In the past week, I have been featuring the predecessors of the modern computer. Today I bring to you the father of the cell phone. I got my first cell phone at the beginning of high school – it was a tiny Motorola clamshell that slipped easily in my pocket. It used a crude black-and-white [...]
I always hear my friends complain about their laptop’s terrible battery life. “I unplug it for more than 2 minutes and it shuts down.” And then they demonstrate.
What shocks me about these incidences is how new their computer is. While the average battery life isn’t spectacular (somewhere around 4 hours,) battery life that can be [...]
Do you have a problem with your cell phone carrier? Chances are you do. I have a whole list of gripes as long as my arm, but here are a few.
1. I’m with Verizon, and I hate how I can’t swap out a SIM card into a better phone.
2. I’m also stuck with the crappy [...]
Usually when I’m at the beach, I have one of two urges: to splash myself silly in the water, or to build a sand castle (that given my skill, turns into just a pile of sand surrounded by a moat of sorts).
In Japan, though, things are a bit different. Most phones over there (and [...]
Just about every single wireless carrier out there is a big jerk, but Verizon is special. They have the fastest and most reliable network, and the biggest subscriptions of the American carriers, and they know it. But for whatever reason, they are WAY behind on the app store movement. Verizon, itching to burst onto the [...]
While Palm’s exclusive arrangement with Sprint ends at the end of this year, people are already itching to get it off the network and onto bigger and better places, like Verizon. One owner claims to have successfully performed a relatively complex hack that allows him to use the Pre on Verizon’s network, and in a [...]
AT&T has gotten a pretty bad reputation recently. While Verizon is being touted as the fastest and most reliable network, AT&T has desperately been advertising to try and regain some favor. “More bars in more places” and “the fastest 3G network” are taglines that AT&T uses, but really? That would be a better description of [...]
I was browsing Apartment Therapy Unplugged the other day and came across this neat but simple idea: placing your cell phone on speakerphone mode in a kitchen bowl increases its range. Why? Because the curve and slope of the bowl focus the soundwaves on the phone.
I had to test this out. I did three [...]
Europe is a very interesting region. While unified as a single economic and political zone, its nations maintain separate identities, different languages, cultures, and most frustratingly, different types of electric plugs. But sometimes Europeans find common ground. Years ago it was the Euro currency. This time, it is cell phone chargers.
Phone chargers have long been [...]
This building is in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Pretty cool, huh? Although I’m not sure what a cell phone needs a FAX button for.
Found at Apartment Therapy Unplugged
