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One plus One and Android one
Writing this blog post from OnePlus One..
Q. Why buy OnePlus One when affordable Android One with regular updates from Google is available?
A. There are plenty of points and I will summarize them in short.
1. The best screen – this handset comes with full HD display and importantly, it has tough gorilla glass preventing scratches from getting on your phone. The Android One currently does not have any kind of tough glass but manufacturers pack in screen guard to create an impression of providing some kind of protection. I hate that. IMHO it is kind of sin to sell handsets without gorilla glass in India.
2. Plenty of RAM – yeah, it is 3 GB RAM, much like current flagships. The more, the merrier.
3. The OS – OnePlus one comes with Cyanogenmod 11S, which is android kitkat 4.4.4 running with Cyanogenmod add-ons like themes, privacy guard, and sends updates more frequently then Google. It is a geek joy to use this os and try out customizations and tweaks. Android One too comes with stock android with guaranteed updates for 2 years, but after using nexus devices for 2 years, I must say, there are plenty of things missing, like – rooting phone nullifies your device warranty etc
4. Storage – 64 GB storage.. Yeah one cannot ask for more. :)
5. Camera and processor – compared to Android one 5 mp Camera, OnePlus one packs in high quality 13 mp Sony sensor powered camera delivering razor sharp details and ability to capture 4K videos. The qualcomm 801 chipset has more capability then
Mediatek chipsets powering the Android one.6. Sensors – the Android one devices come with plenty of sensors for handset that is supposed to be very entry level, and this is very good. More then 90% handsets in India, barring the flagship, don’t have ecompass aka magneto meter sensor. Android one provided it thus making user experience very good, esp when using applications like Google maps etc.
So, what should be the best android device an average customer should buy?
1. For 6.5k, Android one is the best handset you can get and if google/oem provides some goodies like gorilla glass, somewhat better camera, then there is no looking back (ps – I have used spice dream uno ie android one phone)
2. If you have money (and invite) then buy the flagship killer as soon as you can :D
(note – typing this from SwiftKey keyboard and many spellings and Grammer is selected automatically)
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Writers block
I was originally supposed to write something else here, but after struggling to write a paragraph in last half an hour, i have come to a conclusion – i am having a massive writers block! I wrote about 100 lines but deleted all of them because none of them were consistent and I after reading them, i found i couldent make any sense of it.
I blame twitter for this mess. Owing to its 140 character limit, i have almost lost my touch of writing longer sentences beyond 100 characters or so.
Damm, this feels bad. It sucks. #fail
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It has been a long time
Its almost an year i last logged in and wrote a blog post. So many significant things happened in the last year..and this year. Life is getting more and more busy and finding time for pursing hobbies, passion and art is getting harder and harder. Its almost a luxury these days. Right now its diwali time and i just found a quiet corner of my home and all thoughts waiting to get poured on paper or blog from last year/month/week have gathered up..just dont know from where to start…
Ok..let me start by wishing you all a happy diwali. May you have awesome time and great fun ahead. Not preaching you of stopping use of fireworks or any moral policing..but sure to say that we must do and enjoy stuff with caution and moderation, self moderation to be precise. Too much of anything is not good :)
Coming back to blog posts – sure theres pretty much eventful stuff happening..be it in politics or be it in technology. I am no expert in social science or politics but technology..yes..i can understand a bit of it more then average person..so expect future posts to be technoiillogy related.
I guess this much is enough for now. Hope i write the next blog post soon :)
Till then – be good. be happy. be awesome.
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 37,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 14 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
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My encounters with ingress
As part of resistance, I played ingress, an augmented reality game created by niantic labs, part of Google.
This game is quite interesting and it has added an alien storyline with xm, portals, resonators etc to keep players glued on.
This is the future of RPG. The environment will be your own locality, your opposition will be real people..
Actually, this game is part of Googles ambitious data capturing and mining project that will help it to gain location information about businesses , points of interests that is otherwise hard to find using satellites.
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BBM for android
If someone had said of having an android version of blackberry’s legendary bbm, I would have laughed at him.
Not today.
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random musings
i have got nothing to say, but felt i should break the series of photographs i am posting from past few weeks. I am not a professional or amateur photographer, nor i know any details of what magic these people add to photos, but i can press a button and capture a moment..and outcome is an unsteady image..unless the camera is really good and has high stability features..
Actually, it is my observation that image editing apps are very popular on android tablets..i have used some of them, and dumbstruck to find how these apps manage to churn awesome looking photos within seconds..suddenly you start feeling like almost a pro..check the photos posted on this blog..previous to this post..
So a question comes..do apps define a success of mobile platform? How long will this trend of mobile applification continue? Can we ever see a dumb client and smart cloud (push, sync, scale)? How many features and utilities of conventional desktops can be applified to fit for mobile usage?
Think..the race is on – Android v/s Iphone v/s rest of other mobile OS
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Photo of today – almost full moon
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I like tz poem
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