Cell Phones

While not quite as widespread as picking your favorite ringtone, there is another way to personalize and accessorize your cell phone – some models let you change the faceplate. You can get different colors, designs or logos. If you can imagine it, someone has probably put it on faceplate. The first site […]

It used to be that phones had one sound – a mechanical bell. Why? They had mechanical bells in them. Those phones have gone the way of the black & white TV set. Although we still say a phone is “ringing,” that’s really a left over phrase from the bygone error.
Today’s […]

Camera phones must be causing quite a problem for concert promoters. Remember how they used to forbid cameras and all recording devices at concerts? In fact, signs stated that any such recording devices would be confiscated.
I saw some footage of a concert on TV the other day and there were tons […]

Not Without My Phone
This one is a quiz:
A) Do you care if people talk on cell phones in public places such as the grocery store, bank, park, etc.
B) Do you care if people talk on cell phones when they drive?
C) What is the most inappropriate time or the worst place you ever heard a cell phone ring?
AT&T cingular. […]

This is kind of a double entry today because I was going to write about text messaging anyway, but then I thought of what happened in the movie theater the other day. This is the second time I have seen (or more importantly heard) someone talking on a cell phone DURING a movie.
Although I […]

Rollover minutes are a great concept. In fact, they should have been part of the cell phone industry right from the beginning.
Don’t use all your minutes and they just get saved for you for the next month. If you go over your minutes, you would of course have to pay the phone company […]

Can anyone hear anyone now? If not, cell phone headsets just might be to blame.
A couple years a go, I went through an annoying period dealing with inadequately made and poorly performing cell phone headsets. I had differetn brands and they were absolutely terrible. The people on the other end complained constantly […]

The smaller the cell phones get, the easier they are to misplace which means it is easier for them to end up in crazy places.
As someone who once dealth with cell phones in a corporate level (which means thousands of units and cell phone lines), I’ve heard plenty of hard-to believe stories.
I’ve heard of cell […]