Matt Anderson 
Maybe my rant about headphone jacks the other day was a bit premature. This is a legitimate excuse for crazy thin phones. To clarify, this is not. I’ll give you my headphone jack, willingly, if you make me a foldable phone. The years and years of being stuck with a slab of electronics has left … Read more
This is obnoxious. Not necessarily that the iPhone is insanely overpriced for what it offers, but that the media is seriously advocating people go into debt to finance a cell phone. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying cell phones have not nudged their way from superfluous almost over the line of necessity, I’m just … Read more
So, two crazy things happened today. One was from Australia, where the Brisbane Supreme Court ruled that an unsent text can be a substitute for a will. The second was from Yahoo news when they used a Windows Phone in their news article on 10/11/2017! I just joined the financial world not long ago and … Read more
Who should be allowed to buy internet based ads? That’s a deep and intriguing question in today’s political and commercial landscape. With allegations of Russian meddling in our political discourse I thought to myself, “Who looks at ads? Like seriously, you don’t run ad block?” but also “How did these ads happen in the first … Read more
Trending these days in the fast lane of high end hardware is the forced retirement of something most of us did not agree to. Our 3.5mm headphone jacks were stolen without our permission and for no functional reason other than you might have to scratch your ass while digging out your wallet to buy all … Read more
You know what Windows Phone and Civil American Political Discourse now have in common? Well two things. Obviously, they’re both dead and they pretty much got worse as time went along. Long time windows shepherd, Joe Belfiore took to twitter to torment the three people who still have windows phones on Sunday, letting me, Jimski, and … Read more
This is seems like an obligatory post that pops up on Engadget at least once every two days and they’re getting paid the big bucks so I figured let’s give it a whirl. I will however be injecting some uncomfortable and deranged sexual innuendo into the process that I feel is desperately missing from the … Read more
We’ve been all over the board here at the staff since the update. Some of us are claiming constant non-stop drain and others are doing okay. I can’t say we’ve had anyone reporting massive increases in battery life though. Fair disclosure does dictate that I tell you we’re quite the phone junkies so we’re constantly … Read more
Following the Netflix and Comcast agreement we get reports today that Netflix speeds have magically increased from around 1.5Mbps to over 2. Seems like Comcast, with an extra influx of money from Netflix, was able to hire someone to “find” a little extra bandwidth somewhere behind the cupboard. This is irritating although not startling news. … Read more
Most people are locked on to this idea that Cortana is the WP 8.1 show stopper. I disagree. Digital assistants and I have a very tumultuous relationship in every iteration that has existed. Voice controls just feel clunky to me. Being able to process and understand natural language is one thing, but being able to … Read more
I’ve been experimenting with themes on my new yellow 1020. I don’t really dig the yellow tiles myself so I’ve been using blue. What I also realized is that once I find my comfort color, I tend to stick with it. I’ve had three windows phones since they’ve released. I started on the Surround, followed … Read more
So a few days after the update is always a time of trials and tribulations as people settle back into their routines and try and accomplish all their every day tasks with the updated version of Windows. There have always been hiccups in the process of any major and sometimes minor OS updates. I’ve had … Read more