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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smartphone selfie

How smartphones simultaneously ruined and boosted the confidence of an entire generation

If you’re a part of any social media network, you’re probably intimately familiar with the term “selfie”. It’s a word - a real one, recently added to the Oxford Dictionary just under a year ago -...
Smartphone platforms

Which platform will leave the biggest impact in 2015?

Every year big changes come to the mobile industry in multiple ways. You have the necessary hardware refresh, both in design and in new specifications, and you also have the software refresh. Every...
Ubuntu Edge

Ubuntu on smartphones is here, but is it enough to make you switch?

Remember the Indiegogo campaign that popped up back in 2013 for the Ubuntu Edge smartphone? If not, it’s okay; it’s just important to know that it happened. At the time, Ubuntu for phones and a...
Flip phone

Life Before Smartphones: Could you ever go back?

Life before smartphones was a simple one. It’s funny to think that at one point in my life I was more than happy to have talking, texting, and a camera (megapixel count didn’t matter, any camera...
Samsung TouchWiz

Will Samsung always need Google?

Over the years, we’ve seen mobile operating systems come and go: Windows Mobile changing to Windows Phone, webOS once having one of the highest potentials in the mobile industry to ceasing to exist...
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge

Dear Samsung: Please keep edges niche for now

When it comes to Samsung, it would seem that almost nothing is off limits when it comes to feature and design. I have to admit, Samsung has made some pretty bold moves over the past several years....
Microsoft headquarters

Windows 10 for phones is Microsoft’s last chance for mobile success

I’ve been reading up a lot on Windows 10 for phones lately. If I had to sum up my feelings on how I felt about Windows Phone lately, I would have to say it’s been a mixed bag of emotions; while I...
Samsung Galaxy S5 and HTC One M8

HTC One M9 vs. Samsung Galaxy S6: Which do you predict to be the favorite?

Time has really flown by this year, hasn’t it? It feels like we just celebrated the new year, and shortly thereafter CES 2015, the first glimpse of new technology we can hope to see in the near...
Android Root

Your Android and You: Should you root?

If you have an Android phone, you’re probably already aware that the platform is designed with you in mind - that is, you can customize a lot of aspects of your phone without having to do much more...
LG Ice Cream Smart

Flip phone smartphones need wider availability

Just last week, news emerged of a new Android handset coming from LG called the Ice Cream Smart. However, this new smartphone is a little unconventional - at least when it comes to how smartphones...

A stylus for the iPad? Why not?

Ah, the stylus. The unsung hero of professionals, writers, artists, and those with clumsy fingers everywhere, and also the preferred tool of yesteryear when it came to navigating the small, pressure-...

Are upgraded specs all that the HTC M9 needs?

Over the past couple of years, one company has managed to redeem my faith in two things: the company itself, and the operating system that it primarily represents. That company is HTC. When I first...

Could a see-through smartphone ever be considered practical?

In regards to “smartphones of the future”, I’m sure we all have our ideas of what we think future smartphones will exactly look and act like. Will they end up being paper thin, bendable phones with...

iOS could really use a dark theme option

If you’ve read any of my articles regarding iOS 7 or 8, you probably already know that I’m not particularly fond of the changes made to these versions. If you haven’t read any of my previous articles...

Looking for something different? Check out the Saygus V2

So, I’m not quite sure how I missed this little (or big?) gem during CES 2015, but I did, in fact, manage to overlook it - the Saygus V2. Perhaps it’s because it wasn’t coming from a big-wig...

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