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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
How Young Is Too Young For a Cell Phone?
Are We Taking Cell Phone Usage Too Far?
The other day at the playground, I watched as what looked like a 5-year-old girl answered a cell phone call from her grandmother. No, it wasn't her mom or dad's cell phone she was using -- it was her own. Which raised the question -- are kindergartners too young to have their own cell phones? The answer may surprise you.
Practicality Counts
Listen, anyone who knows me knows that I'm not one for the overindulgence of children. In fact, I think the excess of spoiling our children is the reason why we have so many disrespectful irresponsible young adults running around today. That being said, however, I do honestly think that giving a cell phone to children of all ages isn't really a bad idea.
A Changing World
We have to admit the fact that we live in a changing world and the cell phone is a big part of that world. Years ago when I was little, I remember getting lost at an amusement park. What seemed like hours later, I was reunited with my mom. What if my mom and I had both had cell phones that day?
Think about it. You're at the mall with your 7-year-old and suddenly he's not next to you anymore. Instead of the panic attack most parents experience at this point, you simply call your son's cell phone. He answers, you find out exactly where he is and you go get him. No harm, no foul.
Or what about this... Your 12-year-old is at soccer practice and you're going to be about five minutes late picking him up due to an accident that slowed traffic. You call your son on his cell phone and tell him you're running late and to wait for you. Now your son doesn't worry when you don't show up right on time and you don't worry about your son having to worry.
Let's face it -- we all have enough stress in our lives when we're parents. If a cell phone can reduce that stress, I'm all for it.
Not All Cell Phones Are Created Equal
It is important to realize that not all cell phones are created equal. I do not advocate getting a flip phone with a camera and a mp3 player for a 1st grader. In their case, a Firefly or Migo will do. There are a number of age-appropriate cell phone options on the market. If you have kids, I suggest looking into them and getting them a cell phone that suits their needs and their age.
by: http://www.consumertipsreports.org
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Cell Phone Business Market - No Longer Luxury
How big is the cell phone wireless market?
The boom in mobile phone usage expands around the globe covering all income spectrums. A cell phone is no longer an expensive business luxury or status symbol but a vital necessity for many.
Companies from all industries and markets are vying for a share of a large and ever growing mobile pie including RIM, Apple, Microsoft and Google. With a flood of large competitors, is there room to start a mobile phone business?
Big business means big investments in technology and infrastructure to further build out the business. For the small player, the opportunity to start a cell phone business exists on the fringes or niche markets.
Mobile Phone Business Driven by Smartphones
Fueling the growth of the cell phone market is the evolution from standard cell phones to smartphones capable of more than a simple phone call.
Smartphones allow users to browser the Web, get GPS directions, listen to music, share photos and other forms of social networking, use email and run applications such as games and more.
Starting a mobile phone or cell phone business can be a profitable business opportunity in a growing market. At the Consumer Electronics Show, Dr. Eli Harary stated “the mobile phone market is the mother of all growth markets.”
Opening a retail cell phone store is one route to get into business. However, retail can be an expensive, competitive, low margin game. Alternative business opportunities exist for the mobile business.
5 Hot Mobile Phone Business Opportunities
The hottest opportunities to start a mobile phone business include:
Mobile Marketing: With billions of mobile phones around the world with greater penetration than the PC, the potential for advertising and market is huge. Although the current spend on mobile ads is a drop in the bucket of the $500 billion dollar ad market, the upside looks good.
Mobile Phone Apps: 3rd party applications ranging from business productivity to game downloads offer a viable business opportunity. Simple apps like Ocarina allowing iPhone users a way to turn their phone into a wind instrument is a top 99 cent download.
Apple, RIM and other companies provide a third party application developers fund to fuel investment in the app development market.
Mobile Web Design: It would seem most web sites are mobile ready but mobile readiness is far from business web development radar. The challenge of fitting web pages on tiny screens for multiple devices with easy navigation is a market need for a long time coming.
Location Based Services: Cameras in the phone were a killer application but now having GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) on the mobile phones provides a host of new business opportunities.
The combination of social networking and GPS provides exciting opportunities in allowing users to update friends on one’s location and tag favorite place.
Accessorize: From fashion conscious teens to savvy soccer moms, the need to customize, personalize and bling out your cell phone is a strong market. Smartphones Experts, a network of mobile phone e-commerce stores, grew from under $500,000 in revenue to over $16 million in 3 short years.
Starting a mobile phone business is a continued market opportunity and with more consumers looking to upgrade from a cell phone to a smartphone, the future looks bright for this business.
By Darrell Zahorsky, About.com Guide
How big is the cell phone wireless market?
The boom in mobile phone usage expands around the globe covering all income spectrums. A cell phone is no longer an expensive business luxury or status symbol but a vital necessity for many.
Companies from all industries and markets are vying for a share of a large and ever growing mobile pie including RIM, Apple, Microsoft and Google. With a flood of large competitors, is there room to start a mobile phone business?
Big business means big investments in technology and infrastructure to further build out the business. For the small player, the opportunity to start a cell phone business exists on the fringes or niche markets.
Mobile Phone Business Driven by Smartphones
Fueling the growth of the cell phone market is the evolution from standard cell phones to smartphones capable of more than a simple phone call.
Smartphones allow users to browser the Web, get GPS directions, listen to music, share photos and other forms of social networking, use email and run applications such as games and more.
Starting a mobile phone or cell phone business can be a profitable business opportunity in a growing market. At the Consumer Electronics Show, Dr. Eli Harary stated “the mobile phone market is the mother of all growth markets.”
Opening a retail cell phone store is one route to get into business. However, retail can be an expensive, competitive, low margin game. Alternative business opportunities exist for the mobile business.
5 Hot Mobile Phone Business Opportunities
The hottest opportunities to start a mobile phone business include:
Mobile Marketing: With billions of mobile phones around the world with greater penetration than the PC, the potential for advertising and market is huge. Although the current spend on mobile ads is a drop in the bucket of the $500 billion dollar ad market, the upside looks good.
Mobile Phone Apps: 3rd party applications ranging from business productivity to game downloads offer a viable business opportunity. Simple apps like Ocarina allowing iPhone users a way to turn their phone into a wind instrument is a top 99 cent download.
Apple, RIM and other companies provide a third party application developers fund to fuel investment in the app development market.
Mobile Web Design: It would seem most web sites are mobile ready but mobile readiness is far from business web development radar. The challenge of fitting web pages on tiny screens for multiple devices with easy navigation is a market need for a long time coming.
Location Based Services: Cameras in the phone were a killer application but now having GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) on the mobile phones provides a host of new business opportunities.
The combination of social networking and GPS provides exciting opportunities in allowing users to update friends on one’s location and tag favorite place.
Accessorize: From fashion conscious teens to savvy soccer moms, the need to customize, personalize and bling out your cell phone is a strong market. Smartphones Experts, a network of mobile phone e-commerce stores, grew from under $500,000 in revenue to over $16 million in 3 short years.
Starting a mobile phone business is a continued market opportunity and with more consumers looking to upgrade from a cell phone to a smartphone, the future looks bright for this business.
By Darrell Zahorsky, About.com Guide
Cell-phone Channels
A single cell in an analog cell-phone system uses one-seventh of the available duplex voice channels. That is, each cell (of the seven on a hexagonal grid) is using one-seventh of the available channels so it has a unique set of frequencies and there are no collisions:
* A cell-phone carrier typically gets 832 radio frequencies to use in a city.
* Each cell phone uses two frequencies per call -- a duplex channel -- so there are typically 395 voice channels per carrier. (The other 42 frequencies are used for control channels -- more on this later.)
Therefore, each cell has about 56 voice channels available. In other words, in any cell, 56 people can be talking on their cell phone at one time. Analog cellular systems are considered first-generation mobile technology, or 1G. With digital transmission methods (2G), the number of available channels increases. For example, a TDMA-based digital system (more on TDMA later) can carry three times as many calls as an analog system, so each cell has about 168 channels available.
Cell phones have low-power transmitters in them. Many cell phones have two signal strengths: 0.6 watts and 3 watts (for comparison, most CB radios transmit at 4 watts). The base station is also transmitting at low power. Low-power transmitters have two advantages:
* The transmissions of a base station and the phones within its cell do not make it very far outside that cell. Therefore, in the figure above, both of the purple cells can reuse the same 56 frequencies. The same frequencies can be reused extensively across the city.
* The power consumption of the cell phone, which is normally battery-operated, is relatively low. Low power means small batteries, and this is what has made handheld cellular phones possible.
The cellular approach requires a large number of base stations in a city of any size. A typical large city can have hundreds of towers. But because so many people are using cell phones, costs remain low per user. Each carrier in each city also runs one central office called the Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO). This office handles all of the phone connections to the normal land-based phone system, and controls all of the base stations in the region.
by: http://www.howstuffworks.com/
* A cell-phone carrier typically gets 832 radio frequencies to use in a city.
* Each cell phone uses two frequencies per call -- a duplex channel -- so there are typically 395 voice channels per carrier. (The other 42 frequencies are used for control channels -- more on this later.)
Therefore, each cell has about 56 voice channels available. In other words, in any cell, 56 people can be talking on their cell phone at one time. Analog cellular systems are considered first-generation mobile technology, or 1G. With digital transmission methods (2G), the number of available channels increases. For example, a TDMA-based digital system (more on TDMA later) can carry three times as many calls as an analog system, so each cell has about 168 channels available.
Cell phones have low-power transmitters in them. Many cell phones have two signal strengths: 0.6 watts and 3 watts (for comparison, most CB radios transmit at 4 watts). The base station is also transmitting at low power. Low-power transmitters have two advantages:
* The transmissions of a base station and the phones within its cell do not make it very far outside that cell. Therefore, in the figure above, both of the purple cells can reuse the same 56 frequencies. The same frequencies can be reused extensively across the city.
* The power consumption of the cell phone, which is normally battery-operated, is relatively low. Low power means small batteries, and this is what has made handheld cellular phones possible.
The cellular approach requires a large number of base stations in a city of any size. A typical large city can have hundreds of towers. But because so many people are using cell phones, costs remain low per user. Each carrier in each city also runs one central office called the Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO). This office handles all of the phone connections to the normal land-based phone system, and controls all of the base stations in the region.
by: http://www.howstuffworks.com/
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Top 10 cell phones for students
Love it or hate it, most students now have cell phones. Wirefly, a retailer of cell phones and wireless plans, released its annual Top 10 cell phones for students heading back to school. Factors considered included affordability, popularity and functionality.
1. LG Vu CU920 (AT) - Touchscreen phone with a 2.0 megapixel camera/camcorder, virtual QWERTY keyboard for email and text messaging, expandable memory, and AT Music and MediaFLO for watching videos and listening to music. Pricing: Free for current or new AT customers.
2. BlackBerry Curve 8900 (AT T-Mobile) - Includes a 3.2-MP camera, WiFi, GPS, full HTML internet browser, MP3 player. Pricing: Free for new AT or T-Mobile customers.
3. LG enV Touch (Verizon Wireless) - Messaging device with advanced multimedia capabilities, a full HTML web browser, an enhanced music player, and a 3.2 megapixel camera/camcorder. The 3" external touchscreen flips open to display a twin 3" display and QWERTY keyboard. Pricing: $99.99 for new Verizon Wireless customers.
4. Sidekick Slide (T-Mobile) - Features compact design with a sliding screen that reveals a full QWERTY keyboard. Includes MySpace mobile experience, text and picture messaging, email, always-on instant messenger, 1.3 megapixel camera. Pricing: Free for new T-Mobile customers.
5. BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Sprint) - Brings the Curve to CDMA networks for the first time and provides on-the-go email and calendar solutions for students. Includes a 2.0 Megapixel camera, GPS, media player, voice dialing and stereo Bluetooth. Pricing: Free for new Sprint customers.
6. LG enV3 (Verizon Wireless) - Slim flip-phone with QWERTY keyboard. Also includes auto-complete, instant reply, stereo Bluetooth compatibility, a music player and support for V CAST Music with Rhapsody and V CAST Video, and 3.0 megapixel camera/ camcorder. Pricing: Free for new Verizon Wireless customers.
7. Samsung Impression (AT) - Uses the nation's first AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) display. 3.2" touchscreen, 3.0 megapixel camera/ camcorder, full, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Video share. Pricing: Free for current or new AT customers.
8. LG Xenon (AT) - Touch screen, messaging-centric device featuring slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 2 megapixel camera/camcorder, and Video Share. Bluetooth v2.0 compatibility and voice-driven menu navigation and dialing combine for a hands-free experience. Pricing: Free for current or new AT customers.
9. Samsung Behold T919 (T-Mobile) - TouchWiz user interface, drag-and-drop widget technology, 5-MP camera, expandable memory, video capture, and voice-controlled menus. Pricing: Free for new T-Mobile customers.
10. Motorola Rival A455 (Verizon Wireless) - Messaging-centric phone with one-touch access to applications, a partial touchscreen and a slide-out, back-lit QWERTY keyboard, 2.0 megapixel camera/camcorder, and hands-free options including Bluetooth, speakerphone and voice commands. Also equipped with V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Videos, mobile web, expandable memory, and a music player. Pricing: Free for current or new Verizon Wireless customers.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Mobile Video - 3G Comes As a Big Push
Kaustubh Kashyap, head product management, mLifestyle, Comviva, forecasts that revenues from mobile video will nearly grow three folds to reach $18.2 billion by the end of 2013, compared $6.7 billion at end of 2008, worldwide.
The advent of 3G networks worldwide is driving mobile video services such as mobile TV and video SMS.
Mobile TV could be streamed over the mobile network or a proprietary network. The mobile network must be 2.5G or 3G. Mobile-TV standards include DVB-H, Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) and MediaFLO.
However, mobile-TV poses challenges for handset manufacturers and content providers alike. To be feasible, it requires high processing power, low power consumption (improved battery life), large memory for long hours of TV viewing and improved LCD touch screens will be preferred by the users but at the same time, all these should not make the handset very bulky. iPhone's growing popularity is a case in point.
Content providers need to develop the content specifically tailored for mobile TVs, such as mobile episodes of popular shows which are relatively shorter in length. China Telecom has rolled out high end 3G enabled video streaming services across China.
Its subscribers now have access to richer mobile applications such as live mobile TV, video on demand and download, thanks to the 3G CDMA EVDO video streaming service delivered by Nokia Siemens Networks.
Offering a range of live and on demand mobile TV channels to include local and international news, sports, music and movies.
It is a good idea to go through latest reviews before you buy new iPhone.
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How to Trace an Unknown Call - The Quickest and Easiest Way to Trace Any Unknown Call!
If you are unsure how to identify and locate unknown calls, it is a very easy thing to do and the best method to use depends on the type of telephone number that called you. So, if you are looking for the easiest way to trace an unknown call, all you have to do is keep reading the rest of this article to learn how to get it done.
How To Trace an Unknown Call - The Best Methods
Listed Landline Calls
If the type of number that you looking to identify happened to come from a listed landline number, the quickest and easiest way to track this number is to get on the website of the White Pages or any other free telephone directory.
Since these numbers are a matter of public information, this information will never carry a charge and you can learn the caller's name and address within a matter of moments.
Wireless Numbers
If the number you are searching happens to come from a cell phone number, you will no longer be able to get your answers from the White Pages or any other free directory. This is because wireless numbers are NOT a matter of public information.
The identifying information behind cell phone numbers will have to purchased because the only way the major wireless carriers that own this information release the name, address, and other pertinent information connected to cell phone numbers is by selling it.
And they don't sell this information directly to the public via their own directories. Instead, they lease the most up-to-date information to third party data brokers. These brokers are known as "reverse cell phone directories".
In return for a few dollars, you can have your hands on a very extensive list of personal details in connection with over 90% of the wireless numbers that exist within the entire country.
In addition to being able to provide results reports for wireless numbers, these directories also provide the same reports for the following types of telephone numbers:
• VoIP
• Fax
• Unlisted/Unpublished Numbers
Finally, these directories also carry the same information for listed landline numbers found in any free directory. So, the next time you are looking to trace an unknown call, you now have a resource available that is able to provide owner details for every type of telephone number there is.
www.ezinearticles.comMonday, November 9, 2009
Homeland Security Chief Seeks FM in Mobile Devices
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski are encouraging the adoption of FM radio tuners in mobile phone handsets. A letter, signed by a bipartisan group of 60 House lawmakers, notes that radio's emergency alert system is "a proven, reliable service," and urges the FCC and DHS to "consider extending American's access to radio EAS information via mobile phone handsets."
"The Warning Alert and Response Network ("WARN") Act of 2006 authorized the commercial mobile telephone industry to create an emergency alerting system. It is our understanding that incorporating FM radio tuners in mobile phones could help achieve this goal," the letter stated.
The letter continued, "There are well over seven hundred million cell phones with FM radios globally. Currently, only a handful of FM radio enabled cell phones are in the U.S. market. There is no excuse for American consumers' access to advanced technology to lag behind that available worldwide."
The letter is encouraging both DHS and FCC to consider extending Americans' access to radio EAS information via mobile phone handsets. "Everyone involved, including the American public and public safety officials, as well as the mobile phone and broadcasting industries, stands to benefit," the letter concluded. (11-09-09)
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