So you’re thinking of making the jump from a featurephone to a full fledged smartphone. Surely your biggest concern is not the phone… but the PLAN.  Not only are those “data plans” scary and confusing but they’re insanely expensive.  In short Sprint has the best value…. a truly unlimited… but let’s look at Verizon (who [...]

Today is the day.  November 15th.  The day the tech world changed… Just over a week from black Friday 2011… and Kindle Fire is hitting shelves (or in my case a UPS truck). How does the Amazon Kindle Fire stack up against the current reigning tablet champion, the Apple iPad 2? Sure there is a [...]

I recently (Monday) switched from HP (Palm) webOS on an original Pre (read June 2009) to android.  Of course after two years with a phone I wasn’t about to enter android lightly so I opted for the Motorola Photon 4G, essentially the Droid Bionic or whatever the top of the line Moto is for Verizon etc. Having [...]

The invention of the cellphone, commonly attributed to Motorola engineer Marty Cooper.  Marty if you’re reading, I’m going to spoil my conclusion right here: Innovation. That’s right, calling the cellphone an invention is like calling bottled water an invention.  There has always been water, and there have been bottles for a long long time.  There [...]

Up until this week, Google was a frat boy. They slept with every sorority chick on the block. Sure they had their regulars, Android, Chrome, & Gmail. But they were sticking their Google Search, Google Maps, Contacts and all that in just about anyone they could find. Example webOS for the Palm Pre. Sure it [...]