Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

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My friend Andy Abramson just yesterday posted “Staying Connected- Beating The High Cost of Roaming http://ow.ly/18lHO6“.  I wanted to bring any attention I could to his article because it highlights one of my favorite companies, Truphone.  I’ve been an advocate of theirs for many years now [...]

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Ok, I have the absolute greatest wife ever, she got me a white Nokia E72 as a fathers day gift.  I am the luckiest guy ever.  Well here’s my review, I love it for the most part.
The Nokia E72 has a great number of benefits [...]

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Are you a business traveler who likes to save a few dollars on roaming fees?  I definitely am.  I’m a self employed consultant who pays all my own bills.  I personally hate paying roaming fees to AT&T.
A few months ago I was asked to review [...]

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This last week has been hellish for some people.  Some people actually do do video chat on their mobile phones.  My sister does because her husband is on the other side of the world working and getting their new house set up.  Her son misses [...]

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I have been a heavy user of phone minutes on and off for many years now.  At my peak I believe once I hit 5,000 minutes in one month.  That may not be a lot for some but boy was it a lot for me. [...]

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Our good friends at WOMWorld/Nokia (part of 1000 Heads) recently completed a campaign to promote their new Nokia CarKit CK-200. It entailed 5 very high power sports cars driving all around England doing all kinds of tasks.  Then 5 bicyclists’ finding their way to a park [...]

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A few months ago I got a Jabra Cruiser to review and boy have I been reviewing the heck out of it and I’m loving it.  I have been using it instead of a bluetooth headset since the moment I got it and it’s so [...]

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I’m getting frustrated with mobile these days.  I am really tired of the popular formats of phones and nothing is really changing.  I know touchscreen only handsets are popular but I’m personally bored to bits of seeing them everywhere.  Everyone and their mother has a touchscreen [...]

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I just got done reading about DeviceFidelity (in a MobileCrunch post by Greg Kumparak)  a company that is producing a micro SD card that will allow your phone to act as a credit card using NFC (Near Field Communication) technology.  It’s called In2Pay.  I have [...]

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I don’t know why but I’m in a “Tell it as it should be” mood, so I’m going to voice my opinion once again.  And as usual it’s directed at Nokia, don’t take it personally Nokia, I really like you and want you to succeed [...]

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