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How Android Is Turning The Smartphone Into A Commodity And Why That’s Desirable

  • The Educated New Village Boy; By CS Wong (Posted by feicipet on Aug 3, 2010 12:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux
Smartphones remain luxury or niche products that are out of reach for a significant portion of the mobile phone user demographic. Here's how Android can potentially turn that situation around and make it a commodity item affordable to all.

Migrating from stock Android Froyo FRF85B to CyanogenMod 6 Alpha 1

  • The Educated New Village Boy; By CS Wong (Posted by feicipet on Jul 1, 2010 9:38 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2010/07/migrating-fr... CyanogenMod is an independent 3rd party effort by a group of volunteers to produce an enhanced Android ROM that mirrors the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) relatively faithfully. This is just my record of how I migrated from a stock rooted installation of Android Froyo FRF85B on my Nexus One to CyanogenMod 6 Alpha 1 which was just released to the wild.

Why do I use an Android phone?

  • The Educated New Village Boy; By CS Wong (Posted by feicipet on Jun 29, 2010 2:24 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Many smartphone users can't seem to like their own phone without putting down other phones. Personally, I didn't really compare myself to any other phone user and I'm still liking my Android well enough. Here's why.

[Wild Conjecture] Chrome OS As I Imagine It

  • The Educated New Village Boy blog (Posted by feicipet on Jul 20, 2009 5:56 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux
Everybody's guessing how would Google shape their recently announced OS. I guess the Internet would not break with one more bunch of half-guesses :)

Kubuntu Jaunty: Just 'cos I use it don't mean it's all good

  • The Educated New Village Boy blog (Posted by feicipet on Jul 19, 2009 3:31 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: KDE, Ubuntu
After a few month's of using Kubuntu Jaunty as our primary desktop environment, I've written a report on some of its shortcomings. Hopefully, this can be used as constructive feedback on what to improve on in the future.