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Oh, Apple... you've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?

Android Apple’s market shares went from being an all-time high this past September at $702.10 to, as of this article right now, $485.92 – an alarming dip in profits to say the least. Needless to say (but I’m going to say it anyway) the demand for...

Jan 16th by Anna Scantlin 40

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What do you think about Android… on a desktop?

Android Android is one of the biggest mobile operating systems on the market today. Two of the four “major” operating systems we have for our mobile phones have their own desktop variants, something that Android has yet to tackle. If Android was...

Jan 13th by Anna Scantlin 28

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Do you think that the iPhone is tailored for an older crowd?

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Jan 12th by Anna Scantlin 58

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It’s the little things that make me appreciate my phone more

Lifestyle When we think of our phones in a traditional sense we think of the high tech, high resolution, fast processor lean mean machines that they have become. This is just a silly list of alternative things that our phones can do for us in our...

Jan 11th by Anna Scantlin 4

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Why everything gets compared to Apple products

Lifestyle This is just something that popped into my head today: every time I open an article about a new phone coming out (today, for instance, regarding the new BlackBerry Z10 device coming in both white and black housing) and I look at the...

Jan 11th by Anna Scantlin 91 70 Reactions

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Could Apple benefit from a “cheap” iPhone?

Lifestyle A rumor that I’ve been seeing around every corner recently is that Apple may be planning to release “cheap” iPhones sometime in the near future. There is some speculation as to exactly what “cheap iPhone” means. If anything, I think Apple...

Jan 10th by Anna Scantlin 24

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Have the previews at CES shut out the hype for BlackBerry 10?

Blackberry Os Over the past few days we’ve had the privilege of being able to preview a select few of the many devices we can expect to see debut this year. With this surplus amount of news we have now, will the hype stemming from the BlackBerry 10...

Jan 10th by Anna Scantlin 6

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Is it too late for Sprint and Windows Phone 8?

Lifestyle Sprint finally announced that they will start releasing Windows Phone 8 devices this summer, which is an announcement that I’ve been waiting a long time for. But enough about me; just because I’m interested in a Windows Phone 8 doesn’t...

Jan 9th by Anna Scantlin 23

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The Sony Xperia Z and ZL look promising

Lifestyle I recently watched the videos Taylor posted regarding the new devices we can expect to see coming from Sony during the first quarter this year: the Xperia Z and the slightly differential Xperia ZL. Overall, I dig the design and the UI of...

Jan 9th by Anna Scantlin 32 22 Reactions

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LTE to cut my battery consumption by 50%? Count me in!

Lifestyle Yahoo! News reported on Friday that according to tests conducted by ST-Ericsson next-generation LTE Radios with VoLTE capabilities can actually cut the battery usage in our phones by 50%. Fortunately, increased battery life isn’t the only...

Jan 6th by Anna Scantlin 11

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I think I need Stick-n-Find in my life

Lifestyle Life can get messy sometimes; whether it’s stress, kids, a busy schedule, or maybe just life itself there are times where we tend to lose ourselves – or our things. Stick-n-Find is a new and improved piece of Bluetooth technology that...

Jan 5th by Anna Scantlin 6

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Can we get some love for the accessories at CES 2013?

Ces Las Vegas 2013 With CES just around the corner here, officially starting on Tuesday, January 8th (but as Taylor stated in his video earlier today, we will have coverage here on PhoneDog starting on Monday) people are gearing up to see what kind of...

Jan 4th by Anna Scantlin 1

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I'm not surprised that Android users don't upgrade their software sooner

Android On Thursday, Google released their new numbers on their Platform Version web page for Android. To the delight of many, numbers are finally showing a shift for the better. The numbers themselves don’t surprise me, but the surprised...

Jan 4th by Anna Scantlin 10

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Could Tizen just be a “Plan B” of sorts for Samsung?

Android As our own Alex reported today, Samsung is rumored to start launching several phones this year running on Tizen, which is another open sourced platform (much like our discussions yesterday regarding Ubuntu) which resides within the Linux...

Jan 3rd by Anna Scantlin 14

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I anticipate great things from Ubuntu for Phones

Android For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Ubuntu operating system, it’s free and open source software based on the Debian Linux distribution. I’m sure many of you are aware of the dry spell we’ve been having lately regarding actual...

Jan 3rd by Anna Scantlin 32 14 Reactions

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Do you foresee Nokia leaving the mobile phone industry?

Lifestyle Rumors and predictions are flying everywhere early on this year, and Nokia is no exception to the rule. To be clear, right now Nokia has sent no official statement indicating that they actually plan to shift out of the mobile industry. The...

Jan 2nd by Anna Scantlin 26

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It’s officially 2013: are you ready?

Lifestyle Over the past two days, I’m sure all of you have heard “Happy 2013!” more times than you’d like, so let me just add more fuel to that fire and say, “Happy 2013!” Changes are a difficult thing to deal with and not always the easiest to...

Jan 2nd by Anna Scantlin 3

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Let's talk predictions: what would you like to see in an 'iPhone 5S'?

Ios When Apple releases the first generation of the next tier of their famous iPhone line, the reviews seem to always come back the same: the device was good, but not great. In some ways I’m glad that my upgrade isn’t available until sometime...

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Have you ever been hit with an early termination fee?

Lifestyle Whether you’ve actually experienced one or have only had nightmares about them, I think we can all agree that early termination fees are ugly and can hardly be considered merciful. ETFs are tricky once you get them, because it’s a lot...

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Has your phone brought you closer to your loved ones?

Lifestyle Okay, so I’ve already talked about how our phones could potentially turn us all into socially awkward people by having our noses buried in them 24/7, but now it’s time to take a look on the other end of the spectrum. Photos, videos,...

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When it comes to upgrades, what happens to your old phone?

Android Upgrading my phone is one of my favorite things to do. You basically have two options when it comes to your old phone: you keep it or you ditch it. I imagine when I upgrade from my iPhone to my next device (probably not an iPhone) I think...

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How private do you keep your phone?

Lifestyle Phones, to me, are very personal things. We make them easily recognizable to us by customizing the outside, the wallpaper, and the ringtones. We use them to talk to the people closest to us, and they hold a ton of personal information. How...

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BlackBerry 10 needs to offer lower-end devices

Android With the upcoming release of BlackBerry 10, many people are excited to see what RIM has in store for the New Year. With updated features such as widgets, an updated version of BlackBerry Messenger, and an overall much-needed...

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Does your family "rotate" upgrades?

Lifestyle When I worked in a retail setting, one of the most common things that would walk through the door were existing customers who were ready for upgrades. Unfortunately, on more than one occasion when a customer’s account was pulled up, it...

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Better battery life is on the way!

Lifestyle Every day it seems like the “great battery life” I initially started off with on my iPhone is slowly creeping towards “annoying” status as it only seems to last half a day instead of nearly the whole day like it used to. In a typical...

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What were your favorite phone releases of 2012?

Android With the end of year just a few days away, it seems like a good time to reflect on how 2012 went for the mobile industry and talk about which ones were our favorites among the many devices released. Did the phone releases of this year meet...

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Do you own more than one cell phone?

Lifestyle Recently I’ve been considering opening up a second phone line with a different company. Opening up a second line at the right time would open up a new world of possibilities when it came to new phone releases and giving me opportunity to...

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What piqued your interest in cell phones?

Lifestyle As a reader on this website, I can only assume you are here because you are genuinely interested in cell phones, or in the very least; technology. As a writer for this website, I’m here because I love cell phones. Smartphones, flip phones,...

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I love the Kindle Fire HD

Android It’s been a while since I’ve really gotten in depth with anything regarding tablets, so I think that warrants an article based on the newest adventures of yours truly. I had previously owned the first generation Kindle Fire for a brief...

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Does the size of the app store matter to you?

Android Our smartphones are made of apps – a lot of apps. In October of this year, the Google Play Store for Android officially hit 700,000 apps. This puts it almost on par with the Apple App Store, which hit 700,000 apps just a month earlier in...

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