Sacramento Cell Phone Providers

I am looking for a new cell phone company, I really want to get a data plan, but I am not really excited about paying $50 or even $40 a month.
I don't use my phone a lot, I need to check to see how much I really do use it.

my current plan breaks it down into 3 groups

anytime minutes 19

mobile to mobile 216

nights and weekends 17

so I have used a total of 252 minutes this month

for the last 3 months it was:

22, 260, 14 = total minutes 296

33, 70, 9 = total minutes 112

28, 73, 31 = total minutes 132

so for the last 4 months the most minutes I have used in a month was 296.


New Possible Cell Phone Plans

http://www.mycricket.com - they have a $25 a month plan that includes

$25 plan

includes

• calling
• 300 US minutes
• caller ID
• voicemail
• call waiting
• 3-way calling
• messaging
• text (unlimited)
• picture (unlimited)
• video (unlimited)
• more features
• mobile web (unlimited)
• 411 ($1 per call)

metropcs.com - has a pay a you go plan, but there is a catch, you have to pay each month and the minutes are only good for 30 days.

so it's really a $20 or $30 per month plan with limited usage. The $20 per month gives you 500 minutes of talk, unlimited messages, and 50MB of web access.

Well as they say what the large print giveth, the small print takeith away. Metropcs.com the fine print says that you can not use a smart phone on the $20 or $30 a month plan, I guess the key is that they call it mobile web, I guess that means you can't use a smart phone with internet.

Mobile News Reader

I found a blog that I really like and so now I want a news reader to let me know when to check for new posts.  I don't like having it on my main desktop computer because I end up wasting too much time just goofing around but on my Android phone I don't care because I am usually just wasting time standing in line or something anyway.

I looked at Google's reader, but Google does a lot of things right, but they have made a huge twisted tangled mess for me. This happened when they bought a couple of other websites that I was already using, not that big of a deal, but I also started using real money on some of their stuff. So I have google accounts that I randomly use and log in an out of all the time, even from public computers. So I am not real keen about having putting my credit card information on these google account.

So I have my Google accounts that I started with, then I have the Google accounts that I acquired by them buying up companies, then I have the google accounts that I have financial transactions with, and there were a few google accounts that I was forced to create for strange unknown reasons. The bottom line is I have a whole bucket full of Google accounts, some I use, most I don't, and each time I change from say Google search, to the reader, to anything else I have to sign into a new account.  This makes most of the stuff Google has unusable for me.

I have figured out a cleaver way to actually use Gmail, because I like it so much. What I do is I use the Chrome browser, but I never log into Gmail with it. I use FireFox for Gmail and then I never use FireFox for anything else. That way FireFox stays logged into my Google Gmail account, and then if I want to fight with Google over passwords to do something we fight on Chrome. If your just starting out now and you don't have a Google account and you don't care about security, then lucky you.
You probably won't have the headaches I do, logging in and out of dozens of Google accounts all day.

So I signed up for the google reader on my Android and then checked my Google email, and of course it changed google accounts on me. So I am don't with Google reader on my Android, I am not going to do the same thing where I log in and out all day long.

I downloaded Pulse News in the Android Market place, but it would not install, possibly because I have Android 2.0 not sure?

Searching for another way to use a feed reader on my phone, I try some more.

Yahoo Mobile, it is really bad. The main screen is just cut off and no way to access it. It looks like the just locked my browser to the left side of a full page.  Pretty worthless to me.

After looking through several dozen news readers, it looks like most web based news readers go out of business within a year. So there are a lot of unused domain names out there if you want to start one, and it looks like I am going to have to see if I can figure out a way to get google's news reader to work for me.

Mobile App Developer

Career #2 - Mobile App Developer

According to a 2011 survey by IHS iSuppli, an internet research company, mobile applications will enjoy an 81.5 percent surge in total revenue over the next 12 months. More revenue means more opportunities for mobile app developers.

Elance, an online employment hub, reports a similarly strong and growing demand for freelance mobile app developers. Its Online Employment Report, also released in 2011, found that the tech industry's spending in this area has grown 11 percent over the past quarter.

Career Preparation: If you want to sharpen your skills for a career in mobile apps, you'll need to get up-to-speed on computer applications and technologies by studying a subject like computer science, programming and software, or IT and information systems.

From Yahoo

This also has the potential to be a work at home job too.

Mobile Friendly Web Pages

Google has a page that will convert the formatting of any website to a mobile friendly format

google.com/gwt/n

once there you can book mark pages you use a lot, or you can copy the url and shorten it for other mobile users.

http://tinyurl.com/43rnlgr

Google recongises many mobile phones, and will reformat automatically, if that doesn't work on your phone for some reason then go here:

google.com/xhtml

if you have a blog and want a quick way to let everyone use a mobile phone on your site just add your RSS feed into google reader and put a link at the top of your blog.

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/[feed_address]

call it "Mobile Site" or something like that.

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://www.mg21.com/feeds/posts/default - this is the link for this site so it would look like this


Mobile Site - instant mobile site in no time at all for your blog, or any site with a RSS feed.

Russian Cell Phones

Russia mostly uses GMS cell phones, and may use some
s many American providers do not carry these phones regularly, Russian cellular phone system operates using the 900 and 1800 frequencies.

The United States and Canada use the 1900 and 850, so you probably need a tri band, or a quad band phone to have much of a chance of it working in Russia.

Many of the American cell phone companies are locking their phones, so you need to make sure the phone is unlocked as well.

Russian customs should not be a problem as most people have cell phones these days.

You will need a 220 volts transformer so you can charge your phone.

It is easy to purchase a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card that will give you a Russian phone number. Many SIM cards are only valid in the city in which they were purchased.