Think about the last few 20 you’ve taken, especially this holiday season. How many of these photos were on a traditional point-and-shoot camera (or SLR) versus how many were taken on your smartphone? If you’re like most people these days, less were taken on regular cameras. Last week, the NPD Group, a research firm, released…
There are 800 million people worldwide who access Facebook, most on a daily basis. Most of the time, we’re on our computers at home or on the go. However, Facebook becomes even more engaging when we can post on walls, upload photos and interact with the social network while on our mobile phones. If you…
I talk a lot about mobile topics, in fact, it’s my favorite hobby, outside of cycling. However, being crazy technologists, we often forget the basics. In a recent meeting, I was asked very poignant question which I thought would be perfect blog post fodder: how does a phone owner actually use and interact with QR…
A story came out last week during the Where 2.0 conference hosted by O’Reilly that, unbeknownst to most iPhone owners, that iOS tracks your location and keeps this valuable information in a file. The unencrypted file is then housed on the computer in which you back your phone up to and can be utilized to…
Skype has been offering Skype calling on their line of BlackBerry and Android phones for a while now. It allows you to make Skype calls (even international ones) and send Skype IMs on your Verizon mobile phone – which is very convenient. I thoroughly enjoy being able to talk to my Skype contacts whilst on the go…with…
After posting earlier about AT&T’s discriminatory practice of only giving pre-paid subscribers a subset of the coverage area that their contracted mobile customers get, I thought I’d expand on the topic. As a participant in the Nokia Blogger Relations program, periodically I receive phones to trial and review. Thus, I’ve looked for GSM providers in…