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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Life After Phablets: What's the next size trend in mobile?

  Just like any other industry in the world, the mobile industry goes through its phases - the good, the bad, the ugly. There are trends that last for years and there are trends that last for a...

Can Windows Phone ever catch up?

  The battle between mobile platforms over the past several years has been pretty intense to say the least. From the now popular Android to the fallen webOS, we know that time has been kind to some...

How important is a good selfie camera?

The front-facing camera, or as we now call it, the “selfie” camera, is increasingly becoming the most important camera of them all. In the past, it was all about making the rear-facing camera as...

What kind of games do you play on your smartphone?

  The relationship between games and phones go quite a ways back, as I’m sure many of you know. Even back on some of the more simple cell phones of our generation, like the classic Nokia brick phone...

Want free Internet on the fly? FreedomPop has you covered

  We’ve had a couple of special free internet offers for our readers here at PhoneDog already with our friends over at FreedomPop, including a Freedom Spot Photon hotspot and a deal for an HTC EVO...

It's the second half of 2014 - what are you most excited for?

  We’ve already had a lot of exciting releases hit shelves in 2014. We had the LG G Flex, the HTC One (M8), Samsung Galaxy S5, LG G3, OnePlus One, and Sony Xperia Z2. All of those great releases,...

Capture the essence of the 4th of July by using your smartphone!

  As many of you are probably aware, tomorrow is the 4th of July, a very patriotic holiday here in the states that marks the approval of the Declaration of Independence, officially making America a...

I'm jealous that the iPhone has so many cool accessories

  After I get a new phone, one of the first things I do is go searching to all the ends of the earth for the perfect case, the best screen protector, and any other accessories that might stick out...

Tablets and I will never have a serious relationship

  I guess it might be a little weird to classify my rapport with gadgets as a type of “relationship”, but in a weird, awkward sense they kind of are. My “relationship” with my phone has always been...

Is change turning out to be a bad thing for BlackBerry?

  Talking about BlackBerry at this point in time seems a bit bittersweet for me. It wasn’t all that long ago that I was all gung-ho on the BlackBerry bandwagon, mostly because I found the physical...

Anna's Guide to dealing with lost or broken smartphones

  We’ve all been in that position where you’re hovering nervously over your smartphone, which is now facing flat on some hard surface after a lengthy drop from your hands to the ground. Should you...

Top 5 reasons to jump on the Project Ara bandwagon

  It’s been a while since I mentioned Project Ara, but with the recent release of this prototype video from the Project Ara team I felt that it was as good of a time as any to talk about this...

Could Microsoft's new Android-to-Windows stepping stone, the Nokia X2, actually work?

  It’s an Android! It’s a Windows Phone! Or maybe it’s both - again - with the recent announcement of a second generation of the infamous Nokia X line, the Nokia X2 (running on Android - not to be...

Project Volta is one of Android L's best features

  With Google I/O wrapping up, there’s a lot of new information to take in from the yearly developer conference. We can now officially expect to see Android “L” unveiled at some point this year,...

Time to bite my tongue about mocking the iPhone's size

  Alright, so sometime back in late 2012 the iPhone 5 came out. It was an exciting launch because it was the “fresh” iPhone release, the one where you not only get refreshed specs but you also get a...

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