is similar in purpose to the...
0 by on 6/11/2014Apple Reveals iOS 8 at WWDC
Recently, Apple launched the latest iteration of iOS for its devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. No hardware was announced but there's still a great deal...
19 by on 6/4/2014Liveblogging with the Surface Pro 3
While we don’t have the full Surface Pro 3 review up yet, I’d figure that it’s worth posting some thoughts on it. For those that didn’t follow our WWDC...
35 by on 6/4/2014HTC Hits a Lower Price with the One (E8)
Today, HTC announced the HTC One (E8), a phone that is effectively aimed at providing the One (M8) spec at a lower price point. While the phone doesn’t keep...
20 by on 6/3/2014A Closer Look at the G3's IR Laser Auto Focus System
Earlier today LG announced its 2014 flagship: the G3. Based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 801, the G3 features a 5.5" 2560 x 1440 display and a host of other improvements...
16 by on 5/27/2014HTC One mini 2 Review
Last year around this time, HTC had yet to release a mini version of their flagship phones. As OEMs continued to push bigger and bigger displays into bigger phones...
76 by on 5/26/2014SIM Card Adapters Reviewed
A few weeks ago, I was genuinely questioning what SIM adapter I should buy. After all, while a SIM adapter is generally cheap and also a relatively simple product...
24 by on 5/24/2014Some Thoughts on Half-Life 2 and Portal on Shield
If you talked to me seven years ago, the concept of phone games beyond Snake and basic flash games would've been beyond me. That wasn’t really on my mind...
40 by on 5/22/2014HTC One mini 2 Announcement
Today, HTC is launching the HTC One mini 2, a phone that is supposed to be a smaller version of the HTC One (M8), both in price and size...
56 by on 5/15/2014