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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It's simple, we kill the iMessage (or just its exclusivity)

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade or so, you’ve probably noticed a massive shift in the way we communicate with one another. It’s no longer, “Hey, give me your digits and I’...
Microsoft Lumia 950 and 950XL

Will Windows Phone’s long streak of unpopular phones ruin it for Windows 10 Mobile?

It’s safe to say that it has been a pretty good year for Microsoft. Last year’s success of the Surface Pro 3 continued seamlessly this year after the reveal of the new Surface Pro 4 alongside the all...
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge battery

Samsung’s thin “stripe” batteries have big potential

I have always been a bit baffled by battery technology in smartphones. While batteries do last longer now than they did 4 or 5 years ago, it's one of those things that I thought would be leagues...
YouTube Red

How YouTube Red may have just killed my Apple Music subscription

YouTube has been a big part of my life for about 10 years now. I’ve seen just about everything, from a unicorn having his kidney removed by his two sketchy unicorn friends to a man on a mission to...
BlackBerry Android

Yes, BlackBerry needs Android; but Android also needs BlackBerry

BlackBerry, a company that was once king of the mobile universe, has been trying to figure out what to do in order to reconcile its steady decline over the past 8 years. BlackBerry has admirably kept...

How bad is your smartphone addiction?

A few years ago I wrote an article talking about I felt that I was, in fact, addicted to my phone. Whether it was or wasn’t with me, I was basically a slave to whatever was going on inside these tiny...
Sprint Unlimited data

It’s not really “unlimited” if there is, ultimately, a limit

It feels a little weird writing an article with that title. It seems obvious, right? You shouldn't call something “unlimited” if there is, in fact, a limit. However, this logic seems to be lost in...
BLU Studio Energy 2

BLU’s Studio Energy 2 and Studio Energy X have a rare focus: Battery life

You may have noticed that when it comes to smartphone design, big and thin is in. Manufacturers aim to have a big screen size, big specs, but a thin body. Due to this trifecta, there’s one very...
Introducing BlackBerry PRIV

If the PRIV doesn’t work for BlackBerry I don’t know what will

BlackBerry has been in a slowly declining slump for about 8 years at this point. Ever since the introduction of the Apple iPhone in 2007, BlackBerry has been trying to figure out how to keep their...
Emoji love

Emojis have revolutionized the way we text

Texting is a relatively new way for us to communicate, only becoming common within the last 10 years or so. Before that, you likely had to shell out a lot of money just to have a couple of hundred...
Pepsi logo

A Pepsi smartphone? It's possible

If you’re into tech news and recently keep coming across articles discussing Pepsi, you’re not going crazy and you’re not the blatant target of tailored ads; it’s happening because there’s been...
Introducing Galaxy View

The only thing bigger than the Galaxy View's screen would be its potential

Samsung has been the pioneer for many features in the mobile space, one of the most notable being super-sized smartphones. The original Samsung Galaxy Note, sized with an unusually large 5.3-inch...
Apple iPhone 6 rear

It would take a lot to "doom" the Apple iPhone

When I started high school back in 2005, BlackBerry devices were the phone to have. Despite the fact that BlackBerry phones were initially meant for business users to have a quick and secure way to...
Apple Music

Why I’m sticking with Apple Music

It’s interesting to think about how differently the world works now when it comes to how we discover, purchase, and listen to music. 25 years ago it was listening to whatever the radio stations had...
Microsoft Lumia 950XL

Microsoft Lumia 950 and 950 XL: A good start for Microsoft

It has been a long wait for Windows Phone fans when it comes to new flagships, but Microsoft ended that wait today with the unveiling of two new flagships that will hopefully be the start of a new,...

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