{"id":39,"date":"2009-03-13T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T17:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2009-03-13T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T17:25:19","slug":"new-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/13\/new-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"New Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Android<\/a>

Android G1 by Michael Oryl. This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License<\/p><\/div>\n

I have a new T-Mobile G1 running Android from Google.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s an awesome upgrade from the Sidekick II I had been using.\u00c2\u00a0 Although it still feels very “rough” around the edges, I can see a lot of reasons why it’s exciting.<\/p>\n

The architecture is pretty cool — applications are a bundle of entry points called “intents.”\u00c2\u00a0 An intent is roughly like a task:\u00c2\u00a0 make a phone call, change a ring tone, share a photo.\u00c2\u00a0 Any application can trigger an intent (within a permission system) or provide an action on an intent.<\/p>\n

The phone itself feels solid, but has some problems.\u00c2\u00a0 Battery life is terrible<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 The first day I had it, I had to recharge it 3 times.\u00c2\u00a0 Seriously.\u00c2\u00a0 Since then I’ve installed Power Manager<\/a> to keep it charged the whole (or most of the) day.\u00c2\u00a0 I paid for the application although there is a free version as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Frankly, its amazing that this phone was released with battery life this poor.<\/p>\n

The phone can be very sluggish.\u00c2\u00a0 There are two things that always need to work quickly:\u00c2\u00a0 the phone and the home screen.\u00c2\u00a0 The phone is obvious; when someone calls you, you need to be able to answer.\u00c2\u00a0 Although rare, you can’t always.\u00c2\u00a0 The home screen frequently takes 10 or more seconds to appear.\u00c2\u00a0 Since that’s how you launch applications, you’re just staring at your wallpaper or worse, a blank screen<\/p>\n

No light sensor.\u00c2\u00a0 You can set the screen brightness, but since the phone doesn’t know when it is direct sunlight, it can suddenly be too dim.\u00c2\u00a0 I installed a application called FastBright<\/a> which makes it easy to change the brightness, but doesn’t solve the problem<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I’ve been very surprised by how many applications are available.\u00c2\u00a0 The Market has thousands and thousands list — many of them for free.\u00c2\u00a0 And there are even alternate Markets you can install and use.\u00c2\u00a0 Crazy.\u00c2\u00a0 Interestingly, there are reports that many of these applications are Open Source, but I can’t seem to find a way to list applications by license.\u00c2\u00a0 Or even a place collecting Open Source Android applications.\u00c2\u00a0 Does anyone know where this might exist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a new T-Mobile G1 running Android from Google.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s an awesome upgrade from the Sidekick II I had been using.\u00c2\u00a0 Although it still feels very “rough” around the edges, I can see a lot of reasons why it’s exciting. The architecture is pretty cool — applications are a bundle of entry points called\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}