What Is A SIM Card?

From MakeUseOf.com

The struggle with SIM cards can be an annoyance when upgrading to a new cell phone or reverting to a backup. Haven’t we come far enough with technology that such a thing shouldn’t matter anymore? What is a SIM card and what does it do?

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Why We Hate Email, But Love Texts

According to BBC-Capital –

The first text message (“Merry Christmas”) was sent way back in 1992 in the UK. Text messaging spread as mobile phones became more popular in places like Japan, creeping into places like the US sometime later, but by the late 2000s, it was everywhere. By 2012, it’s estimated that 14.7 trillion messages were sent from mobile phones worldwide. That number grew to 28.2 trillion in 2017.

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How Phones Are Designed To Be Addicting [video]

Biggest and Best Tech Stories of 2017

MakeUseOf presents the top technology news stories of 2017. Spoiler alert – it’s not all Apple.

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10 Best Ways To Secure Your Android Phone

Very informative article for Android owners –

Android is under constant attack and older versions are far more vulnerable than new ones. Way too many smartphone vendors still don’t issue Google’s monthly Android security patches in a timely fashion, or at all. And, zero-day attacks still pop up. So, what can you do to protect yourself? A lot actually.

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WiFi Hell [comic]

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Really LG? An Android Flip Phone?

Gizmodo reported –

LG Gentle isn’t quite the Motorola Razr of yore. It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop, sports a 1.1 GHz quad-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB of storage space, which is expandable via a microSD slot. Unfortunately, you’re not going to be able to do much with that 3.2-inch 480 x 320 display. Oh and a 3-megapixel camera because why not?

Now the bad news  – it’s only available in Korea.

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Ziggy’s Unlimited Phone Plan [comic]

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10 Strange Cell Phone Designs That Were Actually Produced

Now that most phones are nondescript slabs of black glass, it is easy to forget that just a few years ago the phone manufacturers tried all sorts of designs to catch the eye of consumers. Makeuseof.com gathered 10 of the most unusual designs HERE. All 10 of these phones were for sale at one time.

30 Weird Apps [video]

Your iPhone Is Haunted [comic]

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Mom’s New Phone [comic]

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