Problems of both Android ICS and iOS 5

Personally I haven’t tried Android before but there’s probably some problems I don’t like about Android.

  1. Google can give your personal information to the court in an heartbeat.[1]
  2. Google control every aspect of your life – email, music, storage, social, voice & soon your wallet…and you won’t be surprise why google logo appeared during presidential election.[1]
  3. Too many android phones with different Android versions cause problems with security updates across all platforms [1]
  4. Too many online market places that sells apps give trojan horses malware easy access.[1]
  5. What happen if you forgets to charge your 2nd battery? [1]
  6. Did anyone test the face unlock feature with a photograph of the owner?
  7. Bigger screen or not is just a personal preference not a “advantage”.
  8. Customizability is a pain especially for tech support especially for the fragmented Android OS versions. (I know because I do tech support)
  9. Gmail, google voice, google+ and all google products IS OWN BY GOOGLE. I can’t imagine you using Apple products in your Android phones so don’t compare if the apps are badly done in iOS. (I wonder why sometimes people do that)

I’m not trying to flame google but those ARE my fears when trying to make decisions when upgrading my smart phones.

However, iOS is not without it’s own problems like

  1. Apple launched their updates at the same time across the world without consideration of causing virtual “Denial of service” by millions of iOS users trying to update at the same time. (They should stagger their release or build more robust delivery system)
  2. iMessage still not cross platform messaging app but many other iOS apps takes up the slack from Whatsapp, Line, eBuddy, Skype, fring, facebook, twitter, KakaoTalk, PingChat!, TalkBox, CloudTalk, Blipr, cnectd, Viber, Message Now and many others.
  3. The love & hate relationship with jailbreakers that both provide innovation & customizability to iOS platform but denied technical support if things fails horribly. (Do any android user get support from google from over tinkering? I am not sure..do comment)
  4. Only integrate twitter into the native support on iOS, I do hope Apple can give users the option to add other social networks like facebook, google+ and many other social bookmarking services.
  5. iCloud cost money if you want more than 5GB storage space for mail, documents, Camera Roll, account information, settings, and other app data. (However purchased music, apps, books, and TV shows, as well as your Photo Stream are not counted in that 5GB limit which is great)
  6. Photostream photographs cannot be individually deleted, it can only be totally deleted if you turn it off on both your computer (browse to iCloud.com & click on your name & reset photostream) and turn off your photostream on your iOS.

There are pros & cons on both side of the competition & I probably missed some but usually these are based solely on personal preference & cannot be used for justification for other people’s opinions. :D

iCloud tip : If you find your wireless backup to iCloud is exceeding the 5GB limit and gotten an email from Apple, try to clear some of the big video files in your camera roll first then proceed to find out what’s your largest file size applications in Settings -> General -> Usage.

There you can delete that application that you no longer use, you can always download them again in the future for free.

Ready for iPhone 2011 Event!

Yes, Apple going to talk iPhone today October 4 2011, 1 p.m. EST and I bet you want to be ready to consume all the latest updates from Apple.

Unfortunately, there seems to be no live stream from Apple directly but there probably will be lot’s of eager live bloggers trying to piece the news coverage together in their live blogs! :D

Let’s list them :D

  1. Washingtonpost – Probably text based with photographs updates :D
  2. CNET Buzz Live Blog – most likely with video of CNET personnel analyzing text & photographs release by other live blogs :D
  3. Gizmodo – Text & photograph updates!
  4. Engadget – Text & photograph updates!
  5. L.T.K Ustream.tv – Live Coverage of Apple’s Lets Talk iPhone 2011 event which is similar to CNET video streaming of people analyzing live blogs
  6. Google+ Stefan Svartling - social based live blogging on google+ platform not sure if it can last (heard have 500 comment limit) but do support!

Kindly post more in the comments below! :D

Kindle Fire Specification Review

Pros

  1. Cloud web surfing – supposedly faster loading web browser
  2. Amazon’s 18 millions of movies/songs/apps
  3. 7″ Vibrant Color IPS display
  4. Cheap $199?
  5. 14.6 ounces (Lighter than iPad 2)

Cons

  1. Only have 8GB space? OMG that’s too little!! Even thou it’s being advertised as 8GB for 80 apps plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books We all know that’s marketing talk bullshix that means you may have to managed which apps/movies/music to remove from your device daily so that you won’t find your tablet “frozen” due to lack of free space for the system to run properly.
  2. Lower Battery life – it’s not the usual 3 weeks to 2 months battery life anymore it’s 8 hours continuous reading or 7.5 hours video playback. Just remember to bring your charger.
  3. WIFI Only - seriously with only 8GB space, you can’t bring enough games with you on your travel to locations without WIFI long enough. I think 3G version can be made but not practical as the battery life will be further reduced.
  4. Amazon Silk – Cloud browser does things behind the scene caching your cookies, resizing your images automatically via Amazon Cloud. Several questions below comes about.
    - Does Amazon cloud serve people outside USA as fast?
    - Does the cloud computing cache our passwords as well?
    - Does Amazon cloud give us privacy browsing?
    - Is there an option to get bigger images toggle?
  5. No Camera – Seriously that means camera apps are not supported & no video chat.
  6. 7.5″ x 4.7″ x 0.45″ (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm) – This size is neither phone size or big enough for tablets but this in between can only favor the ladies that have small hand bags & guys with big side pockets. Well, personally the size is way too small for my comfort levels for movies watching on the move but I understand the desire for lighter in weight as holding iPad 2 for too long can be tiring.
  7. No Microphone – That means no audio input, sorry no skype, no google voice, no voice commands & no voice to text.
  8. No GPS – That means no google map, no turn by turn
  9. No Compass & gyroscope – Sorry no games using these

Overall, I think I will only recommend Amazon Fire to people staying in USA & can tolerate less apps (removing apps that uses camera, gps, gyroscope, microphone, 3G) and perfectly happy with 8 to 7.5 hours of battery life (or less if playing games).

For Apple Fans, don’t even bother with this. :D