Editorial Category

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

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

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

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

The Top 5 Android video players

Steve Litchfield

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.

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

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.

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

“Mini” phones aren’t supposed to be a smaller version of the exact same phone

Rita El Khoury

I get the confusion. Every time a company releases a device under the monicker "mini", be it the Galaxy S4 Mini, the HTC One Mini (and Mini 2), the LG G2 Mini, and so on,

The best and worst features of the LG G Watch

Rita El Khoury

While I have only had the LG G Watch for less than a week, I have been completely immersed in the experience, wearing it all day, trying different apps, using it to handle my notifications,

Smartwatches may be superfluous to you, but not to everyone

Rita El Khoury

Every time I write or read an article about smartwatches, there's a legion of commenters that always discredits the need and usefulness of such gadgets. "Another screen on your wrist? Because you can't

Android One will disrupt the budget smartphone market

Abhijeet Mishra

At Google I/O 2014, Google made a bevy of announcements, including a new version of Android, Android for TVs and cars, and for wearables. It was rather exciting (and excruciatingly long, especially for those

Samsung’s first Tizen phone is here: A side strategy or complete takeover?

Rita El Khoury

Earlier today, Samsung launched its first Tizen smartphone, the Samsung Z (notice the lack of "Galaxy" in its title). Tizen, the in-house operating system developed by Samsung and Intel, has been long coming to

Are Sony and LG now more “Quietly Brilliant” than HTC?

Rita El Khoury

Every year, like clockwork, Samsung and HTC seem to battle it out in March/April for the heart of the world's smartphone geeks. "The S4 has a bigger screen!" "Yeah but the HTC One

“Powered by Android” may come to all our boot screens, but does it matter?

Rita El Khoury

Geek.com reported yesterday that "Powered by Android", the sentence we have seen on the boot screen of both the Samsung Galaxy S5 and the new HTC One (M8), is a mandated change by google

5 Android hardware trends I want to see more of

Rita El Khoury

Over the past year, several Android manufacturers have tried to differentiate themselves by introducing cool and new features to their smartphones. When everyone is using very similar screens, processors and other hardware elements, it is

Top 5 LG G2 features I couldn’t live without

Rita El Khoury

It's no secret to anyone who follows me on Twitter that I have rarely been as vocally positive about a smartphone as the LG G2 [Read our full review here]. I have owned this