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Finding Online Cell Phone Comparison Sites

If you're looking for easy cell phone comparison, there's nothing simpler than finding one of the sites that offer comparisons as part of their service. One of the major advantages of side-by-side cell phone comparison sites is that terminology is usually the same from phone to phone so that there's less need to weed through technical jargon that you might not understand. There's also typically a more uniform arrangement to this kind of cell phone comparison. That means that you don't have only the positive points mentioned.

Cell phone comparisons are common at the homepages of many of the major cell phone service providers and equipment sales companies. Cingular is one of those. Located online at www.cingular-cell-phone.info, you'll find an easy cell phone comparison feature for any two (or more) phones you want to compare. Simply scroll through the list of phones available from Cingular, choose those you want to compare, and you'll be taken directly to a comparison page.

At LetsTalk.com, you'll find an easy cell phone comparison for whatever kind of cell phone you are considering purchasing. Already have a cell phone and just want to see if the latest model has enough new features to warrant making the upgrade? Just select "compare phones," then select the kind of phone you're looking at - camera phones, smartphones or prepaid cell phones.

If live discussions are a better way for you to conduct a cell phone comparison, family and friends are likely a good source of information, largely because you know these people and can more accurately assess what they say (and don't say) about a particular cell phone. If you're looking for online discussions, check out Talk Cell Phones at www.talkcellphones.com. You'll find threads of conversation related to cell phone comparison.

CellPhoneFacts.com is another website dedicated to cell phone comparison and ratings of cell phones, plans and service. Here you'll find articles and information about how to accurately compare cell phones.

At the end of the day, the best way to conduct a cell phone comparison for your next cell phone is probably you. Even if you don't know much about cell phones, you are the person who best knows what you expect from a cell phone, and from your cell phone service plan. Even if you think you know nothing about cell phones, you likely know more than you think, and remember, sales people are there to answer your questions! Conducting your own cell phone comparison could very well be the best way for you to make a final decision.

Today's Cell Phone Comparison Articles

LG Intros Solar-Powered Car Kit

Today LG introduced the HFB-500, a new mobile phone car kit that uses solar power to provide the energy necessary to run a speakerphone when in the car, making use of the cigarette lighter unnecessary. The hands-free device has ...
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Verizon: Alltel Deal to Close Jan. 9

Verizon Wireless indicated in regulatory filings that it plans to close its acquisition of Alltel on Friday, January 9. Verizon is paying $5.9 billion for Alltel, as well as taking on $22.9 billion of debt. The acquisition will make ...
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LG Bringing Noise Cancellation Tech to Handsets

Today LG announced new technology that it will use in its cell phones that helps eliminate background noise. By using a second microphone and special software, the technology will help filter out background noise to make hearing phone calls ...
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Slightly-On-Sale iPhones Arrive at Wal-Mart Today, Still Not $99

Just a gentle reminder for you folks who buy the lion's share of your electronics at Wal-Mart: The iPhone will be at the big box store chain with a tiny discount, starting... today!

According to Yahoo, Wal-Mart will offer the 8GB iPhone 3G for $197, and the 16GB black or white model for $297. Dealzmodo this certainly is not, as the $99 iPhone rumor we reported on earlier this month never materialized, as expected.

That said, if you really want a $99 iPhone, head on over to the refurbished section at AT&T. Those guys are offering a $99 gently used (or potentially never used, actually) phone for the low, low price of $99. [Yahoo, Image: MacRumors]

RIM Says Blackberry Storm is Verizon's Top Seller

In today's Q3 Conference Call, Verizon stated that the Blackberry Storm has been their top seller over the last month, attracting new BB converts in droves.

RIM wouldn't release specific numbers, according to Alley Insider, but did say that the Storm launch brought in the highest number of new RIM subscribers for a single day. Following that trend, over 75% of Storm buyers have been new Blackberry users, as opposed to former Pearl/Curve/8800 users (they're all buying the Bold).

And either they had low expectations or sales are actually great, but Verizon is having trouble meeting demands at the moment. Take THAT, David Pogue! [Alley Insider]

Textecution Tries to Stop Your Kid From Texting While Driving

The biggest flaw of touchscreen phones is that they're even more dangerous (and annoying) to type on while driving than button-y phones. Textecution is a G1 app that won't let you text, period, while driving.

The way it works is pretty simple: It taps the G1's GPS, and if you're moving more than 10MPH, it kills text messaging. Targeted at texting teens, in order to get permission to text when you're driving—or running really fast—it'll call an admin number, like their parent's—to temporarily lower the block. Ingenious, except totally not.

For one, dastardly kids can just delete the app completely, no admin approval required. Which they'd probably do immediately, if they wanted their G1 live longer than 27 minutes, which is the kind of battery life you could look forward to with GPS constantly running. Also, what about when your precious is just a passenger on a bus or in their friend's car?

Face it parents, your kid is going to text while they're driving—and call their friends, mess with their hair, change the CD, flip through their iPod and everything horribly unsafe thing you do while you're driving. [Textecution via TechCrunch]

LG Touchscreen Watch Phone Will Support 3G, Speech Recognition, Little Girl Fingers

Details of a new LG watch phone, likely to be announced at CES, have trickled out through the company's Korean site. And surprise! It looks hard to use. But not—and this is important—unusable.

The first thing to notice is the specs: unlike last time around, they're actually pretty solid. The GD910, as it's called, will support 3G, HSDPA, Bluetooth, text-to-speech and speech-to-text, and finally, videoconferencing via a front-mounted camera.

These capabilities, far from being the useless feature bloat that we see on gimmicky hardware like this, seem to be geared toward making this wrist piece bearable. Don't want to fiddle with little watch buttons to make a call? Use the touchscreen. Don't want to type on a tiny on-screen keypad? Talk to your phone. Don't want to walk around with a watch to your face like some kind of portly, neckbearded, wolfshirted FBI agent? Hook up a Bluetooth headset and you'll just look like a nerdy soccer dad. And videoconferencing, mercifully built in, is probably the most important feature to have on a quasi-spy gadget like this.

That said, there are still a few problems that will be unavoidable in this form-factor, the largest of which LG has implicitly acknowledged with their product photos: unless you are a young child with young child fingers, don't plan on having an easy go of it. [UnwiredView]

Nokia's USA Site Shows T-Mobile-Branded 7510 Supernova

Nokia's USA-specific Web site has listed the 7510 Supernova with T-Mobile branding on it. The 7510 was first announced in June 2008 and is a flip phone with a push-to-open design, quad-band GSM/EDGE and FM radios, and 2 megapixel ...
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Early Results from Largest Ever Cellphone Cancer Study Are Horribly Depressing

Interphone researchers are conducting the largest-ever study investigating if cellphones cause cancer, examining studies from 6,400 tumors in patients from 13 countries. Final results are expected in early 2009, but the preliminary ones are badbadbad.

Israeli researchers in the study found that regular cellphones users are a whopping 50 percent more likely than non-users to get brain tumors. Another Interphone study looking at the UK and Scandinavia found a 40 percent greater tumor risk in people who've used cellphones for over 10 years, though on the bright side, nothing scary for people who've used them for less than a decade.

The final results of Interphone's study are highly anticipated as the first study to provide close to a definitive answer on the cellphone cancer question, since as PopSci notes, most of the other studies "have been statistically useless," since they didn't survey enough people and looked at too many that had less than 10 years of cellphone use under the belt, which is how long it takes brain cancer to develop "in most cases."

PopSci's assessment of the gravity of the situation is close to spot-on—definitive proof that cellphones cause cancer would probably be the along the same lines as discovering that tobacco causes cancer, but you know, huger, since almost everyone uses a cellphone, from pre-schoolers to grandmas. I guess it's a good thing I rarely use my iPhone for talking. How would you react if cellphones definitely caused cancer? [Pop Sci]

Confirmed: BlackBerry Curve 8900 Coming to T-Mobile in February

Well that was a neat little progression: Early suspicions, followed by a purported internal leak, capped with an official announcement. T-Mobile will be adding the BlackBerry Curve 8900 to their lineup come February.

The press release doesn't get any more specific than that, but seems to lend authority to the previous leak, which indicated that the 18th would be the day. [BGR]

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