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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 08, 2012
You might have noticed that the Google Chrome team has released the long awaited build for Android. It's still a beta version, but it's a pretty big deal. It's built for Ice Cr...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Feb 06, 2012
This is the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX on Verizon. Looks a lot like the Motorola Droid RAZR on Verizon, doesn't it? Because it is. You can sum up the MAXX in a single sentence: It's a Motorola...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 05, 2012
The Pantech Burst is one of AT&T's latest LTE-enabled handsets, and it's clearly aimed at the first-time or budget-minded smartphone buyer. That's a huge market, and this is th...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Jan 27, 2012
Our LG Spectrum review comes at an interesting time for both the smartphone manufacturer as well the carrier on which it resides, Verizon. On one hand you have LG, which has brought us some excellen...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 25, 2012
Acer's got a decent affordable Android tablet here, but the shortcuts are apparent
Meet the Acer Iconia Tab A200. We've seen a lot of Android tablets in the past year or so. A lot o...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Jan 23, 2012
Taking a look at the GSM Galaxy Nexus extended battery
The international version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus ships with an ample 1750 mAh battery, which provides decent battery life while mainta...
Review
by Jared DiPane
Jan 10, 2012
Sony has been hitting the Android game pretty hard this week, first the Sony Xperia Ion and now the Sony Xperia S, another incredible device. How can you really go wrong with a 1.5GHz dual-core devi...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Jan 09, 2012
It's been a long year for Android tablets. Motorola was first to the Honeycomb party with the Motorola Xoom. And while it was the quasi-official developer tablet (and really no slouch of a devic...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Jan 07, 2012
It's hard to talk about the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus without talking about the relative mess that was its road to launch. The Galaxy Nexus was announced (after a brief delay) in Hong Kong on...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 06, 2012
The HTC Vivid is HTC's latest phone, built for AT&T's fledgling LTE network. There's a lot here that makes us feel right at home -- the Vivid is a combination of the best HTC h...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 21, 2011
The ASUS Transformer Prime is the first of the next generation Android tablets, packing the brand new quad-core Tegra 3 chip and offering a boatload of performance while managing the battery life.&n...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 20, 2011
The idea of tougher, water-resistant electronics is nothing new, but this year we’ve seen rugged smartphones becoming increasingly more mainstream. Motorola has had a go at this type of produc...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 14, 2011
In the vast sea of Android tablets, it can take a bit to stand out. Toshiba managed to do so with the original Thrive tablet thanks to a bevy of full-size ports that no other tablet saw fit to inclu...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 01, 2011
Take one of the more popular -- if not wonderfully eccentric -- Android tablets of 2011, slim it down, clad it in brushed metal, pump it full of new specs and march it off into 2012 with the likelih...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Nov 30, 2011
There’s no doubt that HTC is getting behind Beats Audio in a big way. This summer the manufacturer ponied up $300 million for a 51 percent stake in Beats, and since then it’s been quick ...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 28, 2011
It was a long wait between the release of the international version of the Samsung Galaxy S II and a version for AT&T, but the U.S. carrier has now ended up with two of them. One version i...
Review
by Joshua Munoz
Nov 26, 2011
Oh, hello, Moto.
When Motorola announced the MOTOACTV, I really didn't know that to think. An Android-based fitness tracker? Aren't there much cheaper apps for that sort of thing? Then t...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Nov 21, 2011
Our GSM Galaxy Nexus review finds a great platform for the next version of Android -- Ice Cream Sandwich
The past year, like the year before it, has been huge for Android. We’ve seen headl...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Nov 18, 2011
After months of speculation and hype, we finally have the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first device to ship with the brand new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. The phone recently went on sale in the ...
Review
by Anndrew Vacca
Nov 15, 2011
It's going to be a very busy holiday season for Verizon Wireless. With last week's release of the Droid RAZR, Big Red has made it very clear that it wants to be, at least for a few months, a...
Review
by Joshua Munoz
Nov 15, 2011
Since the EVO 4G came out many moons ago, Sprint promised us we'd see more in their EVO brand, and it delivered. Soon after we saw the EVO Shift 4G, then the EVO 3D, and now the EVO Desi...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Nov 10, 2011
As 2011 draws to a close, we’ve started to see a convergence of Android phones and tablets. Honeycomb-powered tablets are available in more form factors than ever before, and smartphones are g...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Nov 07, 2011
Our comprehensive review of the Droid RAZR
What a way to enter the holiday season. Verizon Wireless has suddenly found itself with arguably three of the hottest Android smartphones of the year, ...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Oct 31, 2011
The past 11 months have seen Sony Ericsson recover from the disappointments and frustrations of its early Android efforts, releasing a solid line-up of well-designed Gingerbread-based phones in a ra...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Oct 26, 2011
A great phone, for sure -- but is it amazing?
A couple weeks into using the HTC Amaze 4G on T-Mobile, we've pretty much decided the most amazing thing about the device isn't the hardware...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Oct 21, 2011
ASUS hit a bit of a home run earlier this year with the Eee Pad Transformer, a relatively typical Android Honeycomb tablet with an excellent detachable keyboard dock. But what if you take the keyboa...
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by Joshua Munoz
Oct 21, 2011
Another strong phone in US Cellular's lineup
Whether it was bringing the HTC Merge, the Motorola Xoom, or the Optimus Black, US Cellular has always made sure to have some of the best and gre...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 19, 2011
T-Mobile has had a long relationship with Android and Google, but was the last carrier in the universe to bring out the Galaxy S II. Long rumored as the Hercules, many a smartphone fan w...
Review
by Anndrew Vacca
Oct 18, 2011
If you think there isn't much more to say about Samsung's Galaxy line of tablets, you're probably right. Since the Galaxy Tab 10.1 launched this past summer, it has been dissected and di...
Review
by Joshua Munoz
Oct 17, 2011
Entry-level, a hard keyboard, and an interesting form factor
I've got to hand it to any carrier (and manufacturer) for continuing to make and sell entry-level Android phones. Without them, a...
