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Android for Work program announced
We’ve all been doing it, to the dismay to some of our bosses: Employees have long been bringing their own devices to work, reading corporate mail on the same phone that also is used to run their favorite games, snap their family photos and browse the web at large. Now, Google wants to legitimize BYOD, […]
Chapter 8 – Android OS on Modern Hardware
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’ve traded in my Motorola Atrix 4G for a Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. The Atrix 4G is a 4 year-old Android phone with an interesting design that included a dual-core CPU, fingerprint reader, […]
Chapter 7 – Switching Gears
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’ve spent the past two weeks with a 4 year-old Motorola Atrix 4G phone instead of my almost-latest-and-greatest iPhone 5. I started using an iPhone in 2011, about the same time the Atrix […]
Episode 6 – Messaging
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. If you search for the phrase “Can’t receive picture text messages” on the web you’ll find a ton of pages – about 9,000,000, according to Google. I ran into that problem this morning […]
Episode 5 – Notifications
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. It took iOS several iterations to get notifications right. When I first moved from a Blackberry to iPhone, there were several instances where my iPhone alarm didn’t go off because I’d received a […]
Episode 4 – Gingerbread
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’m trying to do a fair comparison between my year-old iPhone 5 and an Android phone, but a disclaimer would be appropriate — my Android phone is almost 4 years old. I didn’t […]
Episode 3 – Sync
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. Being able to bring my contacts, calendar items, notes and tasks into my phone is what makes it a Smart Phone. Android uses ActiveSync to connect to Exchange mail servers, and the capabilities […]
Episode 2 – Hardware Standards
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. The first step to getting my phone up and running was to move the SIM card from my iPhone to my Android phone. My iPhone uses a Nano-SIM, while the Android phone takes […]
Episode 1 – Making the Switch to Android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’ve been an iPhone user for several years. I like Apple’s application support, and I’ve learned to work around the quirks in iTunes, the quirky support for Outlook connectivity and ActiveSync, and quirks […]
