I used to think that my use of a smartphone was not smart enough. I did not use enough features to actually make the cut to comment on the ability of a smartphone. I have come to realize, however, I use my smartphone better and more efficiently for extensive number of applications than most techno savvy people do. This was one of the reasns I had convinced myself with when buying a new Apple iPhone 3GS ( - thats the newest one with all the perks). For the most part I liked the iPhone. But after a while I missed being able to multitask  and browse videos from any website other than Youtube and even not being able to  use any other program to sync my smartphone except the shitty and slow itunes. Finally fed up with the inefficiency and incosistency of the device I had to abandon it for the new and upcoming and seemingly very promising Google Nexus One.

Bought it about a week ago. Though it overcomes most of the problems with the iPhone, it fails to deliver where iPhone worked brilliantly. Google Nexus One does a great job of integrating Gmail with the phone but still fails to create an attachment feature for the email system. The screen and the resolution is definately at par with the iPhone but the screen transitions not as smooth. The GUI experince is not smooth at all. Hard to believe its a multitasking phone with no internal memory management. No aplication to reegulate or user control it. Fiortunately a tons of applications are available for it in the Android market. Not necessarily a good thing though. A lot of choice but not enough quality, almos like Google search results! 

The Android market is amknig a lot of buzz in the mobile world and attractinga  lot of people/companies. The problem: you cannot find the original application from the service provider for a service like Dropbox. Try it!

Another problem with the search feature is that application names with common words return hundreds of choices and not the one you are looking for. try searching for the hugely popular where app on Android. I wasted around an hour trying to find it today. Android market needs a clean up crew. Open OS development and free and all is find but it is frustrating when there is no quality control.

What's with the five screens ? I get that people like it but why isn't there an option to shut it off or reduce it to 1 screen to save memory or something! Google cloud thing is fine but I like to manage my phone on my desktop or a laptop. I would prefer to work on a full size computer and manage my smartphone from there. Guess what there is no app for that! No you cannot find apps on a website and have direct link to download it on your phone or your management software on the PC. A one up on iPhone is an excellent contact management in the Nexus One. You can add Facebook, Twitter and Google and Microsoft Exchange contacts easily into the phone. 

Some of things that make me pull my hair and both the smartphones fail to accomplish are the battery life, memory management and the cool looking hand gestures from 'Minority Report' (Of course, I can forgo this one for a while!) But all in all, the technology in smartphones is still not smart enough to reduce my work load. All the devices around me tend to add into my daily routine rather than seamlessly moving into it.

Update post:: The Dropbox official app is now available in the Android market. But a missing multitasking app still needs to be added to Android. Awaiting the 2.2 FroYo update!

The Politics of Economics

World has decided to change its way of thinking. With so much social understanding towards clichéd statements like great ideas are more important than when executed. What actually has lost its meaning in all of this is the right form of judgment. Nothing on its own is too good to survive and usually useless unless planned and implemented to perfection with right objectives in right priorities. Today most of the businesses try to implement a fairly good (not a great one) without a clear perspective of the objectives and goals. The best examples of these are Facebook, and recently Twitter. How do you ever start a business (at least that is what the owners call it) without setting a price model for it? I understand that not all things are about money but it is the single most important thing that drives people today or at the least keeps them able enough to believe in whatever other goals they are trying to pursue. The businesses fail to realize that they may have started a project with the imagination of social benefit but it still has to deal with the world and employ people that live in it. No one’s going to give you a free pass to life just because you care for the environment. I believe a lot of people would disagree here saying why these people shouldn’t get the free pass considering they are doing a social good. This has always been the problems with societies and their spiraling down moral fiber. All of us have to realize that it is a duty to work towards social benefits and not the other way round. Don’t put people on pedestal just because they are doing their jobs instead provide them with the appropriate compensation. Once we start to appreciate people for even the normal things they do or which they are supposed to do societies try to change the standards of merits to standards of duty. And most likely this is how we change a duty based job to a merit for duty based job.

The new internet based startups like Twitter started without a specific plan to make money. Now that venture capitalists have invested millions into the company it still does not know how to make money. Twitter has to come up with ideas to and the newest one is to have a pro user accounts for a fee. How do you not ad support a service that talks about everything and everyone all the time? If you put Google ad sense like text based ads for every 5 posts a person writes, how do you expect to see Twitter make with just the clicks? I presume even if 5% of the people click on the ads it would be a lot considering a 131% increase in March alone in the memberships. Twitter still needs to make sure it has an official Twitter desktop application to run which does not compromise the user’s privacy and makes a profit doing so. A picture based ads display on the same would mean more revenue. Ad supported twittering would also account to a lot of revenue considering all the free users would be asked to choose a subject of choice they would receive ads on every 3 hours or so. How do not make use of a network that is so big and caters to almost all the population of all the psychographics.

My endnote – people hate making successful businesses. What other conclusions do you deduce when people act without a monetary incentive in accordance with their primary goals when you have hundreds of people working for you in a company accomplishing a goal someone else created for them? It is physically impossible to have people from all the economic ranges thinking like the founders or innovators when it’s not yours.