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How we test phones

Curious about how we test the numerous smartphone releases each year to inform you whether it's a good purchase or not? Here's how our process goes.
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Christine Romero-Chan
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How MediaTek became the best-kept secret in smartphones

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Joe Maring
Mobile
Joe Maring
T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert

T-Mobile wants you to test drive its 5G home internet

Mobile
Jesse Hollington
Mobile
Jesse Hollington
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Phones don’t cause brain tumors, experts say

Mobile
Sascha Brodsky
Mobile
Sascha Brodsky
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The best mobile plans and smartphones for seniors

Mobile
Daniel Martin
Mobile
Daniel Martin
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These hilarious ads from the 1980s and ’90s show how far mobile tech has come

Mobile
Trevor Mogg
Mobile
Trevor Mogg
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Ugly, weird, and expensive: The craziest phone designs ever

Mobile
Simon Hill
Mobile
Simon Hill
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Will your cell phone give you cancer? Maybe if you’re a rat

Mobile
Eric Brackett
Mobile
Eric Brackett
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Drones have been used in more than a dozen smuggling attempts to prisons

Emerging Tech
Keith Nelson Jr.
Emerging Tech
Keith Nelson Jr.
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How to make your smartphone battery last longer

Mobile
Carlos Vega
Mobile
Carlos Vega
5 phones ahead of their time

5 futuristic phones that were ahead of their time, but still flopped

Mobile
Simon Hill
Mobile
Simon Hill

According to overly obvious study, we are addicted to the Facebook mobile app

Social Media
Jam Kotenko
Social Media
Jam Kotenko

Tweetdeck is dead! Long live the numerous tweet management alternatives

If you were an avid user of Tweetdeck, you should know that soon, it will stop working. Start looking for your next Twitter app and consider these examples.
Jam Kotenko
Future smartphones

What will next-generation smartphones look like?

Rob Enderle
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Apps and gadgets to organize your home

Suzie Ridgeway
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Digital Trends Best of 2011 Awards

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NTSB votes to ban use of all personal electronics in cars

Andrew Couts

Obama Orders federal agencies to cut back on mobile devices, vehicles, and printing

Jeffrey Van Camp
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T-Mobile surprises subscribers after testing ‘Presidential Alert’ system early

Mike Flacy

Final word on cell phones and cancer: Reply hazy, try again

Geoff Duncan

FCC to mandate GPS in all phones by 2018

Jeffrey Van Camp

Pew Internet Study: ‘13% of cell owners pretended to be using their phone’

Caleb Garling

S.F. BART snuffs cell phone service in anticipation of police protests

Jeff Hughes
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Hands-free cell phone usage equally dangerous while driving

Mike Flacy
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Mobile phones listed as carcinogenic hazard

Geoff Duncan
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FCC to debut emergency alert system for cell phones

Andrew Couts

Rebels hijack Gadhafi’s phone network

Molly McHugh
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China plans to track Bejing residents with their cell phones

Andrew Couts
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Power to the pocket: The next generation of superphones

Nick Mokey
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Palm Pre 3 photos

Digital Trends Staff

New bill aims to stop cell phone smuggling in prison

Jeffrey Van Camp

BlackBerry and Vodafone restored for some Egyptians; Internet still down

Molly McHugh

California to eliminate half of state employees’ cell phones

Molly McHugh
Samsung Infuse

Samsung teases AT&T customers with supersized Infuse 4G

Nick Mokey
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