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After MWC 2010

February 27, 2010   Android PR   No comments

It was a week ago that I returned from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and I’m STILL exhausted. It was truly overwhelming and surely a Gadget Gals paradise, not to mention a “sausage fest” as Sara would put it.

Not only that, but I found myself wifi challenged the first day and a half. Mind you, I arrived there Tuesday morning and went straight to the venue. Despite the Media Wifi card, access was horrible. If you weren’t accessing their ethernet cables then wifi was fickle, for me anyway. I would’ve gotten those Yoigo Pre-Paid data and phone sim cards if I only knew where they were earlier. Luckily, Wednesday afternoon I managed to find a phone house and purchase two. I didn’t want to be caught without wifi ever. NEVER!

It really was too bad though. I was not able to qik or live stream or tweet (much) or especially take photos and twitpic, posterous or facebook them.

Wednesday afternoon was spent trying to see everything (which I didn’t get to do). Thursday was spent seeing the exhibits I really wanted to see and going back and talking to people. Thursday was by far the best day in terms of talking to people. However, by the time I got back to the press area, I only had like 20 minutes to upload photos to flickr … I had forgotten that the press area closed at 4 pm on the last day. In fact, when I left the press area, the exhibitors were already starting to pack up.

I did manage to take enough photos and enough vids. What I still need to do is to write about all the things I wanted to share. This weekend should be a blogging weekend. Hopefully I’ll get MWC10 squared away before CeBIT next week.

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Day 2 of Clone Method

January 05, 2010   Android PR   No comments

Day two of Clone Method started off NOT on schedule.

I was still surprised that I DID get up at 5:30am but laid on the bed, thinking. I decided to just do it. So I got up made some fried rice and egg (hey, I’m Asian .. ‘ish) and coffee. Got on Twitter, checked email, updated my status on FB and now I should really be getting ready to get the “working girl” to work.

The one thing I didn’t expect was the “unwinding” time I need when I come home. I couldn’t get to sleep until 2am .. so you do the math. I’ll be a very tired girl today. I intend to drink a lot of water, a few cups of coffee and keep saying to myself  .. “You can do this!”.

Today is CES and of course, Google’s Press Conference. I just caught the tail end of the AndroidGuys Podcast and thought, how lucky to be able to attend CES and get to cover all the cool stuff.

Our @cOZ will also be there at CES covering the event live. I tried catching more info on which site she’ll be reporting from but I was too late. Follow her to find out so you don’t miss any of the action.

Well, gotta get going. It’s time to get into “working girl” mode.

Cheers!

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Android and Apple? iDO both.

December 21, 2009   Android PR   No comments

I’ve always said (like many others before me) that to compare Apple’s iPhone to any Android phone is like comparing apples to oranges. People still pit the respective app stores as obvious rivals and understandably so. I suppose coming up with ways in which Android differs from Apple or the ways in which Apple’s iPhone is superior to Android makes for good blog content.

Let’s take a journey however, to the abstract recesses of our minds. Let’s imagine that Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone courageously go where no other two rival operating systems have gone before (not to my knowledge anyway) – onward into the future, hand in hand (sort of).

This isn’t the first time I came up with such an absurd thought. I did imagine a scenario that involved Steve Jobs announcing at a future MacWorld Expo .. something about Android. That didn’t fly to well with a few readers. No one really commented on my insanity, but I did get a few interesting DM’s.

Having been a Mac Addict for 23 years and now a closet one, I understand the strength of the Apple brand. Apple is a brand that has backed it’s fruit logo with a well disciplined engine. Its strength lies in their strict control over everything that comes out of the Cupertino building, so to speak. In Apple’s more youthful days, one of their missions was to change the way the computer industry was being handled. Their number one opponent was IBM and Apple wanted to do everything in their power to be different from IBM.

Times have changed and thinkers have evolved. What IBM represented 20 something years ago and what Apple wanted to be known for is almost similar to what Apple represents now, in context to Google’s open source operating system. Apple now appears as the old school, controlling entity and Google .. errr, Android, opens up a free to do what I want mentality (sort of).

Because history does repeat itself and because man seldom ever learns from his past, partly because he is so focused on finding ways to increase the “bottom line” and only meeting the needs of a few select target markets, I say it’s time for a change.

There is strength in numbers and two heads are definitely better than one. Steve Jobs may never adapt anything Android into Apple’s environment and Android may never be a tightly controlled power engine (it’s open source) but that doesn’t mean we have to be pitted against one or the other.

We should all feel opportuned to be able to have both devices sitting side by side on our desks or even occupying the same pocket space on our person. I will no longer stay the closet mac addict that I am. I will happily move forward embracing the fact that I LOVE my Apple products as much as I LOVE the Android OS.

In this case, I can have my Apple and Donut or Eclair or Flan and eat them too!

So if anyone asks me which I prefer more, Android or Apple I’ll just simply say, iDO both.

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It's Droid Day!

November 06, 2009   Android PR   No comments

Yay! It’s Droid Day.

November 6 has finally arrived and all the hype surrounding Verizon’s new Motorola Droid will reach it’s peak in Verizon stores in the U.S.

The much anticipated android phone, marketed and branded as a Droid phone, has been said to be the closest rival (android based) to the iPhone, so far. Rival, however, is really not the right word, in my opinion.

Indeed, the ingenius one sentence iDon’t video’s that depict the main differences between the android OS and Apple’s iPhone OS may have started that stream of thinking (but that’s just brilliant ad campaigning for hype purposes). Other more  notable and worthy mobile phone sites started comparing the two smartphones in what seemed like endless posts of opinions from all sides (which gave mainstream a wealth of information on both mobile operating systems).

But everybody has an opinion and even if two people agree on one side, there are always differences as to why. I still think it’s like comparing Apples to Passion Fruit. They are both fruit, they are both relatively sweet, depending on their levels of sweetness at any given time and within various versions, however, there can also be significantly main differences.

What’s important to keep in mind is how an individual responds to each phone. Be it, Symbian, Windows Mobile, the iPhone or an Android based phone, thank goodness there are differences to suit people’s tastes and ways in  preferences with navigating through their smartphones.

After all, we ARE individuals just as much as we, at the same time, are commonly human (although I DO have my doubts with some people).

What I do believe in, with regards to the Android OS, just like so many other developers that have joined the Android Movement, is the fact that because of its’ Open Source nature, the potential for empowerment is endless.

This fact alones, opens up so many opportunities for developers and it also challenges the playing field for other industries as well. Mobile phone designers have gotten more inspired, marketing entities are carefully looking at how to exploit this phenomenal movement, and the business-model inclined, are busy figuring out strategies on how to make the Android Movement work for them.

I, on the other hand am a mere observer of life.

I observe, absorb and try to make intelligent and mindful connections with all data that I take in.

I make sure to be reminded that life is about cycles, as with the seasons, with fashion and historically speaking, also with technology.

Android is a movement. It’s a movement in “empowerment” to a group of people that normally were not  given the open style freedom to take a source code and imagine the impossible!

I am the Android PR (People Relationships) Gal. I stand behind this movement.

Today is Droid Day!

Let the games begin!

Don’t forget to take a peek at the cartoon-of-the-day.

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