While Apple certainly outsold everybody else, there's something to be said about what products you think are worth tweeting about. Even if more people have a particular kind of tablet, the only ones with any name recognition are iPad and Kindle. I'm not about to make a facebook post about my ASUS TF300 because then I'd have to tell everyone what the hell that is. Same with all the people who wonder what a Nexus is, or have no idea that Microsoft made a tablet.

 

This is very true. I guess it's worth saying "I'm typing this on my brand new iPad" since everybody will know what that is. If you tweet "I'm typing this on my brand new Surface", a decent amount of people will think you got a new table.

Edited December 27, 201213 yr by chw42

Got a 55 inch samsung, its really large in my apartment. Probably slightly to big but oh well I guess Ill have to grow into it.

It also has to do with demographics. I'm obviously painting with some pretty broad strokes, but I would think most people that purchase a Surface tablet probably aren't the type to rush to Tweet about their latest purchase via social media. I don't think the same can be said about an IPad owner..(Full disclosure, I own an Ipad Mini and love it).

Yeah everyone knows that people with apple products love to let other people know they have an apple product.

 

 

-Posted from my iPad

Got Planet Earth (UK version) plus a Blu-Ray player for Christmas. After seeing my wife's uncle's 70" TV and then watching these on my 40", I'm thinking it's time for an upgrade in the near future.

We're tricking out my dad's home theater. Replacing old receiver plus replacing Samsung 47 inch LCD w/ 50 inch Vizio LED Smart TV. $699-$100 gift card is a steal for that TV.

Yeah everyone knows that people with apple products love to let other people know they have an apple product.

 

 

-Posted from my iPad

 

Well, Apple does put the "Posted from my iDevice" thing at the bottom of your emails when you send it on your iDevice by default. Let everybody know!

Edited December 27, 201213 yr by chw42

Well, Apple does put the "Posted from my iDevice" thing at the bottom of your emails when you send it on your iDevice by default. Let everybody know!

So do most phones.

So do most phones.

 

Does this happen with Google's Gmail app for Android? I've never noticed since I've always had a custom signature.

Got Planet Earth (UK version) plus a Blu-Ray player for Christmas. After seeing my wife's uncle's 70" TV and then watching these on my 40", I'm thinking it's time for an upgrade in the near future.

Yeah, I am going to get the 80" sometime in the next year...

Does this happen with Google's Gmail app for Android? I've never noticed since I've always had a custom signature.

 

Yes, both my Droid Razr phone and Asus Infinity Tablet add that signature automatically until you change it.

 

 

Does this happen with Google's Gmail app for Android? I've never noticed since I've always had a custom signature.

 

Pretty much most of the mobile devices tag by default. They usually do it for one of two if not both reasons.

 

1.) Shameless plug of their tech.

2.) Built-in excuse when the person has typos in their email. Predictive text and fat fingers make a serious amount of typos in mobile based email. This is fine when you are texting, but not as excused in corporate email. Hence the, forgive my lack of correct syntax I am using X mobile device.

Edited December 27, 201213 yr by southsideirish71

Yes, both my Droid Razr phone and Asus Infinity Tablet add that signature automatically until you change it.

Unless you have a custom signature set up in google, then it won't override. The emails I sent from my Tab 2 this weekend had no extras added.

Well, Apple does put the "Posted from my iDevice" thing at the bottom of your emails when you send it on your iDevice by default. Let everybody know!

You can remove/edit that in your mail settings if it bothers you.

You can remove/edit that in your mail settings if it bothers you.

 

I changed it to phone, but I do find it helpful to keep in there so people can understand why an answer may be succinct, as well as grammatical answers.

Grammatical and spelling errors can be corrected before sending, even on a phone or tablet. If it's a short reply that's one thing, but otherwise it's just laziness.

Grammatical and spelling errors can be corrected before sending, even on a phone or tablet. If it's a short reply that's one thing, but otherwise it's just laziness.

 

Or you were in a hurry and didn't notice...

You can remove/edit that in your mail settings if it bothers you.

 

Yeah. I did mention that it is there by default. I knew you can change it.

An iPhone Lover’s Confession: I Switched To the Nexus 4. Completely.

An iPhone Lover’s Confession: I Switched To the Nexus 4. Completely.

 

Not a bad review of changing, I'm mostly of the same opinion that until Jelly Bean, Android wasn't ready, and it wasn't in the same class as iOS. Android loyalists lie to themselves and say it was, but it wasn't. Enter Jelly Bean, which changed the landscape between Android an iOS. It's closer to ready now than it's ever been, to the point I will consider a change next update. IMO, Android achieved parity with a few tradoffs with iOS as of 4.2.x, and it will only get better from there.

 

I do have a few reservations on a change, simply out of device support. So, it would have to be a Nexus phone, as I do not want to hack my phone with unstable (or what they call stable) builds of Cyanogen, or any other hack mod bulls***. I want to run *official* Google software updates, when they're released, on point, THAT DAY. Not months later or even weeks later...I find this unacceptable. I do not want a device running Android 4.1.2 when 4.2.1 exists, because I'm busy waiting for Samsung or someone else to f*** with the code, then hand it over to for them to f*** with it more. That leaves no alternatives for me except a Nexus model. As he went over in this story, I want to run the pure Android experience...not the experience Samsung or someone else tries to sell me on. I have no interest in this bloatware/skinning crap, and as I said earlier, I do not want to have to hack my phone to make it not suck.

 

This leads to another issue...IMO, Samsung's current S3 is the *class* of devices running Android. Period. The HTX 1X+ comes close, but not quite there. This new Nexus phone, same boat. Not quite as nice as the S3. Until I feel a Nexus device is as good as the flag bearer of Android devices, I wouldn't be able to make the jump...so I'm hoping this new super phone Google is working on with Motorola Google, is better than an S3, being it's aged, and at least as good as whatever Samsung ends up releaseing as their S4...if and when that happens, they will have gained a convert.

 

This will, however, mark the first year I very much consider making the switch. Android has arrived...now it just needs to hardware to match it in the Nexus line.

Edited January 4, 201313 yr by Y2HH

This leads to another issue...IMO, Samsung's current S3 is the *class* of devices running Android. Period. The HTX 1X+ comes close, but not quite there. This new Nexus phone, same boat. Not quite as nice as the S3. Until I feel a Nexus device is as good as the flag bearer of Android devices, I wouldn't be able to make the jump...so I'm hoping this new super phone Google is working on with Motorola Google, is better than an S3, being it's aged, and at least as good as whatever Samsung ends up releaseing as their S4...if and when that happens, they will have gained a convert.

 

This will, however, mark the first year I very much consider making the switch. Android has arrived...now it just needs to hardware to match it in the Nexus line.

They've kept it under wraps very well, but I keep reading that the GS4 will be available at some point early in 2013.

I'm holding out for the next Nexus phone.

I'm holding out for the next Nexus phone.

That seems like the smart plan. I'm hoping for a Nexus that runs on Sprint, vs switching.

I'm holding out for the next Nexus phone.

 

The next Nexus phone will mark the first Android phone -- IF the hardware is good enough -- that I will buy. However, that IF is a big if. I do not want a 5" screen (4.5 would be perfect...I find anything larger than 4.5 obnoxious and too big for me...I'm a little guy). I want LTE, I want 32 gigs of on device storage (I don't really need more than that, so expanded storage doesn't matter to me, either). Also, I don't want the phone to feel like cheap plastic garbage, either. Make it nice. Please.

That seems like the smart plan. I'm hoping for a Nexus that runs on Sprint, vs switching.

 

There is a Nexus for Sprint...the Galaxy Nexus, which is still a decent phone.

 

As for the Nexus 4 or any future Nexus, I wouldn't get my hopes up. Google doesn't like dealing with all the politics involving LTE and spectrum bands.

Edited January 4, 201313 yr by chw42

The next Nexus phone will mark the first Android phone -- IF the hardware is good enough -- that I will buy. However, that IF is a big if. I do not want a 5" screen (4.5 would be perfect...I find anything larger than 4.5 obnoxious and too big for me...I'm a little guy). I want LTE, I want 32 gigs of on device storage (I don't really need more than that, so expanded storage doesn't matter to me, either). Also, I don't want the phone to feel like cheap plastic garbage, either. Make it nice. Please.

 

You'll probably never buy an Android phone then. Just take a look at all these new phones they'll be coming out with at CES. Most of the big announcements are for phones with 5+ inch screens. That's where Android OEMs are headed, for better or worse.

 

And I doubt Google will give the next Nexus a smaller screen than the Nexus 4 or the Galaxy Nexus. Although one thing I've noticed after using the Galaxy S III for the last few days is that my Galaxy Nexus feels small. It really doesn't have a 4.65 inch screen due to the navigation buttons. After you take the bottom of the screen out, you're really dealing with a 4.5 inch phone.

Edited January 4, 201313 yr by chw42