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Cell Phone Shake Up: A Guide to Picking Your Mobile

Cell Phone Shake Up: A Guide to Picking Your Mobile

The announcement of the Verizon iPhone launching next month has a lot of people considering changing providers. Some are thinking...

The Environmental Impact of Cell Phones

The Environmental Impact of Cell Phones

Just in time for next month's Verizon iPhone release, we present to you a bit of thought-provoking, guilt-tripping data. In...

Smoking is Bad For Your Cellphone

Smoking is Bad For Your Cellphone

This would be so rad, if I didn't mind looking like a total chimney. Before you is the 'world's smallest'...

U.S. Government Considers Killing Cell Phones While Driving

U.S. Government Considers Killing Cell Phones While Driving

Stupidity aside, the U.S. government has long been looking for ways to reduce the amount of accidents on the road....

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X12 Specs Leaked This Week

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X12 Specs Leaked This Week

Sony Ericsson is one company which failed to make the most of the Google's free mobile OS, Android. The HTC...

Sharp Loses Its Marbles, Designs Possibly Edible Phone

Sharp Loses Its Marbles, Designs Possibly Edible Phone

No one can ever say Sharp didn't make unique phones. Actually, 'unique' may be a bit of an understatement in...

Cellphone-Wielding Time Traveler Spotted In Charlie Chaplin Film

Cellphone-Wielding Time Traveler Spotted In Charlie Chaplin Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6a4T2tJaSU I've been engaged in a hot debate over the last hour with a friend of mine over just what...

Study Reveals Smartphone Owners Don’t Download Apps

Study Reveals Smartphone Owners Don’t Download Apps

Ever read about a study and at first you’re excited by the results, and then you’re immediately let down? That...

Texting On The Rise In North America

Texting On The Rise In North America

The trend towards cell phones as general communications devices continues, as a report from the Nielsen Company (yeah, that Nielsen...

You’ll Have To Walk the Walk To Talk the Talk

You’ll Have To Walk the Walk To Talk the Talk

You think your phone is a target for would-be identity thieves now? Wait until this phone-as-method-of-payment madness touches down -...

You Already Have A Touchscreen Phone – You Just Don’t Know It

You Already Have A Touchscreen Phone – You Just Don’t Know It

Do you sometimes feel an unwarranted sense of telecommunication shame? Is your old, crappy flip phone making you an embarrassment...

Sunday’s Big Rumor: A Facebook Phone

Sunday’s Big Rumor: A Facebook Phone

I've talked before about how no one in the tech industry is happy with the color of grass in their...

‘In Soviet Russia’ Joke Goes Here

‘In Soviet Russia’ Joke Goes Here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrook6t4AFg Despite Soviet heritage, I don't pretend to know more Russian than I learned watching James Bond movies through my...

Totally Rad Steampunk Phones For the Oldschool Gentleman

Totally Rad Steampunk Phones For the Oldschool Gentleman

I was going to ask you if you enjoy rad things, but I know you. You're a tech blog-surfing, web-savvy,...

Google PWNS Bell, Verizon, Skype and Every Telephone Company

Google PWNS Bell, Verizon, Skype and Every Telephone Company

The senior editor for TECHi just told me they put a bunch of money into Skype. So I want to...

Apple vs. Motorola: Who Can Lock It Down

Apple vs. Motorola: Who Can Lock It Down

Apple has been fighting hard against the jailbreak community for years now. Every update Apple dishes out feels like its...

Pack your Bags and Update that Passport, Europe Finally has a Universal Cell Phone Charger

Pack your Bags and Update that Passport, Europe Finally has a Universal Cell Phone Charger

This is what you do when you accidentally run over your cellphone charger with a lawnmower and have to call...

The Last Tech Gadget You’ll Ever Need?

The Last Tech Gadget You’ll Ever Need?

Forget about HDTVs, PSPs, Macbooks, iPods, radios, cameras, camcorders, books, maps, and GPSs. We don’t need ‘em! We have everything...

Apple Makes Statement On iPhone 4 Signal Loss Flaw

Apple Makes Statement On iPhone 4 Signal Loss Flaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n95J8bZcdQ Apple has admitted to a widely-reported problem in which millions of iPhone 4 units are likely to lose signal...

9 Tech Inventions That Started it All – How Far We’ve Come

9 Tech Inventions That Started it All – How Far We’ve Come

In this day and age, it's often all too easy to complain about the problems plaguing social networking sites, overpriced...