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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I don't use a lot of apps, so why do I care so much about them?

  There are a lot of reasons why we’re able to put the “smart” in “smartphone”. The operating systems and specs are continuously gaining ground on what we make entire computers on, the clarity of...

Maybe Amazon should stick to apps for now

  Ah, the Amazon Fire Phone. The phone that was once rumored to be “free”; the phone that millions of Amazon shoppers would flock to simply because they can’t help but love the convenience of...

Are you waiting for a Project Ara smartphone?

  We have seen an incredible line-up of smartphones released this year, from the funky LG G Flex to the almost-not Motorola Nexus 6, not to mention everything in between. Smartphones from all types...

Can "Microsoft Lumia" do as well as "Nokia Lumia"?

  Earlier this year, Microsoft had officially acquired popular Finnish mobile manufacturer, Nokia. The name Nokia, even if you’ve never owned a device made by the company, shouldn’t be an unfamiliar...

"Ambient Display", or the feature you didn't know you wanted

  We recently learned of the now official Motorola Nexus 6 device, a device that had been long questioned whether it was real or rumor. Along with the announcement came a lot of celebration for the...

Which is more important: Amount or speed of your data?

  As basic flip phones turned into messaging phones, and messaging phones turned into smartphones, the most important features of our mobile plans also shifted. The allotted amount of minutes was...

Have you switched to cloud storage?

  Along with battery life, display, cameras, and other specs, the amount of storage that our phones feature is another hot focus when looking to purchase a new smartphone. These days you’ll find...

Android L: We need to go flatter?

  Android L, or as we now know, Android Lollipop, was recently announced and shown off during Google’s most recent event - the same event where we learned about the Nexus 6 and the Nexus 9. I’ve...

Can the BlackBerry Classic hold a candle to the Passport?

  It’s only been a few weeks since the new, funky BlackBerry Passport was unveiled, and already the phone has taken the mobile media by storm it seems. BlackBerry is usually the underdog of the...

Let's take a moment to appreciate Apple's new SIM technology

  Loyalty to a company or a product isn’t an uncommon sight in this industry. But sometimes, no matter whether you are totally on board with one company or another, you have to give credit where...

Oppo's swivel camera is underrated

  What are smartphones to us? For some people they’re everything; for others, they’re handy, but not necessary. But whether you consider them necessary or not, you can’t deny that our smartphones...

Note 4 or Nexus 6? A quick rundown of key differences

  Google and Motorola’s new Nexus product has officially been unveiled as the Nexus 6, which finally gives us the go-ahead to figure out exactly how the new Nexus phone holds up against the...

Samsung's new flexible battery could fix the smartwatch's biggest issue

  You know, for somebody who doesn’t even really want a smartwatch right now, I feel like I’ve been writing a lot about them lately. Despite the fact that I don’t fancy smartwatches in their current...

I can never be a platform loyalist

  “Team Apple!” “Team Android!” “Team WinPhone!” “Team BlackBerry!” (Is that even a thing? ... Just kidding. Sort of.)   We’ve all seen the platform wars before, where people proudly claim which “...

Nexus 6: It's big, it's bad (in a good way), and it's pretty expensive

  Ahh, the Nexus 6. The device that unlikely to be, yet here we are on this beautiful (depending on where you are - it’s beautiful here) October day figuratively - and some literally - drooling over...

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