The era of great smartphone battery life has come – and gone

Editor’s note: In the gulf between iPhone releases and in the run-up to the next Windows Phone resurrection, the ratio of Android to non-Android phones in our review inventory continues to rise. As a result, this piece is written from a predominantly Android-centric perspective.Everybody wants awesome smartphone battery life. Whether you’re addicted to the latest power-draining augmented reality game or just trying to get through a day of texting and talking, the panic moment is a familiar ...

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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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Last chance: Huawei Ascend Mate2 4G LTE giveaway

How much do we love you guys? For the fourth week in a row now, we’re running a smartphone-themed giveaway, letting you not just get expert opinions and up-to-date news from your visits here at Pocketnow, but also have the chance to score some pretty nice hardware.While our summer of giveaways didn’t officially get started until the beginning of July, back in late June this whole movement found its inspiration when we hooked a lucky Pocketnow reader up with

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Smartphone giveaway: win a Huawei Ascend Mate2 4G LTE from Huawei and Pocketnow

“Pocketnow, you used to be cool. Remember when you started this whole ‘summer of giveaways’ a few weeks back, and you had big prizes like that Sony Xperia Z2 with custom Pocketnow skin from dbrand?”Yeah, that was a pretty sweet phone. What about it?“Well those OnePlus One invites you’ve been ...

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Pocketnow Smartphone Giveaway 2014: phones, OnePlus invites, and more

The close of June marks an end to the latest season of smartphone shindigs: WWDC and Google I/O are behind us, and we’ve still got a couple months to go until IFA. What’s a smartphone fan to do in the interim? Pocketnow’s got plenty of news, reviews, and features coming out over the next few weeks to keep even the most fickle smartphone user interested, but ...

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Smartphone giveaway: win an Ascend Mate2 4G LTE from Pocketnow and Huawei! (Entries closed)

Update: Thanks to everyone who participated (and for all your helpful comments about what you want to see more -or less- of  from Pocketnow), but the contest is over. Dunzo. No more. While that means that most of you will have to wait for your next chance to win (a wait that might not be too, too long… stay tuned), one of you is walking away from this with a shiny new Ascend Mate2 4G LTE.<drum roll> The Ascend Mate2 4G LTE goes to Pocketnow reader Joshua Robert Cooper. </drum roll>Joshua, check your email for details on collecting your prize. As for the rest of you, ...

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Huawei brings 6.1-inch Ascend Mate2 4G LTE to America

This morning is proving to be quite the busy one for Chinese OEMs, and following ZTE’s launch of its new Grand S Pro just an hour earlier, we’ve got a fresh announcement from Huawei, as the manufacturer makes with the details for US availability of its Ascend Mate2 4G LTE, a phone we first got to visit back at the CES in January.Unlike the five-inch ZTE model, this time we’re squarely in phablet territory, with the Ascend Mate2′s ...

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Huawei Ascend Mate2 4G LTE review: the phone that wouldn’t die

“Who are we?”That’s the question Huawei executives opened with at the new Ascend Mate2′s press event, and it’s a good one indeed. Besides serving as a mnemonic to settle the long debate over how exactly the Chinese company’s name is pronounced in English (yes, the “H” is voiced), the question itself is interesting … because according to Huawei’s data, almost 80% of Americans would be unable to answer it. If you’re a US citizen and you’re familiar with the Huawei brand, that’s probably due to the unsteady ...

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