Category: Mobile
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The best way to type on an iPad
Apropos of my earlier article on alternate input methods on a touch screen device, what is the best method of typing text on an iPad or other touchscreen
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Alternative touch screen device input methods
I am not a big fan of touch screen devices for input. I may be old school, but I think touch should not be a primary mode of input for any reasonably complex computer with a small display area (which most smart phones/tablets are). Touch input is best used for simple menu based information retrieval…
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The limitations of mobile photography
Of late, I’ve been doing quite a bit of photography with my mobile, earlier on my old iPhone 5s and now on my new Samsung Galaxy M31s, a decent mid-range Android phone. Though I appreciate the advances in mobile photography in recent times, it’s obvious that there are quite a few limitations with mobile devices,…
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Collabora Office – a full fledged LibreOffice port for mobile devices
A while back, I searched for a decent Office suite for opening and editing documents on my iPad and found Collabora Office, a full-fledged port of LibreOffice for Android and iOS / iPadOS. This is one of the few Open Source office suites for mobile devices around and one of the few that are almost…
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Why mobile games are usually so awful
Try installing any random game on your Android phone or iOS device and chances are that the game sucks. More often than not, the game is severely curtailed in its free avatar and requires you to make micro payments to advance further into the game. And most likely the “game currency” cannot be earned enough…
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What happened to the sub 5 inch Android phone market?
Is it just me, or are there other smartphone users who’d prefer a device that can be held and operated on one hand and a thumb? Is there no market for such Android phones that you can operate from one hand? It appears that there are very few small form factor Android phones on the…
