Archive for category Android

Thoughts on Smartphone Landscape

Here are my thoughts about the smartphone market intertwined with my own device history.

For many years, I was a loyal Palm user, having started with the Palm Pro (1997) and going from that to the Palm III (1999) -> IIIxe (2001) -> Kyocera 6035 (smart phone) (2004) -> Treo 600 (2003) -> Treo 650 (2005) and then finally the Treo 700 (2007). I kept the Treo 700, even though it was dying and I was out of contract on Sprint because I was waiting for Sprint to release an Android phone and to see what the next iPhone would be like. I had also heard about the upcoming Palm Pre on Sprint and was interested in it. Read the rest of this entry »

Android Multi-tasking is a Double-edged Sword

Verizon has sent a memo to each of their stores to advise DROID owners to download and install Advanced Task Killer. This program performs the same function as the  Task Manager in Windows, allowing the user to see and kill processes or programs that are running on the device. The reason why Verizon is pushing this program is due to reports from DROID users about poor batter life. Read the rest of this entry »