Nokia Lumia 635 on T-Mobile: back to basics for a weekend

Time was, the only road to a consistent smartphone experience was to drop a metric buttload of cash and hope the device lived up to its hype. If it didn’t, and you didn’t catch it before the return period expired, too bad: you were stuck with that $600 brick for the rest of your two-year contract unless you could find someone to take it off your hands.Over the past year, the reality of the absurdly expensive smartphone has begun to come apart. Sure, most true flagships are still awfully pricey when you look at their ...

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Oneplus One watch, a waterproof One M8, & signing away your rights to Facebook | Pocketnow Weekly 107 (Hangout)

Updated with high-quality audio and links to download and stream below! Enjoy!Round smartwatches, roundly terrifying TOS agreements, and roundtable smartphone discussion: ’round here, it doesn’t take much more than that to get a mobile podcast together, and –assuming the Hangouts gods will it– we’ll be proving it to you in less than four hours.On today’s episode, we’re returning to a new favorite in the segments list, plumbing the depths of the podcast inbox to let you know what phone you should buy. We’ll also tell you who won last week’s ...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport Unboxing (Video)

Remember that AT&T Galaxy S5 Active we inadvertently destroyed a few weeks back? We felt pretty badly about that (despite the fact that it wasn’t our fault) and we’ve been itching to give the whole notion of a ruggedized Galaxy S5 another go.As luck would have it, Sprint recently landed its very own beefed-up Galaxy S5 in the form of the Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport Unboxing (Video) appeared first on Pocketnow.

Amazon Fire Phone review: the right phone at the wrong price

The long-rumored, long-awaited “Amazon Phone” is finally here, and it’s a doozy in more ways than one. Over the past week of testing, we’ve shown you its most fun features and run through its camera capabilities, and we’ve taken your questions ...

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Here’s what the Amazon Fire Phone camera can do

The Fire Phone is many things to many people: a funky 3D screen; a portal to a Prime membership; a refreshing escape from the normalcy of the typical smartphone world; a gimmick to be disregarded until the next generation – the list goes on. But whatever your personal opinion, the fact remains that as Amazon’s first-ever smartphone, the newest Fire is indisputably significant. And part of its significance lies in its camera.The Amazon Fire Phone camera is a 13MP sensor backed up by the usual slew of glowing marketing material on the device’s

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Playing with Fire: 3 fun things to do on the Amazon Fire Phone (Video)

The Amazon Fire Phone is still a newcomer to our labs, but it’s already been reviewed in several publications the world over. The verdict thus far: this might not be the phone you bring home to momma – not yet, anyway.Though we offered some initial impressions on the Fire Phone in the latest episode of the Pocketnow Weekly podcast and in the Playing with Fire: 3 fun things to do on the Amazon Fire Phone (Video) appeared first on Pocketnow.

Amazon Fire Phone in pictures (Gallery)

You might buy a Fire Phone for its sweet Amazon Prime bundle, or for the Firefly feature that makes it even easier to add to your vast piles of material wealth. You might buy it to fiddle with its Dynamic Perspective display or to see just what its optically-stabilized camera can do. You might even buy it just to say that you own Amazon’s first smartphone. Or, you might decide not to buy it at all, preferring to play the everlasting waiting game we talk about on the Pocketnow Weekly podcast.Whichever way you go, ...

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Samsung Galaxy Alpha, NFC tattoos, & a drool-worthy Moto X+1 leak | Pocketnow Weekly 106 (Hangout)

Update: Due to today’s difficulties with Hangouts, the below Hangouts video is not the ideal recording of today’s Weekly episode. Instead, we highly recommend the Libsyn-hosted version, edited by our own Jules Wang and available for streaming and download at the links below. Thanks for listening!One of the nice things about hosting your own podcast is that you get to decide exactly what qualifies as “news.” Not in the mood to pretend the latest wave of iPhone 6 display-glass leaks fit the description? Well, tweak the filter a little, and suddenly you’ve got ...

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“Hotness” in the house: Amazon Fire Phone unboxing & first look (Video)

Those quotes up there in the title do more than apologize for our unoriginal, lame pun: they acknowledge a truth that’s gotta be tough for Amazon to swallow. The company’s first smartphone, which we laid hands on last week, has seen mixed reviews in its first wave of press.There are good reasons for that. With a dubious exclusivity ...

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HTC One E8 gallery: “Electric Crimson” in photos

Compared to its One M8 sibling, the HTC One E8 trades an UltraPixel camera for a more conventional 13MP shooter, single-subscriber support for a globetrotter-friendly dual-SIM configuration, and –most visibly– it ditches the aluminum chassis for a polycarbonate unibody that changes the whole look and feel of the device.The other changes are important and will be addressed in our One M8 vs One E8 comparison and our full HTC One E8 review, but admit it: you’re as vain as the rest of us, and you want to know just how good the E8 looks in the hand. HTC offered several flavors of ...

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I was wrong: the Martian Notifier smartwatch is pretty sweet (Video)

When we first laid eyes on the Martian line of smartwatches, I was unimpressed. Too low-tech.When we first laid hands on the Martian Notifier, I remained unmoved. Too low-key.When AT&T and Martian dropped a Notifier on our doorstep, I almost recycled it for our

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Here’s what the HTC One E8 camera can do

HTC built the One E8 as a companion device to its One M8 flagship, intending it as a more flamboyant, slightly cheaper version of the same. It’s a phone for markets where dual-SIM support matters, a phone for folks who prefer flashy polycarbonate over brushed aluminum … and most importantly for our purposes: it’s a smartphone that places resolution above creative design when it comes to its camera.With its high-end One M8, HTC opted for an unconventional optical arrangement: a 4MP “UltraPixel” camera working in tandem with a dedicated depth-finding sensor ...

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HTC One E8 hands on (Video)

“If you’re looking for the best flagship smartphone experience, but want to stand out from the crowd, this phone’s for you.”HTC CEO Peter Chou’s words, taken from the press release announcing the company’s One E8 early last month, elegantly sum up the eye-catching device. When our review unit arrived in the office yesterday morning for its unceremonious off-camera unboxing, we took a few beats longer than usual just to stare at the “Electric Crimson” paint job of its polycarbonate unibody construction. The phone bears a thick glossy ...

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