John Walton

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John Walton

John Walton is a student and writer who spends most of his free time fingerpicking an acoustic guitar and authoring biographical snippets in the third-person. He lives with his wife and their cat, who are, like him, compulsive movers/travelers. He is passionate about open source software, learning to speak Thai, and watching poker tournaments on television (WPT).

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Enjoy phonedogTV from your Facebook profile

Check it out. You can add the phonedogTV Facebook application to your FB profile. Have it always at the ready under the boxes tab, or post and share it on your wall. Live broadcasts will prompt you...

Verizon and Photobucket offer easy mobile pic sharing

With T-Mo's announcement of the cameo?a digital picture frame that has a phone number for sending images to?it's looking not only like the camera phone may be on the cusp of replacing the consumer...

Mini-Review: Motorola Krave (ZN4) - Verizon

Pros: V CAST, crisp widescreen, 3G, VZ Navigator, visual voice mail, neat touch-flip form factor. Cons: touch screen and flip are unpredictable at best, it feels strange against the cheek. The...

Samsung Eternity from AT&T

Well, you asked for it, and here it is; a new 3G touchscreen for AT&T. The Eternity features Samsung's TouchWiz UI, a full software landscape QWERTY, accelerometers that facilitate automatic...

Two new Samsungs from Verizon

Everyone's rollin' out the holiday gifts, and Verizon isn't missing out on the fun. A couple of you in the phonedogTV chatroom asked if Verizon would have any new phones before Christmas. Here you go...

BlackBerry Storm available 11/21 from Verizon

RIM's 9530, the first touchscreen BlackBerry, which features what Verizon calls the "first 'clickable' touch screen," will be available in Verizon stores and on their website in 8 days. This 3G bad...

phonedogTV a smash hit

Well, I don't know what to say about what I just experienced, except that it felt like a huge success. I think we hit about 500 concurrent chatters, and even with the spam and pre-existing channel...

phonedogTV goes live in 5...4...3...

Actually it's 60 minutes away as I write this. For those in the United States, the premiere begins at 7p.m. Eastern, 6 Central, 5 Mountain, and 4 Pacific. International viewers: the show starts at 12...

fBook brings IPhone Facebook app to Android?

I've never used the iPhone Facebook app, so I can't compare. But fBook's description in the Android Market says it's "a wrapper that optimizes and fixes* the Facebook iPhone web app for your Android...

HTC unleashes world's first integrated GSM/WiMAX handset

It's called the HTC MAX 4G, and unless you're in the coverage area of Russian WiMAX service provider Yota, you can forget about using one... for now. What's important here is that the technology is...

Sony Ericsson dropping unlocked Xperia X1

For Americans with 8 c-notes on hand for conspicuous consumption (I believe there were 37 of you at last count, celebrities and Freemasons excluded): the unlocked Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 goes on pre-...

What time is phonedogTV on for ME?

I can't sleep, so I thought I'd  take a moment to clear up any confusion regarding the timing of the live broadcasts of phonedogTV. The show starts at midnight--at the end of Wednesday night, going...

T-Mobile preps for holiday cheer

T-Mobile's got your friends and family in mind for the season, and has announced a fresh line-up designed to keep you in touch. They're offering three new phones for taking pictures, texting, and...

Motorola loses ground, 1st place, to Samsung

Motorola's home field advantage couldn't protect the cell phone giant's title as champion of US sales in Q3, analysts have announced. The South Korean Samsung now controls 22.4% of the market. LG,...

BlackBerry trade-ups from invigorated Flipswap

Flipswap is on a mission: reuse the reusable, recycle the recyclable, reduce waste, and plant a whole lot of trees. Not only that, but they want to buy your old phone. Since their launch in 2005, the...

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