Views of text speak range from it being, like, SO K3WL, to being a Babel-virus designed to lobotomise our language centers and leave us all dribbling in front of Hot Topics unable to recite anything but our credit card numbers. It’s a fact that every time you say OMG out loud you lose fifty brain [...]

If you’ve been complaining about the cost of your contract, spare a thought for this handset which will set you back a cool £1.6 million.
This glitzy iPhone has the dubious honour in this day and age of being the most expensive phone in the world.
The phone has been created by Australian jeweller Peter Aloisson who [...]

It might seem odd for us to tell you not to use your phone.  After all, phones and the manifold uses thereof are kind of our entire deal here at “Dial-a-phone”, so when a company whose name is made of phones and phone-related verbs tells you not to things must be pretty serious.  Which they [...]

You’re old enough to know the truth about Santa, but you may want to suspend your disbelief for a minute.  It’s the traditional time for drooling over uber-enticing hardware, and a magic-powered fat man distributing free gifts from a sub-zero base is your most likely chance of getting your hands on some of this gear:
1.  [...]

The days of difficulty with newfangled “phone” contraptions should be long gone.  It’s been over a century since Mr Graham Bell’s electric prototypes (and truly fantastic beard), but still people are having problems using, owning or even operating phones.

1.  Disconnect Da Police
Having your phone line cut off is extremely annoying - especially when you’re a [...]

You might love phones (or maybe you don’t, in which case you have an odd choice in leisure reading), but you’ve got nothing on the lengths some people will go to for their handsets:
1. Lack of priorities
In 2005, fourteen percent of phone users surveyed reported that they’ve stopped in the middle of sex in [...]

People can try too hard with handsets: making them, using them, or trying to extract money out of those doing the previous two. Here we see five phone efforts that the remotest jungle tribe, still communicating via smoke signal, could have identified as really bad ideas.
1. Bluetooth Skateboard

Because texting while driving just isn’t [...]

The mobile phone has drastically affected society; a hand-portable device capable of transmitting your voice around the globe will do that sort of thing. With 50% of EVERYBODY ON THE PLANET owning one at the end of last year, handsets now outnumber most species. Not just the pansy endangered ones, either, but major [...]

Do you think that your wireless bill is too high? By the time you add in your early nights and weekends, your text messaging plan and your data/media plan, does it seem as though your cell phone is costing more than it should? Most people wish that they could lower their cell phone bill at [...]