Mobile Lifestyle
Tablet or E-book Reader: Which Should You Buy This Holiday Season?
When ’tis the season to be jolly, consumers can be left with a difficult decision as they struggle to answer the question of how best to spend their ever-shrinking dollars and on which products. One such product could very well be an Amazon Kindle reader, most of which have now dropped from a high of [...]
Renewed Hope for an iPhone on T-Mobile
When I wrote about the grim outlook of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger deal in my previous guest post, I brought up an interesting bit of rumor. If the deal had gone through, T-Mobile would have essentially gone away, and its 33+ million customers would either end up with AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, or one of the smaller, regional [...]
AT&T’s T-Mobile Buyout a Washout?
Speculation over the implications of AT&T’s buyout of T-Mobile has been dinner table conversation among the mobile industry’s movers and shakers for a few months now. But has the deal completely fallen through? Eddie Ringle reports: Late last night, AT&T announced that it had withdrawn its T-Mobile takeover applications to the FCC. While both AT&T [...]
What’s So Great About the Google Chromebook?
At our crowdsourcing site LockerGnome.net, TomMaxwell writes: Recently I sold my iPad 2 because I was getting tired of the OS and I wanted the Galaxy Tab 10.1. I haven’t bought the new tablet yet, but I just discovered that the Samsung Series 5 Google Chromebook is about the same price. The main reason I [...]
How to Text from a Plane
All right, so you’re 35,000 feet in the air, and you forgot to take the dog for his walk, feed your fish, or pay that important bill that’s due that day. What do you do? Believe it or not, there may be options for you to get the message out, even if you’re well beyond [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II – A Smart Phone Fit for a Geek?
Kind Gnomie Amir Hemani knows that we haven’t gotten our hands on a Samsung Galaxy S II at LockerGnome World Headquarters, so he asked if he could tell us about his experiences with it. Does this Android-driven gadget pull its weight in the world of modern mobile smart telephony? Here’s what he has to say [...]
How to Avoid High Cell Phone Bills
Receiving an abnormally high phone bill in the mail is never fun, especially when you’re on a tight budget. Mobile service providers often have a laundry list of various overage charges and other fees that can appear on your bill without notice. Fortunately, many of these hidden charges can be avoided by taking a few [...]
How to Mount Your Smart Phone Almost Anywhere
In days of old, gadgets generally served one purpose. If you wanted to balance your checkbook, you probably used a calculator to work out the numbers, a radio to make the task more bearable with the accompaniment of your favorite tunes, and a telephone to call the bank to report any errors that you might [...]
HTC EVO Design 4G Adds a Budget Phone to the EVO Family
If you are looking at a new smart phone, but the $200 price tag of most of the newest Android phones is a little much for you, HTC has come to the rescue with a new budget priced phone that still packs the specs of a top of the line device. The HTC Evo Design [...]
How to Turn off Ads on a Kindle 4 and Kindle Touch
One of the big reasons Amazon gives for the price drop in its line of Kindle products is the addition of advertising on the main menu and screen saver. This was first introduced as a separate device option, and more recently included with all new Kindles as they are shipped. The Kindle 4 and Kindle [...]
