I still remember the first time I hit record on an LG V20 at a small venue show and realized the phone was picking up the full band — drums, distorted guitars, yelling crowd — without turning into a clipping, crunchy mess. It sounded like a handheld recorder, not a random slab of glass and […]
Author: Nadia Malik
LG Nexus 5 Revisited: KitKat, Hardware, and Pure Android Value
Nexus in Context: Spec Wars, Cloud Ambitions, and Price Pressure Google’s Nexus line has always been less about winning spec sheets and more about pushing Android and Google services, even if that meant subsidizing hardware. When the LG Nexus 5 landed, it arrived into a market already crowded with Snapdragon 800 phones, Nokia flagships on […]
Nexus 7 (2013) Revisited: Great Tablet, Avoidable Flaws
I’ve tested a lot of small tablets over the years, but the 2013 Nexus 7 is one of the few I genuinely wanted to love. It’s lighter, slimmer, and a clear step up from the original, and on paper it should have wiped the floor with the iPad mini and Kindle Fire HD. Instead, using […]
Galaxy S4 vs. Its Rivals: The Flagship That Refused to Fade
The iPhone 5, HTC One and Xperia Z went all-in on metal and glass; Samsung doubled down on plastic and sensors. The Galaxy S4 was Samsung’s bet that brains would beat looks. Back when 1080p panels and quad-core chips were still headline material, the S4 had to outrun not just its rivals, but its own […]