January 2011
17 posts
One of the Worst and Best Things About Android
One of the worst things about Android is that we are at the mercy of the manufacturers when it comes to updates for our operating system. Lately Samsung and T-Mobile have come under fire for announcing a new Vibrant Plus running Froyo (2.2) while current Vibrant owners have been waiting a long, long time for this update.
One of the best things about Android is that we are not at the mercy of the...
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Google Search for Android
Those who are used to iOS will often have a first impression of Android which is skewed by the features they perceive as missing. Some features are in fact missing, but more often they are present in a different and sometimes less intuitive form.
For example, when I switched from an iPhone to an Android phone, I missed the ability to quickly get to the top of a web page by tapping on the top...
Professional Reviews of Kids Movies
There are certain things for which user reviews are much more useful than professional reviews. Kids movies are one of those things.
Example: Toy Story 3 and Despicable Me came out around the same time. Just about every professional review for DM said that it was good but not as good as TS3. As one reviewer put it, “Toy Story 3 is a masterpiece; Despicable Me is just decent...
