The iPhone’s Incompatibility with Masks
When Apple introduced its facial recognition/unlock feature in the iPhone X in 2017, it did away with the formerly present fingerprint sensor. This is unlike every Android phone I’m aware of – although many …
Cellphones & Wireless
Weekly Roundup, Friday 27 November 2020
Good morning I hope you had a great Thanksgiving yesterday. Did you have a reduced group for your dinner, or did you ignore the virus threat and press on regardless? Fortunately (or not!) for me, …
Black Friday Bargain Guide 2020
For most of us, Thanksgiving this year is a bit odd. If we’re together with family, it is hard to fully suppress the thought that one of them might not be unwittingly spreading the …
Cellphone Features List and Buyers’ Guide
Update 18 Oct 2021 – We now have 92 phone models in our table, including the new iPhone 13 and Pixel 6 models. New cell phones keep appearing, and these days there is a profusion …
Adding a Bluetooth Hands-Free Speakerphone Unit to Your Car
It is becoming more and more frowned upon to use your phone while driving. A friend in California was recently fined $200 for doing so (even though it was a first offense with no aggravating …
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Unscrambling the Confusion of Cell Phone Frequencies
Note – this is the first part of a two part article. In this first part, we look at US cell phone frequencies. In part two, we’ll look at frequencies in other countries. In the …
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The Myths and Obscured Truths of 5G Phone Service
Each new generation of wireless/cell phone service comes with faster data speeds and greater hype. What is now being officially counted as 5G or fifth generation wireless phone promises extraordinarily fast data speeds, or …
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 16 October 2020
Good morning I hope you found some deals that appealed in the Amazon Prime Day sale. Looking at stats for sales from my Tuesday morning article, it seems the three most popular items were Fire …
A Nightmarish Never-Ending Circular Interaction With Google Fi’s Support Supervisors
What could be simpler? My present Google Fi phone failed last week. It is out of warranty, and the quoted repair cost was almost as much as a new phone, so I ordered a new …
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Amazon’s New Products Announced on Thursday
Amazon announced a number of new products on Thursday 24 September. Here’s my pick of the best of them. New (4th Generation) Echo Dot and other Echo Units The Echo Dot has always been …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 18 September 2020
Good morning I’m again behind on the annual fundraiser – apologies to all – so will go silent on that this week until caught up again next week. But I’ve not been doing nothing. …
Testing for Invisible/Harmful EMF Pollution
Just because you can’t see, feel, taste or smell it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Radio pollution (to use a non-technical term), is a growing problem (or possibly not, depending on your personal opinion about …
