In the part of Tampa Bay Florida where I live, Verizon Wireless is one of the worst carriers to use. Text and multimedia messaging work fine, but for voice calls, forget it. Dropped calls are common, and when it doesn’t drop, a voice call is choppy at best; the sound is similar to someone jiggling a headphone connector where the signal breaks in and...

According to StatCounter with its "Mobile vs. Desktop" statistics option, desktop internet users have decreased from 97% to 93%, and mobile internet users have increased from 3% to 7% over the past 12 months worldwide. While this doesn’t sound like a lot, that’s actually a fairly large jump. Will mobile users increase to 15% and desktop...

In the article just before this one I talked about the LG500G from Tracfone; a smartphone that can be bought new for 30 dollars. At present, a feature phone’s rock-bottom price is 10 bucks, but if QWERTY smartphones continue to drop in price, will this mean the end of the feature phone? To put this in perspective, a QWERTY phone was $100 just six months...

In the world of wireless phones, the two major types are feature phones (sometimes called "dumbphones") and smartphones. What’s the biggest difference between a feature phone and a smartphone? The smartphone is MMS-capable; feature phones are not. In order for a phone to qualify as MMS-capable, it must be able to take photos and/or video and...

To those new to the mobile world, some of the jargon and terminology used by a lot of tech journalists can tend to be just a touch overwhelming, can’t it?  In a lot of cases, I’m sure many of you are left completely in the dark as to what a blogger’s on about when they spout lingo like “Bootloader” or...

Whether you have a smartphone or a featurephone (a.k.a. "plain" or "dumbphone"), to the best of my knowledge every cell phone has the ability to text – even if you have a dirt cheap off-the-shelf prepaid phone bought from a convenience store. The key to knowing what your cell phone’s email address is to know its SMS (simple...

And so the rivalry between Nvidia and AMD continues. For those of you who don’t know, Nvidia’s been responsible for the CPUs on most of the modern Android tablets. If a recently leaked roadmap is to be believed, AMD is throwing in with rival Microsoft for the upcoming Windows 8 Tablets. Do note that this one’s a rumor, folks- don’t get...

Heads up to all you tech geeks out there: Samsung’s got a new microSD card on the way, and it’s sexy. They’ve developed a 32GB card that boasts a class 10 speed rating, with read/write rates of 24 mbps/12 mbps. Now, those of you who aren’t technologically inclined are going to want an explanation of this one-preferably in plain English. I...

Every major carrier is touting their 4G coverage but very little about what technology is being used is mentioned in public. The truth is “4G” has no real definition and it’s being used to describe 3 different technologies right now. The technologies currently being used are Wimax on Sprint, HSPA+ on AT&T and T-Mobile and LTE on Verizon. Here is a...

This isn’t the first time Android tops iOS in the US because this happened in January this year but as latest data shows, Android is increasing the gap and is headed to become the unchallenged leader in mobile platforms. Rather, the news from the latest ComScore survey on mobile trends is that Blackberry is going down further and now it is the third...