mobile tech

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Dis­claimer: This post is writ­ten purely from the per­spec­tive of a self-professed nerd that fol­lows tech­nol­ogy rather closely.   There are just too many smart­phones hit­ting the mar­ket — specif­i­cally Android devices. I know that the cur­rent trend in mobile devices is a move from basic fea­ture phones to smart­phones. I sus­pect that trend is […]

I don’t know if is the inter­mit­tent bug­gi­ness of my Droid X, or just my inter­est in design, that led me to be much more open to all mobile oper­at­ing sys­tems. I’ve been tak­ing a look at the iPhone more now since it’s avail­able on Ver­i­zon. While no knock on iPhones, gen­er­ally, the UI feels […]

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  Quick details. $199 for 16GB (with 2-year con­tract) $299 for 32GB (with 2-year con­tract) Exist­ing Ver­i­zon cus­tomers can pre-order on Feb­ru­ary 3 Avail­able to every­one Feb. 10. (online and in Ver­i­zon and Apple stores) The Ver­i­zon iPhone will include the Wi-Fi hotspot fea­ture, which allows up to five devices to con­nect to your phone. The iPhone […]

Google recently released an update for Google Maps for Android devices, and it’s really nice. As you can see from the video, the map ren­ders build­ings in 3D (right now for 100 cities). The map also can ren­der from directly over­head to a tilted/angled per­spec­tive (with a two fin­ger up or down swipe ges­ture).   Google […]

Not to be out­done by Barnes & Noble, Ama­zon, or Apple for the rapidly expand­ing elec­tronic book mar­ket , Google just took the wraps off of its highly-anticipated eBook­store. If you’re in the US, you will be able to buy books — I like the sup­port for small and/or inde­pen­dent book­stores — as well as […]

A num­ber of my friends seem to think that I am anti-Apple. Noth­ing could be fur­ther from the truth (well…outside my dis­dain for the very restric­tive  ecosys­tem). I love the design and reli­a­bil­ity of Apple prod­ucts, though I don’t own any­thing made by Apple. A while back, peo­ple (read Android users) were doing cart­wheels when the […]