DUMB PHONE DONE GONE
Posted on February 4th, 2013 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
One of our readers told us he just bought his first cell phone, after decades without.
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DUTCH TREAT
Posted on January 25th, 2013 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
The “Vonage Mobile” app lets us make calls locally and internationally without spending any of the minutes in our cell-phone’s T-Mobile plan. The key is the other person must also have downloaded the app, unless they’re already a Vonage customer. Since it’s free, why not? Go to VonageMobile.com and have a link sent to your phone via text message. The app works for both text and voice.
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NO MORE ROAMING
Posted on December 13th, 2012 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
By the way … When you take your smart phone to another country, you may be in for a shocking charge. Our brother in Boston was dinged for $50 in data charges in the first few minutes he stepped off the plane in China.
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OUR FIRST SMARTPHONE
Posted on December 4th, 2012 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
We’ve never been smartphone fans. When we leave our office, we leave the Internet behind. We are two of those now seldom seen people whose noses aren’t glued to a tiny screen.
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GROUP CHATS
Posted on September 5th, 2012 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Skype video chats just got some competition from Zoom.us, a free service that lets up to 15 people chat at once, on phones, tablets and computers, or a mix of all three. When one person is talking, their face dominates the screen and the rest are seen in thumbnail images. To add someone to a chat, just send them a link.
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FREE SPEECH
Posted on February 27th, 2012 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Viber is a competitor to Skype and one we’d never heard of till last week. But we woke up and found that 50 million people are already using it and it’s only a year old.
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ATTENTION SKYPE FANS
Posted on January 1st, 2012 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Our nephew in Spain relies on Skype to keep in touch with the family by way of free video calls. Typically the family huddles around the laptop or iPad. Another way to do it is on the family TV
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TING A LING
Posted on December 27th, 2011 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
“Ting” is a new cell phone service that won’t make you pay for minutes you don’t use. It will launch early next year on the Sprint network.
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FREE WIFI IN THE AIRPORT
Posted on December 19th, 2011 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Here’s how to call your friends from the airport without using any cellphone minutes or searching for a payphone. Skype is offering an hour of free WiFi connectivity from December 21 through the 27th.
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JUST HANGING OUT
Posted on August 12th, 2011 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
GPhangouts.com has public places where you can hang out with others on Google Plus in a group video chat. We met a travel writer there, some business types and a guy speaking German. Some chats will have started by the time you get there, others are scheduled for the next day or a few hours later. Requires a Google Plus account to hang out. (You can request an invite at plus.google.com.)
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