Smartphones Archives

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...

Question of the Day: Worst Android Phone You Ever Bought?

Kellen March 21, 2018 495

The folks at reddit sparked up a fun question today, so yeah, I'm stealing the damn thing. Let's talk about the worst Android smartphone purchase we've ever made. It could be something old, something newer, or even something you currently have in your pocket,...

I Have No Idea Which Smartphone You Should Buy, and That’s Awesome

Kellen October 30, 2017 148

I'm sitting here working on the LG V30 review for the site (or at least thinking about working on it) and have three or four other phones sitting on my desk that I'd also like to be using. There are another one or two in the drawer below that my SIM would...

LG G6 Review

Tim April 3, 2017 195

With the G6, LG is hoping to do something it was unable to last year -- sell some phones. While we must applaud the company's investment and willingness to try something new with the G5 (modularity), we've stressed multiple times that the implementation did...