Taylor Martin

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Taylor Martin

Taylor Martin is the Managing Editor for PhoneDog and has over six years of experience with BlackBerry and two or more years of hands-on experience with mobile platforms like Android, webOS, and iOS. When he isn't writing into the wee hours of the morning, Taylor is hacking, tweaking, and modding one of his phones or tablets to do his laundry and cook his breakfast. Away from cell phones and other gadgets, Taylor spends his time with friends and family and enjoys playing video games, eating sushi, tweeting, and watching anything of worth on Netflix – especially documentaries. If you have any Netflix recommendations or tech-related questions, follow him on Twitter. Just remember to keep it under 140 characters, folks.

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Microsoft, notifications should have been a primary focus for Windows Phone 8

When Nokia announced the 808 PureView at Mobile World Congress earlier this year, the Finnish firm spoke straight to my heart. While the 808 itself was about 90 percent camera and 10 percent phone,...

Does your smartphone usage vary by day?

"How do you use your smartphone?" That's a question I have asked, answered and been asked countless times now. In fact, just last month, I explained some of the many ways I use my phone to kill time...

How Samsung is outclassing the competition with the Galaxy Note II

Many of you know I was (im)patiently waiting for the successor to the original Samsung Galaxy Note. After some internal debate and seeing hundreds of Samsung PR agents toting the phablet around at...

What is LTE worth to you?

LTE is a relatively new feature in our smartphones and, likewise, a fairly new service offered by wireless providers around the world. It's an emerging wireless technology around the world and it's...

Will the increasing price of smartphones impact your holiday shopping?

For the past five years or so, smartphones have been an increasingly common holiday present. In fact, I remember being green with envy when my sister was given a cell phone for Christmas when she...

Which holiday smartphone are you most excited for? (Poll)

There's no question, this holiday season is shaping up to be one of the more intense and device-packed seasons in recent history. In the last two months alone, over one dozen mobile devices have...

The keyboards of Android are leaving Windows Phone and iOS in the dust

To this day, one of my favorite features of the Android platform is the ability to replace the native keyboard with a third-party QWERTY of my choosing. Until recently the stock Android keyboard was...

I'm strongly considering an HSPA+ Nexus 7

I've been off and on with the Nexus 7. I've been wishy washy about it since day one for more reasons than one. While I've welcomed one back into my arsenal, 7-inch tablets are still unwieldy at...

Samsung Galaxy Note II Written Review by Taylor

We come across devices of all sizes here at PhoneDog, and the Samsung Galaxy Note II is easily the largest smartphone to come around to date. It is also one of the most well-rounded and refined...

How inspired is your home screen setup?

More so than just a form of mobile communication, utility and entertainment, phones have become, more or less, an extension of our bodies. The blinking and buzzing phone on the night stand is the...

Do you ever exceed your data cap?

Cellular data is worth its weight in gold these days. With the exception of Sprint and T-Mobile here in the States, carriers are clamping down on usage, charging arguably outrageous prices for...

Samsung Galaxy Note II for Verizon Hands-On

Taylor gets some hands-on time with the Samsung Galaxy Note II for Verizon at the launch event in New York. Following-up the original phone-tablet hybrid, the Galaxy Note, Samsung refined nearly...

I'll keep my Nexus 7 over the iPad mini

Yesterday afternoon, Apple laid one of the hottest rumors of late to rest once and for all. CEO Tim Cook, along with several colleagues, took the stage in San Jose and made the new 13.3-inch Retina...

Verizon Motorola DROID RAZR M Written Review by Taylor

The Motorola DROID RAZR M for Verizon Wireless is a perfect segue into the next generation of smartphones, ones that trade unnecessary bezel for more display space, and it's actually one of the...

Do you have trouble deciding on a single device?

The holiday shopping season will soon begin to pick up, which means new products are beginning to flow in rather steadily. In September alone the Motorola DROID RAZR M, DROID RAZR HD, DROID RAZR...

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