Windows Phone Staying is Staying Out of the Ring Next Week

Android is looking like it’s going to be the front running OS next week at mobile world congress. All the prime players (LG, Samsung, Sony and Acer) will be poised to unveil their latest and greatest devices. In a somewhat puzzling move, Nokia, who employs primarily windows os on its devices, is holding a separate press conference where it will reveal its brand spanking new Nokia X. Nokia X will be the first premium smartphone built by the company that uses android and not windows.

Nokia is the biggest partner for windows in the handset market, but they aren’t the only manufacturer.  Heavy hitters Samsung and HTC both make windows phones and neither of them have prepared anything for this event using a windows OS.

I guess I’m just surprised. Windows phone OS has made drastic improvements and I do enjoy the UI very much. It’s odd that for one of the biggest trade shows for handsets this year that they would have nothing in competition for best in show.

Thanks for reading and be prepared to be slammed with news and coverage from MWC next week! I’ll try to minimalize my excitement to just the important stuff! Any questions or comments you can leave them below. Thanks again!

Google Chromebooks……Damn Good Start.

Not many people are familiar with the Google Chromebook. Even less people are familiar with the chrome os and its functions. For many application developers, chrome os is a dream for structuring applications and websites and testing them on an android type operating system.

 

Recently I’ve had the opportunity to use a Samsung chromebook as a normal consumer would use it. At first it was a bit apprehensive. Knowing that since this is a google project it wouldn’t have all the things that it am used too with windows and mac products. I didn’t know what to expect.

 

For me, being a heavy android user, the UI was incredibly easy to get used to and most of the programs that come preloaded on it are familiar. Google Music, Google Drive, Chrome Web Browser and Gmail just to name a few. You also have access to the chrome store that has tons of applications, extensions and themes to completely customize you chromebook experience. If I had to compare it to anything I would compare it to anything I would liken it to a developer edition mobile phone.

 

Developer edition phones are the exact same as the consumer phones with one very important, very big difference. Developer edition usually come with none of the OEM’s (original equipment manufacturer) skin on the UI (user interface) side of things. They come with stock android operating systems that help app developers test their applications with ease

 

On the hardware side of things, I wasn’t too impressed. The Samsung dual-core Exynos processor is really fast and that’s a good thing but the screen resolution isn’t really what I thought it would be. The 11.6inch screen is, however, bright and vibrant.

 

All in all this laptop could use some work but I’m excited to see what comes in the future of chromebook and I think this is a fairly inexpensive buy for a college student that doesn’t have a lot of money. For all of its quirks, it’s still a tough sharp, light weight, full speed computer that can handle just about anything you throw at it.