Category Archives: Smartphones

Android Isn’t A Joke. It’s A Nightmare.

Posted on June 4, 2019 by

238 Google Play apps with >440 million installs made phones nearly unusable The above-linked forum discussing BeiTaAd documents that the plugin has been menacing users for at least seven months. Google’s inability to detect the abuse, either initially when the … Continue reading →

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Weekend Review: March 30-31, 2019

Posted on April 2, 2019 by

A rare review post after all these months. With warmer weather, I have less inclination to read and am tempted to do walkies. Sightings, walking the west side bike path: – 3 Boosted – 1 Boosted Mini – 1 unidentified … Continue reading →

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Shot On iPhone

Posted on March 11, 2019 by

Wow. TV special effects with an iPhone! Space 9.99 Eagle transporter crashes.. iPhone 6 at 720fps 720p. In the original Space: 1999 series, this was done on 35mm with multiple passes over the Eagles against a black velvet backdrop, mapped … Continue reading →

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Xiaomi’s Folding Phone Appears For Real

Posted on January 23, 2019 by

Twitter: See the video after the break.

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Wall Street Journal Goes Silly On Apple’s Future

Posted on January 11, 2019 by

Polaroid. Walkman. Palm Pilot. iPhone? If history is any indication, though, America’s favorite handheld device will someday take up residence with the digital camera, the calculator, the pager, Sony’s Walkman and the Palm Pilot in a museum. Although it’s hard … Continue reading →

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Xiaomi To Topple Apple?!

Posted on January 4, 2019 by

Opened Twitter this morning to have my mind blown by @evleaks. A leaked(?) video of a Xiaomi folding phone unlike anything ever seen before. Look! It starts out looking like iPad Mini-size:

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A Video Memo To Every Damn Tech Company

Posted on December 26, 2018 by

Listen to your users, goddammit! A Video Memo To Tech Companies (Glengarry Glen Ross)

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Smartphone Commodity Usage

Posted on December 7, 2018 by

Frasier Speirs switching from iOS to Android has really stuck in my mind. Let’s review his thinking in brief: It turned out that, consistently, what I did with my phone was exactly this, in order of screen time: Twitter iMessage … Continue reading →

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Fraser Speirs Switches From iOS To Android

Posted on November 21, 2018 by

He’s written so much about iOS that this revelation is rather jarring! On Switching from iOS to Android It turned out that, consistently, what I did with my phone was exactly this, in order of screen time: Twitter iMessage YouTube … Continue reading →

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iPhones Are Hard To Use (Other Phones Are Even Worse!)

Posted on October 23, 2018 by

iPhones are hard to use I once wrote a user manual for a handheld engine-diagnostics module for Daewoo cars. I know “hard to use” when I see it. iPhones are hard to use. Yow! He goes on from there to … Continue reading →

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