Category: Thoughts

  • Six Weeks of Android 4

    I’ve been using Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.2) for about six weeks now (or is it 5?), and I’m now able to write a mini-review. The Good The system is overall much more polished than 2.x. The global user experience is surely good (but I already expressed some perplexity on the recent apps switcher button). For…

  • Aggressive Dropbox Updates?

    This morning I turned my PC on and I was cheered by a message indicating that Dropbox was being updated to a newer version, and more precisely to 1.3.35. This doesn’t happen very often, so I went to check the release notes. I found this: Even worse, 1.3.35 is not mentioned in the testing builds…

  • In-ear Headphones First Impressions

    I’ve always been skeptic about in-ear headphones, but without any direct experience. The Galaxy Nexus comes with in-ear headphones, so today I decided to give them a try while going to the office via mass transit as usual. The Good Sound quality is somewhat superior, especially when compared to my previous cheapo Creative headphones. They’re…

  • Smartphones Suddenly Turning Into Bricks

    With the possibility that RIM shuts down, or is split to pieces and sold for scrap, there is a probability greater than zero for some kind of disruption of Blackberry-related email and messaging services. This is true for all smartphone OS vendors. If one shuts down, or decides to close the business unit, our smartphones…

  • Weird Email of The (Past) Week

    Is it spam? Is it a mistake? We asked for clarification but heard nothing. Also, can you notice the faint grey background of the text? I don’t understand.