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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Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge wireless charging

Another year, another loss for wireless charging

Wireless charging is being introduced to the smartphone industry at a surprisingly sluggish pace. The ability to inductively charge a device by transferring energy between two objects without the...
Samsung Galaxy S5 removable battery

5 easy ways to increase the longevity of your smartphone

Here on PhoneDog, we often talk about “upgrade this” and “new phone” that, but the reality is that a lot of people don’t want to upgrade every year, or even every two years if they don’t have to. And...
LG V10

LG V10: How does LG’s new premium device measure up?

A couple of days ago, LG unveiled the first in a new line of premium phones that LG claims surpasses their other flagship line, the LG G series. The new super-premium device, the LG V10, is a 5.7-...
Android and Windows

Perhaps there’s hope for Google apps on Windows 10 Mobile after all

Surfacing in news earlier today, an unlikely reconciliation occurred between two companies in mobile who haven’t exactly gotten along recently. Google and Microsoft have decided to settle...
Microsoft Lumia 950 and 950XL

Waiting for Microsoft’s event is worth it

With the recent unveiling of Google’s new Nexus 5X and 6P phones, which comes not even a month after Apple’s newest iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, it can be a hard task to wait to get your hands on two of...
LG Nexus 5X

Google knocks it out of the park with the Nexus 5X and 6P

Google’s Nexus phones have grown to make quite the impression in the mobile tech community. Although Android is praised for being an open-sourced software, which is what allows for such variation...
Selfie Stick

The more I think about it, the less stupid selfie sticks are

“Selfies” are undeniably a product of my generation, which seemed to directly coincide with the rise in popularity of the beloved camera phone. As controversial as they have become, I find selfies to...
Apple iOS 9

Did your data usage hike after iOS 9? Check your Wi-Fi Assist

Apple’s latest mobile OS update, iOS 9, was recently released shortly after the announcement of the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. The new update brought a lot of great features for the platform...
Pebble Time Round

Pebble's new Time Round smartwatch isn't worth the battery compromise

Just yesterday, popular smartwatch maker Pebble introduced a new Pebble smartwatch called the Pebble Time Round. As the name suggests, the third smartwatch to join the Pebble Time line has a round...
HTC One M8 Moto X 2014

Should HTC use Motorola’s tactics?

HTC has had kind of a rough year this year. After the announcement and subsequent release of the HTC One M9 flagship back in April this year, a flood of disappointment followed. Many considered the...
Battery life

How to preserve that precious battery life

It’s 6 AM, and it’s time to wake up. You unplug your phone, do your morning routine, and head off to work. Throughout the day, you use your smartphone quite often: Office documents, e-mails,...
BlackBerry Venice render

The BlackBerry Venice just might bring the attention BlackBerry needs

Recently in tech news there has been an influx of articles revolving around the new BlackBerry Venice, the rumored BlackBerry device that runs on Android, and features a vertical slide-out QWERTY...
iOS 9

Impressions of iOS 9 on the iPhone 6

Two days ago Apple’s latest mobile OS, iOS 9, dropped for current iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users. On the phone side of things, the operating system upgrade supports the upcoming iPhone 6s and 6s...
Windows 10

Expectations are high for Microsoft, but will they deliver?

We just received word yesterday that Microsoft will be holding an event on October 6, with the invites revealing that this event will be all about “exciting news” concerning Windows 10 devices. Which...
Apple iPhone 6s 3D Touch

Is the iPhone 6s worth the upgrade?

Along with the iPad Pro, WatchOS 2, and Apple TV announcements last Wednesday, there was (naturally) the ever-important unveiling of the new iPhone 6s. Since last year’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were the...

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