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chuckroSo, my Galaxy phone was three years and a few months old, and for the past year has been locking up more and more often, and I had needed to delete a bunch of apps because there simply isn’t enough space on it to fit everything. So I decided it was time to upgrade, despite having gotten four full years out of my last few phones. Turns out that I could make the leap all the way to the Galaxy S5, which seems a little absurd, but frankly isn’t surprising. The difference isn’t as much as the leap from my HTC Mogul to the Galaxy, but it was nice to be able to just install everything I wanted to regularly use. And they just swapped over my SD Card, so my contacts, ebooks and all my pictures of ARR just carried over.
(I do lose the physical keyboard, but I haven’t used that in forever anyway, since I got used to Swype. And I changed plans--staying with Sprint--so I now have unlimited calling and texting, but only 4 gigs of data/month, rather than the unlimited data plan I had before. But as far as I can tell, I’ve only been using about ½ gig/month on my previous phone—not really streaming any video or music on it—so I’m not particularly worried about going over. Also, my home wi-fi works much better since we moved. And I managed to find another case that has a belt clip, so I can continue looking like a total dork with my phone clipped to my waist.)
Because I could link it to the same plan and get it for only $50, I bought a 7” Galaxy Tab 4 at the same time. (Admittedly, I was mostly just jealous of Xannoside’s tablet and its functionality.) I suspect that, while the phone is going to be the useful and versatile device I’ll carry around all the time, the tablet is going to be an e-reader / game platform more than anything else. It has about 10 gigs of free hard drive, so I may see about putting some rpg pdfs on it and deciding if it’s useful at the gaming table. And I can finally play Final Fantasy Dimensions…or at least add it to my backlog. And I’ll want a few toddler apps to distract ARR with on trains / in cars.
Neither of these were things I desperately needed, but they’re fun, right? And in theory (though likely not in practice), my monthly cell bill should end up going down when the smoke clears.
Any recommendations for apps I really need / apps I should avoid?
(The Livejournal app got uninstalled after a day—it wraps text badly, doesn’t seem to update properly, crashes randomly, and doesn’t add any functionality over having a web browser shortcut link on my desktop.)
(I do lose the physical keyboard, but I haven’t used that in forever anyway, since I got used to Swype. And I changed plans--staying with Sprint--so I now have unlimited calling and texting, but only 4 gigs of data/month, rather than the unlimited data plan I had before. But as far as I can tell, I’ve only been using about ½ gig/month on my previous phone—not really streaming any video or music on it—so I’m not particularly worried about going over. Also, my home wi-fi works much better since we moved. And I managed to find another case that has a belt clip, so I can continue looking like a total dork with my phone clipped to my waist.)
Because I could link it to the same plan and get it for only $50, I bought a 7” Galaxy Tab 4 at the same time. (Admittedly, I was mostly just jealous of Xannoside’s tablet and its functionality.) I suspect that, while the phone is going to be the useful and versatile device I’ll carry around all the time, the tablet is going to be an e-reader / game platform more than anything else. It has about 10 gigs of free hard drive, so I may see about putting some rpg pdfs on it and deciding if it’s useful at the gaming table. And I can finally play Final Fantasy Dimensions…or at least add it to my backlog. And I’ll want a few toddler apps to distract ARR with on trains / in cars.
Neither of these were things I desperately needed, but they’re fun, right? And in theory (though likely not in practice), my monthly cell bill should end up going down when the smoke clears.
Any recommendations for apps I really need / apps I should avoid?
(The Livejournal app got uninstalled after a day—it wraps text badly, doesn’t seem to update properly, crashes randomly, and doesn’t add any functionality over having a web browser shortcut link on my desktop.)
