Joy of Gadgets

It’s that time again:
FreeConferencing.com Launches: Until they do something to equalize inter-carrier compensation between most civilized parts of the United States and rural locations, services like FreeConferenceCall.com and now FreeConferencing.com will continue to exist and be profitable. By hosting these services in, say, rural Iowa, they actually make a small amount of money per minute [...]

Pat Phelan and others gotta be thinking about this: how to pair up their global SIM with the iPhone without, say, encouraging people to unlock their handset or using SIM hacking tools. My answer: become an authorized “carrier” partner with Apple. Sell the iPhone with your SIM. Make it easy for people to go iPhone [...]

To continue the trend of “easy, simple cell phones,” Tom Keating over at the VoIP and Gadgets Blog on TMCnet writes about the Pantech Breeze, which is now available at AT&T in the U.S. market.
This flip phone has a large, oversized keypad. The interface is “simplified, easy-to-read.” It includes three “hot buttons” that can be [...]

From the no duh department, the folks at AT&T Mobility were “secret shopped” by the folks at the Consumers Union. They asked what the early termination fee (ETF) was for a wireless contract with their company. Guess what: they got different answers, depending on whom they talked to. And you know what? It happens with [...]