When I bought a new phone back in January, my girlfriend made me get a Bluetooth. After all, the laws in my state ban handsets while driving. She, working at a cell phone store, insisted that she pair my Bluetooth, because she doesn’t “want to sit on the phone with you and walk you through it.” My pride kicked in at that point, and I snatched the Bluetooth from her claws. I’m no tech dolt; I can do it myself. She bet me dinner on it. Within 30 seconds of opening the instruction book, I had the Bluetooth paired, and that’s no exaggeration. Sweetest meal I’ve ever tasted. Apparently, though, some people can’t pair their Bluetooth. Best Buy is charging $10 for this service. Just another way consumers get screwed at Best Buy.
Sprint, in a further effort to return to our good graces, is offering a recycling program, the Sprint BuyBack program. So edgy, not putting a space between Buy and Back. Anyway, you can ship your old Sprint handset back to the company. They’ll resell it, but all proceeds go to charity. You can check here to see if your old Sprint handset is eligible.
Apple unloaded a million iPhones during the opening weekend. This counts across the 20 countries it was launched in.
As we’ve heard plenty of times before, mobile phone sales will slow down this year. They won’t decrease, as some doomsday sayers believe. However, it looks like growth will be in the 10 percent range, while growth in 2007 was 16 percent.
Good for parents, bad for teens: T-Mobile plans to introduce a minute allowance program for its family plans. Parents will now be able to assign minutes to kids, which will help avoid overages. It might also mean a lesser need for families to put kids on a prepaid plan, since the minute allowance program works in a similar manner.
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