Quite a few Android phones now feature NFC, or Near Field Communications. That technology is employed as a feature called Android Beam. It’s über handy. Well, for most things it’s über handy.
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Recently, disaster befell my Galaxy Note II phone. The MicroSD card died. I’d never had that happen before, but the 16GB card was kaput. Along with that misfortune was the loss of every picture on the MicroSD card — including the final shots of my son leaving for college. Gone.
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Mobile devices are not computers. They’re dissemination gizmos, designed to use data but not necessarily create it. That’s a pretty fat line, however, and it gets crossed frequently as people try to stay current and mobile at the same time.
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Quite a few mobile devices come with a SIM card. It’s not a memory card, although the thing does have a few memory-card-like features. Still, it’s nothing to get excited about.
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Smartphones and tablets are really the next generation of computer. While it took them less time to find their niche than the microcomputers and PCs of the early 1980s, a step in that evolution is missing. That’s the ability to program your mobile device.
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Android dictation takes a major leap forward with the Jelly Bean version of the mobile operating system. It’s realtime and almost flawless.
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Where are the huge tablets? Trust me, they’re coming! Tablets may be popular today in the 7- to 10-inch size range, but eventually I see huge tablets appearing on the market. That will be a great choice for people who have trouble seeing a tablet’s tiny text. Until then, you can adjust text size on your tablet to something more readable. It’s cinchy.
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My Droid Bionic, which I loathed and wrote about here, finally died. It just kept turning off and on, starting at about 3:00 AM. Finally, I yanked the battery, and vowed to head to the Verizon store to get a replacement.
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Maybe you know this tidbit, maybe you don’t, but most websites have a split personality.
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The whole version thing has really become obsessive. Even in the old days, before versions were given cute nicknames (thank you, Apple), people were aware of which software version they had. Today it’s become obnoxious.
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