Mobile Phone News

When it comes to cheap phones, LG doesn’t exactly have a stellar tradition. But the TU720 is here to try and change it. The TU720’s design is somewhat different from the usual Shine look, with less reflective surfaces and a much more professional feel to it. Its greatest innovative feature is the squat joystick, which is a touch-sensitive controller that’s remarkably intuitive to use and will definitely set the standard for LG for some time to come.

The TU720 is great at video streaming and the screen is amazing to watch TV in. If you get it with a good Internet package, you’ll be getting crazy speeds – 7.2Mbps! It has all the normal features you’d find on a phone like this, such as calendar, notes, memos, and a few kooky extras like a tip calculator and the ominously titled “D-Day Counter”, which is basically a glorified appointment reminder.

This phone is probably the best at its price-range and I’d recommend anyone to take it for a spin as soon as humanly possible.

Make sure your investment is protected with a trusted insurance plan, that can promise you a brand new device, or repair with free shipping, in the event of any unforeseen circumstance that may damage your phone. iPhone insurance can offer coverage of a variety of scenarios and a spectrum of possible causes of damage. Spill your drink on your iPhone? That damage is covered. Break an accessory you bought for your iPhone? That is covered. Someone broke into your car and stole your iPhone? That is also covered. After all, the warranty that came with the purchase of your iPhone does not cover your device for the most common of accidents. Whether your phone is stolen from your car, or even your residence, or if it is lost for whatever reason, iPhone insurance is the only thing that can cover the costs of such scenarios. Any accidental damage caused to your iPhone, including water damage which is the most common type, whether its from a drink, the sink, or the rain, it will be covered in this package. This all comes for a small fee that is paid monthly. This offers you a replacement of your device that is one hundred percent new, and will be shipped to you, for free, internationally, to where ever you are in the world.

Mobile phones have advanced so far that the technology available today could of only been dreamed of just a few short years ago. Now it is possible to do many things that you used to have to use your PC for, on the go.

Mobile phones also provide you with reassurance and security. You know that when you are carrying your phone, you can always call someone in case of an emergency. And, as they also have one you can always get hold of that person. Before the invention of the mobile telephone it could be days before you called someone at the exact time that they were home.

When travelling, mobile phone rates can be a lot cheaper than using the phone in your hotel room thus saving you money. As long as you have pre-warned your provider that you intend to use the phone abroad so that they can enable overseas usage.

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Public consciousness lately has been very focused on ‘living green’, and so green gadgets have been becoming more popular. From televisions to cameras, this label has been applied to all kinds of electronics, promising a device that uses less power, and made of recyclable materials. The first to apply this to a cellphone was T-Mobile, with the Motorola Renew W233. Flaunting a long battery life, and plastic parts made of recycled plastic materials. Now it’s Samsung’s turn with the new Reclaim SPH-M560, also made of recycled plastic and even packaged in a recycled paper box. They go so far as to use soy-based ink in the user manual.

Though, Samsung improves on the idea by adding a full QWERTY keyboard in a sleek, slider design. It’s quite compact, at only .56 inches deep, and weighing only 3.5 ounces. It features a 320×240 resolution screen, and a shortcut button for speakerphone. It also has a 2 megapixel camera, which offers pictures in five resolutions and three quality settings. And as for the battery life, it has 6 hours of talk time, but has been tested at 7 hours and 29 minutes. Following their ‘green’ theme, it has also passed radiation tests by the FCC at a digital SAR of 1.16 watts per kilogram.

The Reclaim is available for $49.99 with activation of a two-year contract.

Through it’s new wireless internet service, the popular cable operator Comcast has reciently said that it plans on bringing TV series to SmartPhones. Comcast intends to offer more mobile services for their customers, this being one of many they have in the works.

Comcast’s Chief Financial Officer Michael Angelakis has a dream that in the future, ‘On Demand Online’ will have a wireless component.

As a part of a joint venture along with Sprint and Clearwire, Comcast has begun introducing it’s mobile service over WiMax technology. Comcast is aware that consumers are expecting to be able to watch videos on their phones, and are trying to cater to this crowd by collaborating with cable companies to let their customers watch TV online with no additional costs.

Comcast is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based company that offers cable TV, broadband internet, telephone services to both residential and commercial customers. They were founded in 1963 and are currently the largest cable operator in the United States.

As a bold move in competition for pricing in the mobile market, Sprint is offering a new service plan for unlimited mobile-to-mobile calls. They are calling it a ‘Any mobile, any time’ plan, which starts at $70 a month to allow customers to make unlimited calls to any other mobile, despite the carrier. This also includes unlimited text messaging and data transfers.

If that isn’t enough, they also allot 450 minutes for calls made to landline phones monthly. If you need more, you can pay $90 a month and get 900 minutes. Family plans are also available, four lines for $170 a month.

Dan Hesse, a CEO at Sprint believes that their customers shouldn’t have to pick and choose who they talk to, or how often they talk to, contacts who have chosen other service providers. They are also offering a new plan called “A-List”, which rivals T-Mobile’s MyFaves, and Verizon Wireless’ Friends and Family plans. Being the third-largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, and with their recent suffering from subscriber losses, they have been pushed to be more competitive with other top companies.

Samsung hasn’t had the best track record with touch-screen phones, but the Rogue for Verizon Wireless is set to change all that. You get the best of both worlds with it’s touch-screen, keyboard combo, accompanied by a vibrant AMOLED display. There is an HTML browser with Flash Lite support, EV-DO Rev. A, GPS, which supports Verizon’s V Case broadband services, like V Cast Video for streaming videos from a variety of providers. Keep in touch with one of many messengers, including AIM, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo. There is also support for mobile Web e-mail and corporate e-mail.

As for hardware, it has a 3.5mm headphone jack, 3.0 megapixel camera with flash and self-portrait mirror. External shortcut keys for screen lock, voice command, and speakerphone makes for quick control. All packaged in a sleek design that measures 4.29 “ long by 2.17 wide, and only .65 inches deep.

The Rogue is available for $99.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with two-year contract activation. You will need to pair it with one of Verizon’s data plans, either $9.99 for 25MB or $19.99 for 75MB a month.

Focusing on potential links between cancer and cell phone use has been the U.S. Senate Health Committee’s priority as of late. They are concerned about the similarities to the lung cancer-cigarette connection that was denied for decades.

Tom Harkin, Iowa senator and head of the committee, has expressed his concern about the fact that no one has been able to prove that cell phones do not cause cancer. He has stated that he is reminded by this country’s experience with cigarettes, which had a similar beginning. It took years between the first warnings of the dangers of smoking, and the final conclusion that cigarettes cause cancer.

It is common knowledge among researchers that low levels of radiation can cause cancers of the brain and central nervous system, much like what a cellphone can emit. It can present itself as a malignant brain tumor, which coincidentally was the cause of death for the former head of committee, Senator Edward Kennedy.

Considering an estimated 4 billion people worldwide, 275 million people in the U.S., use cellphones, this is a serious matter. Danish researchers studied statistics on the subject four years ago. Comparing cell phone usage with brain tumor patients. Last year, researchers in Norway and France reported similar results.