Sitting in a meeting, taking notes with Evernote and writing a blog post in two different tabs in Firefox, I have completely forgotten that my MacBook is still sitting in my bag, untouched. This is just one of my incredible experiences with the new Motorola DROID Bionic. Its a dual-core phone with a GB of memory. It’s on Verizon’s 4G LTE network. Of course it is fast. The big draw for me, however, was always the intrigue of being able [...]
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If you have Android 2.2, you may have noticed an update to Google Voice Search. The big change is an opt-in service that allows Google to help recognize your patterns of speech. Like Dragon Naturally Speaking and other speech recognition software that have come before, you can train the speech engine – in this case Google – to recognize the nuances of your dialect or manner of speaking. If you’re not familiar with Android’s speech recognition, you speak to your [...]
Have you seen the new T-Mobile ad yet? Remember those “Hi, I’m a Mac” ads? T-Mobile is firing a shot back using the same strategy Apple had against Windows. T-Mobile’s myTouch, the latest HTC Android hotness, running Android 2.2. While there’s debate on whether T-Mobile’s 4G network is “officially” 4G or not, they’re certainly trying to both position themselves better than AT&T’s 3G service (not hard to do), while at the same time showing consumers that the iPhone isn’t the [...]
Well, its been several weeks now and I’m both impressed and disappointed with the Android upgrade. The ability to dictate to any text field is impressive. I have used this in the car with the sunroof open and lots of white noise and it rarely misses. However, when it does miss the result is quite amusing.
