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Even though the Nexus 4 was a very nice smartphone, and one of our  favorite handsets of 2012 , it had quite a few areas where it could improve. LTE capabilities and bad battery life were two of the most glaring negatives about the handset, and Google has seemed to fix those issues with its latest smartphone. Many leaked manuals have claimed that the Nexus 5 will have a 2.3 gigahertz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM, 2,300 miliamp hour battery, and a 4.95 inch 1080p display. These specs have yet to be confirmed by Google, but the design has practically been made official by today's Nexus 5 leak. Let's take a look. The Nexus 5 basically looks like a somewhat better version of LG's most recent flagship smartphone, the G2. It has the same thin bezels around the screen, and the screen itself is only 0.25 inches smaller. The back appears to be made of a matte or soft touch plastic, which would feel immensely better than the G2's cheap and disgusting glossy...

Even though the Moto X is going to be on every US carrier, Motorola still feels the need to have a line of Droid handsets on Verizon. Motorola’s Droid Razr HD, Maxx HD, and Razr M were relatively successful products, and they were actually really good.  The Maxx HD brought hours and hours of battery life, a speedy processor, and a decent HD display. The Razr M was a very nice smartphone in a small package, and was one of the best small Android phones you could buy at the time. This year, Verizon and Motorola unveiled the Motorola Droid Ultra, Maxx, and Motorola Droid Mini at a launch event a while back.  These products are now available for $200, $300, and $100 on contract respectively at Verizon, so we decided to try out the Ultra and Maxx handsets for ourselves. Can these Droids stand up to the likes of the HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, and Motorola’s own Moto X? Are these the Droids you’re looking for? Scroll onwards to find out the answers to these questions and more ...

A while back, Matt Smith announced that he would be leaving Doctor Who  at the end of this year. This left many Whovians asking, "Who is the next Doctor?" After months of anticipation and speculation, the BBC has finally answered us. They announced last Sunday that the Twelfth Doctor would be played by Peter Capaldi. Capaldi has been a Doctor Who  fan for quite some time, and he even sent the BBC a letter asking them to make more episodes when he was fifteen years-old. He appeared on the British sci-fi classic before in "The Fires of Pompeii" when David Tennant was the Doctor. Peter Capaldi is most famous for his role as Malcom Tucker on The Thick of It on BBC Two. He also starred as a W.H.O. doctor in the recent zombie-thriller World War Z . Coincidence? I think not. Most long-time Whovians have welcomed Capaldi into the Doctor Who  universe, but some newer fans are a little skeptical. At fifty-five years-old Peter Capaldi is a little older than recent Doctors, ...

Smartphone cameras have drastically changed in the past few years. Most smartphone cameras have improved so much that most people use their smartphone as their main camera. Some companies have decided to make  cameras with fewer megapixels and better sensors , while most smartphone manufactures have improved their cameras by adding more megapixels. Nokia is one of these people and they have proven it even more with their latest smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 1020. Look and Feel Nokia's Lumia line of handsets has some of the most unique hardware on the market. If you see something that looks like a Nokia phone on the street, there is a pretty good chance that it is a Nokia. Nokia pioneered the unibody polycarbonate design, and is pretty close to perfecting it. Their Lumia line is full of beautiful, colorful, and unique polycarbonate bodies. The Lumia 1020 does not stray too far away from its siblings. The 1020 comes in three gorgeous colors; matte white, black, and yellow. We ...

Many electronics are released throughout the year. Some of these products are very exciting, and many people wait to see what they bring. Products with much anticipation also bring many rumors and leaks. Some people make renders of products based on their rumored specifications to show their opinions, while others make renders to try fake them as real pictures. Companies themselves will also "leak" images of their products to create more hype for their devices. All this leads to numerous leaks of products from all sorts of companies. Here are some of the most credible rumors from this week. Moto X The Moto X has been anticipated by many tech geeks for a very long time. Ever since Google bought Motorola such a long time ago, we have been waiting for Google and Motorola to do something together. Sure the Razr M, HD, and Maxx HD now have close to stock Android skins, but you do not buy a company to make a better software experience on a few carrier cell phones. Th...

It has been over a year since we first started Mobile Tech Note. We have seen many new advances in mobile technology such as Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Android Jelly Bean, quad-core processors, and 1080p displays. Laptops have gotten even thinner, faster, crazy high-resolution displays, and they can flip and twist in all sorts of ways. To those of you that have been with us this whole year, thank you very much. If you are reading for the first time, welcome. We have some news for you. We will admit, or website did not look very good. It wasn't elegant, smooth, or pleasant to look at. It had a dated design, even though we found it during many design changes. We know that some of you out there like our writing and regularly read our articles, so we decided to update our website's look. Now our website has a brand-new flat design. The rounded green buttons looked bland so we turned them into flat, transparent black buttons with green wording. This transparent look adds a...

The iPhone has always been one of the most coveted smartphones on the market. Millions of people around the world buy them, and even more people want to buy one. Since so many people want the iPhone, but can not afford it, Apple made the iPod Touch and has sold millions of them. Many Android competitors compare their devices to the iPhone, and try to say that their device is better than it. Needless to say, Apple has has a huge success story with the iPhone. This year's iPhone mixes things up by being, design wise, a mash up of previous iPhones with the glass and aluminum body. The iPhone also gives in to recent trends by increasing its screen size. Is Apple's new design an improvement over the 4's and 4s's? Is the new four inch screen any more useful than the previous 3.5 inch screens? Find out the answers to these questions and more in our review of the iPhone 5. Hardware The iPhone has almost always been the definition of a premium design.  The original iPho...