Tag / android

Google recently released Google Drive, the company’s ver­sion of a cloud stor­age ser­vice, sim­i­lar to Drop­box, Sky­Drive, Sug­ar­Sync, and oth­ers. In essence, Google Drive is an exten­sion, or upgrade, of Google Docs. Here’s a short video from Google that explains what Google Drive is all about. I’ve been using Google Docs for sev­eral years as my […]

One too many force closes, ran­dom restarts, and screen freezes, led me to com­pletely snap on my Droid X tonight. In one swift and deci­sive action, I destroyed my Droid X. Well, destroyed is not quite accu­rate. In spite of a ter­ri­bly cracked screen, the phone still works. Nev­er­the­less, it’s dead to me. I felt […]

  This is an inter­est­ing announce­ment. I was just read­ing the other day that Google Music has not per­formed as well as expected (hoped). Of course, the tim­ing of this announce­ment is quite trans­par­ent. Just about every­one on the planet knows that Apple is expected to announce the iPad 3(HD?) tomor­row. Accord­ing to The Verge, […]

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 have come to the real­iza­tion that I am the nerd amongst my set of friends. I shot out a sta­tus update last night on Twit­ter and Face­book ask­ing who else would be watch­ing the big Google/Samsung event. The resound­ing response, to quote my good friend Jeniene, was “**crick­ets.** I had to laugh. Nev­er­the­less, I […]

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As many of you know, I have been a vocal sup­porter of the Google Android plat­form. While my sup­port for Android remains sta­ble, it is, regretably, show­ing signs of stress. Since pick­ing up my first Android device nearly a year ago, I have noticed, and read about, a num­ber of lit­tle buggy things crop­ping up […]

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 […]