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With the increasing amount of technology in our lives, it is natural that the games we once played as a child will show up in an iPhone app now. MoseCode invites your children (and you, no one will know) to play dress up with their Dress Up Studio app, for kids ages four and [...]
The Pantech Reveal offers a phone book with capacity sufficient for a thousand name, number, email and street address entries, an alarm clock, a calendar, a notepad, voice recorder, world clock, calculator, stopwatch, speakerphone capability, GPS with AT&T navigator, Bluetooth capability, mobile email, mobile web, and a panoply of AT&T specific web-based services like Video Share and Mobile Music. Like I said in the headline, there’s a definite learning curve associated with the Pantech Reveal. It’s not easy, in the beginning, to get used to these strange, featureless controls, but it won’t take too long before you learn to associate the buttons with on-screen commands. Most of the controls aren’t labeled in any fashion, so that does pose a bit of a challenge in the beginning. You see those two chrome buttons under the monitor? Those are the center of the control system. But what exactly do they DO, you ask? That’s actually kind of dependent on what you’re doing at the time. They work like back buttons, okay buttons, and all sorts of others depending on what you’re trying to do at the time. But it won’t take long to master the control scheme. And once you do, you’ll find plenty of exciting features available to you. Thus, the Pantech Reveal isn’t a bad phone–it just kind of gets in its own way, at first. The Good Nice feature loadout The Bad Unlabeled controls take some getting used to Score 6 / 10 PHONGHERHE
TextArrest uses the smartphone GPS and location features in order to lock the phones texting feature if it is moving at 5 miles per hour. It is also good for a management Dashboard so parents can keep their children in check with geofencing. Parents can make a map on their computer and text them if their kids go out of range. It is also good for fleet drivers, and you can read more on it here. PHONGHERHE
Case in point, the Phubby. The Phubby is nothing more than a pouch for your wrist where you can put your Mobile. A flap keeps it in place so it doesn’t fall out, and the material is translucent enough so you can make out the screen underneath. You can even interact with the screen if it is a touch. I swear, if Batman had an iPhone, and he didn’t have those gloves with the armblades, he would have a Phubby. Find out more about it here. PHONGHERHE
You might be wondering why something like this would be invented since we live in a world of Bluetooth headsets. Well, some people, like the senior citizens, don’t want to deal with pairing or anything. They just want a way to put a hands-free phone to their ear. All the user needs to do is just stick the velcro on their phone, and stick the phone on the headset. The Cell-Mate doesn’t have a distributor just yet, but it wants to, for about $14.95. Find out more about it from the website. PHONGHERHE |
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I deal with a lot of different cell phones in the course of my normal operations here. I’ve seen good phones and great phones, more than a few not so great ones, and some that just plain old defy explanation. Today I deal with a stranger phone, the Pantech Reveal.
This TextArrest is definitely ready to stop that pesky texting-while-driving issue. If you are a parent who is concerned about that, then you might want to put TextArrest on your kids’ smartphones. 
One of the reasons that one goes to conventions is to learn about new technology and see it in action. However, some of the real innovations are sometimes the simplest of things. 
Like the Phubby, I saw this device at CTIA 2010, and it is as simple as it is practical. Simply put, the Cell-Mate is a headset so you can store your cellular phone or cordless phone at the ear.
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