Have you ever been on vacation while abroad and your cell phones won’t work?  Well, with the Freedom Phone, you shouldn’t have to worry about that.

This small prepaid phone is just what travelers, who can’t use their own cell phones while overseas, are looking for.  Upon arriving into the new country, you have the option of purchasing the Freedom Phone with 60, 100 or 200 minutes. There’s no trouble of roaming tariffs or extra prefixes to remember.  You’ll have complete freedom when calling friend, family or even work.  The Freedom Phone needs no SIM card and you’ll never have to worry about roaming charges.  I’m also a little jealous that it will charge in 10 minutes!

Reports have said there is a huge market out there for those who are only interested in receiving and making calls. They also said that most cell phone users only use approximately 5% of the phone specifications.  So, if an older person who doesn’t care about the bells and whistles or maybe a parent who wants their young teenager to have a cell phone but would like to limit their use, this might be a phone to look into.

The phone’s information, phone number and important services are located on the back.

Should kids 15 and younger have cell phones?  I can understand a 16 year old, as where I live they’re legally allowed to drive.  When my daughters start driving I would like for them to have a cell phone but, then again, by the time my daughters are old enough to drive we’ll probably have cell phones permanently installed in our heads at birth!

I can understand how some of these children could benefit from having their own cell phone; like if they have a health condition, they have to walk to and from school or even if they have a lot of afterschool practices and need to set up a ride home on a regular basis.  Maybe it’s the mother/control freak in me but how would you know who your child is talking to on their phones, how would you be able to control HOW much they talk on their phones and isn’t that a little too much technology for someone so young?  You would either have to be over their shoulder, constantly checking their phone activity or buy them a kid version cell phone like the Firefly.

The Firefly Phone, which is a popular ‘first phone’ for younger kids, allows the parents to control who their kids talk to, so you don’t have to worry about a very large phone bill or wonder who they’re talking to.

I’m sold but, unfortunately for my 5 year old, she’s not getting her own cell phone for another 6 or 7 years…

Today, Microsoft launched their most ambitious project to date.  Windows Phone 7 Series was introduced in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress 2010.  With a completely altered home screen and user interface experience, robust Xbox LIVE and Zune integration, and awesome social networking tools, Windows Mobile seems to have been completely reconstructed!

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At this point in time, the FBI and other police agencies have the ability to obtain records of your past locations from your mobile phone providers without the hassle of obtaining a warrant to do so.  If you’re a cell phone user like me, we can now expect when and where our calls are made and received to be retrievable by the FBI and other police agencies if they believe a crime has been committed.

The U.S. Department of Justice told a federal appeals court in Philadelphia Friday that they do not feel The FBI and other police agencies need to attain a search warrant to determine the locations of Americans’ cell phones.  A Justice Department attorney told the Third Circuit Court of Appeals that there was no constitutional dilemma in obtaining records from cell phone providers which will reveal the approximate locations of handheld and mobile devices.

Some believe there is not constitutional bar to acquiring business records help by a communications service provider and that the government is not required to use a warrant when it uses a tracking device.

This is the first federal appeals court to address this issue and it raises issues of government surveillance and whether Americans have a right to privacy anymore.