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Comment on Root Down – Pondering If I Root My Samsung Moment by Chia

Chia — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:38:10 +0000

I never did root it. I ended up getting an HTC Evo (I still need to write about the drastic improvement from going to the Evo after the Moment) and then just recently got an iPhone. It may be worth rooting now though so I can have my mobile modem again now that I have an iPhone and I don’t feel like jailbreaking that just yet.

Comment on Root Down – Pondering If I Root My Samsung Moment by JD

JD — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:30:37 +0000

Did you do it? I owned my Samsung Captivate for about three days before I rooted it and started flashing custom ROMs. I needed Skype on the phone and it wasn’t supported on 2.2 devices. Easy decision… mojo is right, XDA developers is an excellent resource.

That being said, I have since purchased the Google Nexus S, and I have no desire to root it because it runs great and is currently not lacking anything that I want. It was always fun loading a new ROM to see what cool stuff it contained, but some of them have stability issues, and GPS functionality varies greatly among the different ROMs.

Comment on Root Down – Pondering If I Root My Samsung Moment by mojo

mojo — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:35:48 +0000

I feel your pain as my wife has the same phone, Ive offered to root and even buy a used EVO off Craigslist, but she likes the Moments . Crazy I know but she too has another year on her contract. Ive rooted every phone Ive owned including the EVO and its not as hard as it seems. XDA developers forum is a huge resource. Good luck

Comment on Android – It’s Good In Theory by Fake Charles Ellmaker

Fake Charles Ellmaker — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:36:48 +0000

I haven’t touched an Android phone yet, but the uptake suggests it will have legs even as it has growing/refinement pains.

My guess is that Google is about to do a jiujitsu move and create some sort of seamless backup and update mechanism that, slowly, will be adopted by the set manufacturers. (I’m assuming from your update comment that this doesn’t yet exist.)

The iPhone also suffers, to some extent from update lock-out, although Apple has wisely done this elegantly, allowing the parts of the updated OS that are not dependent on new hardware to upgrade while leaving out any hardware-dependent features.

Apparently the Japanese are finally tweaking to the fact that their groovy phones are not portable and are climbing on the Android bandwagon: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/business/global/03android.html

Comment on Samsung Moment Update – Part 2 by jwill212

jwill212 — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:30:19 +0000

Does anybody know what specs the 2.1 update have or what bugs it is supposed to fix?

Comment on Is Google’s Android The Next Big Thing? by Dr. W

Dr. W — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:17:56 +0000

The biggest plus on Android’s side is, undoubtedly, #1. AT&T as the only option is suffocating to people who want choices. And just looking at the number of apps for the iPhone, those of us who have an iPhone want choices.

What little I’ve seen of Android’s marketing is pretty bad. There is this huge billboard on my commute that says, “In a world full of doesn’t, Droid does.” Blah. I don’t think it is sexy enough, in fact, the marketing is violent rather than sexy. The iPhone is sexy, but Apple needs to remind us how sexy the iPhone is.

In looking at Google’s marketing effort, I would say their target demo is computer literate people who play MMORPGs (hence the violent ads) and want to write their own apps (Droid does). That’s a small, but not insubstantial market.

Apple has sort of left that demo out as they have gone mainstream with the iPhone, and their return to marketing the nano with video is a strange move.

Comment on Is Google’s Android The Next Big Thing? by Chia

Chia — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:41:45 +0000

You do present a good case Mr. Egg for creating apps on the iPhone rather than for Android. Something I thought about but may not have said was that Android’s app selection is already larger than the Palm Pre’s so you could use that same argument in favor of Android over the Pre. Also, one train of thought would be that developers may think the iPhone market is already saturated and that there is no room for any cool new apps (however, I disagree with that notion…if you’ve got a good app, you’ve got a good app).

Comment on Is Google’s Android The Next Big Thing? by Egg

Egg — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:31:18 +0000

As a developer, I have an problem with your #3 reason. I want to develop for the iPhone because it has a large customer base. I’d much rather spend sleepless nights debugging tricky code on the iPhone than spending sleepless nights wondering how I can market my app to a tiny Android user base.

Comment on Two Schools of Thought for Entrepreneurs by felix kisoi

felix kisoi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:03:00 +0000

good ideas its a clear indication that you have a great mind.congrats!!!!!!.

Comment on Palm’s Pre is Great But… by Erik Schmidt

Erik Schmidt — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:15:56 +0000

My guess is that Palm erred in favor of showing everyone that they had a game plan. Palm has been on the ropes for a while, and their showing off the Pre ahead of time was likely as much about assuaging the market as it was about product rollout.

I’m also not sure the iPhone 3.0 software and iPhone 3Gs hardware were much influenced by the impending arrival of the Pre. Apple has been working continuously on the iPhone for years now, incrementally adding more capabilities.

Actually I think the real battle here is for #2: Palm v. Blackberry. If Palm can get developers in their corner, they may be able to steal some Blackberry marketshare.

Palm’s Pre SDK appears too limited to steal any developer mindshare away from the iPhone. No sophisticated apps = no chance of toppling the iPhone.