Like most households with teenage kids, almost everyone in the household has a cell phone. And what’s more significant is that there might even be more cell phones in the household than users or live lines. I guess that after a while this would be the normal state of things.
I reason it out this way, [...]
There have been a lot of innovations in the watch industry since the time Swiss clockwork took a turn around and became synonymous with teen fashion via the Swatch brand. One of the latest twists to the watch as a non-obtrusive device is as a vibrate-mode alarm for incoming calls on your cell phone.
Increasingly, wristwatches [...]
One of the most interesting commercials I saw on TV was about SMS or text messaging using a regular GSM phone. This was about ten years ago, when NEC and StarTac flip phones were very popular, even if these did not have any text messaging capability, and had only a one line screen to see [...]
It’s easy to forget that cell phones are really just phones which you can carry around and use like any other phone with a landline. With new models, there are lots of non-phone or communication features which over time has made the phone a communication device and less of a phone.
I realized this the other [...]
It’s not very often that a Japanese high-tech phone gets marketed outside of Japan. High-tech cell phones are an important market in Japan. From disposable phones to automated payment facilities, the phones are locked and hardwired to a particular wireless phone service provider. And it’s illegal to unlock cell phones in that country.
Casio recently released [...]
Just weeks after its market release, the T-Mobile G1 is now to be sold at a discount at Wal-Mart. It’s a small $30 discount from the $180 regular price you pay when you buy one at a T-Mobile store. It still comes with a 2-year contract with T-Mobile.
The eventual discount was expected, but not the [...]
The first cell phone running on Google’s Andoid operating system has just come out and it has met expectations. T-Mobile’s G1 cell phone is priced at $179.99 on a two-year contract, this cell phone is, for all intents and purposes, still a test run for things to come.
Google has drummed up lots of hype for [...]
One question which always comes to mind when buying any second-hand or previously owned item is how durable the item is. This is particularly true when buying used cell phones. The market for used cell phones is large and expanding, and cell phones are used everyday in a variety of environmental conditions. It’s just normal [...]
