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Motorola Charm – soon on T-Mobile network

Jun 28th

Posted by Bograma in Android Gadgets & Application Reviews

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The 1st truly keyboard Android device! Hope Motorola will ship it to Europe, too, diff’rent name and all! Motorola Charm.

via Examiner.com

via Engadget

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Rooting the HTC Desire

Jun 16th

Posted by Bograma in Android Gadgets & Application Reviews

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If you look over the Internet rooting is everywhere! Rooting an Android device used to be simple.  Easy. You’d download a file, you’d unzip it, copy it to the phone and that was that. Well, not anymore. Nowadays you need to do a lot of workarounds. You need to find the right versions, due to the Android fragmentation you need to look for them on Internet, you need to learn how to do a Goldcard and other things – I only got to the Goldcard business! :-)

I need to root my Desire in order to gain access to simple things like screenshot application, the ability to increase the sound volume on the headset and especially on the speaker  – I like my podcasts and I can’t hear them at all when playing it thru the speaker. And that’s about it. Just for that. It’s not much and it should be default but it’s not. There are other advantages, too:

  • you can  uninstall all the Google crap that comes with the phone: Gmail widget, stocks, Peep Twitter client, Sense U.I, clock widgets.
  • you can install another ROM: lighter, faster and less crappier; with or without the Sense U.I .
  • you can get full access to the O.S.
  • edit system files.
  • relocate apps cache and  the apps themselves over the SD.

Taking into account it’s some time since the Desire root emerged improvements are surfacing. I just tried a safe-fail method ( usually once you start there is no turning back) and….it failed, of course. I was expecting this. There are just too many variables. But I will try again.

The benefits are huge for an Android geek.

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(HTC) Desire vs. (BlackBerry) work, as in Bold 9700

Jun 14th

Posted by Bograma in Android Gadgets & Application Reviews

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I knew I should wait some time before checking out another OS while using the BlackBerry. And I did for almost 2 years. But now the OS’ are refreshed much faster than years ago when I needed to wait more than a year to get “the next smartphone”. And now Android is on the high horse despite the rise of Apple’s OS No.4 and the new iPhone. While I never considered getting an iPhone, it was exactly why I didn’t, because of the lack of certain features like multitasking and easiness of using the sync features (read I hate iTunes). To make matters worse, I consider myself a power-user which means battery has to be strong and in iPhone it wasn’t. I still think it’s gonna be weak in iPhone 4 although they show faith in improved battery life.

And talking about battery life, that’s what’s keeping me in defecting to the Dark Side. No, not that D.S , the iPhone, but the other D.S – the Android platform as a whole. See, I live in a city. I work in an office full of power outlets, employing a laptop full of USB ports, I drive a car with multiple (Mini and Micro) USB connections&chargers but still can’t get enough juice for my newly acquired Desire. As I said before, the today’s battery technology is not up to par with smartphone usage around the world. There are going to be advancements like the fuel-cell but taking into account they’ve started research a long time ago, I can assume it’s gonna be another couple of years until it’s gonna be feasible and economically viable. So, what’s to do until then?

Google pushes Android towards the masses to be used with simpler phones, too. I think they never thought that the producers will be using the platform for smartphones only but rather to give the producers the ability to step-up the “features” game in the market, to provide them with the necessary tools to improve user experience thus shaping the tastes of customers and driving up the consumption by doing that. Apple did it with the iPhone, why Google couldn’t do it taking into account the huge audience? Simpler smartphones or entry-level smartphones like T-Mobile Pulse I used , LG Ally for Verizon network or Samsung Jet are designed to replace the small, inexpensive but featureless Nokias and Samsungs in those networks. By selling those to Average Joe, they’ll never have the “flat-battery-in-4-hours” issues they encounter in power-users usage but this doesn’t mean that the producers and networks aren’t aware of the sad situation we’re in.

Instead of an epilogue, I will ask this: how can one compare apples with BlackBerrys especially when we all know that forest fruits are so appealing and have so many “vitamins” over them apples?

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Had a play with HTC Desire

May 15th

Posted by Bograma in Android Gadgets & Application Reviews

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Today I was finally able to play a little bit with Vodafone’s HTC Desire. I could’ve done it in a Vodafone shop but usually those smartphones are right out of the box and have no Internet connection, no apps, media, nothing. Everything you can find on shelf is usually dummy.
So I used the UI ( Sense U.I 2.1), some apps and saw how the battery depleted 10% in about 20 minutes to half an hour of usage. The screen is superb (though useless outside), the U.I and the processor are extremely fast. The manufacture quality is top notch!
One thing I noticed is that the phone is getting VERY hot for the light usage I’ve made. Not good for prolongued usage.
All in all a nice phone which sets the standard very high for other smartphones.

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A week without my BlackBerry Bold 9700

Apr 27th

Posted by Bograma in Android Gadgets & Application Reviews

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Inspired by a search I did out of nowhere, I decided I wanna try to live without my BlackBerry Bold for a week and…use my T-Mo Pulse Android OS instead! I will continue to use the BlackBerry to receive my work phone calls but that should be it. I’ll also use it to send/reply to some of my work emails but will try to do so as little as possible.

I know there are some disadvantages:

  • the lack of physical keyboard will slow me down when writing.
  • the lack of work emails will be a definitive minus as I can’t find a good Exchange client; should be free, like the one I use in the BlackBerry.
  • the battery life which is horrible in Android devices, on the Pulse included.

There are also advantages:

  • the Pulse’ so much better for multimedia.
  • the touchscreen is better for “on-the-fly usage” especially on apps not requiring data input.
  • a LOT of applications to use and get accustomed with in a short period of time.

I just don’t know if i should update the blog regarding the way the things are going daily, or to write a single post after a week. What do you think?

Android, BlackBerry, gsm, Internet, tech-head
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RIM BlackBerry Twitter application goes officially on Beta

Apr 9th

Posted by Bograma in Blackberry Gadgets & Application Reviews

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As I expected, the BlackBerry Twitter application by RIM went officially on Beta! Which means waiting will be over soon. I will continue to use the leaked version (the same built after all) but I will sign-up for the Beta Zone – this is where you can get the Twitter application if you’re not lucky enough to be in a country using the BlackBerry App World.

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