Portable Cell Phone Booth

There’s nothing more frustrating than missing a phone call and not being able to find out who the number belongs to. This article will discuss some of the most effective methods of finding the owner of a phone number using the internet. If you ever think “I need to know who a phone number belongs too” again you’ll have no trouble in finding the answer.

1.    White Pages – White pages is a website which allows you to search for the owner of a particular phone number. It doesn’t work with all phone numbers but most are available. The great thing about White Pages is that it’s free and provides you with access to a large amount of data. Using White Pages is probably the most effective free method of finding out who a phone number belongs to.

2.    Google is another free website for finding out who owns a phone number. The problem with searching for a number on Google is that if it isn’t a publically listed number it won’t show up. You also have no guarantee that the information you find in Google will be up to date. Nevertheless, using Google to reverse lookup a phone number only takes a few seconds and hence is always worth trying. Other search engines such as Yahoo and Bing can also be used for the same purpose.

3.    Phone book websites are another source you could try. Some phonebooks have internet sites which allow you to search for a number. If the phone number isn’t listed in the phonebook then this search will reveal nothing though.

One of the problems with using free services for finding who owns a particular number is that they often don’t include cell phone numbers. There are many paid databases that include cell phone numbers but these can sometimes be unreliable. If you decide that you want to try to reverse lookup a cell phone number using a paid service then make sure you read online reviews to get an idea of how effective the company is. An advantage of paid services is that they often include other information such as the persons address.

When you next decide “I need to know who a phone number belongs too” you’ll hopefully have more of an idea of how to find the information. The internet has made it much easier to match a phone number to a person.

Apples Iphone and Google's Nexus One will be going Head to Head

Google has recently launched the Nexus One to compete against other mainstream smart phone brands like the Motorola Droid, Palm Pre, and Iphone. The Nexus has been specifically targeted to compete with the Iphone because it is still the leading brand in the smart phone industry. The specs on both these phones are hard to compare, and we’ll list some of them below.

Iphone

The storage capacity for the new Iphone is about 16GB and the Nexus provides expandable memory from 4GB to 32GB depending on how much money you have to spend. Both batteries have their strengths and weakness, Nexus allows you to talk for 2 hours more while Iphone provides a longer standby time. Nexus has the advantage when it comes to cameras though because it is equipped with a 5.0 megapixel camera compared to the 3.0 from the Apple Iphone. However, Iphone provides video editing software that can’t be found on most other smart phones.

Google Nexus One

Wireless connection and GPS are now available on most phones, generally they have similar specs so they are very hard to compare between two competing brands. Voice commands are also enabled, and there is no set sign to tell that either one is superior in that area. The video formats that Iphone supports are MPEG 4, H.264, MP4, M4V, and MoV along with the most common audio formats. Nexus has a smaller video/audio format capacity and it supports MGEP 4, H.264, and H.263.

Applications from both these phones come from two very different places. An Iphone user would by his programs from an iTunes application store, while a Nexus One customer would purchase his products from the Android market. Both of these application markets have a large selection of programs to choose from, they are very different from each other but one isn’t considered better than the other.

Google has a excellent record for services so in that department it is rated better than the Apple products. However, Apple guarantees quality user experience to people all over the world and is famous for its rich application and media systems. A Nexus is much simpler to get if you live in the US, aside from that they are presently only selling them online, another downside is that Google hardware servicing does not have a very presence in many countries. Apple on the other hand has excellent servicing systems all over the world and can guarantee all of they’re products.