Cell Phones

Verizon Introduces Less Than Impressive Pre-Paid Unlimited Service

by Mike Mansell September 14, 2011
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As much as I know the word “unlimited” is really over-used in marketing and advertising, I really must admit that I do like the concept of not being tied down to fixed limits with services that I subscribe to.  Of course, I understand that even with “unlimited” services there is always some sort of limit [...]

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T-Mobile Giving Away Free Smartphones Tomorrow and Saturday

by Mike Mansell February 10, 2011
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There’s no doubt that the mobile industry has been one of the busiest and most newsworthy industries in the last couple of months.  It seems as if every time we blink our eyes we are flooded with new announcements, unveiling, rumors, and overall mobile innovations.  With this level of innovation in the mobile industry and the great [...]

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Facebook Launches Mobile Interface for Baseline Phones

by Mike Mansell January 20, 2011
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It seems as if every time we as consumers turn around, manufactures are releasing new and improved smartphones; more feature-rich and power-packed than the ones they released only a matter of days before.  However, with the constant innovations that the smartphone industry is making it is sometimes easy to forget about the non-smart phones that are still sold day-in [...]

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Vizio to Venture into Mobile Industry

by Mike Mansell January 4, 2011
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When the craze for high-definition television programming first started to become mainstream, users were in search of a solution that would allow them to keep up to date with the latest must-have without shelling out a great deal of cash to do so.  However, there was somewhat of a void in the television market for a company [...]

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A Phone That Saves Us From Our Phone. Really?

by Jeff Weisbein December 14, 2010
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If you have watched television at all within the past month and a half chances are you have seen one of the Windows Phone 7 commercials from Microsoft.  Windows Phone 7 is supposedly a phone that will save us from our phone.  I understand what Microsoft is looking to accomplish with these commercials.  I get [...]

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Review: Droid X

by Rohan Reddy December 7, 2010
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One of the flagship phones for both Verizon Wireless and Motorola is the Droid X, a phone that you will not regret purchasing. The price tag is not the cheapest for an Android-based phone coming in at $199 on a two-year contract with Verizon, but you get quite a bit of bang for your buck. The [...]

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Mobile Wars: Apple vs Google

by Jeff Weisbein February 18, 2010
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It all started back in mid to late 2009 when Apple rejected the Google Voice application from the App Store.  Shortly there after, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google resigned from Apple’s board.  That is when this whole mobile war started to quickly heat up.  I should point out that while Apple and Google do compete [...]

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AT&T Will Sell The iPhone Without Contract

by Jeff Weisbein March 20, 2009
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In a press release on Thursday, AT&T Inc. said it will start selling iPhones without requiring a two-year contract, but they will cost $400 more. Spokesman Michael Coe said AT&T will sell the phones starting next Thursday for $599 (8GB) or $699 (16GB), depending on the storage capacity. The two models cost $199 (8GB) or [...]

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