I Like To Read, I Like To Take Pictures

Nexus 4: My First Smartphone
Nexus 4 Is Way Too Cool

I have been playing with my Nexus 4 for days now. It is such a joy.

I have downloaded and organized a whole bunch of apps. I have discovered that I really like to read. Some of my favorite apps help me read. I also seem to like to take pictures. I have discovered. These are not revelations to me. More like confirmations. But confirmations I am happy about.

I really like to read. Pocket is a good one. It beats Flipboard in my book. I like the idea of saving in Pocket on my laptop to read later on the phone. My private homepage on my laptop already has an excellent curation of read destinations.

Amazon Kindle is awesome and easily my favorite app on my seven inch tablet. I am glad to have the Wikipedia app on the phone. Wikipedia is an awesome aspect of the Internet.

I have tried and loved several game apps. I played for hours, one of them overnight, it seemed like. But I did not find myself going back to them the following day. Chess I have gone back to. That is a good classic game in which to want to climb levels.

Path pictures are good, as Instagram pictures. The smartphone is such a poor camera that it has to make up for through filters and effects.

It is a treat to be able to download apps for your phone while sitting in front of a laptop.

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The Seven Incher

So I Got My Seven Inch Android Tablet

The battery says 11 hours left when fully charged, but I don't think that's accurate. A few hours later it said 45% left, that was two plus hours. If it is four or five hours, that is plenty.

Amazon Kindle is my favorite app. I have loaded up about 15 classics, all available for free. These books alone make me feel like the tablet came to me for free.

Anna Karenina
A Tale of Two Cities
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References)
Gitanjali
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Human Biology - Genetics
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Leaves of Grass
Crime and Punishment
The Art of War
The United States Constitution
Aesop's Fables
How to Speak and Write Correctly
Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
Gettysburg Address
In the Days of Washington A Story of The American Revolution

I expect to download many more free classics. I expect to buy a few. I expect to borrow. Some libraries allow you to borrow books on the Kindle, no?

The first book I started reading was The Art Of War. Bookmarking the last page you read is a treat.

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So I Got My Seven Inch Android Tablet

Believe it or not, this is the first "touch" device I have owned. I bought it online at nomorerack.com for 75 bucks, tax included. The market price is 200 bucks.

The Nexus 4 I did manage to place an order for the final week of November is still nowhere in sight. I am thinking it might show up by mid January. And so I needed to get my hands on something. I happened upon this deal. It says Made In China. Go China.

I was thinking the 99 dollar seven inch Nexus 7 rumor might be true. So far it does not seem to be holding. Heck, the 199 dollar Nexus 7 has long been out of stock.

I am too active when I am surfing. I am constantly typing away. So for me touch is not where it is at. It is nice to have. But it was never going to be heavy duty.

I got into the obvious games - Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Temple Run - and stacked up some books on my Amazon Kindle app. That Kindle app might be the key attraction for me.

I also had to go online to buy a case for the seven incher. I think I paid six bucks, and free shipping.

I might be running late, but below $100 is the right global price point for this tablet. This is the "one laptop per child" we all have been waiting for. I expect functionalities to get better over time.

I can see me reading books on the train.

It is a sorry little thing though. I think it has 2GB of spare space. And the battery might last a little over two hours.

Wait until I get my hands on my Nexus 4. Now that comes with bragging rights.

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Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook: Coalition Partners

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Analysis: Amazon, Google on collision course in 2013

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Finally The iPad Has Competition

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Eureka Moment: The Local Library On Kindle

Cover via AmazonI just found out that the local library is on Kindle.

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Then I proceeded to download the free Kindle app for the PC. It looks swell on my computer.

Then I went to the New York Public Library website and found out Kindle is nowhere to be seen. I can't get the library books on to my Kindle, at least not yet. I went to the Queens Library website. And I found out the same thing.

I guess news travels faster than reality.

Once this comes to be it will be like Spotify for books. So we got books and music covered. Will someone please do the same for movies? Or I might as well go ahead and pay Netflix some money.

I grew up in Nepal. We are kind of underdeveloped.

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