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Thread inspired by the following two posts in "The all-new US Politics and coronavirus thread pt. 2" As for being "wedded" to to my seven year old phone: It works! It makes and receives calls. The MP3 player (which I use for podcasts) works. GPS works. The camera and the barcode reader app...

I've continued to carry around an ipod with manual syncs to an itunes system for all sorts of reasons. But with some computer changes, I'm trying to move off it to an android phone. podcasts aren't too bad. I like most of what AntennaPod does, so that's satisfactory. On the music side, I'd...

Between commute and travel, I needed FAR more space then a iPhone could provide so I bought into Andriod, popped in a 256GB chip loaded with my music library (about 12,000 songs so far), movies, etc. For the longest time I simply used the stock player that came with my phone, which was fine...

Maybe a new consolidated thread now that the even is over, and the new phone and OS are out ? Here is some bad update news: http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/24/6839235/apple-ios-8-0-1-released Apple releases iOS 8.0.1, users report major problems with update Apparently breaking touchid and cell...

A friend has recommended the following to me as a good value for the price. He bought the 4.3" version and has been very happy with it. http://tinyurl.com/pcwqm7w Any opinions, or more important, any experience with this brand would be most appreciated. xterra

Tech giants at work, stifling innovation and finding ways to siphon money without producing anything of value... http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+and+Microsoft+Expand+Patent+Trolling+Sue+TWC+Cisco+via+Subsidiary/article33987c.htm

On my Samsung Galaxy Y, the desktop icons have have text underneath them. There's a few problems with this: 1. It's redundant, I know what the icons do 2. The text has a crappy dark oval background 3. For some icons, the text is too big for the background and cuts off I used ADWLauncher to...

In the realm of smart phones and tablets, the two biggest players right now are Google and Apple, with Android and iOS operating systems respectively. Since we already have a thread going about why apple is so fantastic, I thought maybe we should have a similar thread about why android is so...

With the desktop PC getting replaced by tablets, and smart-phones, one thing has become abundantly clear - the near absence of Microsoft Windows in this exploding sector. Even Apple is losing ground in the tablet market, mostly to Android(a form of Linux) tablets. Android is already on over 50%...

Noticed this on redmondpie, by way of TUAW: Waterproofing treatment for phones It reeks of woo, but they aren't making quite as bold a claim as it seems at first glance, and while I can think of ways to fake such a service and make money from it, I'd like to know if anyone here has heard of...

If someone were going to buy a tablet other than an iPad, which one would you recommend? Thanks!

So my 8 year old phone just died, and I'm interested in finally getting a smart phone. But my situation is a little unusual in that: I work from home, so I almost never need a phone aside from my landline. My house is surrounded by trees, so I generally can't get a signal from home anyway...

Adobe is going to stop rolling out flash for mobile browsers, and instead concentrate on HTML 5 and platforms for creating mobile apps via AIR. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/exclusive-adobe-ceases-development-on-mobile-browser-flash-refocuses-efforts-on-html5-updated/19226 More from Adobe...

I am usually quite capable of inspiring myself to do stuff in the field of software development, but in this case, for the first time ever, I figured I would mine some of you folks for ideas. Over the past few days, I have re-familiarized myself with Java and Eclipse, and familiarized myself...