Category: Telephones
A “Real Life” Guide to Android Phones
As more people I know purchase Android based phones—I have been hearing a variety of questions, complaints, and opinions about the phone. As I have had my Motorola Android for about 4+ months now, I have had enough experience that I wanted to put together this blog entry for the benefit of others. For now, […]
Getting files to the Android
Unfortunately it’s been a while since my last entry — I have been distracted a bit with organizing what I would like to accomplish in 2010 (some of which you will be hearing about shortly). In the meantime, I will resume sharing my experiences with my Android (all positive!) over the past few weeks. Also, […]
Motorola Android “Discussion Groups” and upcoming Android update
Motorola Discussion Group For those interested in the experiences of other DROID users, I have found the “official” Motorola community site for the Android: https://supportforums.motorola.com/community/google-android/droid?view=overview I just started using this site, but it allows you to see all of the discussions/questions opened by what I assume to be DROID owners/users. I recently started a discussion on […]
Maximizing battery life — the quest continues
While I have a few other blog posts in various stages of completion … understanding how to maximize the batter life seems to have taken on a life of its own. While I don’t have answers at the moment, I wanted to share what I had learned up till this point.
What I found by snooping around…
My journey started by asking a simple question — How the heck do you update the Phone? A few Google searches got me to the description of the process at Motorola: http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Business/Corporate/US-EN/legal/security-vulnerability-android-software.html The end of the document talks to going to Settings | About Phone - and I found a few interesting utilities.
Android, Google and Gizmo… The story just keeps getting better
I saw this announcement this morning — so I haven’t had a lot of time to think about this yet. First the article: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/12/google-paid-30m-for-gizmo5-did-the-search-giant-just-blow-up-t/
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