If you’ve ever found text messaging to be too limited and wished that you could actually chat with your SMS contacts, you’re pretty likely to love this app. Available for Blackberry, Android, iOS, and Nokia phones, Whatsapp markets itself as a “cross platform mobile messaging app.”  Not too shabby, eh? It’s basically a surrogate...

One of the best-running platforms on a smartphone and several featuresphones is Java. If you have a multimedia-capable handset that’s not Android or iOS-based, all the apps you have are probably Java-based. New touchscreen smartphones these days are really cheap and in some instances well under 50 bucks new. Okay, you’ve got a smartphone but...

You don’t have to go far in the PCMech community to find people who don’t own a smartphone, citing that they "hate smartphones". Smartphone haters hate two things primarily:Wireless plan contracts of any kind The ridiculous prices of the phones themselvesIt’s never the actual phone that these people hate, because if it did sell...

It is possible for just about any cell phone (even for plain featurephones) to send messages to email addresses as well as other mobile phone numbers. The drawback to this is that on reply to a message via email, HTML formatting by default is enabled, which on receive of the phone comes across as mostly gibberish (all the formatting code can be seen). The...

There have been several attempts to get broadband internet available to you while driving. Technically we already have this via smartphone, but manufacturers want a integrated-into-automobile solution because they feel we as consumers could use it. The latest iteration of this is 4G LTE in the car, and I can honestly say yes, that would actually work. Previous...

PostSecret, the popular tell-all-your-secrets web site, shut down their iPhone app that allowed people to post their secrets 100% anonymously via electronic means (prior to that it was by mail-in postcard only and has gone back to operating that way). Cited reasons for the closure of the app were, "…absolute anonymity made it very challenging to...

On the eastern side of the United States, today is best described as an ice cube – even for Tampa Florida where PCMech is based: Even though it happens rarely, cold snaps causing freezing temperatures do happen in Florida. In a truly cold area for this time of year, like Boston, Massachusetts, that’s where you see the Fahrenheit numbers really take...

Every few years or so the electronics industry gets all stupid and introduces way too much of a specific tech at us way too fast. As of right now, which Forbes has confirmed, there’s too much mobile crap out there; so much so that it leaves people literally fatigued. And yes, it is all crap. When you have too much of any one specific type of electronics...

As far as desktop use is concerned, Opera has little to no presence. However, on mobile platforms, Opera is #1 worldwide. Yes, that means Opera is used more than Android’s browser is. Why does Opera have so much popularity on mobile? Because it runs on just about any smartphone that exists. If your phone no matter what it is can run apps and access the...

The 800G from LG is a phone available in the US through prepaid carriers Tracfone, NET10 and others. The one I have uses the Tracfone carrier. As I’ve said before on more than one occasion, I’m a cheap cell phone user and hate post-paid cell phone contracts with a passion; this is why I use low-end prepaid cell phones instead. The 800G is an...