Best of the Blog 2014, Volume 3
Check out the great stuff from years past.
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Best of the Blog 2014, Volume 2
Our team was busy in the spring and early summer of 2014!
Best of the Blog 2014, Volume 1
Take a look at the best from the fall and early winter of 2013.
Be cool… go solar
Plugs? Who needs plugs? Don’t worry about losing power to those portable electronics you love so much. This Wagan Foldable Solar Charger will charge any device that connects via USB, even iPads and other 2.1 amp devices. It…
IS IT TRUE: You can’t use LTE if you bring your unlocked phone to a different carrier?
Cell service in the United States lags behind other countries but that’s not really a bad thing most of the time. While other countries have strict rules for cellular service, the rules in the US are…
Should you unlock your cell phone?
It’s easier than ever to unlock your cell phone. New guidelines imposed on carriers now mean that a cell phone company has to let you unlock your cell phone, as long as you do actually own…
CES2015: Wilson Electronics announces weBoost!
Get ready for the biggest news in cellular this year! Wilson Electronics, a pioneer in cellular technology, has completely rebranded itself and launched a ton of new products. The company is now called weBoost and they’re launching all-new boosters to…
2015 Predictions: The year in cellular
This will be the year cell boosters go mainstream. It’s my biggest and least risky prediction so far. The big problem with cell boosters in 2014 was that we didn’t have inventory… because of some hangups…
EDITORIAL: Phonepocalypse
What you see above was Apple’s first mobile device, the Newton. It didn’t work very well and didn’t sell very well either but it was the basis of a whole generation of “personal digital assistants” that…
CTIA 2014 Wrapup
One and done. Our time at CTIA 2014 was short, but oh did we get to see a whole bunch of stuff. In a lot of ways, it was a condensed version of CES, just without…
EDITORIAL: Have we reached “peak gadget?”
Yeah, I’m making up a new term. It’s like “peak oil,” that theoretical point where our demand for oil permanently outstrips the amount we can take out of the ground. It’s an indication that we’ve innovated…
EDITORIAL: All of a sudden putting a smartphone OS in your car doesn’t seem so smart.
Apple’s got CarPlay and pretty soon Android Auto will come out to challenge it. It seems like a sensible way to go… carmakers have looked for ways to phase out expensive GPS systems and CD players…
An amusing take on the history of cell phone companies
Do you remember your first cell phone? What about the company you wrote the checks to? (For that matter, remember when you used to write checks?) For many folks, their cellular history dates back to sometime…
Solid Signal’s HANDS ON REVIEW: Blumoo Bluetooth Remote Control
Maybe the best possible solution for the problem of too many remotes. Universal remotes are great, but they tend to be pretty inflexible, pretty hard to program, and if you want to solve those two problems…
EDITORIAL: Why the “E-Label” act is a waste of time
No matter which side of the political spectrum you’re on, there’s no denying that our Congress has done very little for us lately. They consistently rank as the lowest-performing, least-trusted legislators in our history, and we’ve…