Review
by Andrew Martonik
Dec 10, 2012
HTC’s fourth-quarter refresh of the One X is good, but is it good enough to keep you from waiting for the next tier of hardware?
When first holding an HTC One X+ (or any One device, for...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 13, 2012
The consumer release version of Android 4.2 just hit our review devices, and I had to dive in and check out multiple user accounts on the Nexus 10. It's been in the works since Honeycomb, and qu...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Nov 08, 2012
Six months on from the One X, a turbo-charged successor arrives
After a tumultuous year, HTC needs to score some big wins this holiday season. Many critics, including ourselves, have been ful...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Nov 07, 2012
The HTC One X+ has just launched in Europe, and it comes pre-loaded with the latest version of HTC's Android UX, dubbed Sense 4+. It's a minor revision to Sense 4, with a handful of new feat...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Oct 30, 2012
Android 4.2 is official! So is the LG Nexus 4! But what about all those current Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7s out there? They're going to get an update to Android 4.2, right? Most certainly. And we&...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Oct 25, 2012
Despite its status as a global electronics giant, Sony remains on the periphery of the smartphone world, with a tiny share of the market outside its native Japan. In Europe, it’s struggled to ...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 22, 2012
The Optimus G brings LG's 'A' game to Sprint, but is great hardware enough to sign on for two years?
A high-end, premium LG smartphone on a U.S. carrier is like a hen's toot...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Oct 08, 2012
Sony Mobile returns in late 2012 with a new design, and faster hardware in its most recent flagship smartphone, the Xperia T. If the Xperia T looks familiar, it might be because it's channeling ...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Oct 06, 2012
We go hands-on with the Xperia T's 13-megapixel camera
Sony's smartphone cameras have always impressed us. Even the Xperia X10, a device with its fair share of issues, man...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Oct 06, 2012
The original Samsung Galaxy Note was never the likeliest candidate for a multi-million-selling Android device. Few expected it to succeed, and its inflated size and stylus input made it an easy targ...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Oct 03, 2012
We've been spending the past few days getting to know the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, and we'll be publishing our full review soon. In the meantime, we've got a selection of photos and video ...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Oct 02, 2012
In spite of all the hype surrounding a certain competitor, the HTC One X was a very strong entrant in the high-end smartphone space earlier in the year. Many of our editors own it. If you’re r...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Sep 24, 2012
Sony has released more smartphones than ever before 2012, hoping that strength in numbers will help it overcome Android competition from the likes of Samsung and HTC. One important, but often overlo...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Sep 23, 2012
The Intel-Motorola partnership has been a long time coming. The two officially hooked up at CES 2012, where they committed to a “multi-year, multi-device agreement” to bring Intel-powere...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Sep 19, 2012
We've spent the past day getting to know the RAZR i, Motorola's new Intel-powered smartphone. Externally, it may look like a re-badged Droid RAZR M, but the main differences lie on the ...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Sep 18, 2012
We've finished up another day in Seoul, South Korea -- this time with the LG Optimus G under our wing for the better part of the afternoon. You've read our initial thoughts. Now it's tim...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Sep 18, 2012
We're live in London where Motorola and Intel have just taken the wraps off the RAZR i, a new Intel-powered smartphone with a 2GHz Atom CPU and edge-to-edge SuperAMOLED display. It's a ...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 14, 2012
UPS just dropped off our Amazon Kindle Fire HD, and we wanted to share a look at the first new Kindle to be released. It's a 7-inch tablet that sort of runs Android -- Amazon has forked off the ...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 12, 2012
We love our Nexus 7 tablets here at AC. We know that the 7-inch size means they are perfect for throwing in a gear bag, where they get all sorts of abuse (see Phil's poor Thunderbolt), so they n...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Sep 11, 2012
In Central London earlier today, the newly-rebranded EE mobile network was launched, promising the UK's first 4G LTE services in the coming weeks. EE plans to bring a number of Android hand...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 06, 2012
If you're the proud owner of a Tegra device there's a great new game you have to try, Beach Buggy Blitz. The folks at Vector Unit (the same people who brought us Shine Runner and Riptide GP)...
Article
by Anndrew Vacca
Sep 05, 2012
We're here in New York where Google and Motorola just introduced the first fruits of its collaboration, the brand new RAZR line. The RAZR Maxx HD is the successor to the wildly popular...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Sep 01, 2012
Lenovo has unveiled three new Android tablets at IFA 2012, in Berlin, and we've had the chance to try them out for ourselves. All three tablets run Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, along with s...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Sep 01, 2012
We first saw the ZTE Grand X in July in London, where the Tegra 2-powered smartphone was billed as a mid-range gaming-focused handset. Fast forward a couple of months, and we've come across a ne...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Sep 01, 2012
When we first got wind of the Huawei Ascend D Quad XL, it was an afterthought at the company's Mobile World Congress press conference. Aside the D Quad, which shipped with a 1800 mAh battery, th...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Aug 31, 2012
Huawei recently announced its new interface layer for upcoming Android phones, dubbed the Huawei Emotion UI 1.0. Despite being announced a couple of months back, so far it's only been available ...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Aug 31, 2012
Here we have the LG Optimus L9, the fourth and newest phone in the series LG unveiled at Mobile World Congress in February. The specs, as you'll recall:
4.7-inch IPS display
Androi...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Aug 31, 2012
The HTC Desire brand has a history stretching back to the dark depths of early 2010. The original Desire was the flagship of its time, but since then the name has been re-purposed for HTC's...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Aug 31, 2012
What's this we have here? An international Samsung Galaxy S3 with 4G LTE support? In glossy black? With Android 4.1 Jelly Bean? We spotted this desirable device at the Vodafone Germany boot...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Aug 31, 2012
You could argue that the real star of the show at Samsung's recent Unpacked event in Berlin was the Galaxy Camera -- an Android 4.1-powered point-and-shoot with one of the largest screens around...
