Personal Technology Tips in Plain English
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How to Create A Custom Wallpaper for Your Cellphone
Aug 20th
Customizing your cellphone is tons of fun since you are making it your own.
Everyone knows about cool ringtones you can create for your phone. They even have “outrings” meaning, the caller can hear a customized “ring” if you want.
Another easy and cool way to customize your cell phone is to create a photo wallpaper for the background of your cell phone screen. The only problem is resizing the photos, and getting them to your phone.
A new service I came across will do this for free, and supports all the major phones (they know the best photo sizes to resize any photo). Read the rest of this entry »
7 Reviews of the Samsung Blackjack 3G Smartphone
Aug 18th
If you have been reading any of the articles published on essistme.com, you’ll know that the Samsung Blackjack is my current cell phone of choice. It just does all that I need it to do and so much more.
But I can tell you that you’re not alone if you still haven’t listened to what I’ve been preaching! Read the rest of this entry »
Deal Alert: Completely Free UPFRONT Samsung Blackjack (NO REBATES)
Aug 12th
I still have not opted to change my cell phone, even with all this Apple iPhone hype. After carefully considering all the features pros and cons of the iPhone, the Samsung Blackjack is still the winner for a variety of reasons.
This week I just found one more big reason to consider the Samsung Blackjack: Read the rest of this entry »
Samsung Blackjack Review: The Ubergizmo!
Aug 9th
I found yet another great review of the Samsung Blackjack on AT&T Wireless was published by ubergizmo.com and you can’t get much better or detailed than this review. It seems like nothing can hold up to this smartphone when compared side by side — like they did in the review with the Motorola Q. Read the rest of this entry »
Samsung Blackjack Tip: How To Perform A Hard Master Reset on the Samsung Blackjack i607 [video]
Jul 31st
Although I clearly still love the Samsung Blackjack even after the release of the iPhone, I came across a little glitch last week (which is a MICROSOFT PROBLEM, not Samsung Blackjack issue) with Windows Mobile. It would not let me re-boot past the Windows Mobile start-up screen. This problem started after I upgraded to ActiveSync 4.5.
AT&T Wireless / Blackjack tech support told me to go back to ActiveSync 4.2 becuase 4.5 wasn’t as stable in their experience. So uninstalling I went.
In the meantime, I had to get my phone back to normal so I could re-sync with the old ActiveSync.
After trying the normal troubleshooting, I just said, it was easier to do a hard master reset and wipe the phone clean. However, AT&T tier 1 support didn’t know how, since you had to be at the Windows Mobile desktop to do a “hard reset” supposedly.
Luckily, I asked to go to Tier 2 support, and as I guessed, there was another way.
Read the rest of this entry »
Sounds Like 24 Cures for Apple iPhone Envy
Jul 5th
Have you seen one yet? It’s so elusive, yet there are about a MILLION of them out there. And they’ll multiply quickly — up to 10 Million by the end of 2008! The Apple iPhone will surely be Time Magazine’s “Device of the Year” for 2007, which is responsible for more cell phone sales in a single day in the history of AT&T Wireless. Reports state that more than 3/4 million iPhones were sold on June 29th.
While you may know someone who knows someone that has one and you probably aren’t reading this on your new iPhone (unless you’re really are — in which, you should email a photo of yourself reading essistme.com on your iPhone to info[at)essistme.com and we’ll post it here!).
If you’re like one of millions that have been struck with iPhone envy, but still have another brand cell phone or smartphone in your hand, here’s one iPhone fix to simulate the iPhone experience on your phone. In fact, with this simple short-term cure for iPhone envy people will ask if you have an iPhone in your pocket when you get your next call! Read the rest of this entry »
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