Motorola Atrix HD Review
The term “midrange smartphone” is becoming a worthless misnomer. It used to be that if a phone lacked the premium features to match high-end phones, but was too powerful to fit the entry-level cla…
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HTC One V Review – a smartphone suitable only for smartphone newbies
The HTC One X and One S are both stellar phones that re-establish HTC’s place as a company capable of great design and focus. But the HTC One V, the smallest of HTC’s 2012 portfolio, is also a testament to that focus…
Nexus 7 Review: $199 and worth every penny
The tablet market has been a difficult realm for Google to conquer. While the iPad remains the immovable king, Amazon and Barnes & Noble usurped Google by delivering successful mini tablets that rely on An…
Nexus Q Review: another cool Google product that’s destined to fail
Google can do pretty much anything. It’s the company with the most popular mobile operating system, most used search engine, and can even host a video conference with a bunch of skydivers hurtling down i…
Samsung Galaxy S III Review: The next big thing or a big letdown?
Samsung did the impossible when it announced that the Galaxy S III would be coming to America as one device. There would be no more definitively different hardware changes that made each Galaxy phone so unique t…
Motorola Droid 4 Review
Android users and observers have both expressed some trepidation about the rapid pace of phone releases. It certainly doesn’t help that the same Android phone maker can release a device tomorrow and ad…
Toshiba Thrive 7 Review
Bigger is better. Well, unless we’re talking about the Toshiba Thrive. While we had a mostly favorable review of the “Honeycomb Hulk,” certain elements of the design were a bit awkward. Mo…
ASUS Transformer Prime Review: greatness disguise sold separately
Spoiler alert: the ASUS Transformer Prime is the best Android tablet that money can buy. It’s usually considered bad form to give away the conclusion of a review in the opening paragraph, but there’s no u…
Verizon Galaxy Nexus Review: the dream phone that can’t stay awake
The Nexus brand is a heavy burden to bear. Google introduced the Nexus One as the benchmark to which all Android phones should be measured, and for a considerable amount of time, that was the case. The Nexus S, wit…
Galaxy Nexus Camera Review and Samples Shots
The Galaxy Nexus camera is not impressive. Sorry to dig the knife is so quickly, but that’s just the reality of it. The 5 megapixel camera with LED flash will not wow anyone or part the heavens as so many peop…
Samsung Galaxy Nexus first impressions – 24 hours later [VIDEO]
No, I won’t go on about how the Verizon Galaxy Nexus 4G LTE took seemingly forever to arrive. I won’t talk about how poorly the launch was handled or how I should have been writing this post weeks ago.…
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus Review: Honeycomb’s cute little sister
Samsung ushered in the Android tablet era with the original Galaxy Tab, the first legitimate device to take Android to a bigger screen. But the original GTab, for all its portability and uniqueness, was a place…
T-Mobile Galaxy S II Review: A new classic that rocks
The Samsung Galaxy S II debuted at Mobile World Congress 2011, and I called it “sweet,” which proved to be an understatement. The hardware was wonderful, the software was a promising upgrade from the mistakes o…
Motorola Droid 3 Review: A successor to Android royalty, the Droid 3 takes time to love
The Motorola Droid 3 doesn’t make a good first impression, but the Verizon Android phone eventually grew on me. Though the Droid 3 has a dual-core processor, it doesn’t blaze; though it comes with…
Droid X2 Review: The Android Deja Vu Device
I can feel this for sure: I’ve been here before, as the lovely Teena Marie once sang. It was only a year ago that Motorola and Verizon turned heads with their Droid X, the first “spec beast” to c…
