The OnePlus 3 has been on the market for a couple of months now, but finding a good case is still a chore. In order to protect my phone, I settled with getting a generic clear TPU case for the OnePlus 3 off of Amazon. The company name, Love Ying, should have been a red flag.… Continue reading The best OnePlus 3 clear case
My Moto X is working fine but over time, like all Android phones, it became slow. Instead of performing a factory reset, I decided to install CyanogenMod. For those unfamiliar, Cyanogen is a small software company that makes a fork of Android called CyanogenMod. It’s completely customizable and has a ton of innovative features not… Continue reading Installing CyanogenMod on my Moto X made me want to switch to an iPhone
I’ve always loved technology because it’s done so much to make our lives better. But when smartwatches started taking off, I was less than impressed. Even today, I do not wear a smartwatch. Instead, I wear mechanical watches, a technology that was superseded by battery-powered quartz watches and now smartwatches. For me, smartwatches don’t solve… Continue reading Why I wear a normal watch
There’s an interesting phenomenon that I noticed recently. Unlocalized Asian apps have been going viral in the United States. Users are curious enough about the apps that they're poking around blindly to figure out how things work. A few weeks ago, we saw the Chinese-made MyIdol take the US by storm. The app let users… Continue reading The mystery of Asian apps that went viral
Before this week's reveal of the Apple Watch, its designer Jony Ive famously told journalists that the Swiss watchmaking industry was "fucked." While the Appe Watch is by far the most beautiful and feature packed smartwatch to date, I don't think Swiss watchmakers are fucked at all. In fact, I don't think they're even making… Continue reading The fatal flaw of all smartwatches
The LG G Watch is far from beautiful. The watch is a sea of cheap feeling plastic and paired with a generic looking square face, it doesn't really stand out. Thankfully, it's possible to change out the stock gray rubber strap. I had a bunch of 22mm watch straps laying around and decided to experiment… Continue reading Watch straps for the LG G Watch
Finally wrote up my reasons for ditching my iPhone for a Samsung Galaxy Nexus. You can read about it here.
After hearing good things about Tiny Tower and seeing developer NimbleBit's response to Zynga ripping them off, I decided to see what all the hype was about. I had no idea what type of game Tiny Tower was but after a few minutes, I was reminded of games like We Rule and Farmville. The premise… Continue reading App of the day: Tiny Tower
I finally installed the Android SDK on my computer so I can now provide screenshots of the applications that I review. Today's pick: Astro. Astro is a file manager for Android that is very full featured and powerful. On the face of it, Astro seems like any other file manager but when you dig deeper,… Continue reading Android App Review: Astro
Apparently Cyanogen, the creator of the renown Cyanogen Mod ROM, has been slapped with a cease and desist. This pisses me off. A lot.The whole reason I went with Android as an OS was because it was infinitely open and customizable. Slapping Cyanogen with a cease and desist goes against my belief about open source… Continue reading What are you doing, Google?
...yet Google and HTC have said in the past that the Dream would not be getting the Sense UI because of "licensing issues." I don't know if anyone has noticed this but the HTC Hero recently released on Sprint has it's version of the Hero with the Sense UI with the "with Google" written on… Continue reading HTC Sense on HTC Dream Makes Sense