Category: Mobile
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I Used a Physical Keyboard on my Pixel 9 for 3 Weeks: A Clicks Review
Disclaimer: This is not a paid promotion. I paid for the Clicks keyboard in this review out of my own pocket. Thus, I can be as critical and honest about the product as I like. I hope you enjoy. I hinted at it way back when I first started writing about how I turned “The…
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I Tried 3 Spotify Alternatives within a Month. Here’s How They Compare.
I started seriously using Spotify approximately nine years ago. My current account is the one I’ve stuck with through thick and thin, and it has so much of my listening history from over the years. But I’d be lying if I said the grass didn’t look greener sometimes. I believe it was almost two years…
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An Android User Switched to His First iPhone for a Year
I’ve been meaning to write this for a long time now, especially since I’ve had the past few years at this point to reflect on how everything has been since then. In fact, I could argue that writing this personal retrospective now makes me more objective than if I had just switched back to an…
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I Used an Android “Dumbphone” for 7 Days. Here’s How It Went.
Here it is: the follow-up to my previous blog post detailing how I would try to make my full switch to the Android-powered Xiaomi Qin F22 Pro, a quasi-smartphone in a “dumbphone” form factor, for 7 straight days. How did everything go? Day 0 Wait, Day 0? Does this mean I actually went above and…
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Transitioning to a “Dumbphone” Part 2!
Deja vu? No, I’ve written about this subject before, but I failed miserably to switch last time. In case anyone forgot, this phone runs Android while featuring the look and feel of a mid-2000s feature phone. It looks like a perfect compromise between wanting to be a digital minimalist while still having a few “smart”…
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The Fight for 3rd Place: A BlackBerry 10 Retrospective
I promised I would write about it after my Windows Phone retrospective, and now it’s here. You can consider this post centered around BlackBerry part two in this short series. As stated prior, iOS and Android firmly established a dominance over the mobile market, leaving a vacuum for a third party platform. A third option…
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The Fight for 3rd Place: A Windows Phone Retrospective
This post is part one of a two-part series discussing also-ran competitors to the ever-dominant iOS and Android. You can read the second part on BlackBerry here. It’s no secret that smartphones have taken over the mobile and computing world. While some of us are still old enough to remember when pagers, PDAs, and phones…
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