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| author | Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de> |
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| date | Fri, 28 Jun 2013 08:48:58 +0200 |
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| 1 Title: The future is here | |
| 2 Date: 2011-03-12 | |
| 3 Lang: en | |
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| 5 I was resisting the temptations of modern Smartphones for quite some time now. My first impression was that all these devices are toys and/or giant data leaks. | |
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| 7 Then my wife got herself an iPhone and by playing around with it I learned two things: | |
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| 9 1. a smartphone for me will not be an iPhone. Some features like the auto-capitalization in the web brower's form editor is just annoying when filling out e.g. login fields. | |
| 10 1. this thing is actually useful! We went on a couple of trips and used [Skobbler](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id370144231?mt=8) to navigate. My wife even uses Skype on the iPhone now and we can finally chat even when she's at work. | |
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| 12 Then I was out on the road for a couple of trips and I ran into quite a few situations where a smartphone would have been quite handy. So I got interested and browsed around for a model for me. It became clear very quickly that Android is the platform for me: tinker friendly and open. Hey, I might even start to do hack together my first Android app ... | |
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| 14 Shopping around on eBay I found a Samsung Galaxy i9000 S for a reasonable price. It took very long until it arrived - I suppose that was mostly because once I made the decision to go for a device I just could not wait to get my hands on it. | |
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| 16 So it arrived yesterday. And I'm playing around with it now. Stay tuned I'll be blogging more about my experiences with the device as I go. |