Tech & Nonsense

*** Note:  This post was originally published on Medium back in September 2017, but I'm adding it here while I try out Blogger as a place to share some thoughts. Feedly   is a daily driver app for me (one I use every day and spend a fair chunk of time with every day) and my best tool for handling the massive information overload we face every day . It’s described like so by its creators: With Feedly, you can easily organize all your publications, blogs, YouTube channels, and more in one place and consume and share more efficiently. No more zig zagging. All the content comes to you in one place, in a clean and easy-to-read format. People use Feedly to read blogs, learn new topics, and track keywords, brands and companies I think one of the best ways to stay well-informed and increase my knowledge on any given subject is to find great sources of information for the topic. Feedly is where I discover, add, organize and manage all the great sources I find. Here ar...

** Note - This post was first published on Medium back in September of 2017. I'm adding it here as I try out using Blogger to share some thoughts. Well, my time with the Essential Phone ended up being very brief. I decided to return it to Amazon after just a week — and replaced it with a phone from one of my long-time favorites, the OnePlus 5 from OnePlus. The OnePlus is still my joint favorite phone I’ve ever used, alongside the Nexus 6P — and I still have it around as my backup phone and always enjoy using it when it’s in service. I also enjoyed the OnePlus 3T, and I’m loving the OnePlus 5 after getting it just a couple days ago. Here’s a quick rundown on why I got rid of the Essential Phone: Poor Performance : Apart from the one big, bizarre bug I mentioned in my  quick initial thoughts on the Essential Phone , the phone also frequently required 2–3 screen taps to get response as well as some slowness on switching between apps.

*** Note: This post was originally published on Medium back in September 2017, but I'm adding it here while I try out Blogger as a place to share some thoughts. Some very early (day 4) thoughts on the new Essential Phone, by Essential Products - the company founded by Andy Rubin, of "The guy who founded Android" fame If You’ve Never Heard of the Essential Phone … I’m sure you’re not in the minority on that. As a brand new entrant in the smartphone space, it hasn’t had a lot of hype or promotion so far — though there have been a number of good early reviews of it on tech sites. Here’s what I think could pass for the quick gist of what Essential themselves tout the phone as, and some common thoughts from early reviewers: Essential promises a phone that’s an impressive combination of ‘ premium materials and true craftsmanship ’ and a guiding principle that ‘Simple is always better’. The premium materials include titanium and ceramic, and the simple approach is ...