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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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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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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 pad. Smartphones have [...]

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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 [...]

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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 incentive for [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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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.

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