Mobile & Devices on Aaron West's technology blog

What I Like About Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:00:00 -0500

I’ve been using Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) since January 19 when my Wi-Fi only Xoom received an update from Motorola. On February 25 I upgraded from a Motorola DROID X to a Samsung Galaxy Nexus and since then all my mobile devices have been on ICS. So I’ve had a fair amount of time to test drive the OS in both tablet form and phone form and it is a very nice update. Here are a few of things I like in Ice Cream Sandwich followed by some short bullets of things I think could be better.

Docking Stations and the Future of Computing

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:35:00 -0500

The Verge ran a story earlier about Canonical creating a docking station that provided Ubuntu desktop access for your smartphone.

I called this at least two years ago. Not the specific instance of Canonical releasing a desktop dock for Android device plug-in, but the idea of how this will change computing. If you discount some of the newest quad-core and 8-core systems out there, the latest mobile phones aren’t too far behind laptops in their power. Certainly they don’t have the graphics horsepower but I don’t see that as an issue.