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Consider this your cell phone edumacation of the day.
When you talk about an iPhone, you're talking about:
one hardware set + one software os + at&t = singular user experience.
When you talk about an Android phone (with its hundreds of models), this is what you mean:
different hardware + different software developed by different manufacturers + different wireless networks = varied user experiences.
Did you know that? If not, please try to never forget. Etch it into your mind like Moses and his stone.
So when you ask for recommendations ("Should I get an iphone or an android?"), you're seriously making me want to punch little biblical puppies. There is no phone called "android". No one who has the definitive android phone. Well, I could argue that I have it (Nexus One), BUT I DON'T.
It's because I don't drive myself bananas by trying to answer your question. I just keep it pent up until I take it out on you readers who aren't even in the market for a phone. Blame your friends.
Look, I'm not one to judge...no, wait, I do judge, but I'm also a hypocrite because I'm trying to use Twitter more for absolutely no reason. I just think you should know what I'm doing and you should know it often. It's not like I'm snapping photos of every damn thing in front of me and posting it on Facebook. Jesus, people. You know who you are.
Well, not until I get a smartphone, anyway. I have my beady eyes on the Nexus One (i.e., Google Phone), but damn Google and/or T-Mobile for making it impossible for Family plan customers to upgrade. There's actually a work-around that I found on the interwebs, but I don't like work-arounds very much. I like things handed to me on a silver platter.
...which brings me to my point! Just kidding, I don't have a point to this. I'm just bored because I set my laptop ac adapter on fire this morning so I can't use it to build a new website that currently top-secret but will soon be something I can't stop talking about. How exactly am I posting this pointless post, then? It's the craziest thing: I don't know.
This will be my 3rd ac adapter for the same laptop, although only the first that I've destroyed by flame. Oh yeah, I was talking about the Nexus One and how much I want it. I never got into the iPhone and I don't even use my current dumb phone all that much. But I can only charge it in the car nowadays and the battery doesn't hold its juice so I need a new one. Why not get the newest new one there is?
I actually have other superficial reasons for wanting it, including the built-in GPS app. Even though my inner compass is freaking amazing and always spot-on, it doesn't come with an updated map so this GPS unit would be handy for traveling. I've also been in the market for a small pocket camera and this would fit the bill. And that's all the reasons I have. I'll get it soon when Google comes to its senses and actually wants to sell the phone to more than a few thousand people instead of just telling themselves how great they are.
No, seriously, don't. There's a mess of Yens and Tangs out there in every combination. It'll just make you dizzy. There's one search result that's kinda cool, though: the town of Yen-Tang in Vietnam. Hillary Clinton visited there a few years ago and maybe that's why I feel some cosmic connection with her and voted for her more times than technically possible. Don't ask me what that means. You don't want to be implicated.
So what I really mean to say is Google + me. Yes, we're becoming one. I didn't see it coming and that's probably how they planned it, but it's happening. I use tons of their apps for work and personal use, including Gmail, Analytics, Docs, Maps, etc. But I've been resisting Chrome (browser) for a while now because I didn't want to depend on Google for everything in my life. Well, they've broken me because I'm using and I like it, but I also hate it for making me like it. It's true, I'm a complex, complex person.
Chrome is recommended for weak-ass netbooks of which I have one. It's just faster and each tab is isolated from the others so when something gets frozen, you can just close the tab and not the entire browser. Genius. Damn genius.
I know Google's taking over the world, one app at a time. I know I'm helping and I should care before us humans become a Googlized application ourselves, but honestly, it's probably too late. Just sit back and let Google run your life. See how well it's running mine? And don't you want to be just like me?
I thought so...
PSA Alert: This is going to be worthless for anyone who either doesn't use the T-Mobile myFaves service plan or is smarter than me (shut up, it's not that many people).
If you agree with the following statements:
- I would like to assign different ringtones for each myFave contact.
- I tried setting the ringtones through Phonebook > Contact list, but it still keeps playing that damn default jingle.
- I don't have the myFaves display showing on the main screen.
Well, you can stop pulling out your hair. Here's the solution:
- Go to Settings > MyFaves settings > Show display.
- Back out to the main screen.
- Press the OK button.
- Press the Options (soft left key) button.
- Select Edit Profile.
- Scroll down 4 fields and press OK.
- The ringtone can be set here.
- Remember to Save.
- Repeat for each myFave contact.
- (Optional) Return to Settings > MyFaves settings > Hide Display.
If you go to the Phonebook > Contact list, the ringtone selection won't have changed. That's because it's aggravating and makes zero sense. What's the point of having two places to change ringtones, but only one place that works? No point, that's what.
It's possible that everyone in the world under 25 has already figured this out and given me a collective "Duh". I can accept that.