cell phones – the blog of a bear

people seriously had the balls to whine about this app going free?

February 16, 2013 by Munchkinbear

while trolling the tech blogs I frequent, I came across this story and for your sanity, I post it below. Comments, etc. to follow. State of Touch Typing – Fleksy goes free by fleksy on 15/2/2013 Fleksy was first released on iOS in July 2012. As we turn Fleksy into a free app 8 months … Read more

nice going, HTC.

October 4, 2011 by Munchkinbear

Yep I haven’t been around in awhile. But today’s blogging starts out with this little ppiece of information about a security leak in HTC android phones. Here’s the article in it’s entirety. and all I gotta say is smooth move, HTC. HTC Phones Suffer Major Security Exploit Latest Update Provides Easy Access to Personal Data … Read more

welcome to open communication, pizza pizza.

April 7, 2011 by Munchkinbear

I love pizza, and hey, so does james So niftily enough pizza pizza one of the major pizza places here in canada has an iphone app. Nifty, I thought, and hey, it’s free. no complaints. Um, except their was. The accessibility of this app, leaves their a lot to be desired. With a lot of … Read more

an early upgrade, a service provider change, all over stupidity., thanks, rogers.

April 2, 2011 by Munchkinbear

so thursday, I got paid. Nifty, fantastic, wonderful. Until my attempt to pay my Rogers wireless bill. I now have this nifty thing that’s a debit/credit card all rolled into one. Yeah US readers, you’ve had them for freakin’ ever, I get it. Anyhow, so I decide, on a wim, what the hell, let’s use … Read more

hey wait, who said they could do that?

March 30, 2011 by Munchkinbear

so AT&T and TMobile have decided to attempt this marriage thing. Erm, I mean do the thing where they murge. My thoughts on it are this, you’ll see rising prices, and yet another monopoly in the wireless markit. US, take a book from canadians, get smaller companies, it’s good for business, k?

welcome to durable, much?

March 25, 2011 by Munchkinbear

so I’ve been eyeballing these iPhone tthings since voice over now comes built into the phone. I got to play with a 3gs thanks to a friend I got to meet while in fitchburg. Who ever knew a phone could survive a 1000 foot drop from a moving airplane. Shows you apple’s durability, maybe?

a note to TMobile in the UK, this is the 21st century, not the 1990's.

January 11, 2011 by Munchkinbear

I was utterly appalled to read a story while browsing the news this morning that TMobile in the UK is cutting their data plans expinentially. “T-Mobile in the UK has revealed a new fair use policy, cutting caps from 1GB and 3GB to 500MB, saying mobile browsing doesn’t include videos or large downloads. ‘If you … Read more

attention ottawa citizen, a reminder, the IPhone's not that special, ok?

December 5, 2010 by Munchkinbear

as james posted here We’ve got everyone up in arms about this, well, a reminder to the ottawa citizen it’s great their was an arrest made, but the IPhone 4, isn’t specially adapted for the blind, the speech software is built into the phone even for you stupid sighted fucks to use, so enough already, … Read more

an open letter to wind mobile, gets sent for a second time. this time, from me, the actual customer.

November 15, 2010 by Munchkinbear

I’ve previously linked to the original post that contains the letter regarding this issue in multiple other places on this blog. Take note that this post is dated october 10, 2010. As of October 29, 2010, I called wind mobile regarding their not being a response to the original letter. They provide me a ticket … Read more