Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

Wednesday morning I got an unusual Tweet as I was preparing to take my 3 year old to her first day of Preschool.  A Phone.com user was having issues with the quality of their calls and posted it to Twitter.  I got the notification and instantly got on my computer to email our CEO, CTO [...]

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I keep reading about this, people ask me about it and I’ve even asked myself the question a few times.  The answer is NO, Nokia is nowhere near dead.  They sell a bazillion phones a day and are still the leader in smart phones with [...]

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I got my new Phone.com ATA in the mail and took the time to set it up today.  Setting it up was an extreme overstatement.  The only thing I did was plug it in and it’s already to go.  I had a dial tone in [...]

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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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