Mar 15, 2014
It's no secret to anyone who follows me on Twitter that I have rarely been as vocally positive about a smartphone as the LG G2 [Read our full review here]. I have owned this
Mar 5, 2014
LG and Samsung have been showing off curved AMOLED displays in prototype form for the last couple of years. However, it is only now that the technology has matured enough for it to make into
Feb 14, 2014
I have to confess to not always agreeing with industry trends. Non-expandable storage and sealed batteries come near the top of my list here. But there's one trend I heartily approve of - the
Feb 7, 2014
Just when you think monoblock smartphone form factors have stabilised - if not in absolute size - along comes the Oppo N1 aiming to shake things up a little. Taller and thinner than other phablets, with an
Feb 5, 2014
Motorola started selling the Moto X last year in the US and brought the flagship phone to Europe starting this month. The smartphone will debut in France, the UK and Germany for a £399 ($650)
Dec 3, 2013
Tomorrow morning is going to be hard. I need to format the Xperia Z Ultra I've been using for the past two weeks and return it to Sony PR's gorgeous downtown Helsinki office.
Nov 24, 2013
If there’s one dramatic change that has happened in the phone world over the last decade, it’s the transformation from small-screened, keypad devices to full-screen touch. However, whatever you may think
Nov 15, 2013
The absolutes come thick and fast for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. And they're not all in the device's favour. Yes, it's arguably the highest specified Android phone in the world. Yes,
Nov 6, 2013
There's no doubting that Google likes to shake things up in the smartphone world. The arrival of the Nexus 4 in late 2012 shocked everyone in the industry, with near flagship specs and yet
Nov 5, 2013
After getting leaked more times than anyone can count, Google finally announced the 2013 Nexus, which is aptly called the Nexus 5 since it has both a 5.0 inch 1080p display and because it'
Oct 19, 2013
LG hasn’t been a favourite manufacturer of mine in the past, with far too many handsets being laden with sub-par components (I still haven’t forgiven it for messing up the Nexus 4’
Oct 3, 2013
The Xperia Z, launched a mere 8 months ago, rightly drew as many brickbats as it did bouquets - it was a sharp-edged glass slab with an unremarkable display, an easily-muffled speaker and an
Oct 2, 2013
At Samsung's press conference in Berlin last month, the company announced three products. The Galaxy Note 3, the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, and the awkwardly named Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition. As the name
Oct 1, 2013
Samsung is jumping feet first into the growing wearables market with its Galaxy Gear smartwatch. Introduced last month, the Gear is a companion to Samsung's new Note 3 phablet. Reviews for the smartwatch have
Today is Galaxy Note 3 review day. Almost all of the big websites (we'll get there, some day) have published their reviews of Samsung's new phablet. I've been promised that I will
Jul 27, 2013
Metal, it seems, is in. And thank goodness, after several years of plastic ascendency, we now have devices like the HTC One and One mini, the 2012 Motorolas (to some extent) and, of course, the
Jun 22, 2013
Do you prefer Star Trek or Star Wars? If the former, best go for the HTC One. If the latter, head for the Samsung Galaxy S4. There, done. What’s that? You want some explanation,
Jun 8, 2013
It’s something of a testament to the HTC One’s build quality and design that, of the last ten Android-focussed tech reviewers I’ve queried over the last two months, seven of them
