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 [...]
Let’s cut to the chase, I’m still not impressed. The apps load fast and the rendering is great. It is, as advertised, a “magic” device that’s not a computer, starts up quick and connects if there’s an app for it. But this is a toy, not a tool. The very pro-Apple-drinking Kool Aid guy who provided me the demo admitted that the iPad is not a good device for taking to a meeting to take notes and syncing with Exchange. [...]
