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by Joe Levi | December 4, 2013 7:51 PM
Almost two months ago we gave the HTC One max its 15 minutes of fame in our review of this behemoth. Not long after, we were given the opportunity to go hands on with the Sprint version of the phone, and along with it the chance to take a second look at the One max, and see how it stacks up now that it's had a little time to mature. As you might expect, from the ...
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by Jaime Rivera | December 4, 2013 6:11 PM
I’m probably going to be overly dramatic with the following statement I’m going to make, but it’s true: I’m tired of hearing Tim Cook repeat how excited he is about 2014. We’ve heard so many CEOs repeat this over and over, and when the company's 2013 line-up wasn’t much to get excited about, it’s honestly a hard glass of water to want to swallow. I ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 4, 2013 5:36 PM
Google Search has really grown from a low-key way to conduct regular web searches through a convenient app interface into a core component of the Android experience, using voice search and Google Now to deliver some really impressive results. Google's always working to add little improvements to the types of listings you'll see, and today we learn of a couple new ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 4, 2013 4:47 PM
Now that flexible displays are a reality (and by at least one account, could end up dominating the market in a few years), all bets are off for which crazy display technologies we'll be seeing pop up in consumer electronics next. Beyond the whole flexible angle, we've known that Samsung has been thinking about the idea of phones with transparent screens for years – ...
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by Taylor Martin | December 4, 2013 3:56 PM
Motorola has recently attempted to break into the budget smartphone market with a device which is strikingly similar to one of our favorite smartphones of the year, the Moto X. This budget phone is known as the Moto G, and it's certainly making waves. To be fair, there are a lot of compromises with this phone, and it has a considerable amount of differences from the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 4, 2013 3:46 PM
Bluetooth has been such an integral part of our phones for so long, that we often end up taking it for granted. Like WiFi support, it's one of those protocols that we just assume every smartphone's going to have. As a consequence, it's only something we really start thinking about when a new version with support for new features gets some attention – like we're ...
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by Jaime Rivera | December 4, 2013 3:27 PM
Let's face it, smartphones aren't perfect. We've had numerous editorials talking about it, and we don't think twice about pointing these imperfections out in our reviews. Surely in life nothing is perfect, but there are surely those companies that try harder, and those that don't. There are companies that'll charge you the same amount of money for lesser quality ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 4, 2013 2:58 PM
We all know “you snooze, you lose,” but the way Motorola's second try at its disaster-prone Cyber Monday Moto X sale attempt just went, you could have missed the whole thing just by taking a little too long to make a cup of coffee. After going live at noon today, the sale was over in less than ten minutes. After Motorola's servers couldn't handle the demand on ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 4, 2013 1:01 PM
Very soon, Nokia's smartphone business will become a part of Microsoft. The deal's been in the works for months now, with plans to finalize things in the early days of 2014. Recently, the process has led to us discussing the regulatory approval Microsoft and Nokia would need in order to move forward. On the US side, we just shared news with you earlier this week about ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 4, 2013 12:17 PM
If you've been following the rumors about what Samsung working on for its 2014 smartphone lineup (and we sure hope you have), you're no doubt aware that the company sounds like it's going to be seriously busy. We've heard claims made that it's preparing to launch a whole bunch of models, with many of these announcements coming very early on in the year, clustered ...
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by Adam Doud | December 4, 2013 12:00 PM
Productivity tablet = oxymoron? I’m not so sure about that. There is a place for productivity tablets in this world. I opined several months ago about how I don’t want a tablet until it is a viable laptop replacement. And here I sit typing on a Surface RT. Full disclosure: the Surface RT is a Pocketnow-owned Surface. I did not buy it on my own. Having used it for ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 4, 2013 11:28 AM
There's a lot to dislike about Apple's unilateral move to introduce a new non-standard connector with last year's debut of the Lightning cable: it creates a new expense for users, generates unneeded waste, and uses technological measures to enforce Apple's licensing policies. But for all the crap we have to put up with, it does have one small benefit: its reversible ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 4, 2013 10:46 AM
When it comes to Samsung's Galaxy S 5, we've heard plenty about this 64-bit Exynos chip that might power the phone, plenty about rumors of a metal body, and plenty about what Samsung might be thinking for the phone's camera. But one thing that's been a lot less clear is what we could expect from the phone's screen. Manufacturers love to deliver resolution bumps with ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | December 4, 2013 9:12 AM
This is going to be a quick one, with an FYI attached. The Verizon Nokia Lumia 929 codename is "Icon", according to @evleaks. Those interested in getting this phone on Verizon should expect "almost-Lumia-1520-like" specs, minus the huge screen. This means that, according to rumors, the Icon will pack a Snapdragon 800, have a five-inch 1080p OLED display, offer 2GB of ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | December 4, 2013 5:52 AM
The LG G Flex is a unique phone for the moment, but the company predicts that flexible phones will acquire 40% of the market by 2018. We’ve already seen its main features — self-healing, and flexibility — in action in our real-life torture test, and now we’re unboxing this curved device. While you enjoy the video below, and our adjacent coverage, waiting for ...