Tag: PREPAID

iPods Getting Cameras? The rumor mill has been buzzing that the next generation of iPods will be sporting cameras. Our colleagues over at TUAW have been keeping track of all the speculation, so feel free to peruse it at your leisure. As for us, we can definitely see this happening in the near future. It makes all kinds of sense to put a camera on iPods -- we're all about convergence and it ...

Dropping your cell phone in the pool (or worse) or spilling coffee on your computer keyboard doesn't necessarily mean that you have to buy a new one. Such last-minute disasters happen all the time. As a public service for our klutzy readers, or those who choose to take a 'MacGruber' approach to tech repair, we've put together a list of quick fix solutions for your gadget and tech mishaps or ...

It's no surprise that Americans are overpaying for cellular service, but you may be disturbed to learn exactly how much cash you're actually coughing up per minute of air time. A new study from the Utility Consumers' Action Network (UCAN) estimates that people are paying an average of $3.02 per minute of actual talk time. Of course, that average is skewed by a relatively small percentage of ...

The writing is on the wall for landline based phones. We've been heralding their demise since Switched launched. Every time a new study is released on the number of cell phones vs. landlines in the U.S., the number of people who prefer or rely solely on cell phones creeps up and the number of landlines slips slowly, pushing the idea of a "home phone" towards the dustbin of history. ...

The inventor of the cellphone says the iPhone's ubiquitous, do-everything, jack-of-all-trades approach to applications, music and – oh yeah – phone calls, makes the Apple Computer superstar mobile device less impressive, not more. Martin Cooper, who while working at Motorola made the first cell-phone call in 1973 with a device weighing two pounds and with only 20 minutes of battery ...

We hope you're not too attached to that unlimited data and voice plan you just picked out from your cell phone provider. The current economic crisis is putting the squeeze on cell phone companies, and they're responding by capping so called "unlimited plans" and raising prices. Verizon Wireless announced that businesses that send text messages to users will be charged 3 cents per message, ...

In this day and age, owning a cell phone is about as special as using your tooth brush every night before bed. For some people, however, these gadget must-haves cause more trouble than they're worth. For others, they are literally a life-saver. Either way, they often make life just a bit more odd. To celebrate the weird world cell phones have created, we present to you Strange But True Cell ...

As a handy alternative to all of the overly feature rich phones out there comes the Samsung jitterbug. Aimed at an older crowd for whom making a simple call is the only priority, the jitterbug simplifies the complexities of other handsets by calling whomever you want for you via a concierge service (translation: live operators). With a talk time of four hours and standby time of up to four ...

Nicholas Sullivan at the MIT Media Lab has reached a similar conclusion to the one driving Google's Grandcentral for the homeless push -- communication is the key to success. The report out of MIT claims that putting prepaid cell phones in the hands of the 38 percent of the poorest Americans without one could earn them between $2.9 billion and $11 billion a year through increased business (for the ...

As a handy alternative to all of the overly feature rich phones out there comes the Samsung jitterbug. Aimed at an older crowd for whom making a simple call is the only priority, the jitterbug simplifies the complexities of other handsets by calling whomever you want for you via a concierge service (translation: live operators). With a talk time of four hours and standby time of up to four ...

Flickr provides a great way to share pictures with friends and family. It's also a great way for not-so-upright advertising creatives to find pictures for their campaigns. Virgin Mobile of Australia featured a picture of 16 year-old Alison Chang on bus stops throughout Australia as part of their "Are You With Us Or What" wireless service campaign. The thing is, neither she nor her youth group ...