Google and Android – Page 8

Nexus 4 Months Later Video Review

October 7, 2025August 8, 2013 by Ramon Trotman

The Nexus 4 has been on the market for a very long time, the SG4, HTC One and now the Moto X have all dominated the mind share of the Android fans. But still, the Nexus 4 remains the best bang for your buck by far. Tune in as we talk a bit about the … Read more

Stupid App of The Year Award Goes To….

October 7, 2025August 7, 2013 by Kristofer Brozio

Wow… talk about stupid and dumb and just plain idiotic.. this app is just ridiculous. The app is called S.M.T.H. or Send Me To Heaven and you throw your phone as high as possible. Yeah that sounds like an excellent idea, I’ll throw my $700 phone up in the air as high as I can?! … Read more

HTC Announces Mid-Range Desire 500 Android Phone in UK

April 8, 2016August 7, 2013 by Kristofer Brozio

Not sure what exactly mid-range means, but it says so in the PR! It says the Desire 500 is a phone for people who want a superior mobile experience but at an affordable price, but nowhere in the PR does it mention the price. So what exactly is affordable? So anyway, the Desire 500 has a 1.2ghz quad core CPU with a 4.3” display and it comes with the ever popular HTC Blinkfeed built-in. The Desire 500 can also accommodate microSD cards up to 64gb and it has an 8mp rear camera along with a 1.6mp front camera. It will be available sometime this month in black or blue colors, I kind of like the blue myself..So I’ve got some pictures for you and of course the official PR..

Netflix profiles: FINALLY

October 7, 2025August 1, 2013 by Marti M

Netflix came out today with a blog post saying that it will start rolling out (over the next few days) profile capability for their website, iPad, iPhone, PS3, Xbox, Apple TV. Wii and Android users will have to wait (“soon”). So instead of your Instant Queue being full of your toddler’s shows, you’ll be able … Read more

Tech Thoughts July 31st edition

April 8, 2016July 31, 2013 by Murani Lewis

Apple going colorful At some point black and white gets old. There is bound to be some awesome color combinations created by pairing new cases with different colors. Slowdown in iPad sales Honestly I’m surprised. I thought the lower entry point due to the iPad mini would accelerate iPad sales rates. SkyDrive name change coming … Read more

Lunch With The Lumia 1020, Hello Macro

October 7, 2025July 30, 2013 by Ramon Trotman

Nokia claimed they’ve reinvented “zoom,” I say they didn’t claim enough. Looks to me like they’ve reinvented Macro as well. Take a look at this malicious image of my lunch today, with only one purpose in mind (to make everyone who did NOT have sushi super jealous,) it turns out to be a two hit … Read more

Hello Moto (Google Owned Motorola) is using poor Security Practices

July 16, 2013 by herg62123

It has come to my attention that Motorola (Google Owned Company) is using poor security practices. Located at this link Motorola Caught Slipping a user has found out that his Motorola Droid X2 is transmitting info to Motorola’s Blur Servers. Now if that is not alarming that Motorola is collecting your info when you login to … Read more

HTC One Max

October 7, 2025July 15, 2013 by Ramon Trotman

The HTC One has been nothing short of a hit, currently involved in the gruesome battle for the best Android device on the market, it is still holding it’s own really well. How about something called the HTC One Max. As you could image, this would be the HTC One with a much larger footprint. … Read more

Reconsidering gzip

July 13, 2013 by Doug Simmons

When our server generates a webpage to send to your browser, among other tricks, using a piece of software called gzip, it compresses the text associated with each page – the HTML, the CSS, the javascript files and beams it over along with the images. Your browser then decompresses this data and constructs the page. … Read more

Come on AT&T, enough with the upgrade ransom already

July 13, 2013July 12, 2013 by Jim Szymanski

It’s that time of year again when AT&T contract customers begin scampering for ways to get their phone upgraded before their two year contract has expired. Sure, you can break your contract and pay the ETF, then close and open your account and start all over again. But why should you have to do that?

I don’t work for AT&T, but I have been a customer for a long time. So, I may miss some of their logic here, and if so, please correct me. From where I see it, AT&T’s business objective is to have as many “contract customers” as possible. Contracts ensure future income and retain customers for future contracts. With so many options for month to month plans with unlimited everything available to consumers today, what do contract plans actually offer, aside from a guarantee that you are paying more than anyone else for cellular service. Ok, it might give you access to a carriers highest speed network. The biggie though, is subsidized phones.

The MiRing

April 8, 2016July 9, 2013 by Ramon Trotman

There has been tons of talk about wearable technology as the latest trend these days, but mostly, it all ends up to be half assed uninspiring technology that could have been cool. Perhaps the entire industry is waiting for Apple to actually show up with their iWatch, or even a price drop on Google’s Glass. … Read more

No option: I’m replacing my car’s navigation system with a tablet

April 8, 2016July 4, 2013 by David K

I was all excited to get a new car with an in-dash system (it happens to have GMC’s Intellilink system which is one of those touch screen all-in-one systems). When you see it you’d figure that it’s a tablet in a dashboard that’s been fine tuned for a car, right? Yeah it sucks. And I don’t think it’s an exclusive issue. When ranting to friends they all tell me how much their dash systems suck to varying degrees. Let me give you a few issues. First off, the touchscreen itself sucks and as far as I can tell it’s actually a resistive display – yeah really. It requires pressure to react and a touch alone isn’t recognized. The navigation system is horrid as you sit there typing in letter by letter and they have separate boxes for the street name, number, city, etc. It doesn’t need to be that hard and take that long to perform a basic task. And Intellilink does this awesome thing that the navigation ‘app’ is separate than the destination app so if you’re in navigation and want to stop it (you know, because it gave you shitty directions so you started using your phone) you have to go home and then into the ‘’destination’ apps to turn off commands. So long as you pay for XM you get real time traffic however it doesn’t seem like the system takes that into account when routing as the routing is always the same (and yes, traffic is a separate ‘app’). All it does is give you a warning that you’re approaching a traffic jam. Want to get the weather? Yeah better keep a subscription going for that too. And I have to pay for music too. I see. Add to this that the whole thing has a poor UI that involves way too much pecking around to safely do when driving .