Being based in the EU at the moment, I finally got my iPad yesterday and have now spent some quality time with it the last 32 hours. First impression has been extremely good even if it did not take long to figure out what the iPad 2.0 will need to provide.
I’m sure that if someone is able to make the tablet PC a viable product category Apple is the company to do it (first). Still, without knowing the intended positioning at Apple they have succeeded to create a device that is perfect for the my-lap-internet-computer-used-in-the coach-in-front-of-the-TV and I-love-to-read-the-morning-newspaper-without-6sqft-of-empty-space-around-me use cases. It is brilliant for that, and I’m glad to see that we can finally start to enjoying a very pleasant digital magazine reading experience.
Anyway, to expand the use cases, I suggest Apple do the following simple improvements.
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Mattias Digital media, MID, Mobile iPad, review
I just upgraded my HTC Hero Android phone to the new Nexus One (N1) from Google. First impressions are really great, and there are plenty of in depth reviews out there so I won’t cover that part. On the other hand, what I wanted to do was to transfer all my SMS text messages, the call logs and the access points (APNs) from the Hero to my new N1. Unfortunately, Google has upgraded the format of Android’s SMS storage as the Hero is running Android 1.5 while the N1 one is on v.2.1, so just creating a backup on the Hero and restoring the messages on the N1 was not possible without some tweaks. So far, this has been tested only for HTC Hero to Nexus One, but I’m sure other < v.2.0 Android phones can use the same process.
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Mattias Mobile, Tutorials, android android, backup, migrate, restore, SMS
As we all know, Google launched its first smart phone on January 5th, 2010. Luckily for people living in the US, UK, Hong Kong or Singapore, you can order it directly from Google from their web store. For the rest of us, we are either forced to wait for a change in their shipping policy or work our way around this. In a global Internet world, anything is possible. Here is the easy guide how to get the phone to your own doorsteps within a few days, I’m waiting for mine to arrive as I’m writing this.
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Mattias Mobile, Tutorials android, Google, nexus one, order, phone
The new HTC Hero, crowned the best Android based smart phone on the market so far, has been getting quite some attention in the press lately. Unfortunately, many of the initial in-depth reviews and early adopters were complaining about occasional sluggishness of the UI. Otherwise, the verdicts were great for the HTC Hero and it has really been catching up on the iPhone user experience wise with the bonus of multi tasking and running apps in the background.
Anyway, below I’ve summarized a few simple tweaks that you can do to minimize the reported unwanted performance issues and enjoy the new HTC Sense UI even more.
UPDATE 2009-Nov-09: Thanks to a very active and bright open source & HTC Hero hacking community, this post has been heavily shortened linking to new boosting methods resulting in amazing speed improvements.
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Mattias Mobile android, firmware, HTC Hero, MoDaCo, performance, user experience
Being based in the EU at the moment, I finally got my iPad yesterday and have now spent some quality time with it the last 32 hours. First impression has been extremely good even if it did not take long to figure out what the iPad 2.0 will need to provide.
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