Personal note: Just noticed that I’m closing in on 6 million steps logged by my Fitbit activity monitor. I hope to reach the milestone sometime in the next 7 to 10 days.
Category: Mobile Devices
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Closing in on 6 million steps logged by my Fitbit activity monitor
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Microsoft OneNote for Android available. Nice app. But, here’s why I had to remove it
Microsoft released an Android version of its once groundbreaking notetaking app.OneNote Mobile for Android is now available worldwide
This app is available for free in the Android Market. It sync with Microsoft’s free SkyDrive cloud storage service too (refer to my BYTE article to learn more about SkyDrive). This lets you sync between devices without the need for a PC in between.
As nice as it is, I had to uninstall the app. Here’s why…
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Fake Facebook SMS (text) spam
My daughter and I both received this text message spam in the past few days from fb@rewardsfacebook.com. This specific spam message is noted in the Facebook Support Center Mobile: Facebook Mobile Texts discussion area. -
ProClip car mounting components for iPhone & HD7 arrived
Yay. ProClip sent components to mount iPhone and HTC HD7 phones in my car (one at a time, not both at the same time). I’ll provide a full review after I learn if installation is really as easy as ProClip claims.Thanks to ProClip for providing their products for evaluation.
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The Starbucks iPhone app is going away. But, where is the new one?
The most used mobile ecommerce app on my iPhone is Starbucks Mobile Card app. The app is currently issuing a messages telling users that it will be discontinued soon and to install the new app. However, if you tap the banner as instructed to get the new app, you are led to the App Store entry for the current app (the one that says it is going away). So, what is going on?
It looks like the replacement app is buggy or, from the point of view of the end-user, non-functional and was pulled from the App Store. Here are some comments on the current’s app’s product page:
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AT&T says cell sites greatly improved in my area (twice). Oh, really?
On Nov. 26, 2011, AT&T Wireless sent me a text message stating that over 50 cell sites in my area had been enhanced. Did I see better coverage or data speed? Actually, since then it appears that a section of the city of about 2 miles by 0.5 miles does not have any 3G data capacity (despite phones reporting it has a 3G signal) and often no voice coverage. In other areas, voice coverage has deteriorated to the point where voice conversations are difficult to conduct for more than a few seconds at a time.Yesterday, Jan. 25, 2012, I received another text message from AT&T Wireless stating that a call site in my “local area” (whatever that means) was enhanced specifically for wireless Internet access. Oh really? The Speedtest.net app reported a ping time of 432ms (very slow), 0.16 Mbps download (that’s 160Kbps) and 0.06 Mbps upload (that 60 Kbps or nearly analog modem speed). This is actually far worse than it was before the enhancement.
To say the least, I am not impressed by AT&T’s “enhancements” to their cell towers.