Ron, Author at Droid Life

Android Recovery [Opinion]

Ron August 25, 2012 97

Android used to be the go to option for OEMs fleeing Windows Mobile in search of relevancy in the mobile space, but lately it seems that unless you're Samsung or Apple you simply cannot make money in mobile. Samsung has been the only Android manufacturer to...

Google Experimenting with Bringing AOSP to the Sony Xperia S

Ron August 20, 2012 22

For years there has been a battle between AOSP fans and manufacturers to hack vanilla Android (or something close to it like CyanogenMod) onto devices instead of the manufacturer's version of Android. The difficulty with this battle is that it takes a...

Why It Matters That Samsung Copied Apple [Opinion]

Ron August 8, 2012 309

Samsung copied Apple. There really isn't another way to put it. Samsung didn't copy Apple in every conceivable way, but when you compare several of their phones to the iPhone, it's clear that Samsung wanted their hardware and software to resemble that of Apple...

The Google Experience [Opinion]

Ron July 18, 2012 58

With the release of the Nexus 7, Google set its sights on Amazon to try and reclaim control of the Android tablet space. Ever since Amazon forked Android for the Kindle Fire there has been some confusion about what OEM software customization means. There seems...

Review: Firefox for Android

Ron June 26, 2012 38

Choice in browsers has been an integral part in the history of computing. Mozilla has been at the heart of the push for choice in browsers from its inception out of Netscape to the introduction of Firefox in 2004. Since 2004, Mozilla has been dedicated to...

Microsoft Surface Isn’t a Threat to Google [Opinion]

Ron June 19, 2012 93

Yesterday Microsoft unveiled their new tablet, Surface. A reimagination of the original Surface concept, Microsoft's new tablet combines Windows 8 with a slew of ideas borrowed from multiple devices. Does Microsoft's latest foray into the hardware space...

A Little Less Online [Opinion]

Ron June 15, 2012 67

Listen to the article: [audio:http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Memo.mp3|titles=A Little Less Online] In late May Paul Miller of The Verge detailed his visit to a rally put on by various groups of Orthodox Jews about the dangers of the...

Google is Regaining Control of Android, Not Losing Control [Opinion]

Ron June 8, 2012 68

There has been a lot of speculation surrounding Google's purchase of Motorola and the rumor that Google will partner with five manufacturers for the Nexus project. There seem to be signs that things are changing around the way Google controls Android. Google...