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2008
Posted by: Elise on December 22nd, 2008 at 7:24pm
Your cell phone is a tool — it’s great for staying in touch with everyone from your boss to your mom. But you can do much more with a phone. With SMS, you can run your whole life. With just a text message, you can track your expenses and add items to your Amazon wishlist: [...]
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Posted by: Elise on December 18th, 2008 at 7:04pm
A lot of cell phone and gadget blogs tend to focus on the newest gadgets and announcements from major carriers. Here at Cell Phones.org and the Mobile Maven, we like to focus more on the People using the cell phones then the phone itself. To that end, we’re starting a series. This “How To” Series [...]
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Posted by: Elise on December 16th, 2008 at 5:23pm
We’re going back in time – a time when your cell phone would not stand a chance squeezing itself into your back pocket (ouch!). Do you remember those clunky phones whose shape resembled one of those Tetris pieces? Let’s go back to the rockin’ year of 1973, when Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola made the [...]
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Posted by: Elise on December 15th, 2008 at 9:20am
iiChances are that you’ve been out and come across a question that you couldn’t quite answer. Rather than jotting down the question and waiting until you get home to hop on Wikipedia, you can now, more than likely, find the mobile solution using a new generation of iPhone Apps designed for inquisitive minds: Q: What [...]
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Posted by: AC Gaughen on November 18th, 2008 at 12:31pm
At some point, we all feel like our cell phone companies have gotten the best of us; everyone has a frustrated story about customer service, an agonizing bout with a cancellation fee, or some way that we feel like we’re losing to the big boys. In this financial climate, it’s more important than ever that [...]
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Posted by: Elise on November 5th, 2008 at 10:36am
No one is more geeky then the crew here at Cell Phones.org, and there are a bunch of geek blogs out there that we love to read. We were curious which of these blogs have the biggest audience, so we decided that we would objectively measure the results. Data was compiled from three sources: Google [...]
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Posted by: Elise on November 2nd, 2008 at 12:58pm
By 2012 nearly 90% of cell phones will have a built in camera, according to a recent study. Does this mean we’ll soon be inundated with bad camera phone pictures? Not necessarily. Well, at least not from the technology angle. If the past couple of years can be used as an example, camera phone quality [...]
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Posted by: Elise on October 28th, 2008 at 12:53pm
While working remotely can be a great experience, lugging around your laptop can put quite a damper on your fun. Why not just take your cell phone instead? Here are 45 resources that will let you do your work wherever you are, as long as there’s a cell phone signal. No Laptop or Broadband required! [...]
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Posted by: Billy Kirk on October 7th, 2008 at 7:26am
Before we start, it’s important that I note that most any phone owner can use this trick, so long as they possess an Internet-ready phone that can use the AIM application. The article is aimed to iPhone users because of time relevancy (the rather recent release of the App store for the iPhone), but if [...]
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Posted by: Billy Kirk on October 6th, 2008 at 6:17am
If you’re reading this right now, it has to be assumed you own and use a cell phone. You yap on your mobile from time to time, conversing with family and friends, maybe use the camera function occasionally or even surf the web and check your email if you have a nifty smartphone. You also [...]
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Posted by: AC Gaughen on September 29th, 2008 at 10:44am
If you’ve ever watched “Law and Order”, “Alias”, or even Meet the Parents, you probably know a thing or two about how to read people. Watch where their eyes go, read their body language, listen to the tone of their voice-it will all give you little clues to tell if they’re sincere, if they’re lying, [...]
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Posted by: AC Gaughen on September 23rd, 2008 at 5:45pm
fThere is a cell phone cam waiting on every street corner, and it is a social guarantee that you will run into everyone you’ve ever wanted to avoid when you’re not looking your best. You’ve got What Not to Wear for your wardrobe, and thankfully, you’ve got me to offer a essential guide to being [...]
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