Vertu Constellation Quest ‘coming soon,’ finally puts QWERTY in your Hermès handbag
What's been missing from Vertu's lineup so far? Okay, yes, a touchscreen model -- touch
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: christie, constellation, engadget, keyboard, luxury, pretty-obvious, Teaser, texting
Xcom Global international MiFi / data rental service review
A few months earlier in the year, we covered the arduous process of staying connected while traveling abroad . One of the ways we mentioned for jetsetters, backpackers and common tourists to stay jacked in while situated far from their homeland was a MiFi rental service from Xcom Global
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Carrier, data-rental, fri, international, messaging, mobileinternet, result, Sim, texting, traveling, video, xcom, xcomglobal
Walmart Family Mobile enters the postpaid war, reselling service from T-Mobile
Walmart's already firmly entrenched in the prepaid cellular business, offering handsets and service via Common Cents (Sprint) and Straight Talk (Verizon Wireless), but according to Greg Hall, vice president of merchandising at Walmart US, there's a "perception among customers that prepaid service doesn't offer access to the best phones or the best network quality." In order to combat that, the outfit will be launching a new postpaid service today dubbed Walmart Family Mobile. The actual fine print is somewhat confusing, as it offers the best of both the pre- and postpaid worlds; users will still pay their monthly bill at the end of the month, but no subsidization will take place on the phones themselves due to this being a no-contract ordeal.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, family mobile, mvno, pricey-addition, straight talk, straighttalk, texting, vice president
LG’s C300 Town spotted in the wild, textin’ on the cheap
It appears we missed an opportunity at IFA to spend some quality time with LG's recently-outed C300 Town, a dumbphone in every sense of the word whose main mission in life seems to be making your texting an easier task thanks to a full portrait QWERTY keyboard.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: c300 town, c300town, clarity, decent, ifa, inthewild, mobile, namely-support, quality, qwerty, texting, town, tricks
Survey says: most teens don’t have a data plan, almost all send texts
Microsoft and Verizon might think all the kids want to do with their new Kin phones is pay absurd data rates for a half-baked Twitter experience , but it turns out Generation Upload is still actually just Generation Text Message. That's at least the word according to a Pew Internet Research survey published on April 20th and neatly summed up by a new Flowlogic infographic published today -- only 23 percent of American teenagers with cellphones use social networks with their phones, while 72 percent of all teens use text messaging.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cell-phone-use, graphs, infographic, interesting, internet, kids, message, pew research, pewresearch, result, survey, texting, verizon
Best verizon texting phone?
I was just a small Verizon does not offer many choices. I want a phone that can text well, with a actcull qwerty keyboard. Oso now, before I had the ENV 1. not 3 ca. I prefer not to have a touchscreen keyboard. I like the pro touch 2, but the man said he did not wear it because they freeze a lot (Windows) phones. IT COULD Droid. be and believe that option is still too big and things, but I need your ideas, please help! something coming soon that I should wait for a connection has not had good reviews. . . . And a link to Verizon still is not out yet.
China sent 23 billion text messages during Chinese New Year
23 billion text messages in one week, with 13 billion from the first two days alone. Pretty mind-boggling, isn't it?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: billion-people, china, china-unicom, chinaunicom, from-the-first, text message, texting, year-throughout
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: advocates, been-sideswiped, criminal, drivers, mandate, notion, texting, truckers, usa
On the Verizon Droid, can you get unlimited texting by using Google Talk instead of a texting plan?
Just wondering if the Google Droid on Verizon would allow you to use google talk to send text messages rather than purchasing a texting plan. Probably wouldn’t allow mms, but I’m just wondering about SMS. Let me know if this doesn’t make sense.
6000 distracted driving deaths put cell phones in cross hairs …
GIVE ME A BREAK - yes there are stupid people who can't drive and talk on the phone but there are also stupid people that can't walk down the street and talk on the phone . If there was a way to ban stupidity it would have been done! ...
Categories: BlackBerry, Other, Phone Street Tags: BlackBerry, craigslist, facebook, government, internet, microsoft, phone, technology, texting, video-games, wireless