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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How do you keep in touch with nature using your phone?

  How one keeps in touch with nature using their phone might be a silly question to ask on any normal day of the year, but as many of you may (or may not) know, today isn’t just any normal day - it’...

What do you do with your old phones?

  Upgrade time can be a really exciting time. Whether you’ve been waiting two months or two years, it’s almost always a treat to go pick up a brand new phone. Still, once you get that new phone in...

Buyer's Guide: Gaming Laptops and Desktops

  The site may be called PhoneDog, but for today we’re going to use our imagination a bit and think of the website as TechDog (or something along those lines) for now, because for today’s Buyer’s...

Smaller handsets could make a comeback any day now

  Okay, so this isn’t the first time that I’ve made this argument, but I still feel like this is an appropriate time to bring this up again. Earlier today I wrote about how I felt like the new...

It's the dawn of a new, cheap era for good smartphones

  Ah, smartphones. Assuming you aren’t reading this article by complete accident, I’m going to assume that you probably love them. From the way that they look and feel, to the way that they operate...

Flippypad: An Xperia Play-like concept for Project Ara

  Games have always been a smaller (but still important) aspect of phones. Even back in the days when flip phones were the hot trend, most came with variations of popular games like Pac-Man, Tetris...

HTC's marketing has gotten better, but it still needs work

  HTC is no stranger to the ups and downs of the industry. From being one of the best to one of the worst, HTC has done it all. At this point in time, you could say that HTC is doing pretty well for...

There is a simple solution to make optical zoom lenses work for smartphones

  Smartphones and their cameras seem to be an important topic for me to visit this week. Yesterday I discussed how important features in a camera were to me, because it seemed that the more features...

A camera's features matter just as much as the camera itself

  A phone’s camera has become one of the most important aspects of the phone for me. Honestly, at this point I feel that it’s been a long time since I’ve come across a “bad” camera in a smartphone;...

Upgrades don't seem to matter as much as they used to

  It wasn’t too long ago that I wrote my article claiming that 22 months was too long for upgrades. At the time, 20-24 months was the normal wait time between getting hefty discounts on smartphones...

The dark side of mobile technology

I’m going to be shifting gears here a little bit. Normally we’d be talking about all of the wonderful things that mobile tech can do for us, how exciting it is looking back and seeing how far we’ve...

I don't think 3D has a place in smartphones

  Coming up with new and innovative features has probably become a daunting task for industry leaders at this point. In fact, I would say that there is very little room for innovation at this point...

Did you hold out for the Galaxy S5?

  The waiting game when it comes to smartphones feels like one of the most brutal. Between rumors and their official announcements and their official announcements and release dates, there’s a lot...

Could backpedaling actually help BlackBerry?

  So, BlackBerry. A lot of words come to mind when it comes to discussing BlackBerry: innovative, business, QWERTY, cool, high school, and dead. That’s quite the mix of words, but those are the real...

T-Mobile is right - screw data overages!

  T-Mobile seems to be on a serious roll over this past year or so. Their radical changes that they’ve made to their own company has set the bar quite a bit higher for other carriers to compete with...

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