{"id":16727,"date":"2013-12-02T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=16727"},"modified":"2013-12-01T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T19:32:14","slug":"newsletter-issue-731-another-look-at-the-cheap-smartphone-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2013\/12\/newsletter-issue-731-another-look-at-the-cheap-smartphone-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #731: Another Look at the Cheap Smartphone Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my long-time friend Kirk McElhearn, a prolific author and commentator, told me ahead of doing an episode for The Tech Night Owl LIVE this week, that he had purchased an Android smartphone, I paused for as second. After a very few high-profile Mac journalists made well-publicized switches from the iPhone to Android earlier this year, I wondered whether Kirk would be among them.<\/p>\n<p>But he was merely doing what I did last February, which was to have an extended exposure to that other mobile platform. My move become possible because Samsung&#8217;s PR agency was only too happy to send me two of their flagship Galaxy handsets for review. I could even hang onto them for a while if I only added the units to my wireless account. So I proceeded to retire an iPhone 4S, and give Android its due.<\/p>\n<p>As most of you know, I attempted to largely duplicate the iPhone experience on Google&#8217;s platform with mixed success. I never found an email app that was truly reliable, although one, InoMail, did make a worthy effort to duplicate the look and feel of Mail for iOS. Worse, some apps, such as Time magazine and GCN&#8217;s player software, which streams their 70 network radio shows, wouldn&#8217;t work reliably, or, in the case of the latter, at all.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2013\/12\/newsletter-issue-731\/#market\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my long-time friend Kirk McElhearn, a prolific author and commentator, told me ahead of doing an episode for The Tech Night Owl LIVE this week, that he had purchased an Android smartphone, I paused for as second. 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