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7 Incredibly Stupid iPhone Accessories

There are a ton of iPhone accessories out there, and most of them are run of the mill. Screen protectors, holsters, skins and various sundry headphones are the norm. Occassionally, however, we encounter accessories that just make you go WTF? Here are 10 of the weirder ones we’ve seen lately – if you have others, [...]

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25+ Mobile Tools to Manage Your Fantasy Football Team

25+ Mobile Tools to Manage Your Fantasy Football Team With the NFL Preseason underway, you’re probably already thinking about your fantasy football team for this year. We’ve got lots of resources to keep you up to date and in control wherever you go. Check out this list, and you’ll find mobile sites, text alerts, and [...]

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100 Mobile Tools for Teachers

By Cherrye Moore It is a common-known fact that teaching is a labor of love for most educators. They are overworked and under-appreciated and many of them spend their own money, time and energy to improve their students’ education. With all of the new mobile tools on the market today, teachers can more easily work [...]

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Cellscope and Mobile Medicine

Technology Review reported on July 23 that researchers have developed a new enhancement for cell phone cameras which could, theoretically, bring a more mobile and cost-effective means of diagnosing illness to impoverished areas with limited access to health care. It’s a tubular length tacked onto the cell’s existing lens, and it is called Cellscope. Cellscope [...]

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The MotoDroid, Still in Utero

Motorola has issued a call for indy app developers from the cultivar Android.  Developers will reportedly be given advan popular platform — heretofore snatched up and distributed by HTC.  They will test and debug the devices, and they’ll remain in communication with Motorola engineers for app development geared specifically to the manufacturer. This request for [...]

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T-Mobile Joins RadioShack Line-Up

RadioShack will now be offering T-Mobile devices and rate plans (already available through the techie supercenter’s website).  This incorporation makes an active fourth for the company in regard to major cellular carriers — they already offer services on behalf of AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Alltel. Reports, by the way, on what RadioShack will do in [...]

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The Vague Transition

Now that Alltel has officially given sway to Verizon in most areas, the latter’s forums are alive with the sound of nervous questions from customers wondering about their rate plan/feature longevity and somewhat vague pats of reassurance from moderators.  This vagueness in times of transition is certainly not the BlackBerry Storm — that would be, [...]

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3G Speed Results . . . Maybe

The numbers for mobile broadband speed are in and . . . none too shocking.  Wired.com recently rated the major U.S. carriers to sekle if the health of their 3G pulse lives up to its talking points.  Their results?  Verizon first, T-Mobile second, Sprint third and AT&T holding up the bridal train. There are, of [...]

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The iPhone Killer's New Armor

Amid general buzz over T-Mobile’s release of the My Touch — the second collaboration between HTC and Google — the question has been raised of whether it will prove significantly enhanced over its popular prequel, the G1.  The advance consensus, gleaned from user forums and phone specs, seems to be that they are primarily the same [...]

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DIY SmartShooting

With the advent of more and more smartphones smacking the ground running, customers receive the benefit of a much wider selection than was available even a year ago, and also occasionally — unfortunately — the tension headache of increased technical flaws.  Part of this raw-deal inheritance can be viewed as dues paid by the first [...]

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Putting a Name and Address to the Phone Number

We at Mobile Maven are primarily interested in cell phones and gadgets. From time to time we get inquires about reverse cell phone lookups. Apparently if you only have someone’s cell phone number but not a name or address, you can enter their number into a database,  and get back the information you’re looking for. [...]

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