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The Samsung Galaxy Note II is the best for another week

Official Smartphone Rankings For seven weeks and counting, the Samsung Galaxy Note II has been a fan favorite, topping both the People's Choice Chart and Mobile Tech Experts' Chart in PhoneDog Media's Official Smartphone Rankings™. Its lead over the...

Jan 14th by The PhoneDog 0

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Featured user review HTC DROID DNA 1-11-13

Featured User Reviews Back in the top 5 again this week, the HTC DROID DNA is our featured user review for Friday January 11, 2013. "i utterly am in love with my dna so smooth so fast and gorgeous display" By VERN GANZER on January 5, 2013 I...

Jan 11th by The PhoneDog 1

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PhoneDog's Expert Spotlight

Expert Spotlight Well CES 2013 in Las Vegas has come and gone. New devices were announced but unfortunately for us smartphone lovers, a lot of the big phones are not coming to the States anytime soon. So the movement on the Official Smartphone...

Jan 11th by The PhoneDog 0

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Pantech Discover to AT&T

New Phones One of the first smartphones announced and released in 2013, the Pantech Discover is now available at AT&T. Release Friday January 11, 2013 Carrier: AT&T Retail Price: $399.99 Phone Price: $49.99 after instant savings and...

Jan 11th by The PhoneDog 1

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Featured user review Google Nexus 4 1-10-13

Featured User Reviews It's Thursday January 10, 2013, CES is coming to an end in Las Vegas and for another week the Google Nexus 4 is #4. And since not many new "coming soon" devices were announced during the Consumer Electronics Show we anticipate the...

Jan 10th by The PhoneDog 0

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Featured user review Samsung Galaxy S III 1-9-13

Featured User Reviews With a few days of CES 2013 announcements made, we really have not heard about any new "WOW" smartphones heading to the U.S. yet. So for the time being we can expect the top smartphones on the Official Smartphone Rankings to remain...

Jan 9th by The PhoneDog 0

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Winner of a new LG Optimus G for Sprint

No-Homepage Congratulations to J. Brand of FL on winning the LG Optimus G for Sprint on Tuesday January 8, 2013. "Wow, I finally got a phone that actually works, thanks a lot PhoneDog!!!"

Jan 8th by The PhoneDog 0

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Huawei Ascend W1

Coming Soon Phones Becoming Huawei's first Windows Phone 8 smartphone, the W1 was announced during CES 2013 in Las Vegas. Announced Release date: " Rolling out to China and Russia this month, and Huawei says that launches in the U.S., Middle East and...

Jan 8th by The PhoneDog 1

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Featured user review Nokia Lumia 920 1-8-13

Featured User Reviews Keeping Windows Phone 8 at the top of the Official Smartphone Rankings has been the Nokia Lumia 920. Staying in the second position for many weeks now, the feature user review for this Tuesday January 8th is for the Lumia 920. ...

Jan 8th by The PhoneDog 1

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Samsung ATIV Odyssey

Coming Soon Phones Announced by Verizon Wireless and Samsung for CES 2013, the ATIV Odyssey with it's Jelly Bean goodness will be available "in the coming weeks". Announced Release date: "In the coming weeks" -- UPDATED 1/23/13 -- " available online...

Jan 7th by The PhoneDog 0

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Featured user review Samsung Galaxy Note II 1-7-13

Featured User Reviews As all of us cell phone enthusiast wait for device announcements from CES 2013 in Las Vegas, the Samsung Galaxy Note II continued it's dominance of the Official Smartphone Rankings for another week. Leading us to feature a user...

Jan 7th by The PhoneDog 10

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Alcatel One Touch Scribe HD

Coming Soon Phones Also coming to the U.S. and announced during CES 2013 was Alcatel's One Touch Scribe HD. Release date: Q3 of 2013 Carrier: N/A Price: N/A

Jan 7th by The PhoneDog 0

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Alcatel One Touch Idol

Coming Soon Phones During CES 2013 in Las Vegas Alcatel announces a couple U.S. bound smartphones including the One Touch Idol. Release date: Q3 of 2013 Carrier: N/A Price: N/A

Jan 7th by The PhoneDog 0

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Pantech Discover

Coming Soon Phones Announced during CES the Pantech Discover will land at AT&T in four days on January 11, 2013. Announced Release date: Friday January 11, 2013 Announced Carrier: AT&T Announced Price: $49.99

Jan 7th by The PhoneDog 0

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The Samsung Galaxy Note II continues to dominate the Official Smartphone Rankings

Official Smartphone Rankings Continuing its long run as the overall top smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Note II took first place in the People's Choice Chart and Mobile Tech Experts' Chart for PhoneDog Media's Official Smartphone Rankings™ for week 44. For the...

Jan 7th by The PhoneDog 9

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Featured user review Apple iPhone 5 1-4-13

Featured User Reviews Making a jump back up into the top 5 for the week, the Apple iPhone 5 closes out the first week of our featured user reviews for 2013. And as luck would have it, PhoneDog fan and lover of gadgets Dennis Orcutt Jr. left his first...

Jan 4th by The PhoneDog 9

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Official Smartphone Rankings Expert Spotlight

Expert Spotlight Welcome to 2013! As this new year kicks off the Official Smartphone Rankings roll on and so does the Expert Spotlight. This week we are happy to include our new Managing Editor, Taylor Martin, along with Stefan Etienne of LAPTOPMEMO and...

Jan 4th by The PhoneDog 4

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Featured user review Google Nexus 4 1-3-13

Featured User Reviews 2013 rolls on as we have hit day four meaning the #4 smartphone on the Official Smartphone Rankings will be featured today. That device is the Google Nexus 4. The Nexus 4 has been featured six times after entering the charts...

Jan 3rd by The PhoneDog 9

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BlackBerry Curve 9315

Coming Soon Phones Joining the T-Mobile line-up later this month, the BlackBerry Curve 9315 was one of the first coming soon device announcements of 2013. Announced Release date: Wednesday January 23, 2013 Announced Carrier: T-Mobile Announced Price:...

Jan 3rd by The PhoneDog 0

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The USF fee drops for the first quarter 2013

Long Distance The proposed contribution factor for the first quarter of 2013 has been set to 16.1 percent. This is down from last quarter which saw the percentage at 17.4%. Each quarter the FCC, Congress and the Universal Service...

Jan 2nd by The PhoneDog 0

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Featured user review Samsung Galaxy S III 1-2-13

Featured User Reviews The popularity of the Samsung Galaxy S III is proven week after week by maintaining it's top three spot on the Official Smartphone Rankings. After months at #1 it has settled into third position and is our feature user review on...

Jan 2nd by The PhoneDog 1

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The Samsung Galaxy Note II is #1 for December 2012

Monthly Osr Winners For the second consecutive month, the Samsung Galaxy Note II dominated in both the People's Choice Chart and Mobile Tech Expert's Chart in PhoneDog Media's Official Smartphone Rankings™. It went uncontested all month long, never straying...

Jan 2nd by The PhoneDog 1

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Featured user review Nokia Lumia 920 1-1-13

Featured User Reviews Happy New Year! It's 2013 and we kick off this first day of January with a featured user review for the Nokia Lumia 920. The Nokia Lumia 920 gave the Samsung Galaxy Note II it's closest race last week by finishing in second by...

Jan 1st by The PhoneDog 0

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Winner of a Samsung Galaxy S III 16GB for AT&T

No-Homepage Congratulations to E. Mateo of PA on winning a brand new AT&T Samsung Galaxy S III 16GB in blue on Monday December 31, 2012. "Thank you Phonedog!!! This is a nice surprise!!! Especially on New Year's eve!!!"

from 2012 by The PhoneDog 0

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Featured user review Samsung Galaxy Note II 12-31-12

Featured User Reviews On this last day of 2012 we feature a user review for the #1 device for the last two months of the Official Smartphone Rankings, the Samsung Galaxy Note II. And can't help but wonder what kind of exciting smartphones will we see...

from 2012 by The PhoneDog 7

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For five weeks now the Samsung Galaxy Note II tops both Official Smartphone Rankings charts

Official Smartphone Rankings For the fifth consecutive week, the Samsung Galaxy Note II topped both the People's Choice Chart and the Mobile Tech Expert's Chart in PhoneDog Media's Official Smartphone Rankings™. Although its lead was narrowed in the People's Choice...

from 2012 by The PhoneDog 3

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The weekly Expert Spotlight

Expert Spotlight The Expert Spotlight segment was introduced 32 weeks ago and has been highlighting the selections of our mobile tech experts Official Smartphone Rankings. Their weekly votes are crucial in representing the standard for ranking the...

from 2012 by The PhoneDog 0

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Featured user review HTC DROID DNA 12-28-12

Featured User Reviews The last Friday of 2012 has arrived in the form of December 28th which host the feature user review for the HTC DROID DNA. In it's five weeks on the charts, the DROID DNA has found a comfortable position in the number five spot....

from 2012 by The PhoneDog 9

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Featured user review Google Nexus 4 12-27-12

Featured User Reviews LG's Nexus 4 for Google has been a big hit on the Official Smartphone Rankings and consistently held down the #4 position. And just a few hours ago PhoneDog fan CBRIDER22 left a user review that we feature for you below. "Pure...

from 2012 by The PhoneDog 3

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Featured user review Samsung Galaxy S III 12-26-12

Featured User Reviews As we near closer to the end of 2013 we will feature the Samsung Galaxy S III one more time before 2013. Which is fitting considering this was hands down the most acknowledged smartphone during this year's Official Smartphone...

from 2012 by The PhoneDog 3