On average, people will replace their cell phones every 1 to 4 years, depending on the term length of contract they have. Usually it’s the situation that when a post-paid contract is up, the carrier will offer you a new phone either for free or with a steep discount. If your carrier has a storefront (like a Verizon Wireless store), they can take your old...

Long-term wireless phone contracts, commonly known as post-paid contracts, are evil and always have been. They’re evil because you’re committing one to two years of your fiscal life to something you either won’t use at all, or something that won’t be enough for your needs; there’s never a happy medium. There is such a thing as a...

Possibly one of the best if not the best explanation of what the difference is between Android and iOS concerning the programming arena is in this article: People should look at Android more in the terms of PC gaming while iOS is more like console. With iOS everything is set with the hardware and developers program for that hardware. With PC gaming, it is a...

It’s a sad truth that there’s a rather large chunk of the United States that has internet connectivity that barely qualifies as "broadband". Personally, I believe anything under a solid 768k on the downstream is slow – and there are still places that can’t even eke out 512k. Bear in mind I’m talking about desktop computer...

When it comes to SD (Secure Digital) cards, there’s something called a “Speed Class Rating”. On NewEgg for example you can peruse cards based on this specification:The higher the number, the better the speed, which means a 10 is the best you can get. A question however is does this even matter when connected to a smartphone running...

One of the absolute cheapest ways to compute – other than a smartphone – is by using an Ultra-mobile PC or UMPC for short. If you’re thinking, "Didn’t they stop making those?" Nope. They’re still made and one can easily be bought for under $100 new, but before you say "COOL!" and run out to get one, there’s...

Imagine your smartphone or tablet screen as a flexible, elastic material. As it turns out, you might not have to wait long. Researchers from Osaka University have developed what they are coining the “Flex” interface and it will likely be reaching cellphones and tablets before we know it. These researches identified a key problem with standard swipe...

In many movies and TV shows starting in the 1950s (or possibly earlier), we were shown instances of people having telephone conversations via video conferencing, be it one-to-one or one-to-many; this was seen as the modern communication of the future. The first real instance of truly easy video conferencing that anyone could use – and can still use –...

Good news for all of you iOS fans – the long-awaited WordPress for iOS 2.8 is out! In addition to fixes (you find them in any release), this one boasts some new, cool features (you don’t find them that often). Your iOS blogging is now one step closer to getting awesome! Let’s start with the good news first. The two new major features are Quick...

Blogging described simply is long form writing, and while writing short form (as in texting) is easy on a smartphone, long form isn’t exactly a simple matter. It’s not that the smartphone isn’t capable of blogging, but you do have to use the right tools to get the job done. Your options: WordPress for iOS Site: http://ios.wordpress.org/ The...