For Americans, this is the year of LTE. Granted, MetroPCS and Verizon actually launched their first LTE markets and devices last year, but next-gen data has really hit the mainstream in 2011. Virtually all members of Verizon's... Read Full Review
Priced At $199.99
Released Nov. 6, 2011
Whereas Nokia's Lumia 800 is standing tall as the flagship Windows Phone 7.5 device to lead out 2011 for Europe, the selection of new Mango devices is decidedly more competitive in the US. Samsung is taking a very strong two-tier... Read Full Review
Priced At $49.99
Released Nov. 6, 2011
The Droid RAZR is one of those rare phones that qualifies as a leap forward in hardware design and engineering. Sure, other handsets have higher-resolution displays and faster processors, but only the Droid RAZR squeezes a full set... Read Full Review
Priced At $299.99
Released Nov. 11, 2011
Reviewing the Lumia 800 is a hard and, dare I say, unprecedented task. Never before have we seen a phone like Nokia's N9 — a benchmark setter in some design aspects, yet a complete dead end in terms of software ecosystem — and... Read Full Review
Released November 2011
With no iPhone to run the show, T-Mobile has three flagship phones, all very similar: the HTC Amaze 4G, HTC Sensation 4G, and Samsung Galaxy S II. Like the others, the $259.99-with-contract Amaze runs a skinned version of Android on... Read Full Review
Priced At $259.99
Released Oct. 10, 2011
The question every manufacturer of a non-Apple smartphone on AT&T has to answer is “why buy this over an iPhone?” For Samsung and most other Android handset makers, the answer is a big, bright screen, fast speeds, and all the... Read Full Review
Priced At $199.99
T-Mobile is now the only American carrier without the iPhone, and it's betting the farm on Android — a platform where Samsung's devices have typically been the cream of the crop. The $229.99 Galaxy S II (with a two-year contract,... Read Full Review
Priced At $229.99
The Nokia N9 is, without doubt, one of the most fascinating phones of the last few years. The tale of its development and launch interweaves almost all the multivariate strands of the Nokia narrative. It is simultaneously the last... Read Full Review
Released Sep. 27, 2011
Reviewing the iPhone 4S is in many ways a lot like reviewing the original iPhone 4, except that it's not. The device, which was just announced at a special event on Apple's campus, is very much the same phone the company released in... Read Full Review
Priced At $199.00
Released Oct. 14, 2011
The HTC Titan is exactly the sort of Windows Phone Microsoft wants to see from its hardware partners. It’s a big and beautiful slab of technology that invites great debate while still conforming to the chassis specs coming out of... Read Full Review