Anna Scantlin

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Anna Scantlin

Anna is a Contributing Editor at PhoneDog.com. She was born and raised in Kansas City, which ironically is not located in Kansas, but in neighboring Missouri. She has an ornery son named Riley, who may or may not be more obsessed with technology than she is. Her passions include writing, drawing, gaming, music, and of course mobile tech! She's been a member of the PhoneDog team since August of 2012 and is a serial cell phone hoarder.

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Has the Moto G ruined it for "mini" flagships?

Along with all of the flagships that are planned to come out this year, we also get to look forward to seeing their "mini me" appear right along side them. The question on whether some flagships are...

I can't believe I'm this excited about a notification center

You know the phrase "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?" I think I'm discovering what that phrase really means since switching to Windows Phone 8. My switch hasn't exactly been easy, but...

Developers are friends, not food

If you haven't heard the news by now, by tomorrow evening you'll probably have one or twenty updates from your friends on your preferred social network upset, or perhaps happy, about the fact that...

I still think a mandatory kill switch is a bad idea

Yesterday, politicians and law enforcement officials in California introduced a bill that would make it mandatory for all electronics within the state of California to be equipped with a mandatory "...

How often do you upgrade?

If you're into mobile tech as much as we are (which you probably are if you're reading this) then you already know that one of the happiest days to roll around every couple of years or so is upgrade...

Which phone has been the hardest goodbye?

February is well underway already with heavy snowfalls and temperatures so low it slaps you into last Tuesday. However, instead of focusing on the cold, recently I made the decision to start my...

I don't really care who owns Motorola, just as long as they keep doing what they're doing

I've kept quiet recently about Lenovo's unexpected acquisition of Motorola from Google. When I say unexpected, I mean it was unexpected to me. Maybe it's just me, but it seemed that whatever Google...

I have high hopes for the changes coming from Microsoft

I imagine some of my readers are probably getting annoyed at the fact that I have been writing so many articles regarding Windows Phone 8 lately, and given that most people don't use Windows Phone 8...

Samsung, you don't need another Zoom or Active

The predicted showing for the Galaxy S5 is quickly approaching, with rumors pointing towards Mobile World Congress 2014 as Samsung's preferred grounds to show off their 2014 Galaxy S device. We've...

My biggest complaint about WP8? Yep, it's the app store

Up until the beginning of last month, I had never actually owned my own Windows Phone 8 device. I had never even though about touching a Windows Phone 7 device before that. My last experience with a...

All eyes are on the M8, HTC

If you've been following my articles for the past year, you probably know that I've had this massive tech crush on the HTC One since its release. The phone first drew me in with its unique beauty...

I can't seem to win with data

I hope you're ready for a first world problem post, because this is probably one of the first worldiest of first world problems I've talked about in a while. However, I feel like it's something I...

Waterproof should be a standard feature by now

Companies are always searching for the next big feature that will draw in the most interest for their next smartphone. Over the past few years it doesn't seem like anybody is ever truly short on...

Would you ditch Samsung if they ditched the plastic?

Time flies by pretty quickly these days, doesn't it? Today is the first day in February, which means we are one day and one month closer before some of the most anticipated flagships of the year are...

Maybe BlackBerry shouldn't have changed

BlackBerry is a subject that I don't touch often anymore. About this time last year, I was pretty ecstatic about the company re-emerging from the stale OS we had grown accustomed to, and instead...

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