Recent content by Astrodroid

Hi Elise. I will offer you some advice below that you probably don't need, just since I don't know enough to give more technical answers. But since there are other people here who might be able to answer with higher level info, it would help if you let us know if you are running your phone in...

Obsolete is in the eye of the beholder. Any phone released in March 2011 is already obsolete by some people's standards (specifically spec-chasing smartphone nerds). But it's not like it won't keep working and working well. Gingerbread was the holy grail for a while there and just because ICS is...

I'm having this problem too running Virtuous Unity. I get an mms and it gives me the download button but it never downloads. Tried turning off wifi and it still won't do it. Just says "downloading..." but never does. Last night I got error messages twice after it tried for a while. Today...

Re: how can I find out which app is pushing ads to my notificatio Don't know what yours is but I was having a sort of browser hijack happen about every two weeks, which would start me off on a spammy site. I flashed a new ROM and now it doesn't happen. It also killed a permanent Verizon banner...

My 60something mom wants a smartphone. She saw the X2 rated very well in almost every category in Consumer Reports. I like that it has a big screen, is thin, and doesn't have the 4G battery life downside. Her main stumbling blocks with any smartphone will be that she can't read small print...

Holy crap! I had invented and visualized this thing in my mind and now here it is! Seriously, I thought of something just like this. I thought the Windows Phone home screen idea was actually a good answer to the confusion about where various things are and what their status is. Thank you!

I'm heading into almost the exact same situation as you. My 64 year old mom wants a smartphone. I'm tempted to tell her to get an iPhone because I think it will be simpler and present fewer complications, errors, dud apps, etc. But I want to be able to help her and I drive a Dinc2. Plus I think...

Other questions already addressed, but I'll comment on the camera. I was on a trip recently and ran out of space on my old camera's SD cards. I had forgotten all about my phone's camera because I'm trained to think that cellphone cameras are bad after carrying a Palm Treo for four years. I...

I wouldn't get any of the first wave of 4G phones. You know how it is, first out the gate, working out the kinks. And the second wave isn't even out yet. So you're looking at a while before the second wave drops in price. Will the Dinc 2 last you 21 months? I'm sure it will. Will you wish you...

The battery on this phone is good enough that you don't have to think about it. That's the definition of success in my book. Some things obviously will kill it, like Navigation, but on an average-use day I never think about my battery at all and just plug it in at night. I had a Thunderbolt...

Recently my Huffington Post app started having a permanent red Verizon banner ad at the bottom of every page as an overlay, blocking part of the screen. It stays stationary while I scroll. Formerly there was no ad there. And it seems weird that it's always the same red Verizon banner and not...

Recently there started being a permanent red Verizon banner ad at the bottom of my Huffington Post app. Formerly it was not there. Anybody else get this or know how to get rid of it? Why would it be just this app and just the same Verizon banner ad every time? It started right around the time I...

Re: Is it Verizon or an app hijacking my browser to push sites at No, I don't have a second window open and this is not the home page. I remember back in the late 90s, sometimes a hijacker would reset your homepage on your desktop computer to something else so that you saw their site whenever...

This morning for the second time, I woke up to an ad on my browser, or rather my browser tuned to a random promotional site that was clearly an ad push by somebody. I hadn't been using the browser when I went to sleep and certainly hadn't been on visitmyrtlebeach.com, which was what was on my...

Nah. I only buy when I've got an upgrade and if my current phone isn't cutting it, so I'll see what's available next summer or so.