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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Saving the world and your phone with Phonebloks

Often in this industry you'll see how often tech bloggers will say there's no more innovation left - nobody has anything more creative to offer than what we have right now. Every once in a while you...

After iPhone: Two months after the switch, this is what I think of the HTC One

When you get a new phone it's easy to get caught up in all of the new and different things about it. A great new display, a new design, the device is speedier, etc. Really, when you decided to get a...

Another year, another disappointing keynote from Apple

I've been writing for PhoneDog for a little over a year now. One of my first articles, if any of you recall, was written about the Apple iPhone 5 announcement. I found the phone to be, for lack of a...

Could a string of bad decisions have doomed HTC?

HTC is a company that I have grown up watching mature in the smartphone world, and have owned a number of HTC devices of my own. Some were good, and others were not so good. While my experience with...

HTC One Mini Written Review

If you're a fan of the latest flagship devices but aren't necessarily a fan of the size, you might be happy to know that it's been a growing trend lately to include a "mini" version of the same...

When is the last time you tried out a new platform?

Smartphones are great products. If you're reading this page, it's probably safe to assume that you like smartphones and probably already have one. Although smartphones only first boomed in 2007 with...

If Amazon gives away free smartphones, then what's the catch?

If you want people to like your product, what's the best approach to make it so? By giving it away, of course. Although we find that this isn't always the case in the smartphone world, mostly...

Sad about no more Nokia? How about Newkia?

When news the other day surfaced about Nokia was bought out by Microsoft, people around the world began to wonder what this meant for the future of Windows Phone 8, Microsoft and especially the...

Motorola Moto X Written Review

One of the most talked about and mysterious devices of the year arrived on the market just last month, and since its official announcement we have had plenty of news, editorials and videos pop up...

An iPhone phablet would be good as long as they keep the smaller phones

Among all of the news and mayhem that comes with IFA 2013, we had a very interesting rumor spark today from Wall Street Journal that claims that Apple may be dabbling with iPhones that have screens...

Will you be buying a Sony lens camera accessory?

With IFA 2013 going strong in Berlin, we're sure to see a lot of new and interesting products pop up on the mobile market. Although the event doesn't officially start until tomorrow for the public,...

Samsung (almost) nailed it with the Galaxy Gear smartwatch

Today was full of exciting things from both Samsung and Sony, two of the most universally recognized brand names in the world. We saw the announcements of two much-awaited devices, the Galaxy Note 3...

Beauty and Brains: The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 looks amazing

So we've just finished up with Samsung's second Unpacked event of the year, this time in Berlin for the start of IFA 2013, where we finally get the official announcement of the next generation of...

Give me a break, Android!

If you have been following news in the mobile world today, you probably already knew that one of us here at PhoneDog, at some point, was going to be making an article with an awful pun-intended...

The Galaxy Gear rumors are worrisome

Remember that article that was published earlier this week where I said that wearable tech was starting to sound more appealing? That was before I started seeing the new rumors surrounding the...

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