Recent content by jojen

I only use it to send text, make calls or navigate to places while driving. Any other time I just type

Agreed. I actually get a better overall rating of a phone on forums than I do reading the customer ratings on smartphone retailer websites. I especially pay close attention to XDA as well. If any techie community can uncover and pinpoint problems, they can.

There's also a really nice new app I've started using because all of the older well known ones haven't figured out we're not on gingerbread anymore. It's called Car Dashdroid

Are you talking about a car mode for Bluetooth etc or an app that has a car interface UI like the old carmode app that used to be part of android?

Re: Why you choose Android? Pretty small list nowadays. When I first decided on Android it was because of the ROM scene which I haven't done for years, and a lot of capabilities iOS was missing until lately. Now I basically stick with android because I prefer the file management and ability to...

Both of the Spring heavy hitters are disappointing for battery life. I seems I will be buying from a Fall release manufacturer like I did the last 2 times.

It is sad. ART ended up not living up to expectations as far as performance goes. Android is still behind iOS and (lol)WP8 in OS responsiveness. Not by much but it is. There's only so far you can take a linux based OS and I daresay we've reached that plateau judging by 3 major attempts (JB, KK...

It does persist. 5.1 was supposed to address two major Lollipop bugs in 5.01 and 5.02. The first is a memory leak bug that affects performance by not returning memory after leaving apps that consume a lot of it which affects performance. The second is that All About Android hosts also mentioned...

Apple may have changed their minds. They've posted a total of 9 job listings related to battery life so I expect the 6s to have something happening in that regard this Sept.

I hate the bulk of Otterbox cases, I always use something with a slim profile like Incipio. Basically it's more scratch than drop protection but I've never had a breakage from dropping so I'll continue to take my chances. Around 3 of those years have been with phones that have had glass...

Use of 3rd party launchers doesn't factor into my phone buying at all because basically the only one I can stand to use for a long period of time is Nova, and if something ever happened to Nova and I bought a device based on using it, that wouldn't leave me in a good place.

I've been saying this ever since Google started trying to address it in JB. A google search is inferior to the real thing. I've had androids and iPhones under the same roof for two years now and while I agree that no OS is totally free of stutter, the difference is easily noticeable. It's...

The problem is you'll get as many different reports from "real users" as there are users so they're not as reliable as in depth side by side tests by respectable tech news outlets. When a site like Anandtech tells me it's above the 2014/2015 flagship average I'll pay attention. For the record, I...

How's the music player? I love the Walkman app the Xperia phones have, it's in my opinion the best built in music player of any android brand. Is it comparable?

GNL is still more resource hungry than Nova, better off with Nova. I get the impression google really doesn't care much about the development of GNL so I wouldn't expect much in terms of improvements. It seems to be more like a side project they let a couple of engineers slap together during...