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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YouTube Kids

YouTube Kids: The best thing since regular YouTube

If you have kids in your life, there’s probably a time or two where you need them to entertain themselves for a few moments. Sometimes they want to color, sometimes they’ll want to build with blocks...
Samsung Galaxy S6 render

What would a metal-made Galaxy S6 do for Samsung?

Every year we go through the same song and dance when it comes to Samsung’s devices: Which material will Samsung use for their phones? Although in the past Samsung has typically gone with a...
Lenovo Vibe Shot

Is this the year that Lenovo goes stateside? I hope so

Every time a new year rolls around, us in the tech industry find ourselves giddy with excitement over what we’ll see in the next generation of smartphones (and now smart accessories). While we’re...
Lightning charger 30-pin charger

My love/hate relationship with Apple's chargers

Before 2009, if you owned a cell phone, there was a pretty big chance that the charger you used for your phone didn’t look like the standard universal charger that we’re used to seeing today. If you...
Xperia Z3 Compact Blue

A mobile world without Sony would be a sad one, indeed

It’s a dog eat dog world in the smartphone industry. When the competition is stiff, it’s stiff, but when the competition fails to keep up with the fast-moving pace of smartphone technology, they’re...
Android Wear

Why the smartwatch will never become mainstream in its current state

It seems like everywhere you look there’s yet another advertisement for yet another smartwatch - a newer, better, faster, cooler smartwatch than any you’ve ever seen before. Judging solely by the...
LG G3

With such an isolated release, will LG's G series continue to live in the shadows?

We’ve already had plenty of discussions this year about our most anticipated releases, such as the HTC M9 and the Galaxy S6, both of which are supposed to make their initial debuts on March 1st -...
Nokia text message

It’s 2015, so why is standard text messaging so archaic on smartphones?

iMessage, Google Hangouts, BlackBerry Messenger, Skype, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Kik, Facebook Messenger... the list goes on. As you have probably figured out, this list is just a small piece of the pie...
Google Project Ara

Will Project Ara create a modular revolution post 2015?

In the eyes of many, the smartphone industry has been stuck in an innovative drought over the past few years or so. The smartphone industry was once very alive while manufacturers figured out which...
Speck case

Anna's top 5 favorite smartphone cases

There are two types of smartphone users: the kind that use cases, and the kind that don’t. Now that I have two kids, it’s important for me to have a strong protective case on my phone at all times....
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge

Microsoft’s apps on the Galaxy S6: At least it’s better than Samsung’s offerings

Rumors and leaks have been running amuck around the Galaxy S6 for the past two months like there’s no tomorrow, and what we’ve gathered so far is the same thing you can always expect from rumors and...
Apple Pay once and play

Apple’s new “Pay Once and Play” category is ridiculous

Just recently, Apple introduced a new sub-category in their app store’s game section: “Pay Once and Play”. The category is as ridiculous as it comes, but not because it’s not something people would...
HTC One Harman Kardon

5 things I love about today's smartphones

Yesterday we discussed the things we would change about today’s smartphones, so today seems like it would be a good day to talk about what we love about today’s smartphones! This list was...
Sony SmartEyeGlass

Will Sony's SmartEyeGlass "out glass" Google Glass?

When it comes to smartphones these days, it seems like you just can’t have the complete smartphone experience unless you get other “smart” accessories to accompany it. So far it would seem that...
Samsung Bloatware

5 things I would change about today’s smartphones

If you’re here reading this article, it’s probably because you A.) love phones or B.) love dogs and mistakenly thought this website actually had something to do with dogs. Maybe both, but we’re going...

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