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Chapter 10 – All In With Google
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. The Google Play store has over a million apps available for download, and there are other Android app stores available. There’s no limiting you to one store, as with the iPhone. Trying to find […]
Chapter 9 – Secure Android Messaging
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. Now that I’ve upgraded to a newer Android phone, I’m testing out secure messaging applications for mobile devices. Open Whisper Systems make two products I’m trying out – TextSecure and RedPhone. They offer […]
A $35 computer that could change the world…
Barring a significant change in course, history tells us that the computers of tomorrow will be faster, smaller, better and cheaper than the computers of today. We began with warehouse-sized machines that were barely capable of basic algebra, and we’ve arrived at the Raspberry Pi. For those unfamiliar with the term, it’s a full-fledged computer […]
Moto E Review – a nice cheap Android phone?
I’m looking for a cheap 4-inch android phone with a newer OS, expansion, and decent hardware. There’s a ton of no-name import quad-band phones out there, but when digging deeper into the specifications, find out it’s got a 2 megapixel camera. Or it’s 3G only. Or it’s all plastic. I read this review of the […]
Dear FCC: Rethink The Vague “General Conduct” Rule
For many months, EFF has been working with a broad coalition of advocates to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to adopt new Open Internet rules that would survive legal scrutiny and actually help protect the Open Internet. Our message has been clear from the beginning: the FCC has a role to play, but its role […]
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 […]
