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The Top 5 changes I hope to see in the next iPhone

Ios Apple Is believed to be releasing their next version of the iPhone sometime in the next five months. (Some rumors are pointing to a June-July release, but a fall release is more believable considering the iPhone 4S was released just last...

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Developers, ads do not belong outside your app

Android I love helping developers. They’re the ones that make our smartphones useful and entertaining. They're the ones who make applications like Pocket, Spotify, Plume, Camera+ and the other various apps that I love possible. Developers deserve...

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How far do you go to extend your phone's battery life?

Android Battery life has been an issue with nearly every phone I have owned since jumping the BlackBerry ship. Larger touchscreen displays, faster, more power-consuming processors and GPUs and faster wireless connectivity have turned smartphones...

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HTC, please make your integrated batteries larger

Android I have been using the HTC One X since just before noon on Sunday. For the time being (and for the foreseeable future), it has replaced the gigantic Galaxy Note as my primary device and is easily one of the best and most well-rounded mobile...

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What is your 'read later' app of choice?

Android Every day, I constantly stumble across awesome headlines, videos, pictures and other various Web content. But it isn't alway possible or convenient for me to drop everything I'm doing to read an 11,000 scoop on scams or watch a 30-minute...

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A few must-have Instagram applications

Android No matter how you look at it, and whether or not you love or hate retro flitered pictures, Instagram is one of the most popular ways to share those pic-worthy moments via mobile. Just snap a picture, choose from one of the 18 equally...

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Should you spend your money on an Android tablet or an iPad?

Android Love or hate them, tablets are here to stay. In just two (very) short years, they have come to be a popular household item, one that both children and parents are fighting over. They've stolen a chunk of market share and potential buyers...

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Don't expect a better mobile Facebook experience anytime soon

Android Any given day, I can peruse my Facebook News Feed and find more than a few friends complaining about their Facebook experience via mobile. "Facebook for iPhone sucks! You would think a company as large as Facebook could afford a decent iOS...

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Sense 4 is the first non-stock interface that I actually like

Android For as long as I can remember, I’ve been an Android purist. I've used all the different custom interfaces – Sense UI, MOTOBLUR, TouchWiz, Motorola Applications Platform, LG's 4.0 interface (read: TouchWiz rip-off), etc. Whether it’s the...

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Will you trade unlimited for shared family data?

4g ”Data demand will outpace capacity by 2014 if we don't make more spectrum available.” Those are the words that came out of Verizon Wireless President and CEO Dan Mead’s mouth during the CTIA roundtable. And it's The exact same picture that...

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I am officially done with HD Super AMOLED displays

Android My last two devices were Samsung devices. I used (and loved) the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and only retired it when I discovered I could get the AT&T Galaxy Note to work on T-Mobile’s 3G and HSPA+ networks with a little hackery. There were...

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Google needs to lead by example with its Android apps

Android The first thing you will notice about some of the newest Android devices is that they no longer sport the four capacitive buttons (Back, Home, Menu and Search) below the display like their legacy counterparts. Instead, they only have three...

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If you could, how would you change iOS in the next update?

Ios Apple announced the iPhone and its respective operating system in January of 2007. Since then, it has undergone four major updates and countless smaller ones. While the latest iteration, iOS 5, boasted hundreds of new features, the overall...

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Why are there so few high-end smartphones under 4-inches?

Android Bigger is better. Or so the cell phone makers want us to believe. Three years ago, smartphones larger than 4-inches were a rarity. By comparison, they were quite large in respect to the average-sized phones, which were anywhere between...

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The HTC One X camera and ImageSense are actually very impressive

Android I'm a sucker for a smartphone with a nice camera. It isn't an absolute necessity – I did own the Galaxy Nexus for four months, after all – because I generally carry an iPhone as a secondary, and it gets the job done quite well. But having...

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Will CTIA Wireless 2012 be an uneventful show?

Android Upon entering 2012, many people had this year pegged as an exciting year chock-full of various improvements to smartphones and countless, high-profile devices. We're almost a week into the fifth month of 2012 and we've been introduced to a...

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Taylor's Top 5 upcoming devices (May 2012)

Android As per usual, we're quickly approaching the release of several high-end and highly-anticipated mobile devices. With two of the year's biggest trade shows behind us, one in the week ahead and several, smaller announcement events (like the...

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If Apple wants to improve the iPad keyboard, they need to hire Daniel Hooper

Android I've said it a million times: software keyboards are alienating and clunky. They're not exactly comfortable to use and making mistakes is much easier to do on a virtual keyboard than it is on a physical one. What's worse is correcting said...

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Is stock Android 'just not good enough'?

Android Love or hate them, custom Android interfaces are here to stay for the foreseeable future. They serve a general purpose and, according to their creators, usually make the Android experience more rich and presentable – even more fluid in...

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More manufacturers should use Scalado's camera technology

Android The future of BlackBerry in the mobile space has come into question a lot lately. Research In Motion (RIM) has certainly seen better days, and the adequacy of their newly appointed CEO, Thorsten Heins (who replaced former co-CEOs Mike...

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Is the Samsung Galaxy S III everything you were hoping it would be?

Android Rumors surrounding Samsung's next Galaxy have stretched far and wide over the last several months. In the wake of the wildly successful and popular Galaxy S II and the second coming to HTC, people have been looking to Samsung, questioning...

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Should developers be able to pull paid applications without warning?

Android Of all the people I know (except for maybe David Beren, AKA Mr. TmoNews), I am the least hesitant when it comes to buying applications. I see one I like or need, and a few clicks and a couple dollars later, for better or for worse, it's...

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I don't care about cores or clock speeds, I just want performance

Android When it comes to picking a new smartphone out of the crowd, it now only comes down to a few differentiating features. While each manufacturer has their own tendencies when it comes to make and materials, most devices look very much like...

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When it comes to tablet applications, is function more important than form?

Android Today's mobile application offerings are a far cry from just three years ago. In late April 2009, there were roughly 35,000 applications available for download in Apple's App Store. In March 2009, Google's Play Store, which was known as...

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I hope the next iPhone looks something like this

Ios Back in October, many (myself included) expected Apple to announce an iPhone with a new design and a larger display. Despite nearly 18 months of rumors pointing to a radically different iPhone, Apple didn't announce anything magical,...

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How do you use your cloud storage space?

Android In the post-PC world that the late Steve Jobs imagined, the cloud is the common factor that links our arsenal of electronic devices together. A file system that is remotely available to a family of different devices makes it much easier...

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Can we put an end to this tablet-phone hybrid ROM trend already?

Android When the Android team built Android version 3.0, more popularly known as Honeycomb, it was built atop the phone-specific version of Android, Gingerbread. Instead of using the typical phone interface and stretching it to fit widescreen...

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Do you like the idea of paying with your phone?

Android We are currently on the brink of what many believe will be a revolution in the way that consumers pay for things. Some believe we may soon adopt a new currency model, one that plays a little more nicely with the digital future than paper...

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How much do you spend on data per month?

4g From the time that smartphones and tablets started to become more and more popular, data prices have been on the rise ... sort of. Providers have begun building out expensive wireless networks that are better optimized for data services...

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As purported Galaxy S III specs reenter the atmosphere, are you still interested?

Android Over the last few weeks, Galaxy S III rumors have started flowing in faster than we can process them. Everyone is so excited or anxious to see what exactly Samsung has up its sleeve that people are willing to believe anything, that Samsung...

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