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Have you taken the plunge and purchased one of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smart phones that recently hit the market?
If so, it has just been recalled due to what has been described as a very serious battery issue.
Apparently the defective batteries are subject to overheating, and some of them have actually exploded and caught on fire. Not a good thing to say the least!
Here is Samsung’s official statement concerning the recall: [Read more…]
Do you make frequent calls to someone at a business where you have to enter an extension number in order to reach that person? If so, you can easily append the extension right to the end of the number so you won’t have to enter it every time you call.
I’ll explain how to do that, but first we need to discuss two common ways that switchboards handle calls to extensions:
1 – Most switchboards will answer your call and give you a list of menu options. If you know the extension number of the person you wish to speak with, you can dial it at any time without waiting for the message/menu to finish “talking”.
2 – Other switchboards require you to listen to the entire recorded message/menu before entering the extension number.
With that preliminary discussion out of the way, here’s how to append an extension number directly to the end of a telephone number on your smart phone: [Read more…]
Sprint has just announced that like T-Mobile and Verizon, they will stop offering two year contracts and subsidized phones by the end of this year.
After the dust has settled that will leave AT&T as the only major carrier to offer those traditional types of deals, but I expect them to follow suit and drop long-term plans and subsidized phones as well before too long.
In place of the two year contracts Sprint will be offering shorter-term “pay as you go” plans. As far as acquiring new phones is concerned, customers will have at least two options: [Read more…]
According to a recent Gallup poll, almost half of all Americans who use a smart phone can’t imagine life without one. Overall, a whopping 46% of the respondents agreed with this statement:
“I can’t imagine my life without my smartphone.“
51% of the women who participated in the poll agreed with that statement, along with 41% of the men. Interestingly, 9% more iPhone users agreed with the statement than did Android users. [Read more…]
Today’s smart phones are actually small, but powerful hand-held computers that are subject to all the annoyances and dangers that can afflict their larger cousins like laptops and desktop PCs.
Indeed, phones often become bloated with unnecessary apps and corrupted files. And unfortunately, they can even become infected with malware.
Fantastic apps like Lookout Mobile Security and Clean Master can help keep your phone free of malware, bloatware and other junk, but phones can still occasionally get so messed up and unstable that they become virtually unusable. And in extreme instances, they even lock up completely.
When situations like these arise, the best (and sometimes only) option is to simply do a factory reset on the phone and start over from scratch. But what if you don’t know how to do a factory reset on your particular phone? [Read more…]