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Alcatel Pixi 4 Plus Power keeps you rolling way too long in developing markets

Posted on September 26, 2016September 26, 2016 by Jules Wang

Let’s be frank: there are quite a few options for phones with a 5 amp-hour battery. It’s a sweet spot as a number and it’s also where you could pull through a good chunk of a second or maybe even a third day. The price and specification compromise also seems fitting at this precipice.So, what does the Alcatel Pixi 4 Plus Power bring to 3G markets? Maybe a cool-looking dot-matrix design on the back ...

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

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Michael Fisher

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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Remember when smartphones came with a ton of accessories?

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Michael Fisher

Nobody likes a cheapskate. It’s why we have fun derogatory labels like “tightwad” and “skinflint” for those friends of ours who insist on dividing the bar bill by how many mozzarella sticks they actually consumed, rather than by the cost of the plate. Whatever other merits they might have, penny-pinchers just aren’t fun to have around. That’s no less true in the case of huge multinational corporations than with people. But where a cheap social friend is pretty easy to jettison when he gets annoying, it’s a little harder to make up for the ...

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How to Become a Real Road Warrior

Posted on May 3, 2013 by admin

As mobile experts, we do everything we can to look at every new device subjectively. You may hear us cracking jokes on a live show or voicing our personal opinions in editorials. But when it becomes time to get serious, when it’s review time, we look at a phone (or tablet) from not only our own perspective, but as many others as possible – the perspective of the target demographic, the perspective of the general consumer, the standpoint of a power user, a modder or even a first-time buyer. We all look at a new phone differently. When we pull it out of the box and tear the plastic ...

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