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Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… The Dads have now discovered that Schultzter has been living in the second floor Kitchen and Bathroom showrooms of Home Depot rather than finishing his home renovations. This week they talk a little more about Google Buzz, Crossing the Social Streams and the 2010 [...]  Evernote for the Android One of the perks of being the resident geek, is every once in a while a new smart phones lands on your desk and your asked to review it and give it your honest opinion. Just before Christmas , my bosses gave the gift of an Android. In fact Samsung had launched their HSPA capable Galaxy on the Bell network so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to put the BlackBerry Storm in the drawer for a couple of weeks and rely solely on some Google Goodness. In this second part of my review, I will talk a little less about the Great Google in the Cloud and more about using the actual device itself. Where did I see that the other day? Oh right, nowhere. Although…. When we bought our MacBook Pro last February the Apple experience was brand new to us (minus some iPod exposure). The battery lasted close to four hours on a charge and the majority of my time was spent in configuring the machine for both my setup and my wife’s preferences (those that know us are familiar with our gMail vs Yahoo! discussions). In doing so, I eventually set up two separate user profiles, and a couple of admin accounts. Soon after, I noticed that the battery life was diminishing, somewhere under the three hour mark, and eventually in the neighbourhood of two hours. The balance of the year went by without much incident, if you don’t count the Blackberry syncing issues we had with my wife’s Pearl (see my post “Maybe now we can actually sync a Blackberry with a Mac?“). In the last few weeks, our laptop started to have random shutdowns. At first I thought it was a thermal issue, but it even happened while the Mac was sitting on a flat cool surface. This also never happened while plugged. So after some further analysis, I concluded that the shutdowns only happened when unplugged, and usually in or around the 40% charge mark.
Just as I was putting my finishing touches on my already overdue Samsung Galaxy review, a little bird told me that Bell and BlackBerry had quietly released the long-awaited OS 5.0 for the BlackBerry Storm 9530. Now other devices also got the 5.0 nod, but since I use a Storm daily for work, this is the one I’ve been waiting for and have been particularly waiting for. I updated to 4.7 a while back and this took care of a few touch screen niggles of including a much easier cursor movement while editing text. You can read more about that here in my last review. So what is the big about this latest operating system release? Did they magically turn the BlackBerry into the iPhone killer they were touting it as a few years back? Better yet, have they finally stopped building the platform on Java? Continue reading BlackBerry Release OS 5.0 for the Storm on Bell |
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mtl_steve : @nantel has Montreal also discontinued use of buggy whips? Viva west island!
claurin : @JohnnyCanuck The Hymus will be added to the tour schedule.
JohnnyCanuck : @claurin lol Sure but we can't leave the Hymus off of the community centre tour. Maybe we can even get @scorbett22 to sit on a bouclier
schultzter : I just had to "break up a fight" between my daughter's two feet - she insists it was not her fault but they're keeping her awake!
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