Have you ever wondered why smartphones online can cost up to $800 whereas inside the Wireless Carrier’s store its only $199? Wireless Carriers do this as an incentive to customers, so that they will buy a two-year agreement. But what happens if you sign-up for a Pre-Paid and get the smartphone at a low, low cost just to switch carriers? Carriers such as AT&T install specific locks onto their smartphones to prevent the movement of phones to another carrier. Many clever programmers have found a way around this lock by simply removing it and reselling the device as an “unlocked…
Author: Justin Vendette
The global e-commerce online money transfers business, PayPal, is starting to take a huge step into the mobile market. Founded back in 1998 PayPal is a subsidiary of eBay, the world’s largest auction website. eBay purchased the global company, back in 2002, to allow financial transfers via their own website to be safe and easy for their customers. PayPal has grown into a $4.4 billion dollar company which is more than eBay could have ever thought of. With the advancement of Near Communication Fields (NFC) being implemented into today’s smartphones many companies are seeing how this could affect their business.…
With more than half of Americans owning a smartphone it is easy to say many companies want to be number one in the market. There are many different types of smartphones, especially when it comes to their OS. We have iOS, Apple’s user-friendly interface that runs on all of their mobile devices, Android, which is Google’s superior operation system that runs on a large number of devices, and last but not least there is Blackberry OS, the go-to business phone. I could spend months writing numerous amounts of articles on all the new tech gear in the smartphone market but…
Back when the Samsung Galaxy S III was released, Samsung promised their customers that it would receive the new upcoming Android OS, Jelly Bean or Android 4.1. Unveiled back in June Jelly bean was only offered on the Galaxy Nexus S and Motorola Xoom. Google has set out to bring all available Android devices to either Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean, although Gingerbread is still running on 50.8% of all Android devices. The new OS unlocks brand new features for the S III such as Isis-ready, which allows you to use the phone as a credit card via the…
Just this past week the text message turned 20 years old, with the first message saying “Merry Christmas”. With billions of text messages sent and read every single day, you can say texting has become popular. The four major wireless carriers – Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile – have all signed up to allow a new emergency text-to-911 service. Customers of other wireless carriers will most likely see the feature on their carrier, such as StrightTalk and Virgin Mobile in the following months. The national emergency service is looking at a release date of May 2014. The FCC, the drive…
Below are some useful tips and tools for Android users. Some may be new you to and others may be old news The follow steps will be for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Some steps may vary depending on your type of device. Table of Contents 1. Using a Task Manager. 2. Battery Usage. 3. Data Usage. 4. Save Webpages for Offline Reading. 5. Taking a Screenshot. 6. Sync Facebook Profile Pictures to Contacts. 7. Hide Pre-installed Apps. 8. Add Widgets to the Home screen. 9. Locking your device. 10. Lock the Screen Orientation. 11. Android Easter Eggs. 1. Using…
18 months ago Microsoft released the 9th version of their web browser, Internet Explorer 9. IE9, for short, came with all new bells and whistles for the Internet as HTML 5 and CSS3. Microsoft may have been behind on adding HTML5 and CSS3 to IE9 but in this upcoming month Microsoft just announced brand new news on IE10. Internet Explorer 10 will ship pre-installed with all Windows 8 machines and will be ready for download on Windows 7 in November. Similar to the release of IE9, IE10 has received a brand new User Interface along with key features such as…
Two weeks ago, Apple held their 2012 San Francisco keynote event that announced a range of new products and updates. Tim Cook, who has taken over the keynote since the passing of Steve Jobs, has done an excellent job announcing the iPhone 5, a revamped iTunes, iOS 6, and the new generations of iPods. iPhone 5 Let’s begin with the new iPhone 5. To compete against its predecessor, Apple has given the new phone a taller 4 inch screen, but keeping the same width as the previous iPhones. The phone display is a 1,135-by-640 Retina display which gives the iPhone…
Just a few months ago Samsung announced their brand new smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S III. Shortly after the release many tech websites such as PCMag and CNet gave it outstanding reviews. Not only were the websites falling in love with the device but so were the customers. Myself and a few others here at TSF have bought one. On thursday, September 6th 2012, Samsung announced that they have sold over 20 million Galaxy S III’s in just 100 days; which make the S III the most successful smartphone to date. Two months ago Samsung reached their sales goal of…
With Windows 8 upcoming Microsoft has decided to change up their logo. For years Microsoft’s logo has always consisted of the well known thick letters with italicized font. The new logo, however, features the classic red, green, blue and orange logo that may seem familiar to Windows users. Instead of using the the classic Windows flag, Microsoft has decided to stick with the new Metro feel and turn it into a square, the company name appearing on the right in soft grey. From a poll in PCMag.com on opinions of the new logo, 28% of voters said “Yes, it’s great”,…