cellphones.org
Archives //

2008

Run Your Life With SMS: 10 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do Via Text

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: [...]

Read & Discuss...

How Cell Phones Can Help Paleontologists

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 [...]

Read & Discuss...

From a 2LB Phone to the iPhone: The Evolution of Cell Phones

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 [...]

Read & Discuss...

10 Useful Reference Tools for the iPhone

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 [...]

Read & Discuss...

10 Useful Secrets the Cell Phone Carriers Don't Want You To Know

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 [...]

Read & Discuss...

Top 25 Geek Blogs By Traffic

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 [...]

Read & Discuss...

8 Steps for Great Camera Phone Photos

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 [...]

Read & Discuss...

45 Mobile Resources Every Freelancer Needs to Have

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! [...]

Read & Discuss...

How to Send Free SMS Messages with Your iPhone

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 [...]

Read & Discuss...

Top 5 Reasons to Text

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 [...]

Read & Discuss...

9 Ways to Decode Your Girlfriend's Text Message

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, [...]

Read & Discuss...

Cellular Fashion: What's Hot

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 [...]

Read & Discuss...

Oh, it's the only real way to stay informed. So go on, read for a bit. It won't hurt, we promise.

TwitterCategories

Reading hasn't been this cool since smoking was first introduced. The great difference is we're pretty sure you can't die from daily reading, so go on and overdose a bit.