John Meredith's Blog

I haven’t updated this blog in a while mainly because I am now writing for a new blog over at Androidgenus.com. it is a news, reviews and comment site focussing on the Google Android platform. If you feel like geeking out then head over there or follow me on Twitter @Androidgenus.

Seems a little odd but it’s my impression that we have both band wagon jumping and an anti-Google attitude. Google might well have created a monster in Android, but I would much rather see Mozilla putting effort into making the Google OS better rather than splintering the concept. http://phandroid.com/2011/07/26/mozilla-building-android-based-mobile-os-to-rival-chromeandroid/

I’m not the only one to think HTC need to drop their prices for the Flyer tablet… http://www.eurodroid.com/2011/04/htc-flyer-to-get-android-3-0-shortly-after-launch/ But at least it’s getting Honeycomb soon.

The tablet wars are hotting up with a seemingly tit for tat battle between Google and Apple. Over the past month we have seen disciples of the Jesus Pad take to the streets for the Second Coming, a new slimmed down panic reaction from Samsung in the form of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Viewsonic [...]

The tablet wars are hotting up with a seemingly tit for tat battle between Google and Apple. Over the past month we have seen disciples of the Jesus Pad take to the streets for the Second Coming, a new slimmed down panic reaction from Samsung in the form of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Viewsonic [...]

If the possible mountain of unsold Samsung Galaxy Tabs is anything to go by, I think manufacturers of Satan Powered fondle slabs (a.k.a. Android tablets) have to think long and hard about pricing their latest wares at the same level as the Apple iPad. The Register has a thoughtful commentary on the perils facing manufacturers [...]

An iPad for just £99? Well….no. Not really.I wonder how many people desperate for tablet computers enter into mobile contracts unwittingly before realising that they are not getting much bang for their buck? And by that I mean just using their mobile tariff fully. I wonder what the 3G usage for tablet’s is nowadays? I [...]

T-mobile released the Google Android 2.2 a little over a month ago after much #tmobilefail shenanigans. But since then I’ve been mulling over whether it has made a big difference. I think it has generally but the odd habits you pick up from running 2.1 die hard. For example the reliance on using automatic task [...]

Last week I tried jumping the gun and forcing a Froyo upgrade on my Samsung Galaxy S. It didn’t work but in the process I wiped my phone and started from scratch and what a difference that makes. Over the last couple of months I’ve had the phone I (as many do, no doubt) gradually [...]

I went and did it. I fought the evil inside me. I spurned the iPhone like a paid up Lib Dem from the Coalition Government. I went…Android! And why not? They’ll only win in the end…so I got into bed with Google. As my previous post indicated, I was wrestling with whether the Samsung Galaxy [...]