Buying a cell phone is more than a matter of choosing a handset–you also have to pick a service provider, or carrier, as well. Each carrier in the United States offers a different selection of technologies and services, so it’s important to think about your needs when making a choice. For that reason, selecting a carrier should be the first step in the cell phone buying process.
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Wireless carriers in the United States operate over two different networks: Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM). Though each technology transmits voice and data, they do so in different ways, which makes them incompatible. As a result, you can’t take a CDMA phone and use it on GSM or vice versa.

Of the U.S. carriers, AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM while Sprint, Verizon, and smaller carriers such as such as MetroPCS and U.S. Cellular use CDMA. Though Nextel is part of Sprint, Nextel-branded phones use a third technology called iDEN, or Integrated Digital Enhanced Network.

CDMA coverage is very strong in the United States, particularly in rural areas, but GSM service has a larger global footprint (it’s the standard in Europe, for example) and GSM phones use the convenient SIM cards,…

The last mobile phone I paid for out of my own pocket was a Black Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N82. It cost me $593, and I ordered it on Apr 12, 2008. I already had the brown version of the device, thanks to Nokia’s Marketing Department it was free, but vanity got the best of me; I knew I had to have the Black N82 from the very moment I saw it. Since then I’ve only had one other phone, the Nokia E71. That too was provided gratis by Nokia, but this time it given to me by Human Resources. It was my work phone during my year and a half with the company, and it stayed with me even after I left. Before the E71, and the N82, there was the N95, which was a gift, the E61i, yet another gift, and finally the E61, which was my first Symbian device. I ordered that one on November 5, 2006 for $412.30.

I’ve only been a Symbian user for 3 years and 4 months, before that I had a string of Nokia devices that ran S40, and lately I’ve been dissatisfied with not only Symbian, but Nokia as well.

The mobile phone industry,…

By now product reviews, projected sales information based in some reality, and media input aplenty is out on Motorola Inc.’s new smart phone , the Droid.  The Droid was the first smart phone to utilize Google’s  new Android 2.0 operating system, introduced as a direct competitor to the Blackberry and Iphone operating systems, as well as the Palm, which is reportedly not doing well.  With any technology that has fans that are loyal to other products, getting a real feel for consumer sentiment on any new technology is risky at first, and best left instead to time.  Enough time has now passed for a good feel on this phone to be achieved.  Sales numbers appear to be decent to good.  The reviews on the phone itself are mixed, but mostly positive.  It has been as boldly called the Iphone Killer (which is ridiculous) to a washed up attempt to catch up in the smart phone space that is going to fail miserably(even more ridiculous). What is that old saying?  Somewhere in the middle lies the truth?  I think that is exactly the case here.

I don’t think the phone will be a failure, but the Droid has much competition, even within the…

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“Cat got your tongue?” my wife asked as we bumped along the freeway one recent afternoon. “I wonder where that phrase comes from?” she added a moment later.

Now here was an opportunity for a husband to be useful. I knew I could simply say, “Origin of the phrase ‘cat got your tongue’ ” into Google’s new Nexus One or an Apple iPhone loaded with Microsoft’s new Bing search app — the two smartphones I happened to have in my possession — to answer her second question.

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