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Zeux - who has written 25 posts on Carrypad.

As a kid, I was a dreamer. I spent hours looking into the Radio Shack window, always dreaming of what I would do with a Tandy TRS-80 and all the peripherals I would buy. We were never able to afford that stuff then, and by the time I got to undergrad, I had lost interest. When I went back to grad school 5 years later, and I had to buy a PC, that little kid from Radio Shack came out again. It's been some 11 years, 40 laptops, 11 smartphones, and 9 Tablets/TabletPCs/UMPCs later. I have gladly joined the Carrypad team and hope that at least a little of my commentary is worthy of consideration. Current gear: Asus G73, HP Pavilion dv6-3052nr, HP Envy 14, HP EliteBook 2730p, System76 Starling, Motorola Xoom 3G, Apple iPad 64GB 3G+WiFi, Dell Streak 7 4G, Blackberry Bold 9780 (white), HTC HD7, Amazon Kindle WiFi

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My Ten Favorite Android Games and Thoughts on Android Gaming

Posted on 05 January 2012

If you have been following any of my musings on gaming (over on my personal blog or via my Twitter feed), you know that the past year has presented me with a challenge in keeping up with the latest and greatest. With little time left for gaming after attending to classwork and my day job, [...]

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The State of Android Tablets (2011): A Survey of Thoughts From Carrypad Staff

Posted on 07 December 2011

At the beginning of the year, if you would have told me that, by the summer, there would be a dozen different Android tablets available for order from reliable, first tier manufacturers, I would have told you to get outta town. We were likely all desensitized to the constant stream of news that seemingly had [...]

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Amazon Kindle Fire: Owner’s Impressions and 13 Apps for Getting Things Done

Posted on 05 December 2011

I have only had my Amazon Kindle Fire for about four days. I have admittedly spent a lot of that time in my Amazon account on a PC setting up my account to access more services and content channels than I have been using in the past. I have also not had much time to [...]

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Nokia: More Relevant in the US Than Ever (Maybe)

Posted on 04 November 2011

Nokia has only been relevant for me once in my smartphone life, and that was when I was overseas. Since returning stateside, I have not given Nokia news more than a miniscule glance as I pore over the day’s tech reports. In fact, I have not honestly cared about a Nokia phone release since the [...]

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ThinkPad Tablet Series: Part IV, Productivity Apps and Digital Inking [video]

Posted on 20 October 2011

Heads up: this article spends some time talking through the use of tablets as productivity devices in general, and then some time discussing the features and functions of the ink apps that I use on a daily basis at work. For demos of the apps and discussion of how the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet actually handles [...]

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ThinkPad Tablet — Owner’s Impressions Series: Part III, Front-End Enhancements [video]

Posted on 10 October 2011

In this part of the series, I’m going to talk to you about some of the front-end enhancement that Lenovo made to the ThinkPad Tablet,  and I’ll be steering away from digital inking until the next part of the series. One of the main reasons I am doing this is because I knowingly go ga-ga [...]

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ThinkPad Tablet — Owner’s Impressions Series: Part II, Connections and Ports

Posted on 01 October 2011

Today’s focus for the ThinkPad Tablet series is on ports and connectors. I wanted to take some time to let everyone know the results of some of the testing I have been doing on the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet and how it compares to some of the other tablets that are available. In the first installment we [...]

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ThinkPad Tablet — Owner’s Impressions Series: Part I, Hardware

Posted on 27 September 2011

The ThinkPad Tablet is not going to be for everyone. I mention that now because, over the next few days, my postings on the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet may make it sound like the coming of the Holy Grail of gadgets. I am a particular type of user and, for me, this device mates very well with [...]

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Changing My Tablet Loadout, Iconia A100 is My New 7 Incher — Video Impressions and Photos

Posted on 12 September 2011

Early last week, I received my notification that my HP Touchpad order was going to be one of the final production run we have all heard about, and that it was expected to ship in 6 to 8 weeks. This stuck in my craw for a few reasons. I had seen the charge from HP [...]

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What HP’s Earnings Call Could Mean for Mobile

Posted on 23 August 2011

Last Thursday afternoon, the mobile and PC world was (moderately) shocked by Hewlett-Packard’s announcement that they were considering “all strategic options” for contending with the negative impact the HP Personal Systems Group (PSG) was having on the corporation’s total valuation. Key in this consideration will be the eventual fate of WebOS, the mobile OS that [...]

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HoneyStreak Custom ROM Revitalizes My Dell Steak 7 (Android Honeycomb 3.2) [video]

Posted on 12 August 2011

Reception of the Dell Streak 7 could be described as “meh” at best. I went all-in on the device when I switched to T-Mobile at the beginning of the year, as, at the time, they did not have a mobile hotspot in their lineup. My time with the Streak 7 has ranged from feelings of [...]

Breaking: TouchWiz “Emulator” for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Goes Live + Review Roundup

Posted on 09 August 2011

Breaking: The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 TouchWiz Interactive Emulator just went live. Samsung calls it an emulator, but its really a simulator! Still, it gives you a way to play with TouchWiz before installing it on your device. I am not a fan of OEM UI’s. I am even less of a fan when they [...]

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HTC Bootloader Unlocker Hits This Month, How Many Will it Really Benefit?

Posted on 05 August 2011

Fresh from HTC’s Facebook wall comes commentary detailing exactly how the bootloader unlocking process will work for users who already own an HTC handset. The good news is that it will be easy-peasy, even for those of us non-hackers who normally just run our handsets stock. The bad news is that doing so “…may void all [...]

Openness and Stability — the Self-Administered Mobile Ecosystem

Posted on 04 August 2011

I love Android. Actually, on any given day of the week, I am probably in love with various mobile Operating Systems. Every once in a while, I even do a desperate Google-Bing deep-dive in an attempt to find a viable WindowsCE device. On those different days, I am likely to be most in love with the [...]

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Microsoft + Nokia Event Planned for the 17th, What Should We Expect?

Posted on 02 August 2011

Nokia Sea Ray (alleged; photos courtesy of product-reviews.net) It seems like we cannot go a full calendar month without one of the tech companies holding some event to make a major announcement. Not that I am complaining one bit. This month we have not one, but two giants partnering to bring us some new juicy [...]

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Review Roundup: Sprint Motorola Photon

Posted on 01 August 2011

The Motorola Atrix has been AT&T’s flagship device for several months. No other carrier has had a similar handset from Motorola to-date, until now. With the debut of the Photon 4G on the Now Network, Sprint has a hardware set that might be able to entice more customers in the market for a super-smartphone featuring [...]

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Asus Makes Eee Pad Slider Official With Press Release Following FCC Sighting

Posted on 31 July 2011

When we reported earlier in the week that the Asus Eee Pad Slider had passed through FCC approval, there was no official announcement from Asus. However, yesterday, the official press release announcing the device as part of the Asus product line went live on the Asus website. The official launch brings some additional tidbits that [...]

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