Cell Phones by The Numbers
Posted by: Elise on February 16th, 2010 at 11:55pm
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Posted by: Elise on February 16th, 2010 at 11:55pm
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Posted by: Elise on October 18th, 2009 at 10:59am
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, [...]
Posted by: Elise on July 24th, 2009 at 4:23pm
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 terms [...]
Posted by: Elise on July 1st, 2009 at 6:17pm
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In 1992 the first Smartphone was introduced to the world as a Concept product at the COMDEX computer industry trade show in Las Vegas., NV. The mobile phone was called “Simon” and its feature set included a touch screen, stylus, calendar, World Clock, address book, calculator, eMail, Fax, games and a note [...]
Posted by: Lisa Anthony on May 26th, 2009 at 7:06pm
Cell phones are quickly become the center of mobile life. Not only are cell phones being used for personal health monitoring but the Chicago Times is reporting that Chicago residents may soon be able to pay for their public transportation by swiping their cellphone over a scanner.
Chicago’s public transportation authority is currently investigating the [...]
Posted by: Lisa Anthony on May 18th, 2009 at 12:34pm
It’s estimated that Americans have over 130 million cell phones are retired each year and up to 500 million old cell phones are sitting in storage. Many people just assume that their old cell phones are junk.
However, it just might be that your old cell phone is worth some money. As an [...]
Posted by: Elise on April 30th, 2009 at 9:28am
Imagine a cell phone that could save your life. Sure, it’s there for calling your mother at three minutes to midnight when you’ve nearly missed her birthday, or taking those all-important self-portraits while on vacation. But imagine a cell phone that could transmit medical information to doctors or hospitals as quickly and easily as sending [...]
Posted by: Elise on April 28th, 2009 at 5:52pm
With the recent pandemic of Swine Flu going around, and the ensuing need to know how you’re affected, we’ve created a new service for cell phone users:
Text PIGFLU to 41411 and we will send updates as news develops about the Swine Flu. The only cost is your cost for receiving regular text messages, and there [...]
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 first [...]
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 PageRank
Alexa Traffic
Technorati [...]
Posted by: Billy Kirk on September 18th, 2008 at 8:07am
We at Cell Phones.org have taken some time out of our day to comprise a list of the Top 25 mobile blogs for your reading pleasure. Bear in mind we said “mobile” blogs – we focused only on these and tried to cut out the more broad “gadget” blogs altogether. We’ve organized these roughly based [...]
Posted by: Elise on September 15th, 2008 at 7:29pm
Sprint / Nextel is experiencing a major SMS/texting outage right now, with severe backlogs and no access to messaging.sprint.com and messaging.nextel.com.
We’ve got a message into the company, we’ll post here when we get a reply.
Oh, it's the only real way to stay informed. So go on, read for a bit. It won't hurt, we promise.
