AT&T vs StraightTalk

September 11, 2012

I have been using iPhones since August 2007, which includes the original iPhone to the iPhone 3G to the iPhone 4 and now the iPhone 4S. I have tried a few of them jail broken, but not in the last 2 years, and when I did it was usually for a few days or an older iPhone.

When Google dropped the price of the Galaxy Nexus during Google IO 2012, I bought one. For a while I used it with my AT&T sim card and in mid August I bought a StraightTalk sim card and a 1 month service card.

In some other posts I will give my thoughts on the 2 phones, but in the post, I will be listed my tested data speeds using the SpeedTest app on each. For each sets of test, all apps on the devices were closed and then the SpeedTest app was reopened. Each phone is running the latest os available.

iPhone 4S 3G data chip is:
HSDPA 14.4 Mbps / HSUPA 5.8 Mbps

Galaxy Nexus 3G data chip is:
HSDPA 21 Mbps / HSUPA 5.76 Mbps

All tests are:
iPhone 4S is AT&T
Nexus is StraightTalk or AT&T
Ping in ms / DL in Kbps / UL in Kbps

Moe’s – Irmo, SC – 9/10 at 8:15pm
iPhone 4S – 135ms / 6850dl / 377ul
iPhone 4S – 87ms / 6745dl / 295ul
Nexus ST – 218ms / 4355dl / 742ul
Nexus ST – 134ms / 4621dl / 321ul

Cayce, SC – 9/11 at 8:45am
iPhone 4S – 109ms / 8106dl / 191ul
iPhone 4S – 105ms / 7094dl / 301ul
Nexus ST – 193ms / 4939dl / 949ul
Nexus ST – 217ms / 4609dl / 729ul

The Vista – Columbia, SC – 9/11 at 11:55am
iPhone 4S – 117ms / 2432dl / 235ul
iPhone 4S – 101ms / 2651dl / 256ul
Nexus ST – 234ms / 978dl / 855ul
Nexus ST – 219ms / 2855dl / 227ul

Cayce, SC – 9/11 at 2:45pm
iPhones 4S – 98ms / 9069dl / 738ul
iPhones 4S – 105ms / 7190dl / 769ul
Nexus ST- 213ms / 4434dl / 1120ul
Nexus ST – 208ms / 3727dl / 1098ul
Nexus ATT – 209ms / 4413dl / 1109ul
Nexus ATT – 209ms / 4397dl / 1117ul
iPhone 4S – 119ms / 6055dl / 978ul
iPhone 4S – 116ms / 4903dl / 718ul

More will follow…

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Linode plus iPad plus Wireless Keyboard

April 25, 2012

So, I am primarily a Mac user, my main phone is an iPhone 4S, I use an iPodtouch for my music & podcasts and I watch Hulu and Netflix on my iPad. So, to write a short blog post about Linux may seem odd to me.

I actually have an Ubuntu VM I use on occasion on my MacBook Pro, and it does do some things very well. I have had the chance to meet the gang from Linode at POSSCON in 2011 and 2012. They offer a great Linux distro hosting service, and I recommend checking it out if you are in the market or are interested in a web hosted Linux distro. I also came across this nice article on Linux Journal about a guy that switched to Linode hosted Linux VM and connects to it with his iPad.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/swap-your-laptop-ipad-linode

If you live in the eastern part of the US, I highly recommend attending POSSCON in 2013.

http://www.posscon.org/

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Web Apps vs Native Apps

August 11, 2011

So, I thought I would write a little post on my views of a few apps I use a good bit. For starters, I feel I should say I use an iPhone 4 and DO NOT plan to switch to an Android device, even though I use several Google services. If I ever get an Android device, it will be a Nexus device and also a 2nd phone.

Google Reader – This is my main web surfing and article aggregating tool. I follow more than 50 blogs and this app is great for that. After trying several native apps, I have found that the easiest way to keep your read flags in sync with your Google Reader account, is to use the Google Reader webpage in a browser. I find the mobile version of the webpage very easy to use on a mobile device browser, and the site is even easy to use on a desktop browser. My main issue with the native apps is the polling they would have to do each time you synced the app. It would have to upload your read flags and started articles and then download any new articles. After several uses throughout the day, I would have my read flags reset, which was a huge pain.

Google+ – I have only been using the Google+ service for 2 weeks or so, and the few times I have used the new iPhone native app was frustrating. It takes longer to refresh than the Google+ webpage. Enough so, it is very noticeable. I think the update from the last few days, but the webpage does from what I can tell everything the native app does.

GMail – Well, the iPhone mail client is really good. I have recently figured out how to do GMail labels in it, as the app just treats GMail labels like IMAP folders. Once I get this down, I will likely be a lot happier. But, I have to say, managing your inbox, archiving and labeling are much easier to handle in the GMail mobile webpage than on the iPhone mail client.

Those are a few takes on a few apps I use on my mobile device.

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Apple Post Apple TV iOS 4.1 Firmware

September 28, 2010

I am still expecting Apple to announce an application SDK and App Store for the Apple TV. Or, maybe AirPlay will be way more useful with streaming almost anything from an iOS device to an Apple TV, so it can be displayed on a TV. Just think if you could stream playing Angry Birds on your iPhone to your Apple TV, then the iPhone becomes a remote and gaming console for your TV.

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/09/28/apple-posts-new-ios-based-appletv-firmware/

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Blackberry services being suspended in UAE and Saudi Arabia

August 1, 2010

Until an acceptable solution is reached, the UAE is suspending Blackberry services on October 11th. It also appears that Saudi Arabia has already suspended Blackberry Services.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-services-to-be-suspended-in-the-uae-starting-october-11th/

Thanks for checking out my article, and feel free to stop by and check out my mobile device applications http://www.pruetsoftware.com/.

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Nexus One vs iPhone4 Benchmarks

July 26, 2010

I gathered these numbers from the following links.

Android link:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/07/android-22-froyo.ars/5

iPhone link:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/06/iphone-4.ars/9

Sunspider – measured in secs (lower is better)
Google V8 (higher is better)

Nexus One – Android 2.1
Sunspider – 14,256
Google V8 – 65

Nexus One – Android 2.2
Sunspider – 5,795
Google V8 – 287

iPad
Sunspider – 10,100 (was listed as 10.1 millisecs)
Google V8 – 101 / 86.3

iPhone4
Sunspider – 10,900 (was listed as 10.9 millisecs)
Google V8 – 83.4 / 66.6

iPhone 3GS
Sunspider – 14,200 (was listed as 14.2 millisecs)
Google V8 – fail / 49.3

iPhone 3G
Sunspider – 41,400 (was listed as 41.4 millisecs)
Google V8 – fail / 23.0

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Monster Motorized Lego Chess Set

June 13, 2010

If you love Legos and Chess, you have to check out this huge motorized Lego chess set. Includes a 8:49 long YouTube clip of the set in action.

http://gizmodo.com/5561977/100000-lego-bricks-make-for-one-hell-of-a-robotic-chess-set

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So, how sharp is the screen on the iPhone4

June 13, 2010

I bought a 4GB iPhone 2G a month after they first came out at the discounted price. Then a few months after the 3G model came out, I picked up a 8GB model and have been using it since. I am planning to pre-order a iPhone4 16GB model next week. I have wanting to see some high res photos of the new and old screens side by side, so you can get a goo idea of the true screen resolution, not all the blog crops that keep coming up.

Well, Robert Scoble has a very high resolution image of the new iPhone4 screen and it is pretty impressive.

Article:
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/06/13/iphone-4-display-all-high-resd-up/

Link to the image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/4695267529/sizes/l/in/photostream/

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What is SaaS?

June 6, 2010

I just a read a little about SaaS and I thought I would share some of what I learned.

You may be using SaaS and not even know it. Some examples are:
– Web based access to applications you use at your office, like a web mail version of your companies Outlook email.
– Running a network based application, where you run a link that points to a network located application, and it installs locally. When updates or patches are applied to this network application, the next time you run the link, you get the updates and patches.

This also allows for simplified management of a centralized location of an application, meaning the application only has to be maintained in one location, even if it is used across the web or a large corporate network.

Another benefit, is companies can offer there applications using a SaaS model across the web and offer access to it using a monthly subscription service instead of a large upfront cost.

More information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service

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What is Hadoop?

June 1, 2010

I have been to several software code camps and conference where Hadoop was mentioned and demoed. I am still not 100% of all the uses of Hadoop, but with all the buzz words about computing moving to the Cloud, this is worth reading about. Hadoop is based on Java and is owned by the Apache Software Foundation.

Hadoop uses 2 main concepts:
– HDFS or Hadoop Distributed File System
– Map Reduce engine

The first, HDFS allows for rack aware distributed files across a large cluster of networked computers, or nodes. In some cases these files are replicated on 2 or more computers, which eliminates the need for a RAID setup. This file system is also ideal for very large files.

The second, MapReduce allows for distributing and/or sharing the processor workload across this large cluster of networked computers, or nodes. Since HDFS is rack aware, MapReduce can put the workload on the same rack or box the data is on.

There are several large companies using Hadoop in one aspect; like Yahoo, Amazon, IBM, Google, Sun and many others.

If you want to learn more, and I feel it is worth a read if you are interested in Cloud computing.

http://hadoop.apache.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadoop

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