ArchiveJuly, 2008

Most people in states such as California, New York and New Jersey are aware by now that holding a cell phone to your ear while driving can get them into legal trouble. Drivers in states with limited cell-phone driving restrictions — such as prohibiting teen drivers from using cell phones — may be somewhat aware of the restrictions and accompanying penalties. (If you’re unsure about your state’s laws, view this list of current state-by-state regulations.)

But, if you don’t live in one of the states or cities that have enacted hands-free cell phone driving laws, you probably haven’t given it much thought.

You still drive around care-free chatting away on your cell phone, daring the gods of traffic to send a tree branch in the middle of the road your way. But, if you plan any kind of road travel this summer, you better perk up your ears, put that cell phone down and listen up. Read more…

It’s your dirty little secret, the thing you don’t talk about at cocktail parties: you still have a landline. Meanwhile, your friends brag about the money they’ve saved by cutting the cord. True, most Americans are still tethered to a home phone line; however, as the complications of moving towards a wireless-only existence grow few, it’s become increasingly popular to cancel landline accounts.

Why do you need two phone numbers, anyway?

If you’ve been asking yourself that question, you got good news last week, when a bi-partisan group on Capitol Hill took action to simplify “porting” an existing landline phone number to a new cell phone account. Soon, it should be easy to reassign your home number to a cell phone.

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Today I’d like to share with you some rather surprising mobile industry data conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International between August 3 to September 5, 2007, among a sample of 2,400 adults, 18 and older. I’m not sure what you’ll be able to do with it, but nonetheless this is some juicy data for sure.
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The 3G iPhone will undoubtedly generate huge sales for Jobs and company. But, how much of that is due to hype? I think most of us know that answer, and most know that BlackBerry users aren’t about to leap into Apple’s bosom.

To help illustrate this point, we’ve compared the new iPhone to a couple of popular cell phones from that other smartphone maker, BlackBerry. Forget the iPhone’s horrific virtual keyboard — you know the one that requires you have elfin fingertips if you want any sort of accuracy. It’s the features and accessibility the iPhone doesn’t have that will keep BlackBerry users coming back for more:

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What’s going to be the next touchscreen phenom? You might think that the 3G iPhone will remain king of the hill, but the mobile phones gurus at Wirefly have taken Apple’s gadget to the lab and compared it to three other leading touchscreen contenders (HTC Touch, Samsung Glyde, & LG Vu) that offer as much, if not more, than the iPhone: Read more…