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New phone and it’s another Android

New phone and it’s another Android

After 2 months of using an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S3) as my work device I’ve also made the switch to Android with my personal phone, a HTC One. I think the HTC One will resolve the issues I had with the S3, namely the camera quality, the low quality feel and it’s poor SD card usage. (Maybe I had a bad SD card, either way it was not reliable!) I still hold out hope …

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Android comes of age. (For me)

Android comes of age. (For me)

For a few weeks now I’ve been using an Android device (Samsung Galaxy S3) and I see no reason to return to my old iPhone 5 anytime soon. I’ve tried android a number of times in the past (From Android 1.something onwards) but always returned to the better experience (Hardware & Software) of my iPhone very quickly, this time I feel I will not be returning to the current line of iPhones or iOS in …

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Forecast.io – Great weather info for free

Forecast.io – Great weather info for free

What is it with us Brits and our fascination with the weather? Came across a superb HTML5 App that looks great on mobile devices as well as your PC. Head to http://forecast.io on any device (Visit on an iOS device gets you to download a cool shortcut) and wonder at the splendid web app. Simple, beautiful and free!

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Logitech iPad Mini keyboard, oh dear!

Logitech iPad Mini keyboard, oh dear!

  I ordered one of these when I first saw the press pictures released by Logitech a few months ago, I thought it was a handsome product that would compliment my iPad as a travel blogging device. I was wrong…. It’s small, so small in fact within a few seconds on trying to use it my hand started cramping up! It was so uncomfortable to use and actually even worse than using the on screen …

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To Jailbreak land and back again..

To Jailbreak land and back again..

A few weeks ago I Jailbroke my iPhone 5, the latest in a long line of iPhones I’ve jailbroken over the years. I lasted 5 days in this Jailbroken state, I reinstalled stock 6.1 within a week. You see, one Jailbreak library update and my phone was left in a non bootable state. Hacking your phone can be a ruthless master. I was thinking of returning to stock already and this failure just made my …

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