The FCC, previously worried that your personal wireless gadgets (“hi Ma! we’re on the runway now!”) would interfere with the plane’s wireless gadgets (“roger that, Ground, Keepusintheair device functioning A-OK”), is in the midst of changing the rules. Continue reading
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Yes, even your new iPhone 4S is going to be crappy within 3 minutes of you getting your dirty hands on it. The problem is people don’t wash their hands after going to the loo and you use your phone to entertain yourself while sitting on your porcelain throne. Then to top it all off you lie to researchers when they ask you if you washed your hands. Shame! Continue reading
Your mobile carrier is a bit cagey about telling you what speed you can expect to get from your cell phone or mobile hotspot’s data connection. Fortunately real people out there are measuring that throughput for you. Continue reading
Google’s Android mobile operating system totally owned Apple’s iOS software in market share last quarter, research firm NPD has announced. According to the report, Android invaded 52 percent of all the smartphones sold in the U.S. last quarter, bitch slapping iOS down to only 29 percent market share. BlackBerry OS came in a cheap third at 11 percent share, according to NPD. Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile, and WebOS all tiny piles of suck, each with under 5 percent market share. We know that number isn’t going up for WebOS anytime soon. [ CNET ] Continue reading
I didn’t get a cell phone until 2004, when I was a freshman in college. I have pretty much broken, lost or somehow damaged nearly every phone that has had the misfortune of belonging to me. If there is some kind of Toy Story shenanigans going on at the T-Mobile store, my name is whispered in hushed tones by hot pink flip phones who fear to be purchased by me. My alternative theory is that the things that I say or text with my cell phones are so inane that they all commit suicide rather than be owned by me for a period of longer than six months. Continue reading
In a hotly disputed announcement the World Health Organization (WHO) released a study yesterday that linked cell phone use to two rare types of tumors, one that is cancerous. WHO officials classified the radiation released from cell phones as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” Continue reading