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Tech Infrastructure and Monopolies
When I was a kid, phone design was still pretty much in its infancy–the “Princess” phone was pretty much the height of technology then. It wasn’t bolted to the wall! The dial lit up! It came in...
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Motorola ES400 Enterprise Digital Assistant First Look
The regular onslaught of weekly smartphone announcements highlighting the latest offerings running Android or the upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS, it’s very easy for Motorola’s ES400 to get lost in the...
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AT&T Trying Last Ditch Effort To Hold Onto iPhone Users with Top 10 List
It seems the iPhone on Verizon is a virtual certainly at this point. I couldn’t help but chuckle when I got the mail today and pulled this AT&T circular from the box because it seems AT&T...
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Tethering Data with Your Phone; How Much Is It Worth to You?
To tether or not to tether, what to do? There has been a long-standing debate and rather good argument over whether tethering your phone is legal, ethical, or financially worth it. Most platforms today...
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One Month Later, Verizon Owns 12% of the iPhone Market
Last month I wrote about a new tracker that shows the comparative data used by the iPhone on Verizon and AT&T and uses that as a comparison for the number of active phones. The initial data set was...
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Your AT&T iPhone Data Usage Is Unusually High? Maybe This Is Why
Image courtesy of Productivity 501 We all have iPhones in our house. For the kids and Sami, I got the lowest data plans, because they’re all on the wifi all the time. But weirdly, every month, Maggie’s...
View ArticleZippier HP TouchPad Launching on AT&T Mobile Network
I checked out the HP TouchPad the day it was released and… didn’t walk out with one. I’m impressed with WebOS but I found the tablet a bit too laggy for my taste. Well the speed issue is about to be...
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The AT&T HTC Status Android Mobile Phone Review
If you are a Facebook junkie who can’t go for even five minutes without checking in, then I may have found the perfect phone for you. HTC recently brought one their two Facebook-integrated phones to...
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Adventures in Customer Support: AT&T
Guess which Stooge is Doug in this little scenario It all began back in January . . . See, here’s the deal: for the kids’ “big holiday gift,” I got them both iPhone 4s. Alas, now you have to get...
View ArticleMobile 4G & LTE, Just a Faster Way to Hit Your Data Cap?
Image courtesy of Droid-Life What drives me nuts about mobile carriers these days is that I truly believe they are using new technology against us. Maybe you think I’m out of my mind, but it’s really...
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The Samsung Galaxy S II Brings Some Heavy Hardware Specs and Much Needed...
So the day has finally come where the official announcement has been made for the Samsung Galaxy S II to hit US soil. The press conference is under way right now (Dan is there as I type), and just as...
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AT&T Lets Us Down Again
Ah, AT&T. So, I’m sitting here staring at my shiny new iPhone 4S. It’s unusable right now, thanks to AT&T’s lack of preparedness. They’ve had several years to figure out how to handle the spike...
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The HTC Vivid Is One of AT&T’s Latest 4G LTE Android Smartphones
AT&T is bound and determined to tease those of us who don’t live in major markets with their 4G LTE speeds and the phones that can handle them; today HTC has announced the new HTC Vivid. Thanks to...
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Quick Impressions: Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket Speeds
As a small town guy living in the Chicago area, there are a lot times when I get frustrated with the traffic, the density, and the general inconveniences that are necessarily associated with urban...
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HTC Announces Titan II, AT&T’s Tablet-Sized 4G LTE Windows Phone
Wow, I am glad that I hadn’t already spring for a Titan from AT&T; today saw the announcement of the Titan II, and this model appears to be even more impressive than the first! Today, at the 2012...
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Nokia Introduces the AT&T 4G Lumia 900 to the United States
This afternoon I attended a standing room only event in the impossibly small Ballroom A at the Venetian. The purpose was to hear about Nokia’s latest announcement for North America, and what I was...
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T-Mobile Cashing in on Aquisition Failure; Spectrum Upgrade Coming Soon...
Image Courtesy T-Mobile Today is a good day for T-Mobile customers. This morning the FCC listed the filing for a $1 billion transfer of Spectrum from AT&T to T-Mobile. This pretty much means to the...
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AT&T Set to Double Their Upgrade Fee to $36?
AT&T is reportedly slated to increase their device upgrade costs from $18 to $36 this coming Sunday, February 12. Because the overall costs associated with upgrading to a new device have increased,...
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Can You Hear Me OW!?! AT&T Continuing Their Heavy-Handed Assault on Unlimited...
Much has been written about AT&T now warning the “top 5% of iPhone data users” on unlimited plans that they would begin seeing their data speeds slowed because of their adverse affect on the...
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The Wilson Electronics AG Pro 75 Was Worth the Upgrade
It’s no secret that if you live or work in an area that isn’t in the middle of a strong cellular coverage zone, your mobile phone signal is going to suffer. That’s one of the things I knew I would have...
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