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Buying a cell phone starts with choosing a wireless carrier and plan. Then, you'll want to evaluate different phones based on the form factor and features that are important to you. Our expert reviews make it easy to compare features from a variety of models. Still not sure what you should be looking for? Read the
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How Cell Phones Work
Millions of people in the United States and around the world use cell phones. They are such great gadgets -- with a cell phone, you can talk to anyone on the planet from just about anywhere! In this HowStuffWorks article, you'll find out about the technology behind
cell phones
so that you can see how amazing they
really are.

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Samsung SGH-t539 Beat Mobile Phone Photo
The Samsung T539 Beat Mobile Phone has a admirable speaker for music and offers good call quality. Read the full Consumer Guide review here....

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Sony Ericsson Z710i Mobile Phone Photo
The Sony Ericsson Z710i Mobile Phone has and excellent music player and quite a few multimedia features. Read the full Consumer Guide review here....

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Blackberry Pearl 8130 Mobile Phone Photo
The Blackberry Pearl 8130 Mobile Phone offers great messaging capabilities in a compact smart phone. Read the full Consumer Guide review here....

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Samsung Blast SGH-T729 Mobile Phone Photo
The Samsung Blast Mobile Phone is an inexpensive phone with great SMS capabilities. Read the full Consumer Guide review here...

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Motorola RAZR V3 GSM Mobile Phone Photo
Motorola RAZR V3 GSM Mobile Phones are thin, stylish and loaded with features. Check out Consumer Guide's free cell phone reviews before you shop....

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LG Shine KE970 Cellular Phone Photo
Tri Band Mobile, 262K Colors (TFT), 240 x 320 ...
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Cell Phone FAQ

The first step in adding a ringtone to your phone is finding one that you like. Generally, this means checking out one of the dozens of ringtone sites on the Internet and picking a good one that's compatible with your phone model. Once you've found a ringtone you like, you just have to get it into your phone's memory. Learn more about ringtones.
SMS was designed to deliver short bursts of data such as numerical pages. To avoid overloading the system with more than the standard forward-and-response operation, the inventors of SMS agreed on a 160-character maximum message size. Learn more about SMS.
The most important software in any smartphone is its operating system (OS). An operating system manages the hardware and software resources of smartphones. Some OS platforms cover the entire range of the software stack. Others may only include the lower levels and rely on additional software platforms to provide a user interface framework. Learn more about smartphones.

Featured Video

How Cell Phone Recycling Works
Recycling cell phones helps to save the environment. Find out how the recycling process works in this HowStuffWorks video.

Reuters Video: Japan
Japan has one of the fastest growing cellular phone markets in the world, and already boasts some of the most advanced phone technology bases. See how cell phones works in this video from Reuters.

The Latest Cell Phone Technology at CTIA
Many next-generation wireless communicators are featured at CTIA. Learn about cutting-edge cell phones in this video from Neo-Fight.



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