Smartphones Archives

Verizon Open Enrollment is Here if You Need Phone Insurance

Kellen May 21, 2020

At least once per year, Verizon runs an open enrollment period where you can add insurance to your devices well after you purchased them. Because not everyone wants to commit to insuring a device and the added monthly cost out of the gate, these enrollment...

Poll: How Long Have You Owned Your Current Phone?

Kellen April 30, 2020

I often wonder if the era of frequent smartphone upgrades is behind us. It seemed like not long ago we had a handful of work-arounds to swap out barely-year-old-phones for whatever was new. Now, though, the lengthy monthly payment plans have locked folks in...

Poll: Do You Wish Phones Would Get Smaller in Size?

Kellen April 24, 2020

I've been thinking a lot about phone size again for some reason. I don't know if it's because I can't decide which phone to use at the moment, with the massive OnePlus 8 Pro, close-to-as-big Pixel 4 XL, and perfectly-sized Galaxy S20 all sitting here, or what....

What Makes Your Phone Great?

Kellen December 6, 2019

What do you love about your phone? We all own the phones that we own for certain reasons. We bought them for the camera. We bought them for the battery life or the high refresh rate display. We wanted frequent software updates or support for years. We wanted...

What a Great Time to be a Smartphone Buyer

Kellen May 22, 2019

No matter what kind of budget you have, we are living through a wonderful time to be a smartphone buyer. And that's mostly because no matter the price point, you have an option that will make for an excellent smartphone. You'll have a phone that can take great...

How Did You Decide on Your Current Phone?

Kellen February 6, 2019

It has been a couple of years since we last asked about your phone buying decisions. We've often asked if there are features you can't live without or which of the current crop of upcoming phones you've got your eye on, that sort of thing. But I'm more curious...

New ams Optical Sensor Fits Behind OLED Displays, is Here to Shrink Bezels

Kellen January 7, 2019

As companies continue the fight for an all-display front by moving cameras and sensors, a company called ams thinks they have a new solution to help. Today, ams introduced an optical sensor that can fit behind an OLED display to detect ambient light and...

2018 is Going to be a Smartphone Year to Forget

Kellen August 28, 2018

At the end of 2016, I wrote a forward-looking piece about how 2017 was going to be an awesome year for smartphones and Android. It was the year that Samsung was due for a big leap in smartphone design, that Google would use to make-up for the iPhone clone...