Recent content by ericbergan

Get Better Battery Stats (it's $3). Let it run for awhile, and check the two wakeup sections. Those will tell you what is making the system wake up and do work, consuming the battery.

Why would the phone vendor want to update the software on their phone? It's not going to generate any more money for them, in fact, they want to encourage you to buy a new phone with the latest software/goodies on it. Why would the carrier want to update the software on your phone? It's not...

I didn't say force, I said incent - i.e. pay them, give them a piece of the ad revenue, give them early access to future updates versus their compeitors, whatever. Otherwise, there is no reason for Motorola, Verizon, Samsung, AT&T, etc. to push and support updates. It's a lot of cost to them and...

I disagree, I think it is almost entirely Google's issue. Who has anything to gain by existing hw getting upgraded? Certainly not Moto or Verizon (or Samsung, AT&T, HTC, ...) The company that has something to gain is Google, who is in a fight with Apple and MS, and wants to keep customers on the...

Actually, this is part of the problem. Google acts like they just throw it over the wall to other vendors to deal with, whether its distribution, support, patent issues, etc. But in the real world, customers want to buy a finished product, and don't care who is responsible for what. If Google...

My Xoom came back today, linked up to LTE quickly, blazing speed! Only strangeness was that while all my apps were there, all my widgets are gone from my home screens - anyone else see this? Of course, that is the one thing I didn't take notes on when I sent it in. Anyone know if there might be...

I don't think Google grok's color calibration yet, considering Picasa client, Picasa online, and Chrome all treat it (or ignore it) differently. So I'd be pretty surprised if Honeycomb has all the right hooks built into the video driver to adjust primaries, get the grey scale ramp correct...

My wife's xoom had the same problem with words with friends, and she hasn't installed anything for some time. We were able to work around it by side loading the .apk. Seems to be working now (at least, she's able to continue her games in progress.) Similar issue with Skype - they released a...