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5 Ways To Use Your Mobile Phone as a Top-Grade Business Tool

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Your mobile phone can be your best friend when it comes to business and marketing these days, if you learn how to use it in a few different specific ways. Gone are the days where you had to sit in front of a desktop because those were the only computers that had the processing power that you needed to do your job.

Now you can have your mobile phone or your tablet as the center of your business, regardless of your industry, or even your position in your industry. Consider the five following ways to make this happen. [Read more…]

How To Use Your Mobile Phone To Find a New Home

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The search for a new home, whether it’s going to be buying a house or renting an apartment or a room, is not always the most fun. There is lots of research involved, lots of talking to people, and usually lots of failure before you find the right spot.

However, you can use you mobile phone to make the process a bit easier, and four ways that you can do that is by looking in local online newspaper listings, searching through Craigslist ads online, using location-based searching to see what cool things are in an area, and installing specific real-estate apps. [Read more…]

4 Tips for Using Your Mobile Phone To Save Money

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One of the best parts of having a mobile phone that’s always connected to the web is the fact that you can use it to help you save money on everyday activities. Though everyone is aware of the costs associated with purchasing the phone and then having a data plan, you can chip away at that expense by using the phone to save cash as well.

The main categories of thought considered here include the use of digital coupons, the installation of comparison shopping apps, the use of navigation apps to save time and gas money, and having a smart budgeting app that helps you make decisions. [Read more…]

5 Tips To Create a Better Mobile Experience For Users

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As most people have their favorite communication gadgets (smartphones and tablets) with them almost all the time, as a website designer, you should be paying attention to what your website experience presents to these mobile users.

It’s still a relatively new phenomenon that many people do most of their browsing on their gadgets, but it’s still something that you should plan for in the design stage. To account for this, follow these five tips – if you can, have the experts do the heavy design work, be sure to test your site with every possible device, create a survey to get user feedback when possible, keep the audio presence in mind, and balance out your subtle and screaming elements.

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Have the Experts Create a Custom Design

Depending on your industry, get custom work done when possible. For example, because drug rehab traffic is a very competitive playground for marketers, if you really want to shine, especially on mobile, have a company custom design your drug rehab site from the ground up, with your specific vision in mind. Not only will it be an amazing design on mobile devices, it will already have the SEO built into it. [Read more…]

London’s Restart Parties Heating Up

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restartModern society has turned into a disposable culture over the last two decades. Before the 80s, people were more conscious about the gadgets and appliances they have in their homes. They take very good care of them and if they do malfunction, the first thing adults did was to bring it to a repair shop or troubleshoot it themselves. Very rarely do you see them shrug their shoulders, throw away the broken gadget, and then buy a new one. [Read more…]

The Phone Watch That Makes You Look Cool

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Back in 1997, I read a news article about concept designs for new mobile phones that will come out in ten to fifteen years. One of the concepts was a ring that you put on your finger that is also a small mobile phone. It looked like it came out of a science fiction movie. We’re now at that time they were envisioning and even though a ring mobile phone has not arrived yet, miniaturization has allowed manufacturers to create a watch phone like the Burg5 Phone Watch. [Read more…]

LG announces its first Android cellphone: LG-GW620

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It doesn’t have a sexy name, though you know it’s from LG — the LG-GW620 is the first handset from the Korean company to embrace the Android open source mobile operating system.

Featuring three inches of obligatory touch screen plus a slide out QWERTY keyboard, there’s something very “Nokia N Series” about the design.

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Nokia announces 5230 touchscreen cellphone

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nokia-5230-touchscreen-mobile-phoneFollowing news of its first notebook PC, Nokia returns to its roots with the introduction of the touchscreen Nokia 5230 handset.

Designed to be a simple yet comprehensive multimedia device, it can handle applications from Nokia’s Ovi Store, plays music and video, offers mobile Internet, and has A-GPS and Ovi Maps built in.

Exact specifications aren’t available yet, though we do know that in Europe it will cost €149 (that’s currently around $210) but will likely be subsidised. In some regions it will be bundled with the Comes With Music service, and in this case will cost €259 ($370).

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