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54 of the Best Blogs Offering Cell Phone Reviews

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:12:34 +0000

Purchasing a new cell phone or switching to a different plan is a big decision. Not only do you need to make sure you like the phone, but it is important the company you choose has good service, and excellent coverage. Researching phones online before you choose which one you want to buy is imperative to making the right decision. If you do the research, the chances are better you will be satisfied with your choice.

Mobile Whack: A blog that covers the latest cell phone trends, and has reviews of various phones.
The Best Mobile Phone: This site covers cell phone tips, reviews and news. They also cover all the latest iPhone apps.
Hot Cellular Phone: Reviews of various types of cell phones and all of the latest news in cell phone technology.
3D For Smartphones Coming, Lose Those Glasses: Learn which Smartphones are adding #D to their ongoing list of things a Smartphone can do.
Mobile Phone, Cell Phone News, Specs and Reviews: An entire blog dedicated to up-to-date cell phone information.
Cell Phones Market: The latest news on all things happening in the cell phone world.
Sprint Offers Free Wireless Service in Nine States: Articles talk about Sprint’s new plan to offer free cell service in nine different states for people who can’t afford a cell phone.
Rugged Mobile Phones Made to Last: Article about “tough phones” that have a higher durability for those that are hard on cell phones.
1Part Palm Pre, 1PartDroid: What is This Weird Droid Branded Portrait Slider? Article about a photo that was leaked in Korea detailing a up and coming new cell phone.
Blackberry Curve 8900 Phone, Black AT&T: Blog post giving the phone description and features.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Cell Phone Review: Blog post review of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 cell phone.
Death Grip on iPhone 4: Verizon Blackberry 9650 Test: Article detailing how the signal bars drop on the Blackberry if held a certain way.
I Hate My Cell Phone, and Why I Want an Android Phone: Story about a guy who doesn’t like the phone he has and his mission to get an Android phone.
Sick of Phone Calls: Person who hates her cell phone.
What’s the Highest Cell Phone Bill You’ve Ever Paid: Person describes how shocked they were to get a cell phone bill totaling over $85k.
Verizon Driod X Unboxing and Mini-Review, the Sprint Ego Killer: Person unboxes the Verizon Droid X and gives their opinion on it.
Monthly Expenses: Is it Worth Living Without a Cell Phone? Detailed account on living without a cell phone.
New Cell Phones: Reviews on numerous cell phones, so you have all the latest information.
Wireless Zone: Numerous cell phones reviewed on one blog.
Low-End Android Phone Motorola WX445 for Verizon Leaked: Get a sneak preview of Verizon’s new android phone.
Handspreca Mobile: Cell phone reviews and the latest cell phone news.
Motorola Droid X Android Phone: Review and specs of the Motorola Droid X Android phone.
AT&T Samsung Captivate Review: Learn about the Samsung Captivate by AT&T
Verizon Phases Out Original Droid, Devour: Article about Verizon phasing out the Motorola Droid and Devour phones.
Phandroid: A blog dedicated to android phones.
Know Your Cell: Learn all about cell phones, troubleshooting, reviews and more.
Droid X or iPhone 4? Guy compares the two phones and gives his opinion on both.
Apple Looked into Switching the iPhone to Verizon as Early as 2007: Article detailing how Apple considered switching the iPhone to Verizon numerous times because they were frustrated with AT&T.
I Hate My Cell Phone: One moms hates her Motorola cell phone and tells all in this blog post.
Cell Phone Trek: Find all the latest cell phone news, and reviews of new phones.
Verizon Leaks The Droid 2 Again Motorola’s plans for the upcoming year.
Aaron’s Motorola Droid X Review: A description of this man’s experience with his Verizon Motorola Droid X.
BlueSuitMoms: Working Moms Must Haves: Cell Phones: Descriptions of which cell phones are best for the working mom.
Jackpot Slots Turn Your iPhone into a Miniature Slot Machine: Reviews of the new Jackpot Slots for iPhone.
How is Apple’s Closed Nature Fostering Innovation: Learn how Apple’s secrecy keeps cell phone technology lagging behind.
Motorola Brings Android Charm to T-Mobile: Get a glimpse of Motorola’s new android phone.
Music Lovers Will Love Samsung Beat Techno: Check out all the features of the Samsung Beat Techno.
T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant (Galaxy S) Unboxing and Hardware/Software Tour: Video of a customer unpacking the Samsung Vibrant and reviewing the hardware and software included.
Technical Reviews for Windows 7 Phone Are Out; Overall Quite Positive: Read about the latest in cell phone technology, the new cell phones that support Windows 7 technology.
Apple iPhone 4 Review: Get information on Apple’s latest iPhone release.
Mobility Digest: Blog that discusses windows phones, Blackberry, iPhone and the Droid.
Hello Kitty: Here is a review for the Hello Kitty C90 phone.
Bloggers View: One blogger shares why they love their cell phone.
I love my phone: Here why this blogger loves her new cell phone.
Pretty in Pink: Customers share why they love this perfectly pretty phone.
Emily’s phone: Emily shares why she loves her new Sony phone.
LG Rumor: See why everyone who is getting this phone loves it and the features it offers.
Droid Review: One blogger shares their view of the new Droid.
Why I love my phone: One blogger shares why they love their phone and what they love about it.
Gadgets: A blogger reviews phones and other gadgets that help increase productivity.
Samsung Captivate: Best Android Phone on AT&T Review: Read about the Samsung Captivate to see why users love this phone.
Dual OS T5353 Review – The First Google Android and Windows Mobile 6.5 WiFi GPS Smart Phone: The first Google Android phone running on a Windows-based system.
Smartphone Review: All the latest news about Smartphones.

6 Downsides of Cellular Technology

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:39:51 +0000

Cell phones have had a huge impact on the world. People in countries with no running water are able to keep in touch with others thanks to cellular technology and there are over 4 billion cell phones in use around the world. As of 4 years ago, 1,000 new users were added every minute. That’s insane. So with all those phones, it’s no surprise that, despite the advantages, there are a couple of downsides as well.

1) Keeping tabs

When you got your first cell phone, you were probably pretty excited about being able to get ahold of whoever you wanted, whenever you wanted. No more waiting around to call someone at a certain time, and no more missing important calls either. That’s the freedom of a cell phone. And then, likely within a day, you realized why that’s not such a great idea.

When you just had your land line, if you wanted to ignore people, you were free to do it. Now that you have a cell phone, no one ever understands why you don’t answer calls. “I was out,” will never again be an acceptable excuse. Cell phones forced us all to make up new and novel excuses for getting off the phone. “My battery is dying” or “I had it turned off” are likely the favorites, but there are many others we’ve had to craft to try to assuage the guilt of having the freedom to talk anywhere, but just not wanting to.

Sure, most people will be content to leave a message, but we all know that one person who will call and call and call and then demand an explanation for why you didn’t pick up. For future reference, “I was at the movies,” “I was in a hospital” and “Craziest thing, it just wouldn’t let me answer. Damn phones,” are also decent excuses.

Likewise, having a cell phone means you have no excuses for not making those calls. If you have someone who expects you to check in regularly, whether that be parents, a spouse or a weird roommate, you have to constantly be on your toes coming up with reasons for why you just couldn’t take a couple of minutes. Freedom is never free.

2) Awful ads/scams

Technology and exploitation of that technology go hand in hand. Every time someone thinks of a new way to connect with people, someone else thinks of a way to annoy those people while they try to make a buck. Sometimes this is called advertising. Sometimes it’s a scam. Sometimes it’s both.

Before you had a cell phone, you probably never would have conceived of the idea of paying someone a dollar to call you on the phone and tell you a joke. Or give you your horoscope. Or the latest scores from the world of golf. But you can do it now, just text “dude, seriously?” to 345001 and in no time you’ll have all the latest polar bear jokes on your phone. Service costs $4.99, must be 18 or older, sponsored by ScamTel, scamming you since 2006.

Of course, those ads still require your participation before they can annoy you. Not so with many scams, like say some industrious criminal decides to clone your phone. It never happened to grandma’s old rotary phone, but your phone can be copied exactly and used to make calls to Senegal while you’re sleeping. Or maybe your air time is just sold to someone else, and at the end of the month you get your bill and it’s a few thousand dollars more than you’d anticipated. This is all thanks to someone else finding out what your electronic serial number and phone number are, and programming them into a second phone. Since the system can’t tell them apart, it just bills everything to you.

3) Ringtones

There was a time when the idea of being able to customize your own ring tone was the greatest thing ever. Man invented fire, the wheel, then ringtones. Those were the big three. Who wouldn’t want to be alerted to a call to the sounds of AC/DC? That’s awesome. Unfortunately, ringtones were all stored in a wicked Pandora’s Box of despair that has since spiraled out of control.

It’s almost impossible to spend any significant amount of time in public – at a sporting event, out shopping, at a restaurant, and not be besieged by ringtones. And make no mistake, the rest of the public at large did not choose Back in Black for their ringtone. Oh no. They chose Crazy Frog. They chose Celine Dion. They chose the sound of an asthmatic trying to breathe.

For every enjoyable ringtone, there’s 10 horrible midi files or random auditory poltergeists ready to assault your ears whenever you dare tread into a crowded space, and it’s been proven by science that the person in the room with the most annoying ringtone will be the person who gets the highest volume of calls.

Thanks to stunning technological advances, people are more than capable of recording their own ringtones as well, adding the sounds of family greetings or hilarious audio skits to the world of ringtones and making all the rest of us long for the days messenger pigeons.

4) Terrible customer service

Everyone who owns a cell phone has at least one story of how awful customer service was. Everyone. In fact, it’s highly probably that if you were to fully read the terms of your contract, you’d see somewhere in there a clause that stipulates the company is required to give you abysmal service, either because they think it’s funny, or because it’s easier than doing a good job. Whatever the reason, it happens to everyone. But how bad is it?

According to this site, Verizon misquotes rates 93% of the time. That’s statistically amazing. It really is. To be wrong 93% of the time requires you to actually go out of your way to be wrong.

Other reports list Sprint and AT&T as tops for poor service. Sprint actually came in last for customer service in an MSN money survey, while AT&T has a habit of providing poor connectivity, static and dropped calls, especially for the iPhone. They’ve also denied Google Voice and have included a clause in their contracts disallowing people to join class action lawsuits. You know something’s afoot when you have to agree to not sue someone before you get involved with them.

The internet is bogged down with thousands upon thousands of stories ranging from simply rude customer service reps to companies sending out payment reminders even before service has started and non-existent service they still get billed for. There are as many problems are there are people writing about them, so why do so many people bother? Because we’ve become so reliant on cell technology that we’re willing to put up with ridiculous contracts that force us to pay insane fees for texting and data and abhorrent service in the hopes that we’ll eventually find something that we can tolerate. And the companies know that. Jerks.

5) Worthless applications

Sometimes technology is its own worst enemy. Look at the old phone you had when you were a kid, how many games could you play with it? At best, you could make prank phone calls. And then one day call display ruined that. Technology advanced and you suffered for it.

When cell phones first came out, they were phones. Pretty much you could dial out talk or receive a call and talk. That was it. But then they started advancing in great leaps and bounds and one day you probably found yourself playing Frogger on your phone for 30 minutes while you waited for an important call and when the call finally came your battery died because you were using your phone to play Frogger. And that was a pain in the butt. But now, oh man. Now it’s so much worse.

Thanks to the iPhone, which officially has one bajillion applications, you don’t even need to make phone calls to spend all day on the phone. There’s an iPhone app that just pretends to be beer. Like it looks like a beer and if you tip your phone it looks like you’re drinking or pouring out beer. That’s all it does. There are game apps, trivia apps, you can listen to music, you can watch videos, there’s even a harmonica app so you can sorta play synth harmonica music. You can waste your entire day, and your battery life, and have accomplished not one single noteworthy thing whatsoever. Plus you can pay a fortune to get all those apps only to wake up one night in a cold sweat when you realize that you’ve basically just made Facebook a portable device you can never get away from. Do you want to carry FarmTown with you everywhere you go? Is that the life you envision for yourself?

As with ringtones, you may be able to avoid all the junk out there and maybe your iPhone only has useful applications that are actually helpful to your every day life, but we’re positive not a day goes by when you’re not inundated with requests and suggestions for horrible new applications you can’t even conceive of wanting. Technology, long thought to make our lives easier, just wants to make your life more pointless.

6) Terrible movie plot device

A good example

The cellular phone has changed movies forever. Or it should have. Instead it made filmmakers recognize a problem and then crap all over it.

Say it’s 1975. You’re a hiker. You and four friends who are attractive albeit with terrible hairstyles and clothing due to the year are on your way to your uncle’s cabin. Sure, the locals back in town mentioned how these woods are haunted, but nuts to them, you’re having a party weekend. And as you trudge through the forest, you run afoul of a family of inbred killers. Again. Damn! So you need to spend the rest of the movie losing friends one by one as you attempt to get to the cabin and call for help.

Say it’s 2010. You’re a hiker. You and four friends who are attractive albeit jerkoffs because every horror movie features at least three people who are just begging to be taught a lesson, and then maybe two decent characters and you’re on your way to your uncle’s cabin when you run afoul of the second generation of inbred killers. So you all pull out your phones and call or text the authorities, your family, you update your Twitter account to let everyone know you found inbred killers and you change your Facebook status to “stuck in woods with inbred killers, be back Sunday night! Peace!” The cops arrive in short order and later that night you order a pizza. At least that’s how it should happen.

Filmmakers know we have cell phones and understand how the use of a cell phone ruins the plot of about 90% of horror or suspense movies. So what to do? Just make them not work. Like flashlights in horror movies, cell phones become notoriously unreliable the second you need them. The battery dies, they get left in the glove box despite the fact no one ever puts them there, or there’s just no signal. And no signal would have been plausible, about 10 years ago. Now, unless you’re camping in a fallout shelter, there’s very little excuse for not having a signal no matter where you are. And yes, you can get a signal in the Arctic.

Time was, a crazed killer would just cut the phone line and that was a reasonable plot device for cutting off a character from the outside world. Now the crazed killer has to down a couple of towers or set up a jamming station if he wants to cut people off, and that just seems unreasonable. Sadly, few movies have managed to work a reasonable way around this problem in plotting, but we can hope that in the future we’re going to see masked men with machetes who also carry laptops so they can hack the Verizon network and shut it down for an hour or two. Until that time, we, as audiences, are stuck with scenarios we saw coming miles away that eternally ask us to believe only one guy brought a phone and it’s not getting a signal, all the time.

Cellphone Recycling

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:38:35 +0000

How many cell phones have you owned so far? And how many more do you think you will buy? For many people, these numbers are large. The lifespan of a new phone is short and many old phones end up in landfills or just sitting around in junk drawers. There are many reasons and opportunities to recycle unwanted cell phones, however, very few people actually do it. When it’s time for your next upgrade, consider helping the environment by recycling, and you may also help a person in desperate need of a phone get one of their own.

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Cellphone Economy vs Accessories Economy

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:27:22 +0000

As is the case with many after-markets, the cell phone accessories market is booming, and outpacing the sale of handsets. Cases, clips, batteries and chargers, handsfree devices, memory cards and other items to enhance and customize the look and usage of cell phones have proven to be big business. Here is a head-to-head look at the cell phone market vs. the cell phone accessories market.

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Popular Cell Network Operators in the Americas

admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 12:39:36 +0000

While you may have a limited choice of cell phone carriers in your neighborhood, there are many popular cell network operators in the Americas that you may have never heard of before. None of the four major players in the US cell phone carrier market have a massive reach outside the US, but Burmuda-based Digicel has spread itself to dozens
of countries and is the most prolific cell phone carrier of the Americas.

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The Dirty Details on Cell Phone Use

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:07:55 +0000

People use their cell phones for a wide variety of business and personal tasks. Of course personal communications on cell phones sometimes become extremely personal and smart phones, which act as mini pcs, can often be used to download porn. Here’s a look at the dirty details of cell phone use and the various ways people use their phones for sexual satisfaction.

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How a Cell Phone Call Works

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:39:05 +0000

We use our cell phones all day, every day, but did you ever wonder what is really going on when you make or receive a call? Of course there are towers that we see dotting the landscape and it’s obvious that they make this all possible, but exactly how? Here is a detailed look at how cell phone calls actually work.

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4 Generations of Cell Phones

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:48:19 +0000

As cell phone users look forward to the availability of 4G technology in their network, we look back at the generations leading up to modern cellular standards. While 1G was analog and did not even offer text messaging, today’s advanced 3G and 4G digital technology offers features cellular customers could not have even imagined years ago.

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Poor Cell Phone Reception

admin — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:11:32 +0000

One of the most frustrating problems with using a cell phone is poor reception. While in some cases there is nothing that can be done about it, short of changing carriers, in other situations there may be several ways to improve your reception and reduce dropped calls. The first step to improving your cell phone reception is identifying the problem. Here’s a look at common causes of poor reception and what you may be able to do to fix it.

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Cell Phone Features

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:41:33 +0000

With so many available features on new cell phones, there are many more uses for a cell phone than just making calls. New features are developed and released all the time, so more and more of us are getting a lot more mileage out of our devices than we ever did before. Here is a look at the history and growing usefulness of cell phones.

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