Is Cell Phone Insurance Worth It?

So you finally decided to upgrade to a new cell phone and visit your local cell phone retail shop.  The retail clerk offers to sell you a cell phone insurance plan in case you break your phone or another plan in case you actually lose your phone.  Some of these plans tend to add a [...]

Verizon set to kill unlimited data plans

It looks like Verizon is planning to stop offering unlimited data plans at the end of July.  According to Droid Life data plans may look like the following: Data plans: 2GB – $30/month 5GB – $50/month 10GB – $80/month If you would like to add tethering on to any of those packages, you can purchase 2GB [...]

T-mobile buying used phones or are they?

I saw in the technology news today that T-mobile was actually buying  phones for trade ins.  I thought it was a great idea so I went ahead and pulled out my multitude of cell phones that I have stored away in the closet that are perfectly good working phones but they have been replaced already.  I [...]

Are kids texting too much?

You’ve seen commercials that talk about how much teens are texting and how they are driving up the cell phone bills but the commercials of course never address the other consequences of excessive texting.  The have been multiple articles regarding teens texting too much and some of the side effects of it. One of the [...]

My son and his cell phone

Originally my wife got to stay home and raise our son but as he got old my wife thought it might be time to go back to work. This created new issues later as she sometimes worked weekends and wanted to be able to keep in touch with our son at all times. He also [...]