LG G Watch review: Android Wear’s undercooked Nexus (Video)

At its core, the mission of a smartwatch is to make life easier. To improve on the smartphone experience by giving you leave to keep it in a pocket or leave it on the table across the room, because your messages, calls, emails, and other notifications are coming straight to your wrist.The nondescript, water-resistant G Watch does a fairly good job of delivering those notifications, popping up inbound messages alongside weather reports, calendar items, pedometer readings and much more on the 1.65-inch IPS LCD. But it’s not until the Snapdragon processor spins to life that the G ...

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Carry your smartphone like a handgun with the LD West Original holster (Video)

As you might’ve guessed, we’re big on saving pocket space here at Pocketnow … and we sometimes miss the days when phone holsters were a “thing.” I talked about this in a short editorial almost exactly one year ago, where I made a case for the return of the phone pouch:The added utility of freeing up a pocket is almost magical – especially in the summertime when fabric is at a premium. Also, phones don’t clang around on a belt like they do in a ...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime review: sweeter specs, same shell (Video)

While we don’t consider the Galaxy S5 a particularly tough act to follow, we didn’t think Samsung would try to one-up itself so soon after its launch (historical precedent aside). Nevertheless here we are: not even three months after the original Galaxy S5 hit store shelves, a revised version with a more powerful processor, more memory, and a higher-resolution display is upon us. Its official name is the Galaxy S5 ...

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dbrand Nexus 5 skin review (Video)

The Nexus 5 we’re giving away isn’t just any old smartphone. First of all, it’s the larger 32GB model, so those of you with an aversion to cloud storage and an affinity for byte-hungry media can rest easy. More importantly, it comes bearing a cosmetic upgrade: a vinyl skin from the fine folks at dbrand that replicates a white carbon fiber/brushed titanium finish. And if that’s not your speed, ...

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ZTE Nubia 5 video review

2013 has been an interesting year, and that’s mainly because OEMs have begun to believe in the unlocked smartphone for the United States. Now don’t get me wrong, unlocked smartphones have always existed, but they were either too expensive, or too underpowered to make a positive dent in the US market. Once you compared them against their subsidized competitors, it was really pointless to buy one. It seems that the new trend is for these devices to become more than just an option in a store shelf, and one of the companies that has decided to compete in the US under this model is ...

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