Tag: Nexus S
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iOS: Android and Back Again
So, I had a whole two paragraphs (!) complaining about my much-maligned Galaxy S2‘s shocking-poor battery life, the evil manufacturers bastardisation of Android, the irritating prevalence of ads on the platform and in apps, and the absence of reasonably-sized, non-bastardised Android phones (and the even smaller subset of devices I can even buy in Australia:…
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Nexus S Jelly Bean Update
The Nexus S has been around for a while now (15 months is a long time in phone-years), and been through several OS updates. Currently, the phone is running Android 4.1.2 ‘Jelly Bean’. I’d like to be able to report that all is well, but it isn’t. Things had been going well with 2.3.4 and 4.0, but started…
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HTC Desire Z
I like reviewing old, obsolete products, so here’s another. The USB port on my Nexus S died recently, and I got this loaner HTC with the Nexus is in for repair. While the HTC is a fairly recent phone, it still runs Gingerbread (2.3.3), and feels very dated when coming from my Nexus S running Jelly…