Friday, June 1, 2012

Life On A Dying Network (Part 1)

via Pocketnow by Michael Fisher on 5/29/12

Right now, I’m on a ferry, heading back home from a holiday weekend. My Samsung Galaxy Nexus sits on the duffel bag at my feet, providing a wireless hotspot for my Macbook (3G only out here on the open water; even Verizon Wireless has its limitations). It’s also streaming an instrumental playlist of “writing music” to the bluetooth headphones on my head, and it beeps dutifully every few minutes, letting me know about a friend’s Foursquare check-in or Facebook update, or some such. It does all this while maintaining a relatively small footprint, and presenting ...

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