Fun fact: when I was selling mobile phones back in 2004, I would spend the store’s slow days taking online training courses reserved for my employer’s engineers, fascinated by the networks that made mobile phones work. Twelve years (and a change of career) later, my network curiosity still burned strong. So I asked AT&T to let me go hands-on with a cell site – and to my great surprise, the carrier said yes!... Read More | Share it now!

People have been asking me to review the Dell XPS 13 for as long as I’ve been looking at laptops. So when Dell offered to loan me the latest version of its nearly bezel-less notebook, equipped with the newest 8th-generation Intel Core i7, I jumped at the chance. What I found was a laptop with a surprisingly conservative design – but enough power (in the processor and the battery) to see me through the longest of workdays. The Dell XPS 13 is a workhorse in the truest sense, and because of that I can’t help but respect it. Join me for MrMobile’s Dell XPS 13 Review, and be sure to check out Windows Central’s take as well in the links below! ... Read More | Share it now!

The Movado Connect is, hands-down, the most beautiful smartwatch I’ve ever worn. It’s the kind of perfectly-proportioned, well-balanced wristwatch you expect from a 136-year-old company, with a stock watchface modeled on a design that first saw the light of day in 1946. Even the band, made of a humble soft silicone, manages to come off as somehow fancier than it really is. ... Read More | Share it now!

The very first time I laid eyes on the Light L16 camera, I knew I had to test it. Sixteen individual 13MP sensors ranging from 28mm to 150mm, laid out in a scattershot pattern without even the pretense of adhering to a grid, festooned with steerable mirrors that wiggled and warbled as they fixed those big mechanical eyes on a subject … it was the perfect mix of oversized smartphone and terrifying Matrix robo-spider. I snapped one up as soon as it went on sale.... Read More | Share it now!

When CrackBerry Kevin first suggested I try out the Bose SoundWear, I thought it looked an awful lot like a toilet seat. But it’s not – nor is it an airline pillow, horseshoe, or boomerang. The Bose SoundWear is a wearable speaker, and while it’ll never replace your headphones, it does complement them in a way that’s more useful than I ever expected. Join me as I try out my first wearable speaker in the MrMobile Bose SoundWear review!... Read More | Share it now!

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Eighty years ago, a company called Polaroid sprouted from a garage not far from the current location of the MrMobile studio. The company’s founder soon developed a special polarization technology that was rapidly adopted across a slew of products ranging from desk lamps to sunglasses. That work later led to military contracts including pilot goggles, spy satellites, and a special synthetic quinine for treating malaria in troops serving in tropical regions. While that last bit sounds out of character for a company specializing in optical science, it isn’t: quinine has photosensitive properties that make it useful for photography. Over the next 40 years that’s where Polaroid built its empire: with instant cameras that didn’t need a darkroom to develop their film. ... Read More | Share it now!

What can I tell you about the Razer Phone that you don’t already know? Well how’bout we start with the thing that surprised me the most: it’s not just for gaming, and you don’t need to be a gamer to appreciate it. But you do need to put up with a lot of stuff you probably won’t want to. I’m MrMobile and this is the Razer Phone review.... Read More | Share it now!

Last year, while mourning the loss of my favorite smartwatch maker to a Fitbit acquisition, I was given hope by a wearable called the Ticwatch 2. It featured an innovative operating system and a very clever touch-sensitive strip for controlling it. Well recently, almost 20,000 people pledged about 3.2 million dollars on Kickstarter to bring its sequel to life. The Ticwatch S ditches its predecessor’s proprietary OS for Android Wear, but it also eliminates its single most interesting feature in favor of affordability. Join MrMobile for the Ticwatch S Review!... Read More | Share it now!