It’s astonishing how an idea so simple yet straight forward can create an interesting company’s niche. Rentobile based in New Jersey, USA is giving mobile tech enthusiasts the opportunity to switch in and out of phones for the heck of just trying them or utilizing them for all their mobile needs. Now you can hold off on reaching into your thick pockets and pulling out a couple c-notes for the purchase of that new sleek and amusing phone you’ve been wanting so badly. Rentobile’s revolutionary idea consists of customers renting new and recent phones for fees as low as $20 to $50 a month.

The shipping costs total to $10 for a round trip and a small insurance fee is placed onto your phone just in case your phone magically decides to grow legs and run away from home. Handsets are available for each of the four major carriers, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. While many of these phones are specifically available for these companies you’re also able to rent unlocked GSM phones allowing you to use them with any company that requires a sim card. Rentobile is offering a one-of-a-kind service that is competing with invisibility because nothing’s there to stop it in its tracks. Try it today if you’d like and rent a phone, if you liked their service then send us an email telling us about it.

Rentobile

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The yet unannounced Samsung R470 has made its entry into the FCC files just this morning. This cute-looking clamshell-style phone is a dual-band CDMA device, which supports Bluetooth, USB port and microSD slot for expandable memory. The R470 also has a dedicated camera key, external control pad and external speakers, which clearly indicates this phone’s slant towards music. The initial draft of the user manual makes a reference to “easyedge”, a data service offered exclusively by U.S. Cellular.

Of course, this is the age of touch phones, so all else is passé. But if one can find something quite so good-looking as the Samsung R470, and quite so functional too, well, it is definitely worth a try, right? There is no mention of EV-DO in the initial documents. That is indeed strange – guess we will have to wait and watch for more info on this phone.

Samsung R470

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Guess what Google has now come up with. It has set up a new website that allows Google’s mobile product users to submit ideas for more such products and rate them as well. Google will compile all the results and use them as a resource to understand exactly what users have in mind, with a view to creating yet newer and better products for them.

So if you would love to make yourself heard, guys, just leave a comment on the Google Mobile Blog, letting them know what additional product or feature it is exactly that you would wish. The Google Product Ideas page is a nice interactive platform to put across your ideas and even share them with likeminded others. You can vote others’ ideas and get voted too. You can also participate in the Dear Google community and discuss and debate over others’ ideas.

What are you waiting for? Click on the Product Ideas page, sign in and express yourself!

Google Now Wants Your Ideas And Opinions About Its Mobile Products

source Phone Scoop