The screens on our smartphones are getting better with every new batch of devices. They’ve actually evolved an enormous amount over the last two years, as we’ve seen the best smartphones go from WVGA screens to now HD screens. Here are 4 of the nicest cell phone displays on the market today, whether on a [...]

What we have here is the ZTE Warp, a solid Android Gingerbread-running smartphone that comes at the affordable price of $199 on Boost Mobile’s prepaid, no-contract service. The handset measures 5 x 2.7 x 0.5 inches and weighs 5.3 ounces which means that it is fairly compact. It isn’t one of the prettiest phones available [...]

Wearing a high gloss, black plastic body, the HTC Vivid looks more like a Samsung device which isn’t a bad thing. We are dealing with a pretty large phone since it measures a respectable 5 x 2.6 x 0.4 inches and tips the scales at 6.2 ounces. The thin plate of the battery cover is [...]

Back in 2011 T-Mobile introduced the LG Doubleplay in its lineup of smartphones which is an interesting handset thanks to its dual screen setup. The handset measures 4.8 x 2.5 x 0.63 inches so we’re dealing with a pretty big and heavy device which weights an impressive 6.7 ounces. We like that it has rounded [...]

T-Mobile’s smartphone lineup gained a new member last year with the introduction of the Samsung Dart T499. This is an entry-level Android-running smartphone that is clad in gray lightweight plastic and has a compact size, measuring 4.09 x 2.39 x 0.48 inches and has a curb weight of 3.8 ounces. Its back cover adopts a [...]

A 2011 entry in Verizon’s 4G smartphone lineup is the Samsung Droid Charge which adopts a slab design and has a slight point at the bottom while on the back there is a bit of a hump. That sloped back grants a good place for you to rest your palm but this doesn’t mean that [...]

2010 was a great year for smartphones and the ones launched for AT&T were just as impressive. One example would be the Motorola Flipside, a stocky phone that measures 4.3 x 2.2 x 0.6 inches and has a curb weight of 5.1 ounces. It borrows a few design cues from the Backflip model but this [...]

Today we focus on 4G LTE-enabled smartphones and besides talking about the LG Nitro HD, we also have a look at this Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket. This model, along with HTC’s Vivid, are the first two 4G LTE-enabled smartphones that were launched by AT&T. The first thing that you will notice about the Skyrocket [...]

If you are in the marking for blazing fast network speeds, have a look at the LG Nitro HD which is a 4G LTE-enabled smartphone. When you are not in an LTE area you’ll have to settle with HSPA+. Released for AT&T, this would have to be the third phone of this kind after the [...]

If you are in the market for a 4G-enabled smartphone launched by Samsung you might want to have a look at the Exhibit II. The device is running on T-Mobile’s HSPA+ “4G” network and doesn’t look at all like its predecessor. The first one adopted a rounded top and flat bottom, while the Exhibit II [...]