Will Android Wear on iOS kill the Apple Watch?

Posted on by Joe Levi

The day that they said would never come is finally here – well, sort of: Android Wear now works on iPhones! I know, I never thought I’d see the day, but here we are. Naysayers and critics will be quick to point out that only one wearable is officially supported, the LG Watch Urbane (for now). Not long after the announcement, however, we learned that the Moto 360 works just fine connected to an iPhone – but only if it runs Android Wear 1.3 (which doesn’t come on the watch out of the box). That fun little ...

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Reversible cameras: genius or gimmick? (TL/DR)

Posted on by Joe Levi

Most phones these days have at least one camera – or more. The one that faces you is referred to as the “selfie-camera”, and the other is usually called the “main camera”. The one on the back is usually pretty high-end: several megapixels, image stabilization, LED flash, and oodles of more features. The one of the front usually is lower-end: fewer megapixels, no image stabilization, and an LED flash is all but non-existent.Part of the reason for all this is space – camera modules are fairly bulky and take up quite a bit of space inside a phone. The other ...

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What’s your ideal fingerprint scanner placement? (Poll)

Posted on by Hayato Huseman

Fingerprint scanners have become synonymous with mobile security. Ever since the iPhone 5s introduced Touch ID, the use of PIN codes has skyrocketed in users. Of course, fingerprint scanners weren’t the first method of protecting personal information — far from it. PIN codes, alphanumeric passwords, and even facial recognition had been on smartphones for years before the biometric boom. The one thing Touch ID has that the rest lack, however, is profound convenience. Typing in a four to six digit PIN every single time you want to access your phone, while protective, gets old fast, ...

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This is the best Android tablet money can buy right now

Posted on by Joe Levi

With all the news about Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google’s flagship tablet (the Nexus 9), and Apple’s updated iPads, it might be easy for some to forget that those aren’t the only tablets available these days. Google’s recent “Be together. Not the same.” ad campaign illustrates what I’m talking about. If you’re in the States and want a Nexus 9 you can head over to the Play Store and pre-order one that will ship by November 3rd. If you’re not in the States, if the Nexus 9 is too big, or if you’re looking for something a little ...

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Quick charge or capacity: which is more important to you? (poll)

Posted on by Joe Levi

Cellular phones used to allow us to make and receive telephone calls on the go, and not much more. Somewhere along the line, text messaging was added, letting us ditch our pagers. Over time, simple apps were added, and we were able to pass away the time with games like Snake. Back then battery life wasn’t all that important, not when compared to today since back then our phones could last a week between charges. Now, however, we’re lucky to make it through a day or two. Manufactures are faced with a dilemma: customers want phones that are thin and light, but batteries are ...

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Apple should have waited to release the iPhone 6 Plus

Posted on by Taylor Martin

Two weeks ago Friday, I was sitting up in bed at 2:50 AM waiting on the flood gates to open. The iPhone 6 pre-orders were about to begin and I needed to make sure I ordered an iPhone 6 Plus before the dreaded backorder prompt appeared.Turns out, I was pretty lucky. After refreshing the Apple Store webpage at least four hundred times, I grabbed my iPad mini and opened up the Apple Store app. I added a 64GB Space Gray iPhone 6 Plus to my cart and finally checked out around 3:40 AM. According to Twitter at the time, ...

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iPhone 6 Plus suffering bend damage: you’re carrying it wrong? (Poll)

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Do you take your phone out of your pants pocket when you sit down? For those of you already used to dealing with large-screened handsets, ranging from five inches up into phablet territory, you probably have some strong feelings on the subject, maybe after one or two close calls yourself. But now this month we’ve got an influx of Apple users, many moving up to 4.7 and 5.5-inch phones for the first time ever. Will they appreciate the need for caution when dealing with a large, thin slate, or has the tiny, durable iPhone of years past lulled them into a false sense of security? To hear ...

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iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus: which is your pick? (Poll)

Posted on by Taylor Martin

If you believed all the iPhone rumors and leaks from the last several months, you weren’t surprised when Apple announced not one, but two new handsets last week. You also weren’t surprised when both of those handsets were significantly larger than the 3.5- and 4-inch iPhones of yore.The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus come with 4.7- and 5.5-inch displays, respectively. For the iPhone crowd, phones ...

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Are you buying the iPhone 6? (Poll)

Posted on by Rithvik Rao

Now that it’s official, we’re already convinced that Apple will be seeing a massive number of sales when the iPhone 6 becomes available for purchase on September 19; that’s become a fact of all Apple launches as of late, and it’s something we’ve come to expect. But this time, since there are two high-end offerings – a 4.7-incher and a 5.5-incher – and loads of competition from

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Poll: What do you use your phone for most?

Posted on by Adam Doud

Tweet, text, game, chat, snap, pop, slide, swipe, tilt, tip, stream, play, put down, charge, repeat.Sound like your typical smartphone usage? That’s what we all do with these pocket size computers. Did anyone nod while reading that? Did you notice, before you nodded, that I never wrote, “talk”.We live in a fascinating time. I have written that before and I will probably never stop writing that. Because, let’s face it. We have computers in our freakin’ pockets! We have devices that pack 100 times the power as the computer that flew Tom Hanks to the moon and back in a broken ship, ...

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Wearables and permanence: will you body-mod for tech? (poll)

Posted on by Joe Levi

I’ve always been the most technologically advanced guy in my family, and even in my group of friends. I’ve generally got the latest generation smartphone and tablet. I wear a Bluetooth headset for listening to music and making phone calls. I own several smartwatches (even before the LG G Watch and Pebble came on scene). My house, car, and office are peppered with NFC tags.Now we’re starting to see what I consider to be a disturbing trend: ...

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What would make you buy a Moto X+1? (Poll)

Posted on by Taylor Martin

The Moto X, as modest and bland as it appeared on paper, was, by and large, one of the most impressive smartphones of 2013. Unlike most new phones, I could recommend it to buyers without a sliver of doubt. While its camera wasn’t all that great and the specs were far from the best, it was an incredibly solid, well-rounded smartphone with lots of lightweight value adds in the software.This came as a surprise to most when the

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LG G Watch R or Moto 360? (Poll)

Posted on by Rithvik Rao

The news is in: LG is making a round smartwatch, the G Watch R. Motorola also has round Android Wear aspirations in the form of the Moto 360 – so which will be the Android Wear watch to buy? It’s tough to tell until we get review units in-house, but we all have very basic first impressions of both, so we decided to put the question to you: LG G Watch R or Moto 360?We don’t ...

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What makes a smartwatch a smartwatch? (Poll)

Posted on by Joe Levi

We’ve got Android Wear. We’ve got Samsung’s proprietary Gear line-up. We’ve got Pebble. Even Sony has some skin in the game. You probably won’t find anyone who would argue with you that those are all “smartwatches”. But they’re all so different from one another! That got us scratching our heads: what is a smartwatch?According to Wikipedia: ...

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Do you care about smartphone display color accuracy? (Poll)

Posted on by Taylor Martin

Three years ago, you were lucky if your smartphone display had a few hundred thousand pixels.WVGA (480 by 800 pixels) was sort of a standard resolution back then, and mobile display technology still had a long way to go before pixel junkies would drool over a smartphone screen. Black levels were usually a milky, dark gray, unless you opted for a Samsung smartphone with a Super AMOLED panel. But then you had to consider the disadvantages of the PenTile Matrix subpixel arrangement.Back on 2011, I didn’t stress about such things often. I didn’t worry about color accuracy, black ...

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