Archive for January, 2010

Upgrade Your Status with the Nexus One Smart Phone

Posted by admin on January 28th, 2010

Google’s newest phone, the Nexus One, is becoming more and more popular with each passing day. The phone is sleek and sexy and has something for everyone – from gadget lovers to everyday business professionals. The phone itself has a very sensitive touch screen as well as four soft key buttons and a clickable track ball on the front. Thus, even with just simple navigating users have various ways to do it.

 

Customization and usability seem to be Google’s mantras with the Nexus One. The home screen is fully customizable. Users can place shortcuts to any of thousands of applications they can download from the phone’s marketplace just about anywhere on their home screen. All settings are customizable as well, which helps to make this phone desirable to anyone.

The application marketplace itself, which is the Android marketplace, has thousands of free applications from basic games to productivity tools. Professionals will find the organization and planning applications useful while the gaming crowd will love the games that take advantage of the phone’s built in accelerometer, allowing them to steer cars with a flick of their wrists.

The phone also has 3G connectivity, which makes it fast as lightning when surfing the web on the go. Moreover, when you are any place that has an available wireless network, you can get even more speed by connecting your Nexus One to it. The phone has Bluetooth and even a 5 megapixel camera with built in flash through an LED.

The Nexus One is also a great music phone, exemplified by the 3.5 mm headphone jack that comes with the phone. All Android phones come with the Amazon Music Marketplace, which enables phone users to purchase music directly from their phone. And because the Nexus One has a micro SD card slot that can handle up to 32 GB of extra storage, the chances of your running out of room to store your music is very slim. The Android Market also has numerous other music applications that many people like, including applications that allow you to listen to streaming online music.

Currently the Nexus One is only available for purchase through Google itself with two different buying options. If you are willing to pay $529, you can purchase an unlocked Nexus One, which will allow you to use it with any mobile network you desire. Otherwise, if you do not mind adding two years to your T-Mobile contract, you can get this cool phone for just $179. The Nexus One will also be available through other mobile carriers at discounted prices in the next few months. It is this cross company approach that has nearly assured Google’s success with this new phone.

So, if you want to be the next one with the Nexus One, head over to www.google.com/phone and get yours today. You will not regret investing in this phone; it will provide hours of entertaining and productivity to your life. You can also find full technical specs and a three dimensional tour of the phone at this site.

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Traveling Frequently – Don’t Forget To Carry Your Phone Card for Calling Home

Posted by admin on January 27th, 2010

Phone cards make it easy to phone home no matter where you are in the world without costing you an arm and a leg. Because of this, it is recommended that you always travel with at least a few phone cards with you. Many experts suggest hiding phone cards in a few different places, both on your person and in your luggage and travel items, so that you always have a back up in case anything gets stolen. Experts usually suggest tucking a little cash in with each of these phone cards as well. That way you have taxi money and a way to get in touch with someone who can help you.

 

Phone cards are not just useful when you travel. They can be great gifts for high school graduates going off to college who can not afford long distance phone calls on their limited budgets. They are also wonderful gifts to family members who live far away and who struggle to keep in touch. So the next time you can not think of a gift for a friend or family, consider buying them a phone card – they will not be disappointed. And they might even keep in better touch with you!

Phone cards come in a large variety of minute amounts, which vary even more depending on which areas in the world you are calling. For instance, 100 minutes of United States to United States talk time might only be equivalent to 60 minutes of United States to Japan talk time and so forth. This difference is due to the difference in costs that the calling card company has to pay. Because phone card minute amounts vary, the cost of phone cards varies also, but this cost, when compared at a per minute cost is still a lot less than what your regular phone provider would charge you for international calls.

A new edition to the phone card market is refillable phone cards. These allow you to purchase one single card that you can continuously add minutes to by calling the phone card company and providing them with your credit card information. This helps you avoid paying taxes on new cards and also having to learn new phone card company numbers and phone card identification codes. You can actually just memorize one number and keep it with you for years.

Whether you choose to keep one card and continually refill it or just continually purchase different cards, it is a good idea to write down all the information from your phone card or cards and keep it in a safe place. That way if you lose your card or it gets stolen, you can call the company and deactivate it. Some calling card companies will even issue you a new card with the remaining minutes from the lost one on it.

You can find calling cards at most stores, including grocery stores and drug stores. Because they are so affordable and easily accessible, phone cards take away any excuse for not keeping in touch with family and friends.

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Nexus One Vs iPhone – The Battle Has Just Begun

Posted by admin on January 26th, 2010

Apple’s iPhone has cornered the smartphone market, right? Perhaps, but a new phone operating system, Android, has started making ground in the same arena. Android is Google’s mobile operating system, which, unlike Apple’s iPhone, has shown up on mobile phones from many different mobile companies, including T-Mobile and Verizon.

This cross company approach has caused Android to gain in popularity because it does not project the exclusionist attitude that many consumers see Apple’s iPhone as portraying. The Nexus One, the newest Android phone to hit the market, has taken this cross company approach even farther – Google is offering an unlocked version of the phone that can be used with nearly any mobile company’s sim card.

Apple’s iPhone does have an extraordinary and astronomical collection of applications available for the phone, but Android has an up and coming market place as well. In fact, the market place currently offers nearly 60,000 applications to android users, many of which are available for free. And while the iPhone has a lot of internal memory (either 16 or 32 GB), there is no way to expand it. The Nexus One on the other hand, comes with a 4 GB micro SD card, but the phone can currently handle up to a 32 GB micro SD card, and if previous Android phones are any indicator, as micro SD card sizes continue to grow, Google will offer updates to their operating system so that it can handle larger card sizes.

The iPhone also does not have a removable battery, which helps to make the phone slim and sleek, but can also be annoying when the battery dies. Though Apple boasts that the battery can last an extremely long time, everyone who has ever had any kind of cell phone knows that sometimes batteries just do not last and if or when this happens with the iPhone, you have to send it back to Apple to get it fixed. You can not simply go out and buy another battery for it. The Nexus One has a removable battery and is still very thin and sleek – only 59.8 millimeters wide by 11.5 millimeters deep and 119 millimeters high and still just weighs 130 grams with the battery installed.

Finally, though the iPhone does seem to have the market cornered on being a music playing phone, Android and the Nexus One are coming on strong as well. Android phones come preloaded with the Amazon mp3 marketplace, which enables users to purchase songs directly from their phone. The preloaded music player on Android is also very good and plays are variety of music formats, some of which the iPhone can not handle. Moreover, there is a multitude of free applications available on the Android application marketplace that offers a lot more music playing options.

Though the iPhone seems to be the popular choice, the Nexus One’s cross company approach and large amount of customization options makes it a strong competitor. And with Google always trying to improve its products through continuous updates, this phone may just be the top phone before you know it.

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Make Use of Calling Cards to Talk To Your Near and Dear Ones Inexpensively

Posted by admin on January 25th, 2010

As technology and interconnectivity grows, our world seems to shrink. More and more people know others in far away places and other countries. However, even though our world has shrunk are phone bills seem to be growing with more long distance calls we need to make. However, calling cards are simple resolutions to this problem because you basically pre pay for the talk time and thus you do not have to pay any charges to your actual phone provider.

 

How do calling cards work? Well, basically you call the 1 800 number on the card and input the card id number which then allows the calling card company to look up how many minutes you pre paid for. After that, the company will ask you to input the number you are trying to call and will tell you how many minutes you have available for that call (this is because the amounts of minutes vary depending on the area you are calling). Finally the calling card company will connect you to your destination call.

 

Because you only call a 1-800 number from your actual phone, your phone company sees it as a toll free call and does not charge you any money for the call. Prices of calling cards vary depending on the amount of minutes you buy them with; however, these prices are still cheaper on a per minute basis than regular phone companies charge. Moreover, you can not be charged extra with calling cards – once your minutes are up, your minutes are up – though there are quite a few calling cards on the market today that you can “refill” with minutes by calling the company and providing your credit card information. This can be useful for people who make regular long distance calls.

 

Another good thing to do if you have a calling card is to write down the calling card’s company number and the physical calling card id. This way if the card gets stolen, you can at least call the company and deactivate the card so no one else can take advantage. Some companies will even provide you with a replacement card with the remaining minutes on it.

 

You can find calling cards at most super markets and drug stores and can also order them from numerous online stores. So whether you are simply going on an international trip or moving cross country permanently, calling cards are a fantastic way to keep in touch with family and friends. Calling cards also make great graduation gifts to kids that are going off to college. Calling cards are also a great addition to any traveler’s bag – not just so he or she can keep in touch with people back home, but also in case of emergencies. All pay phones allow 1 800 numbers, so even if your wallet gets stolen, you have a way to get in touch with someone. For this reason, many people suggest keeping a calling card in a shoe or other area that is less likely to get stolen while on vacation.

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Get Your Favorite “Smart App” On With the Nexus One Smart Phone

Posted by admin on January 24th, 2010

During the first week of 2010, Google began a “soft launch” of its new Android phone – the Nexus One. This light (130 gram) phone is the Internet search giant’s latest admission to the competitive smartphone market, which already has big hitters like Apple’s iPhone and the Blackberry series providing strong competition.

Android, Google’s mobile operating system, made its first well-known debut through the cell phone company T-Mobile and the phone model G1 last year in the United States. Since then, various other phone models with the Android operating system have appeared on the market, including the myTouch and also various Verizon models.

Like all the other Android models, the Nexus One boasts a fast reacting operating system that allows you to fully customize your home screen and multitask. Moreover, Android’s ability to automatically sync email, contacts, and calendar appointments from the phone with the phone user’s gmail account is a very unique feature. This feature keeps every important piece of data on the phone updated with changes in gmail and vice versa; this means that the phone user always has an accurate backup.

Android also has an application market on all of its phones that give users access to over 60,000 applications, many of which are free. There are applications from regular games to productivity applications like gas mileage calculators and even gps navigation applications. This market helps to make Android phones fully customizable because users can download as many applications as their phones can hold (which can be expanded with a micro SD card slot). Though this market contains nowhere near the amount of applications Apple’s iPhone offers its users, it is catching up quickly. This is especially due to Google offering application developing contests, which offer great incentives to professional and even weekend developers to start creating applications for the Android market.

Unlike previous Android phones, the Nexus One has a 3.5mm stereo jack, so users do not have to buy an adapter to convert the mini USB plug to a stereo jack. Moreover the new Nexus One has a 5-megapixel camera, where previous phones only had at most a little more than 3 megapixels. The camera also has an LED flash, which is a new edition as well and makes the camera much more useful.

Most notably, the Nexus One is being offered as an unlocked phone directly from Google. This means that you can buy this phone and use it with a sim card from nearly any mobile provider. The unlocked Nexus One retails for more than 500 dollars, but if you are a T-Mobile customer, or willing to become a T-Mobile customer, and extend your contract by two years, then you can purchase the phone for less than 180 dollars. Whether you choose to purchase the unlocked phone or the one for T-Mobile, the Nexus One offers some wonderful features that you will not get anywhere else – the phone is not only pretty but incredibly useful. You will not regret your investment.

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