Cell phones

DEAL ALERT: Amazon is selling the best Android phone on the market for dirt

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Thinking about switching to Verizon Wireless? Currently on Verizon Wireless and just sick of your phone? Want to get the best non-iOS phone on the market? Then act and act fast Read more

iPPeel iPhone case puts a cell phone on the back of your iPhone

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We know the iPhone is only mediocre at accepting calls, but come on, people, this is just ridiculous! OK, OK, the iPPeel doesn’t exist to be redundant, or facilitate another round of those “Yo Dawg I Heard You Like X” jokes the Internet found funny five years ago. It actually exists to solve a problem corporate road warriors are all too familiar with: roaming charges. Read more

Verizon’s network is on the skids today

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Have a Verizon phone? Having trouble using it to get any data? You’re not alone. Verizon appears to be in the middle of a major network outage, affecting dozens of cities. Read more

Experimental contact lenses project images on your eyes

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Ever wanted to have alerts pop up in your field of vision? Actually, yeah, us neither. In a science fiction novel, they actually mention that with visual overlays on your eyes come the reality of getting hacked and having gay porn put in your lower left-hand field of vision for eternity. But science marches on, ... Read more

Verizon recording everything you do on your phone to target ads

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It was really only a matter of time: Verizon, not exactly noted for being all that privacy-friendly in the first place, has announced to its customers that, basically, they’re going to be watching absolutely everything they do in the hopes of selling them more stuff, better targeted stuff. Creeped out by the idea of marketing ... Read more

Republic Wireless wants to give you unlimited data, text and talk for $20

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Love having a smartphone, but hate paying eighty bucks a month for data caps, texting caps, and generally lousy experience? Want to pay a quarter for the same thing? A new company called Republic Wireless claims to be doing just that. But how? Read more

7 things that ruin being at live sporting events

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Sporting events can be an unbelievable experience. A mixture of beers, tears and jeers can turn a regular Saturday into a memory that will last a lifetime. But it’s not all fun and games when you get off the couch and go see a game in person. Today I went to a Celtics game for example, and the lady sitting next to me was one of the most obnoxious human beings on the face of the earth. Read more

Samsung really pushes the limit with the Galaxy S

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As bloggers, we’re often trying to multi-task on our smart phones. Whether it’s watching youtube videos, sending emails or more importantly, trying to write a post on the fly. Enter in the Samsung Galaxy S. With the 4 inch display, you’ll be able to watch videos with clarity and because of it’s 16GB internal memory ... Read more

Cell phone failures in horror movies

It’s pretty much the most cliched plot device around, but fictional mobile phone companies never seem to address the lack of a signal fictional customers face at the most inopportune times. Here’s a collection of those failures. Read more

Quote of the Day

Have you heard about butt dialing? I hadn’t, but according to ABC News, it’s a phenomenon that is sweeping the nation. Apparently, many people are accidentally dialing their phone with their asses. Though I don’t totally understand why you’d be sitting on a piece of expensive electronics, the quotes are pretty amusing. Read more

Middle schoolers face child porn charges for sexy texted pics

Child porn or awesome? That’s the question facing a Massachusetts area court for six teenage boys who exchanged a nude photo of a similarly-aged female. Though I imagine the judge going “The court finds the defendants….AWESOME!” probably wouldn’t be received well. Read more