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Google Music updated to 4.1.512!
013 days
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!
Tablets: the specs war; it’s nothing!
022 days
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.
Android’s own Ice Cream Sandwich – we’re getting there fast!
032 days
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
Galaxy Nexus tip: never trust a commercial!
034 days
Ever since I started taking notice on the Ice Cream Sandwich OS, I loved the default Live wallpaper, the one pictured above! I even put the ripped version on my old Desire HD.
Guess what? Although I got the Galaxy Nexus from Vodafone Romania (same picture), there’s no favorite Live wallpaper baked in the OS. Not this one. There are others. But not the one I like.
Other than that, great build!
One strategy for all? Unlikely.
042 days
This guy wants less Android models on the market, in the consumer’s interest.
There is only one problem with this idea: taking into account geeks represent maybe 5% of the total pool of buyers, taking Android in that direction is not working. Apple created its market and demand, Android just barged in at some point and took hold of the consumer market for smartphone replacing older OS’s like Symbian. Maybe BlackBerry will be next…
Anyway, today situation is a consumer created scenario. Consumer pressure is what makes producers to launch countless variations of the same model. Apple just refused to go with the flow and decided to do things differently. Some consumers followed. Just some.
Read It Later – a must have for any news junkie
045 days
Too many times we’re interested in reading the news. As so many times we do it on the go, while attending to other, more important things we need to do.
While I can always “favorite” the items in Google Reader and read it at some point in the future but it’s not gonna offline it for you, which means you can’t read it at some point in the future without an Internet connection. And that’s the strength of Read It Later: it’s downloading the link’s content for future, offline reading, while getting rid of the ads, related stories and other junk interfering with the act of reading.
The most awesome part is the integration into more than 250 smartphone apps, the support for almost all known browsers in the world and the seamless synchronization between them.
There’s a free version with a limited number of items you can save (which served me just fine!) and a Pro version, if you want to save more items and support the developer.
Here.


