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Got my Drive!
026 days
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.
Read It Later rebrands itself as Pocket
034 days
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!
Don’t check out “Call Control – Call Blocker”
0102 days
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.
Google Music updated to 4.1.512!
0118 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!
0128 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!
0138 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
