Got it last night, was still called “Documents” in the upper bar.
A little basic for the moment, no “Beta” tag yet. Oh, and once I uploaded some files in the main window, I cannot move them to existing folders.
I won’t be ditching the 7.5 GB I have with Dropbox for now. Maybe at some point into the future, as merging Google services is just the norm these days.

“At an event today, HTC’s vice president of product strategy Bjorn Kilburn noted that the company had conducted research last year to find out whether customers preferred thin smartphones to those which compromised thickness for better battery life. The answer, interestingly, was that they generally preferred thinness, at which point its plans for 3,000mAh-plus devices were removed from the roadmap.”

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Yes, most of the customers preffer thin design against battery performance thickness, but that’s just because they aren’t professional or power users, so maybe one charge will get them through the day. What about the others? No 3000 mAh batteries on HTC?
How about manufacturing extended batteries with replacement backplates? HTC should learn a thing or two from Samsung!

http://mobile.theverge.com/2012/4/19/2960922/htc-customers-prefer-thin-phones-to-better-battery-life

Read It Later became “Pocket” as of today. And it seems they took everything at the next level, because nothing is as it was before!
We have a new interface, a new look, new functions and a new name.
And while I paid 2.99$ for it, now it’s free!
Totally free! Grab it here!

Yes, why not?
I mean, true, that would be against Job’s philosophy about THE smartphone, but the world changes and we change with it. This guy would buy it, most of the more purist Apple fan-bois would not, as it’s against their God’s principles. But as they say, ” All’s fair in love and war”.

John Grubber:
“Nilay Patel, covering MWC for The Verge:

It’s no secret that Android tablet sales have lagged far behind Apple’s iPad, and Google’s planning to do something about it. In a meeting with reporters today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Android chief Andy Rubin called the 12 million Android tablets sold thus far “not insignificant, but less than I’d expect it to be if you really want to win,” and said that “2012 is going to be the year that we double down and make sure we’re winning in that space.”

Rubin said that the biggest problem for Android on tablets is “there’s no organized way for consumers to recognize it as a viable platform,” and that Google wants consumers to see its tablets as part of the broader Android ecosystem.

In a separate article, The Verge confirmed with Rubin that Google’s “activation” numbers include each unique device only once, and don’t count based-on-Android-but-not-using-the-Google-experience devices like the Kindle Fire or Barnes and Noble Nook.

Apple has sold a little over 50 million cumulative iPads to date. Just me or does it seem like you see a lot more than five iPads per Android tablet in the wild? (A guess: a lot of junky 7-inch Android tablets gathering dust in drawers.)”

Anybody who’s (a little) interested in this market can see Android tablets lagging badly behind Apple in the iPad market.
On the other hand, they’ve probably seen it coming; you can’t just bust in on other’s established turf and thrive within a year, leaving the owner far behind.
But it’s true (the emphasis above is mine!), lots of crappy tablets out there sitting in a drawer just because its owners are buying with their eyes closed, priced, not quality oriented like Apple. That’s the differentiation here.

#MWC is the most important mobile show in Europe, a “must” follow-up of the C.E.S in the U.S.

You can find a list of the hottest items for today, the 1st day of the event.

Pretty exciting stuff, I tell ya!

• Asus Padfone. Here, too!
• ZTE smartphones, a full line-up!
• Nokia line-up: Nokia Lumia 610, Nokia Lumia 900 and the flagship of the flagships, the 808 PureView, 41 MP camera!!
• HTC at MWC 2012.
• Samsung launches Galaxy Beam and  Galaxy Note 10.1.
• Panasonic Eluga Power.
• Fujitsu quad-core.
• Sony Xperia series.
• ViewSonic ViewPhone 4S and 4E.
• Huawei line-up.
• Android is present there.

And last but not least, our own @andreigarbea, with J&M Gadgets: you can find his channel here, give it a try, they make great video reviews!

Got a lot o’ readin’ to do tonite!

Looking for a SMS filtering application turned out to be a VERY tedious job.

I was looking for a simple SMS filter, a filter able to be cached (not running in the background!) and to search the contacts and the Inbox – there are SMSs I want to filter without a visible number. Later I realized it’s possible to get the number by simply calling “back “from inside them. And I couldn’t find one.

I had to settle for Call Control, which came closest to my needs and also filters calls. A pretty good feature, which I will never use, because I use the built-in “divert to voicemail” feature inside ICS.

All these apps competing with each other and offering dozens of features, just because the others do the same. That’s all. Most of them are ridden with ads and ask you to register (database build-up) for a quick buck. I am not sure they test it as a Beta! Energy efficient? Are you kidding? Look at the screenshot above. 4% for a day of usage. Other apps don’t even show-up in here.

The Android apps have to grow-up some more.

I can see why Apple is holding them accountable and sometimes doesn’t approve some developer’s apps. Some of them barely have the skills to do an app, forget about polished, Premium products.

It looks like Google decided to release a new (albeit small) update of its rocking Google Music for Android!
This one brings some bugs fixes, hopefully some I encountered along the way in the last 3 months.
If you’re not in the U.S, you can still get it by searching for the term in the title followed by .apk and follow the instructions. Of course, by now you should’ve managed to use a proxy, in order to make it work outside U.S. If now, search the web or ask me!

Yes, the experts are teaching us the importance of specs; it has x MB of RAM, this and that screen resolution, so and so MP for the camera, but really, once you get a hold of the damn thing, it’s not working. Not properly, I mean!
And that’s why none are a match for the iPad – that one just works! And this will not change until the big players realize that they can’t fool us, they only fool themselves with these crappy, sub par products.

You know what they say: it depends to whom you’re talking to. For them, it’s a fragmentation issue. Since the beginning Google wasn’t able to steer the O.E.M manufacturers into the right direction, a.k.a “release-phones-with-the-latest-OS”. Like this guy said, it’s only business; you want the latest OS, get a new phone!

And then, there’s the rest of us (me included!) looking at this from a positive point of view. Ice Cream Sandwich was launched less than 2 months ago, 3 days before the Galaxy Nexus took off and it’s already close to 1% in “market” share. Well, more like 0,6%, but that was a few days ago!:-) It’s also important to note that there are three versions out there and they are split on only two devices: Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the last year’s hit, Samsung Nexus S, which is not even completely updated yet! Even so, that’s a huge leap in a very short time!

Again, let’s look at the chart above and think positive: Froyo (2.2) and Gingerbread (2.3) make up the most of today’s Android OS phones out there: ~85%.

Fragmentation? Fahgettaboudit!

via Android Central and Android Pit

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