Google Nexus 6 review: Vision of the future and echoes of the Galaxy Nexus

Steve Litchfield

Cast your mind back to 2011 and Google teasing and then unveiling something extraordinary: the Galaxy Nexus, made by Samsung, and with an enormous 4.7" display. It seemed outrageous at the time, totally out

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Inateck Ultra Slim Bluetooth keyboard review: Concept truly evolved

Steve Litchfield

The idea was to write the review of this newish Inateck accessory while away for the weekend, yet I forgot to take it with me. Or did I? Wait a moment, nestling in between the

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Inateck BTSP-10 Bluetooth speaker review: rugged and bassy

Steve Litchfield

When it comes to Bluetooth speakers, there's little point in going for something too small and flimsy. After all, the sound from something tiny isn't going to be much better than the sound

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Samsung Galaxy Note 4 review: Cranking the smartphone ‘up to 11’

Steve Litchfield

There are numerous references I could make, for the new Galaxy Note 4, with famous quotes from Spinal Tap. Cranking the specs 'up to 11' comes to mind, but also something along the lines of "

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LG G Watch R review – one step forward, two steps back

Steve Litchfield

The original LG G Watch, covered here, was clearly first generation hardware but still had its fans and attractions - and indeed Android Wear and its firmware has continued to improve. But we now have second

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Motorola Moto X (2014) review: solid, but lots missing

Steve Litchfield

Another season, another Moto X it seems, only this time bigger, better and even more solid. The original Moto X, from the start of 2014 in the UK but from a year ago in the

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The Top 5 Android Driving and Racing games

Steve Litchfield

Ah yes, just about the most popular game genre ever - and the subject of my next Android Beat ‘top 5’. You see, there are hundreds (literally) of car and driving titles, the vast majority of

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Sony Xperia Z3 Compact review: almost the perfect smartphone

Steve Litchfield

Last week, I reviewed the Xperia Z3 and rated it the best in the series yet, marred only by being a little tall and with large bezels, and by an under-performing camera. Happily, launched

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Sony Xperia Z3 review: the glass masterpiece

Steve Litchfield

Sony's vision for its Z series of Android flagships was clear. A glass obelisk. Smooth, sleek and waterproof. With an all-metal chassis to keep things strong. The problem was that the initial implementations

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The Top 5 Android video players

Steve Litchfield

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The top 5 uses (you hadn’t thought of) for your smartwatch

Steve Litchfield

Smartwatches, it seems, are all the rage. Heck, we've featured them numerous times recently on Android Beat. Partly because they're tech and cool, but also because they work really well with Android smartphones.

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The Top 5 Android flight simulation games

Steve Litchfield

Some genres of game transcend computing platforms, persisting from generation to generation. 'Flight Simulator' was one of the very first PC games and similar ways to get up in the virtual air have existed on

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TouchWiz’s Gallery: the Unsuspected Photographic Tragedy

Steve Litchfield

The workflow is simple enough, for many hundred million Samsung smartphone owners worldwide. Use the phone to take a photo, then tap on the little thumbnail to bring up the photo just taken. Not quite

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OnePlus is the most cleverly obnoxious company to grace this mobile industry, and we helped them do it

Rita El Khoury

There's bad. There's really bad. There's Chinese-ripoff-bad. And then there's OnePlus. I am going to break my vow not to mention the company — a vow that I just made

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Pebble: Original or Steel? The Silicone difference

Steve Litchfield

Continuing our series of articles looking at Android-connected wearables, the Pebble devices seem perennially popular, not least because their battery life on a charge is at least a week and because they're 100.

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Best Android phones you can buy, Summer 2014 Edition

Rita El Khoury

2014 is shaping up to be an exciting year in the Android smartphone industry. Not only did we get many new flagship devices with specs that we wouldn't have dreamt to have a few

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Pebble vs LG G Watch comparison: Old school versus the future

Steve Litchfield

We don't apologise for the wealth of smartwatch coverage on Android Beat recently - with smartphones themselves plateauing to a degree, the next big usability enhancement is to take some of the more mundane things

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The best and worst features of Android Wear

Rita El Khoury

Android Wear is still in its infancy as a platform. The main SDK was announced a few months ago, and the LG G Watch as well as the Samsung Gear Live have barely been available

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