Cell Phone Models

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. (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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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 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: (more…)

I recently wrote about a “new category” of wireless plans generally classified asunlimited plans. In an effort to solidify their position in the new category, and to address one of the key shortcomings of most unlimited plans for all carriers, T-Mobile has just lauched an unlimited plan for families – called FamilyTime Unlimited.

Unlike the previous unlimited plans for T-Mobile and other carriers, where you could add additional unlimited lines for the same price of $99.99, the new FamilyTime Unlimited plans from T-Mobile start at $149.98 for two lines, and each additional line is only $49.99. This represents a serious savings if you’re looking for unlimited service for, say, three or four phones. Additionally, like the initial plan, this version includes unlimited calling and unlimited messaging (text, pics, etc). You can get up to five lines this way, all with unlimited calling and messaging.

The market is big for family/shared plans, and the minutes are big. It will be interesting to see how the other carriers react. Sprint had already been cautiously leaning this way, with their Unlimited Family plan each additional line is $5 less – e.g. $99.99 for the first line, $94.99 for the second, $89.99 for the third, etc.

For two and three line accounts, this T-Mobile plan is going to be really popular. One thing also seems for sure, the “unlimited” category will be around for a while, and it just got better at T-Mobile.

Stay tuned to Wirefly, the only online destination you need to visit for the latest on wireless products and services, offering the absolute best values as they emerge, with no gimmicks.

Touched off by Verizon Wireless’ introduction of Unlimited Plans back in mid-February of this year, all of the major wireless providers are now offering Unlimited Calling Plans to new and existing customers.

Unlimited plans are not new to the industry, both Cricket and Metro PCS have long offered these types of plans as one of their key differentiators. The original “AT&T Wireless” briefly offered an unlimited plan for $99.99 (called the Charter Plan) back in third quarter of 2002 to promote their new GSM/GPRS network. However, this is the first time that all of the wireless providers are in on this new “category” of plan. Yes I say “category” because I suspect that unlimited plans may actually be here to stay - at least for some.

For $99.99, Sprint tops the competition with the “Simply Everything” plan, which includes almost everything - Unlimited: Voice, Data (email & web), Messaging, and Push-to-Talk. T-Mobile is the next best value with Unlimited Voice and Text Messaging for $99.99.

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AT&T and Vizible have quietly entered the browser wars after launching a beta Firefox-based browser with ads called Pogo. It has visual tabbed browsing and is structured into collections that organize and tag your favorites. Pogo has a search feature to keep track of your results and flexibility to provide as many home pages as you want.

In an interview with prolific blogger Robert Scoble, Todd Finch, president and CEO of Toronto-based Vizible, said, “We’re trying to improve the way people find, collect, organize and manage info on the Web,” said. “Humans are visual, and Pogo adds a visual layer to the browsing experience that’s intuitive to use.” According to executives from both AT&T and Vizible, the goal is not to start a browser war, but to create a three-dimensional browser experience.

According to their auto-response email, AT&T Pogo is currently in a ‘Limited Beta’, and, “over the coming weeks, we will let you know about our progress as we move from a limited beta to a closed public beta and finally to an open beta release.”

Pogo’s tagline is: “It’s your internet - do it your way.” Has the browser truly evolved? Can I really manage all my media with one browser?