Friday, July 25
So I Figure...
The way out of my Android mess is to spend more money. Fortunately, not a lot of it.
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The way out of my Android mess is to spend more money. Fortunately, not a lot of it.
My Nexus 7 suits my needs perfectly for reading and playing Kairosoft games at home, and when I take one of my (rare) trips to see my family, it can come along with me. Not a problem. Which reminds me: I need to buy a new backpack before October; the old one got left outside and died.
My Xperia Z Ultra is fine as a take-anywhere mini tablet with plenty of room for music, videos, files, and stuff. Not quite right for reading entire novels, but far better than the typical 4-5" phone for checking email and browsing the web.
My Nexus 5, though, isn't quite right. It's too big to sit comfortably in my shirt pocket, too small to do anything complex (it looks tiny next to the Z Ultra), and doesn't have enough storage to make a good media player.
I think the right thing to do is to replace it with something like the Xperia Z1 Compact, which is a good bit smaller and will work with a 128GB micro SD card just like the Z Ultra. I haven't filled up the first card yet, after days of determined downloading. With two, I can put my audiobooks on the Ultra and music and podcasts on the Compact and get twice as much of everything and still have room left over.
The Z1 Compact is a mid-range device at a mid-range price (albeit with a high-end CPU and camera) so it won't break the bank, and I'll avoid ever suffering a repeat of yesterday's fiasco.*
And that means I can finally leave my 160GB iPod to rest. It still works fine; that thing is built like a brick. But it's kind of clunky by 2014 standards.
* Over four hours to download a one-hour podcast episode.
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"My Nexus 5 [is] too big to sit comfortably in my shirt pocket[.]"
Interesting. I have a Galaxy Note II and I wear it in my shirt pocket all the time. It does extend an inch or so over the top of the pocket, though, so it *feels* like it might fall out, but I pretty much have to bend over horizontally or maybe even beyond, to make it actually fall out.
Interesting. I have a Galaxy Note II and I wear it in my shirt pocket all the time. It does extend an inch or so over the top of the pocket, though, so it *feels* like it might fall out, but I pretty much have to bend over horizontally or maybe even beyond, to make it actually fall out.
Posted by: RickC at Saturday, July 26 2014 09:57 AM (0a7VZ)
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