I’ve been using Android for a while now and feel I’ve been using it long enough to make some meaningful observations. I like Android. It’s quick. It’s powerful. It has some astounding voice recognition capability built right in that even the iPhone can’t touch. For example, hold down the search button and when the voice search box pops up say
A few months have passed since getting my Sprint HTC Evo. I’ve had a chance to try out a number of different apps. I’ve finally found one I liked well enough to buy. “Camera 360” is a full-featured software camera that can be used in addition to or as a replacement for the stock camera software that ships with different
Here in the UK, we live in a strange a mix of imperial (English) and metric units. We buy fruit and veg by the kilo but ask someone their weight, it's in stones and pounds. When it's cold, it's "a few degrees" (C) but when it's hot, it's "in the 80s" (F). You can buy pints of milk but in
I’ve had my HTC Evo for a couple of months or more at this point. When I first turned it on, there was an update waiting. The update installed. So far, so good. Over the next few weeks I heard there was another update available, but it turned out there was a problem with the update. It took HTC and
The smartphone’s in many consumer hands today are as powerful as the desktop computers we were using five years ago. They may be as powerful from a hardware standpoint, yet the smaller interface demands different methods of interaction. The smaller interface also places different demands on the software that runs on it. Smartphone software apps typically need to be smaller
Today’s smartphones are amazing devices and can do some pretty cool things. Some of the apps can be quite remarkable, but do they offer real-world functionality? Yesterday was another 104 degree day. Get used to it – there are days like this every year. I was in my bedroom yesterday afternoon and suddenly the lights went out. To spare you
I’ve been living with my Sprint HTC Evo phone for a while now, and I am still learning some interesting things about Android – at least the HTC/Sprint version. Overall I’m still extremely pleased with the Evo. This is still one of the coolest gadgets I’ve ever come across. I was having a bit of a problem with stability. Sometimes