Anna Scantlin

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Anna Scantlin

Anna is a Contributing Editor at PhoneDog.com. She was born and raised in Kansas City, which ironically is not located in Kansas, but in neighboring Missouri. She has an ornery son named Riley, who may or may not be more obsessed with technology than she is. Her passions include writing, drawing, gaming, music, and of course mobile tech! She's been a member of the PhoneDog team since August of 2012 and is a serial cell phone hoarder.

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Nexus and HTC

Stock or Skinned: How do you like your Android?

When it comes to Android’s corner of the smartphone world, the sky is the limit in regards to customization. Its open source platform allows for vastly different user interfaces, or UIs, from one...
HTC One M8 skin

How to keep up with maintenance on your aging phone

If you read enough articles regarding smartphone trends and news, you might be under the impression that if you don’t upgrade every 6 months – or at the very least, once a year – your phone is a...
Acer Liquid Zest Plus

Acer’s Liquid Zest Plus challenges the Moto G

2013 was a good year for the Motorola brand. That was the year that Motorola Mobility, under the care of Google, took its first step to making a comeback in the smartphone industry after breaking off...
Apple Pencil

Who would have thought that Apple’s biggest selling point would be a stylus?

Lately I’ve had an itch to buy a new gadget. Although I recently purchased a Nexus 5X to replace my iPhone 6, I’ve continued to eyeball all of the cool flagships that have come out over the past...
Project Ara

After seeing the G5, my thoughts on Project Ara have changed

When the LG G5 was announced a couple of months ago during Mobile World Congress, I was impressed. The design is completely fresh and new, and that’s something I feel we don’t come across often in...
Posh Micro X S240

I was wrong; somebody really does care about small smartphones

Over the past few years, manufacturers have been shifting their focus towards making thinner phones that have bigger displays. Your average screen size ranges anywhere from 4.7-5.7-inch displays,...
Nexus 5X rear

The HTC 10 fuels my desire for an HTC Nexus

Not too long ago, rumors began surfacing about this year’s Nexus. Albeit it’s still early in the year and Google typically reveals the Nexus sometime late in the fall, rumors have already strongly...
emojis

To emoji or not to emoji?

Expressing emotions and tone appropriately through text can prove to be a difficult task. Oftentimes we resort to using smiley faces, or if you're like me you tend to sprinkle a few "lols" in your...
HTC One Mini, HTC One, and HTC One Max

Should HTC and Samsung bring back minis?

Do you remember how appalling it was 6 years ago for a smartphone to have a 4.3-inch display? How everybody said it was too big, and that such a large device would never succeed? In my mind I’m...
HTC Ice View case

HTC’s Ice View case is a welcome upgrade from Dot View

I pretty much laid all of my thoughts about HTC’s recently unveiled HTC 10 out in an article I wrote yesterday. In short, the device is pretty much nails every issue that people had with the M9...
HTC 10

HTC is back in the saddle with the HTC 10

I got up fairly early this morning to watch the “live stream” I thought would bring us news of the HTC 10. After a couple of minutes of confusion when a live stream never appeared at 7:02, I...

HTC M9 successor, the HTC 10, is now official

If you’ve been keeping up with the news recently, you’re probably aware that today is the day that HTC finally unveiled its mega-hyped HTC M10 – or as it is now officially known as, the HTC 10. The...
Dick Tracy smartwatch

Smartwatches still have a promising future

Smartwatches are a strange gadget. The idea of a smartwatch has been around for decades, starting 80 some odd years ago with a popular American comic strip character named Dick Tracy. Now that the...
Amazon Kindle back

Amazon’s Fire tablet is an excellent tablet for the whole family

It is interesting to see how modern day technology influences kids. I started using smartphones around the time that I had my oldest son, so he has grown up watching me mindlessly tap a screen to “...
BlackBerry Priv

Will BlackBerry do better in the mid-range Android market?

Last November, BlackBerry released its very first device running on the Android operating system, the BlackBerry Priv. While it wasn’t a secret that BlackBerry’s revamped BlackBerry 10 OS (released...

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