There are different cell phone plans available to suit different needs these days, which is great news for the many fans of cell phones out there. Many people these days swear by their cell phones, with many replacing their home phone service with a cell phone.

Before you decide on which cell phone plans you should go for it is important to consider what you want from your phone, what you will use it for, and how often you intend to use it. Continue Reading

Despite having a lion’s share of the US smartphone user base, web browsing on BlackBerry devices has been a rather lackluster experience often compared to root canal surgery, prolonged gastrointestinal distress, and in some extreme case, socializing with your mother-in-law. This is by and large due to their antiquarian web browser which strips down web pages giving them a decidedly 1990’s look and feel. Picture if you would, popping over to Twitter for a quick Tweet only to find it overpopulated with “Work in Progress” construction men animated gifs, and belting out midi renditions of the theme song from Friends at maximum volume. Internet porn sites don’t work very well on it either, according to various anonymous sources.

Artist rendition of BlackBerry web browsing experience

Well, those hellish days are over. Or they will be a couple of months or so. Seriously, like three of four months tops. Because the co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis, of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (also known as by the provocatively erotic acronym, RIM) has proudly announced plans for a brand new web browser. While the release date for this new software has yet to be announced, it is expected that this near cutting edge technology will firmly plant the BlackBerry user experience into the 21^st century, most likely resembling the Internet experience that desktop computers were capable of in mid to late 2002.

This as yet to be acronymed browser will be based on the Webkit layout engine. Webkit is also the Software Development Kit (or SDK) for the vast majority of the other browsers now in use, probably including Apple’s Safari, and Google’s Chrome, among others [Citation needed]. Sources at Firefox’s development team were unavailable to comment on RIM’s plans, as they were struck speechless and befuddled by the description of BlackBerry’s current Internet capabilities.

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A new survey from Pew, titled “Social Media and Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults,” reports that teens and that over the hill demographic known as “twenty-somethings” are on Mobile Internet “like white on rice.” 27 percent of 12-17 year-olds access the Internet from mobile phones and other mobile devices. In a pathetic attempt to look “cool” and keep up with these trend setting teens, 55 percent of posers aged 18-29 years also use their mobiles for web browsing. The report also mentioned something or other about old people’s Internet usage as well.

The survey also highlights a surprising decline in blogging and Twitter use among cool kids and an increase of social networking through with approximately 73 percent of online teens and young adults use social-networking sites. The terrific tumble in tweets from tweens, teens, and twenty-somethings is a tantalizing tact in the twisty trends to come in Twenty Ten,  Year of The Mobile.

In a separate report from GroundTruth, a new mobile metrics company,  stated that 61 percent of mobile online page views are to social networking sites. The report does not say what the remaining 39 percent was used for, so we are forced to assume it was mostly looking at Internet porn.

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