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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Should Edge become Samsung's next schtick?

When the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 came out earlier this year, not many were expecting to see a second iteration of the device revealed shortly after. The concept of releasing two different versions of...

Samsung Galaxy S6 Rumors: Truly “The Next Big Thing”?

It’s the end of the year. The holidays are ramping up, the malls and retail stores are rich with sales, and you are itching to purchase a new gadget. Why wouldn’t you be? It can be hard to resist...

No sign of a new flagship? This kills the Windows Phone

Smartphones come in all shapes, sizes, and prices these days. If you’re looking for something on the higher end of the spectrum, you have plenty of choices between various Android flagships, the...

Is it time for Apple to start making more affordable products?

When the Apple iPhone originally debuted back in 2007, it didn’t take long for the revolutionary device to make headlines. As the first smartphone (as we know them today) to really make an impact on...

Amazon's unwillingness to give up on the Fire Phone is admirable

Amazon is a huge brand name that people all across the world can recognize, whether it’s because of their huge selection of retail products sold online, their e-Reader line-up, their Fire tablets, or...

How invested are you in your platform’s ecosystem?

When I first started using smartphones some 4 or 5 years ago, I was bright-eyed and bushy tailed about all of the possibilities that my smartphone had in store for me. I had a Samsung Galaxy Vibrant...

Modular phones: Are they really the future of smartphones?

We’ve been hearing about the idea of modular smartphones increasingly over the past year or so, especially once the base idea behind Phonebloks was picked up by Google to transform into what is now...

Just how important is it to have iMessage?

Text messaging has, over the years, become an important method of communication between people. When you give somebody your number, or you get somebody’s number, there’s a pretty good chance that the...

2014 Cyber Monday Cell Phone Deals

How was your weekend? Did you go shopping on Black Friday? Neither did I! I’ve done my fair share of Black Friday shopping before realizing that people in my area are vicious about doorbuster deals...

Have you felt discriminated against because of the platform you use?

Discrimination isn’t hard to come by in this world. We have all likely been discriminated against in some form or another at some point in our lives - I know I have. But the latest way people find...

Battery Saving Tips: iOS

As you probably already know, this weekend is likely super hectic in just about any area in the U.S. due to the fact that the next major holidays to fall upon us all generally revolve around gift-...

Germany's Linshof i8: Too good to be true?

Have you ever wondered what a phone would be like if it had the customization of Android, the ability to look like a Windows Phone, and the security similar to that of a BlackBerry device? If you...

2014 Tablet Black Friday Deals

We’ve already discussed some of the great deals we can find on smartphones over this upcoming weekend, but now it’s time to shift our focus to something a little bigger - tablets! Just like...

Apples for BlackBerrys: Are you planning to trade it up?

With the holidays quickly approaching, it’s not uncommon to see some crazy sales pop up just about every day. On top of the Black Friday guide that I posted the other day, more sales offers have...

How long does the phablet trend have left?

Looking back at the size trends in mobile is kind of a funny looking roller coaster. You had huge phones in the 80’s and 90’s, then heading into the early 2000’s you had a race for the smallest phone...

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