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Google Pixel Fold Three Months Later: A Long Term Review, Android 14, and a Road Trip

I’ve been pretty vocal on folding tablets. I’m conflicted on the segment, and I believe that (even with a few years in the market) we’re still looking at a public BETA test for this concept.

I was (and still am) a big fan of the Surface Duo, but folks seem to forget that I gave a “niche of a niche” verdict for the Duo 2. I prefer Dual Display, but there was a SMALL segment of consumers who I believed would be a good fit for that device.

There’s a specific philosophy that needs to be addressed comparing something like a Pixel Fold with a Duo. They both have a hinge that folds the device in half, but they represent VERY different solutions.

The Pixel Fold is a traditional tablet, offering a larger unbroken canvas to work with. The Duo is a multi-tasking monster, delivering a more direct path to using two apps at once.

Getting my bias out of the way, after three months, two flights, and a road trip, how has the Fold treated me?

Pretty well. There’s a lot of potential here. Continue reading “Google Pixel Fold Three Months Later: A Long Term Review, Android 14, and a Road Trip”

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No Surface Duo 3 in 2022? I’m OK sticking with the Duo 2…

Duo 2 Long term review!

Almost a year later, the Duo 2 is running better than ever. It’s an extremely powerful pocket tablet. We haven’t heard any news on a Duo 3, but here’s why that might be OK…

Surface Duo 2 on Amazon https://amzn.to/3zSs27F Continue reading “No Surface Duo 3 in 2022? I’m OK sticking with the Duo 2…”

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Surface Laptop Go 2 Long Term Review: The “Back to School” Champ!

Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 Review!

Using this little notebook for a month, I’m very impressed with the build quality. This is a NICELY built “student grade” or travel laptop. Will it work for YOUR portable compute needs?

Let’s take a look! Continue reading “Surface Laptop Go 2 Long Term Review: The “Back to School” Champ!”

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Moto Edge+ 2022 Long Term Review: Now with a Stylus!

Moto Edge+ Review!

Now with the folio case and the stylus, we can finish up our look at the TOTAL PACKAGE version of this phone! What do you get when undercut a Galaxy Note 22 by $300? You get one of the most powerful and most flexible phones of the year!

High performance, great specs, the BEST desktop mode, and fun accessories. This is VERY strong competition from Moto. Continue reading “Moto Edge+ 2022 Long Term Review: Now with a Stylus!”

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Goodbye iPhone XS: Two years and a thousand dollars later…

We get really excited about the new shiny. It’s always worth looking back to see if a gadget lived up to our early expectations. Getting on two years, I’m saying goodbye to my iPhone XS. Did I REALLY get $999 worth of performance out of this phone?

Well… No…

Not really… Continue reading “Goodbye iPhone XS: Two years and a thousand dollars later…”

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How the Pixelbook Go became our Family Computer

My favorite “unnecessary” Star Trek tech is in the Holodeck.

A Starfleet officer calls out “Arch”, and an archway with a touchscreen appears in the holographic simulation. It’s an utterly silly 1990’s idea of how we’d interact with computers hundreds of years in the future. When you think about Trek Tech, there’s really no need for such an elaborate mechanism to appear. A free-standing touch panel is all you need, but you’re also standing in a holographic environment, so why not make any kind of control surface you’d want out of the same “hard light” hologram magic?

That mini-nerd rant aside, the Pixelbook Go has become our family’s “Arch”. And we love it. Continue reading “How the Pixelbook Go became our Family Computer”

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Pixel 4XL: The most slighted phone of 2019 is still really good.

I’ve struggled with re-visiting the Pixel 4XL.

There’s an intangible quality to every phone that can’t quite be expressed by spec sheets and benchmarks. I can TELL you about the phone, and that still won’t properly convey how I FEEL about the phone.

With the Pixel 5 in limbo, it’s important to check back in with a phone that was pretty heavily panned by critics. For all my personal preferences on beastly hardware and mobile content creation, the Pixel 4XL is still the phone I have the hardest time taking my SIM card out of when I need to move on to a new review device.

There’s just something about the Pixel… Continue reading “Pixel 4XL: The most slighted phone of 2019 is still really good.”

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Android 10 on the Sony XPERIA 5: Gestures for a Skinny Phone?

2019 was a strong year for Sony hardware. The Xperia 1 and Xperia 5 showed off a new skinny form factor, a bold new design which still echoed the hard-edged rectangular DNA of classic Xperias. I was very taken with this approach in my X5 review.

The other half of the phone review equation though, how well has the manufacturer updated the software for the phone?

Pretty darn well. Continue reading “Android 10 on the Sony XPERIA 5: Gestures for a Skinny Phone?”

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