Android phones, apps and tablets

I'd of thought Steven Fry would much more like a bit of Project Butter...

^ Homophobe...

Before any other twat thinks I am.

^Gay.

^ Gay with frickin' lasers...

Ha. Just installed newest Cyanogen Mod on my Arc S, tried to get the verification code for my google account, but it wouldn't show up (it did after I'd got it installed), slight WTF moment :/
Am thinking of doing the same on my Arc S. How is it?

ok i'm not techie at all. just got gaxaxy s2 -- if its off it doesnt "wake up" to do alarm? why?!? that is something blackberry even does. am i missing something?
its gobbling battery like mad too. I cant have a phone that won't survive 24hrs without charge, that's mad.

Welcome to the wonderful juice-sapping world of Android smartphones, Jacqui...

That's standard with smartphones- Blackberry are a relic of a less power intensive time, I have fond memories of mine lasting days whereas my iPhone 4S will die by 4pm unless charged.

My Galaxy Note is better, but thats got a massive battery due to being the size of a desktop calculator.

Depends what "off" you mean.

If you mean, screen off. Then it should wake for alarm.

If you mean, power off. Then it will not wake for alarm.

The Blackberry doesn't actually power off unless you remove the battery. It just goes into a low power standby. Which is why it can still wake for an alarm.

And the stock S2s do use battery like nothing... mostly due to the background Samsung apps. A good way of stretching battery life is to disable WiFi when not needed and to use 2g over 3g unless you need the fast data.

Am thinking of doing the same on my Arc S. How is it?

Awesome. Lot's of lovely details - the quick reply option for SMS', the new contacts features (high res contact pics! finally!). I've been using the hacked Messaging and Calendar apps for a while, so it's great to have them properly working. Really easy to install too (as long as you don't have two step auth turned on, or have another way to access it)

And the stock S2s do use battery like nothing... mostly due to the background Samsung apps. A good way of stretching battery life is to disable WiFi when not needed and to use 2g over 3g unless you need the fast data.

You can automate a lot of these options by using JuiceDefender, which has a free version with most of those features

WiFi doesn't use much charge by itself. It drops to idle mode when not in use. It's the background apps that do the damage. Sync especially, but any app that polls for updates in the background -- Facebook, Twitter, email, etc

Sigh. Never mind. The gadget was some video eyepiece thing. Talked about bikes too. :)

Project Glass? http://www.techradar.com/news/video/project-glass-what-you-need-to-know-1078114

I haven't seen it yet. Should be on the Tivo though.

Epson Moverio BT-100 TRANSPARENT MULTIMEDIA GLASSES

Shame it only runs on 2.2!

Anyone used Sygic for navigation? Comments?

http://www.sygic.com/en/android

Boom! Just got 4.2 OTA

Nexus users, check for updates...

damn, half way through unlocking my bootloader and flashing it manually.

yeah, yeah.

Anyway seems like the factory reset made things a bit faster, and I'll be able to flash the next update (whenever that may be) straight away, so its not all a loss I guess.

Yup, just got the 4.2 update on my phone too.

To be honest, it's a pretty meh update. The security changes to gmail and the play store are very welcome though.

Lock screen messaging widget, are you fucking kidding me? The lock screen is so that shit isn't visible to whoever picks up the phone.

pokes at phone

update damn you :(

The clock is different.

And the structure of the database for the contacts. But no-one will notice that.

New clock app...

I have it on the Nexus already. I like the clock, the wife doesn't.

Depends what "off" you mean.

If you mean, screen off. Then it should wake for alarm.

If you mean, power off. Then it will not wake for alarm.

The Blackberry doesn't actually power off unless you remove the battery. It just goes into a low power standby. Which is why it can still wake for an alarm.

And the stock S2s do use battery like nothing... mostly due to the background Samsung apps. A good way of stretching battery life is to disable WiFi when not needed and to use 2g over 3g unless you need the fast data.

oh my.
thanks for the replies TS Dammit VB, its as bad as i feared.

what's so great about being tethered to needing a socket? how is this an advance... clearly I don't get it.

i want my blackberry back.

I have a new project for mircrosoft / intel / whoever makes these things..and their batteries.