Apologies and transferral of focus.

I started this endeavor then failed to input into it properly. My apologies. I shall rectify my mistake. Please I direct your attention to my newest endeavor, "How to be a Supervillain". May your desire to pick my brain be quenched.

My Tablet History

Long ago, in the year 2011, I bought a tablet. The Samsung Galaxy Tab. The original, The first. The 7 Inch wonder. I marveled at its utility, its compact size, its speed and connectivity. I was, in a word, impressed. Then the population explosion of tablets began. I blithely ignored other tablets, letting my Galaxy Tab handle all my mobile needs, which at times stressed its Gingerbread OS, but never broke its electronic will.

 

A year later I opened my eyes and looked around for a possible successor. Having used a smaller tab, I felt it was time to try a larger model, something with better screen real estate, good internals, and more possibilities than my Galaxy Tab could provide. I found all that and more in the Asus Transformer Prime. I grew up in the 80’s, and enjoyed the Transformers cartoons, so of course my Villainous Nature caused me to immediately name my new tablet Megatron. My new tablet was huge in comparison, and had a detachable keyboard that served most often as a stand for the tablet when I watched videos. As a bonus, my research into the Prime kindled an interest in Android in general, plunging me head first into a burgeoning ecosystem of applications that promised to someday become more. I learned of Rooting and installing custom ROMs on devices, and did so to my Prime, experiencing the world of complete customization first hand.

 

Then the bombshell dropped. Google announced the Nexus 7 Tablet, the first tablet of their very own, just 6 months after I’d gotten my Prime. And I wanted it like Gollum wants a certain piece of jewelry. I got it, and I was back to a 7 inch tablet, a form factor that I preferred. And when they announced a 3G/4G model, I jumped at the chance to make that my big holiday season purchase. With a few workarounds, I declared that my tablet will be my cellphone. I jumped into that project with both feet, working through issues like dropped calls, audio delay, cell signal blind spots, bad Bluetooth stacks in Android, and more, and made it most of a year with a 7 inch cellphone. When Google announced the 2013 edition of the Nexus 7, this time with 4G LTE, I looked forward to faster connections, and speedier file downloads. But when phone connection became an impossibility, I was faced with a conundrum: fight with software problems for another year, or consider getting an actual Smartphone.

 

Fortunately for me, Google and LG made the Nexus 5 cellphone. I watched the reviews, read the stats, looked at other phones, and decided that it was time to get a Smartphone. But I’d already made my big tech buy for the year getting the Nexus 7 2013, and I didn’t have the kind of money in the budget to handle buying a phone. I bit a bullet.  I scouted around, and found a buyer for my Transformer Prime. For a little less than half its original price, I bid goodbye to Megatron, wiped his memory, and handed him over to his new owner. I loved that tablet, but it was too big for its britches. I was using the Nexus 7 primarily anyway, and it was only going to go down in value.

 

But I had enough money to buy myself a shiny, jet black Nexus 5, a shrunken mirror of my Nexus 7, powerful, fast, and beautiful. Not a tablet, but just as powerful as one, and able to tether the Nexus 7 to it if necessary. So now I dual-wield Nexuses like a Cyber Samurai, with the 7 handling my media needs, and the 5 mostly being a phone, but with a lot of extra tools in it, making it a Swiss Army Knife of technical Wizardry, with the option to install any tool I need if it isn’t already there.

 

All in all I’ve enjoyed my journey through the Android tablet hierarchy, and ended up in a very good spot. I still keep my Galaxy Tab around, mostly because it’s practically unsellable, and I can say I’m content with my mobile tech.

 

But the year is young…

 

       

 

RESURRECTION!!!!

Oh, yes, I'm giving things another try. Keep your eyes peeled here, things they are a-changing!

(Insert evil laugh here)