The Consumer Cellular Blog

One of the most useful navigation tools on both Android smartphones and iPhone is Google Maps—but it also has another important use.  You can use it to send someone your location to coordinate meetups or reassure family that you’re almost home. The process is straightforward and includes privacy controls to limit what others will...

If you’ve been enjoying “spicing up” your text messages with emoji’s—those small, digital icons used to express an idea or emotion—here’s a fun way too take it a little further. Move beyond your phone’s built-in emoji keyboard and shake things up by exploring the many options you can download and use for free for...

When you exit an app on your smartphone to return to your home screen or move on to another task, that app doesn’t actually close.  Instead, it continues to run in the background just in case you need to bring it up again quickly. Apps running in the background are similar to a window...