Here’s a example situation which I hope none of you ever encounter: You’re in a car wreck, and alive, but knocked out cold. When first responders arrive on the scene, they will check your person and your glove box for emergency contacts so they know whom to notify. If there’s no information found, the next thing checked is usually your cell...

The ride is over for VZW customers who were able to keep their unlimited plans for this long (VZW introduced tiered pricing some time ago, but existing customers were allowed to keep their unlimited data plans), as Verizon is dumping unlimited data plans completely. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo – now hated by many VZW customers big time – explained that “you...

You know what I think? T-Mobile may need to look into this site and get a Bail Bondsman. If you look at the website, you’ll notice that bail bonds are for defendants who have committed a federal crime. T-Mobile I feel has done just that. If you’re a T-Mobile customer, you may already have your opinions about them, but I have been irritated with them...

There’s a poll going on at MakeUseOf asking at what age a kid should have a smartphone. My opinion? As early as possible – but with specific restrictions, and I’ll list those in a moment. I see a kid (as in under the age of 18) having a smartphone the same as when I was a kid and I asked my father for my own phone line for BBSing (and later...

So, here’s the situation… You want to send a text message, but for whatever reason, you can’t. Maybe your cell phone reception is poor enough that you might as well be in a lead box. Maybe you were forcibly reminded why leaving your phone on the floor is a bad idea. Perhaps you lost it, or the battery’s dead. Whatever the reason, you...

New York and Pennsylvania had a Nor’easter dumped on them this month. Yes, this month. In April:Ridiculous. Not the video, just the snow. Anyway.. Generally speaking, electronics can handle cold-to-hot (meaning cold and not freezing-to-hot) fairly well, but with hot-to-cold, the problem you’ll encounter more often than not are "stiff"...

How does a small wireless carrier in France get three million subscribers in just three months? Offer a "dumb pipe" plan that gives you everything for only $25 a month, as in unlimited voice, unlimited text, 3GB of fair-use bandwidth and unlimited Wi-Fi hotspot access to over 5 million points, and – get this – unlimited tethering at no...

Google Voice is a great service, but it has one flaw that a lot of people wished didn’t exist – you can’t send an initial text message out from a featurephone a.k.a. dumbphone as your GV number. (You can with a smartphone because you can use a GV app or go to m.google.com/voice in he phone’s browser.) Or can you? In fact, you can. The...

If you happen to live in an area MetroPCS covers, and you use tons of bandwidth on your smartphone, MetroPCS offers unlimited LTE data at $70/month. This is actually a price raise from what they had before concerning LTE plans, but for bandwidth-hungry users, this is still a good deal. The first question people have is, obviously, "Is this truly...

This one is for members of The Tin Foil Hat club; long live Big Brother. It is of course no surprise that cops track cell phones without warrants routinely. It is also no surprise that shopping malls do the same thing (and not just in Australia as it happens here too). If this scares the bejeezus out of you, there are basically two ways not to be tracked by your...