Galaxy Note 3, LG G2 – Pocketnow U-Review 004

Posted on by Michael Fisher

For a while now, the mobile-tech review landscape has looked much the same. Reviewers like us craft lengthy written pieces packed with charts, photos, and videos, and readers like you … read them. Sure, you have the opportunity to respond in the comments, and most good editors will answer questions there, but there’s precious little real-time interaction between reader and reviewer. There’s not much chance to ask questions, seek clarifications, or take a quick look at that one little ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 064: Samsung benchmark cheating, iPhone 5S & Galaxy Note 3 review

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Fingerprint scanners are all well and good, but what happens when someone decides to lift that print for his own nefarious purposes? Benchmark results are important to some folks out there, but what good are they when major manufacturers repeatedly cheat the system? And the rumored HTC One Max looks to be a beast of a device … but what exactly it being built to compete with? Those are the highlights from the news of the week and letters from the listener mailbag for the week ending October 4, 2013. All ...

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We just changed our review score for the LG G2. Here’s why.

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Know what I love doing at Pocketnow, more than almost anything else? Reviewing mobile devices. You could feed me a steady stream of smartphones and tablets, one every ten days, month after month, and I’d still love it. Yes, it’s exhausting, and sometimes balancing timeliness with thoroughness is an ulcer-inducing tightrope walk, but it’s still my absolute favorite part of being a technology writer. Know what my least-favorite part is? Assigning review scores. We’ve graced this editorial with the

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Pocketnow Weekly 062: iPhone launch day, Xperia Z1, Lumia 1520 & more

Posted on by Michael Fisher

It’s iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s launch day, and we can’t think of a better way to commemorate the event than with a Pocketnow Weekly podcast. Actually, yes we can: it would be great to take a look back at Apple’s pre-iPhone days with the spectacular failure that was the Motorola “iTunes phone” of 2005 – fortunately, we already took care of that yesterday. So we’ll discuss the MOTOROKR E1 a little bit on today’s Weekly, before delving in to the ...

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Nexus 5 price, launch plans mentioned by another rumor

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

After the recent Nexus 5 “bar story”, where we might, or might not have seen the upcoming Google phone, there are additional reports that basically reiterate what we were already suspecting concerning the next Nexus. Coming from the supply chain, sources and their chatter mention LG as a possible partner for Google in terms of the Nexus 5. Same sources claim specs close to those found on the

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LG G2 review: a phablet trapped in a smartphone’s body

Posted on by Michael Fisher

About this time last year, I wrote the following in Pocketnow’s full review of LG’s 2012 Android flagship: LG has … an excellent smartphone in the Optimus G. Within its well-crafted, jewel-like casing, industry-leading hardware and one of the most responsive implementations of Android we’ve ever seen combine to deliver a smartphone experience that’s not just adequate, but outstanding. [...] For those in search of an excellent, modern Android smartphone with the proper balance of ...

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LG G2 vs Nokia Lumia 1020 (Video)

Posted on by Michael Fisher

If you’re on the hunt for a top-of-the-line Android smartphone in the latter half of 2013, you’ve got a solid set of options. For fans of lightweight, fully-featured pocket computers, the Galaxy S 4 from Samsung is probably a solid bet. For those who prize build quality and aesthetics more highly than expandability, the HTC One is a better fit. And for those who value a feature-loaded experience on one-of-a-kind ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 061: iPhone 5S & 5C, and the new Android and WP8 phablets

Posted on by Michael Fisher

There’s one fewer Romanian on this week’s podcast, and we’re no longer hovering over a precarious microphone stand made of empty shoeboxes and trash cans in a European hotel room – but that doesn’t mean this latest episode of the Pocketnow Weekly is lacking in charm. On the contrary, we’ve called in a silver-tongued devil from Honduras and a smooth-talking geocacher from middle America to provide two very different perspectives on some very high-visibility smartphones. That’s right: it’s Apple week. That special time of year where iOS makes ...

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Verizon LG G2 offered at early low price, has unusual root status indicator

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

The LG G2 has arrived, and we’ve been spending the past several days bringing you some unboxings and hands-on comparisons featuring the new phone. This afternoon, we have a couple interesting bits of news to bring you about the Verizon edition of this phone in specific. First up, we’ve heard about a really great price for the Verizon G2, if you’ve been thinking about picking one up. ...

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With so many great choices, how do you pick the right phone?

Posted on by Taylor Martin

There was once a time where I knew exactly what my next smartphone would be at any given time. Back in the day, I was a huge fan of BlackBerry, and although there were much better options around the time the BlackBerry Tour 9630 hit Verizon shelves in July 2009, I didn’t want anything drastically different from before. My last smartphone purchase at the time was the BlackBerry Curve 8330, which I had nearly carried for two years. Not long after I purchased the Tour, however, the smartphone market expanded, accelerated, and matured. It was as if it all happened overnight. New Android ...

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LG G2 vs HTC One (Video)

Posted on by Michael Fisher

We’ve taken the wraps off LG’s newest Android flagship, the brand-new G2, and we’re already well on the way to getting a full review to your eager eyeballs. But before that drops, we thought you’d like to take a gander at how the G2 compares to an Android flagship from another manufacturer. You know, just for kicks. This time around, the role of The Other will be played by the familiar faces at HTC, whose One smartphone

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LG G2 Verizon & AT&T edition: double unboxing (Video)

Posted on by Michael Fisher

We’ve already shown you what taking the LG G2 out of its packaging looks like, and we’ve long since pressed that review unit into service generating the features, comparisons, and full review you’ve anxiously awaited since we first laid hands on the G2 last month. But it’s one thing to unbox a device that’s come straight from the manufacturer, and quite another to do the same with its carrier-branded ...

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LG G2 unboxing (Video)

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Yes, we know – we’re late on this one. And while we’d love to delve into the details on why it took us nigh-on a week to catch up to the rest of the unboxing squad on this one, suffice it to say that we had a few other things going on last week. Hopefully, you can forgive us. The good news: we’re excited as ever to give this Snapdragon 800-powered, 13MP OIS-rocking, 5.2-inch-screen-packing flagship its proper run on the review racetrack. That’ll be happening this week and next (along with the ...

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If this is the Nexus 5, it’s beautiful, and everything I’d hoped it to be… well, almost

Posted on by Joe Levi

The days of Summer are waning, and here in the United States the trees are beginning to turn lovely shades of red and yellow. You know what that means? Time for a new Nexus phone! Luckily the rumor mill has been running in high-gear for quite some time now and many think they’ve got the specs of the “new Nexus” pretty nailed down. That is, if the Nexus 5 rumors hold true. I had a whole article in mind following the FCC releases and subsequent renders of what many are calling the “Nexus 5″… then ...

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New theory rejects last week’s “Nexus 5″ FCC doc discovery

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Beyond the IFA, and all the new hardware that brought to light, last week also marked the arrival of some new information possibly pertaining to the release of the next Nexus smartphone, with the publication of some FCC certification paperwork that might just be for an LG-made Nexus 5. While that Nexus name itself didn’t pop up, there was a whole lot of circumstantial evidence, not the least of which were some case images that sure seemed to match the camera placement ...

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