Phones

Review: FoneStand Smartphone Stand

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Here’s another one of those no-batteries-needed accessories for what is probably our most treasured of gadgets nowadays – our smartphones. The FoneStand is a black (or white) plastic stand for your iPhone, Android or other smartphone or even some tablets that lets you view them in either portrait or landscape mode at an angle.

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iPhone Dropped to Third

According to Wireless Week, HTC shipped the most smartphones in the US in Q3 2011 with 5.7 million smartphones shipped. Samsung shipped 4.9 million and Apple shipped 4.6 million providing Android a number one and two spot in US shipments. RIM continues the free slide dropping to under 10% share of shipments. With the Apple [...]

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Stay Smart About Personal Finance With These Smartphone Apps

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If you have a smartphone, you already know how useful it is in a myriad of ways. Personal finance is such an integral part of our daily lives; make sure you’re harnessing the power of your phone to keep track of expenses, budgets, and investments. It’s a lifeline in today’s fast-moving world. Whether you are [...]

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HP Veer – Tiny 4G Smartphone

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Is this the world’s smallest fully-equipped 4G smartphone? Possibly. The HP Veer 4G is a sliding form-factor phone providing you the benefits of a touch screen, while also giving you a fully-functional QWERTY keyboard when required. The HP Veer also runs WebOS, the same as the Palm Pre. Pricing starts at $99.99 – read on [...]

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Update – DriveSafe’s App Speaks Your SMS

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A while ago we covered DriveSafe.ly’s app for reading out your texts while you’re driving. Their apps initially covered BlackBerry and Android, but they’ve now extended their service to the iPhone and added some new exciting features…

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AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon: Their Smartphones with the Best Specs

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In the last few years the smartphone market has exploded. New devices seem to come out on each network nearly every month. In general, a good strategy for buying a new smartphone is to buy the highest spec smartphone available at the time in hopes of not being too obsolete until you get another upgrade. [...]

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Review: OBi VoIP Telephone Adapter and Voice Service Bridge

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I’ve been trialing a new gadget last few weeks called an OBi. OBi is essentially a Internet VoIP bridge box similar to what you might get if you subscribed to Vonage. Why would you want to get an OBi? The number one reason is that you could then ditch your traditional phone (POTS) line, and [...]

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Courage iPhone Case – Profits go to Japanese Earthquake Victims

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March 11, 2011 was a terrifying and devastating moment for the people of Japan. The rest of the world woke up to find pictures of a developed country torn to pieces and the events that unfolded during the following days and weeks to be just as horrific. One of many companies that have been good [...]

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Kyocera Echo is a Dual-Screen Smartphone that Resembles a Nintendo DS

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The Kyocera Echo (or Sprint Echo) is Sprint’s very own dual-screen phone, that resembles more of a Nintendo DS than something we use to call people with. The phone has two 3.5″ touchscreens, which can be combined to make one 4.7″ touchscreen to transform the phone into more of a tablet-form. Alternatively if you just [...]

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What’s The Difference Between an iPad and an iPhone?

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Here’s another back-to-basics article that will straighten out this question once and for all. If you type “What’s the difference between an iPad and an…” into Google, it auto-suggests that you mean “What’s the difference between an iPad and an iPhone“, which implies that there are more than a few people searching for the answer [...]

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