Eric, Author at Droid Life

Google Prepping Semantic Search Results, Will Make Google Assistant That Much Smarter

Eric March 15, 2012 35

Search, the cornerstone that Google is built on is getting ready to receive an overhaul pretty soon. Coming "over the next months" are semantic search results that can tell what you are looking for based on how and where you type it. The difference between...

Will Your Device Receive Some CyanogenMod 9 Love? This Flowchart Lays Out Your Options

Eric March 15, 2012 58

Who knows when the carriers will start getting official Ice Cream Sandwich updates out to phones. A long standby for the Android community has been being able to fall back on CyanogenMod when official updates were nowhere to be found. CM9 is in the works and...

Ordering a RAZR MAXX Through Motorola’s Website? Check Your Cart, it Might be Purple and 16GB

Eric March 15, 2012 17

An interesting bug has popped up on Motorola's site recently, one that might leave your new phone different from how you wanted. The Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX is on backorder through Verizon's website, so people have been flocking to Moto's site to do the...

Ex-Google Employee Says Google+ Ruined the Company, Social is the Only Focus

Eric March 15, 2012 145

Google+ has certainly marked a change in how Google is looking to do their business, but has the social networking attempt ruined the company? One ex-Googler says so. James Whittaker, who once worked for Microsoft before going to Google, has recently spouted...

Google+ Hangouts Now Supports Google Docs Integration, Productivity In Mind

Eric March 14, 2012 19

Say what you want about Google+, but the Hangouts might be the biggest plus (pun fully intended) to Google's attempt at social networking. In the beginning it was just for video chatting with a few of your friends, but then you could watch Youtube videos for...

Video: HTC Using Micro Arc Oxidation to Create New Ceramic-Like Casing for New Devices

Eric March 14, 2012 59

At this point, we have pretty much seen everything that a company can do with the body of a phone. But HTC is looking to change that with a new chemical process called "Micro Arc Oxidation." Being used for the new One series, HTC is starting with aircraft...

New Study Suggests Consumers Want a Larger Display on Their Mobile Devices

Eric March 14, 2012 220

There has been a lot of griping and complaining about screen sizes in Android phones getting out of hand. The Samsung Galaxy Note (unboxing and hands-on here) was the breaking point of this argument, 5.3" of screen space seemed to push people over the edge....

Beautiful Widgets Gets Update to Version 4.0, Web Skin Market and Multi-Forecast Added By Demand

Eric March 14, 2012 56

Beautiful Widgets, one of the most successful applications on Android, just got a massive update today. BW took the plastic off a new online Web Store that allows you to browse through their whole catalog of widget skins. You can see an HD version of the skin,...