When I got my Motorolla Atrix, I loved the phone and hated the Operating System. Today I was pleasantly surprised by the 4.5.91 system update from AT&T by the quantity of improvements on different levels.
First of all UI is much more sharp and pleasant. In the old version we had 2 buttons doubling themselves like call and contacts which were opening the same functionality, just different tabs:
The last OS update has a much better UX, where the "Apps" is mandatory, and you can add another 3 apps on your choice, either its a call button or your favorite mobile games.
Another nice touch is that you can set and choose profiles, so for the week days you set all you need for work like calendars, TODO apps, sticky notes etc., whereas on weekends you can set home profile or create a Sunday one and choose your sailing, hiking restaurants apps on the home screen.
On the Application screen, the new system displays the market icon and provides a wide range of options on the long press like: add to home, add to group, share, uninstall. Another big improvement concerning app management is that now you can check to allow installation of non-market applications, a restriction that created a lot of trouble for mobile developers before, for me as well.
As minor minuses I would list for now a less recognizable and less attractive icons for browser, camera, voice commands and the worse one - text messaging
I keep discovering my new phone OS and I love it. Now I really feel that I am the OWNER of this phone and not the carrier.
I write about evolutionary anthropology, behavioral sciences, and related AI, particularly small, specialized Deep Neural Networks and LLMs.
AT&T Android system update pleasantly surprises with a lot of improvements
find similar posts:
Android
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Post Scriptum
The views in this article are mine and do not reflect those of my employer.
I am preparing to cancel the subscription to the e-mail newsletter that sends my articles.
Follow me on:
X.com (Twitter)
LinkedIn
Google Scholar
I am preparing to cancel the subscription to the e-mail newsletter that sends my articles.
Follow me on:
X.com (Twitter)
Google Scholar
My favorite quotations..
“A man should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” by Robert A. Heinlein
"We are but habits and memories we chose to carry along." ~ Uki D. Lucas
Popular Recent Posts
-
On June 2, 2025, Prof. Marek Figlerowicz’s team from the Polish Academy of Sciences announced that the early Polish Piast dynasty belongs ...
-
In my journey building software and managing technology teams, I've often witnessed the allure and danger of what Melissa Perri aptly na...
-
I decided to write down a few thoughts to clarify my obsessions with creating the "multitude" of AI agents that rely on the privat...
-
Physics and the laws of relativity: in parent-child relationship sound waves reach the subject after 25 years.
-
log DSC_4228.NEF
-
I am pleased with the performance and depth of the 32B Qwen MLX, running locally on my Mac Studio M1 with 64GB of RAM. 9 tokens per second ...
-
This topic is being updated, visit soon. Bibliography links: Elco Electric Launch Etek Electric Outboard Motor Project Electric Drive Syste...
-
Choice D Since we are currently renting, we started looking at the houses we could afford. This place fits our budget, but the baby blue col...
-
If you are living in Chicago, San Francisco / Silicon Valley or any major city there is a good chance that there are multiple events happeni...
-
When you decide to develop your company you have some important choices to make, many people measure success by how much revenue the company...
Most Popular Articles
-
In my journey building software and managing technology teams, I've often witnessed the allure and danger of what Melissa Perri aptly na...
-
I have noticed a very unsettling statistic on my blog. This prompted a fascinating question about AI, blogs' future, and maybe even the...
-
Prompt: What do you really see in the selfie of myself? AI: I see a volcano about to blow up and I see a lost, scared boy in front of it. ...
-
Choice D Since we are currently renting, we started looking at the houses we could afford. This place fits our budget, but the baby blue col...
-
I tested to belong to Haplogroup R1b1b2a1a1d1. Subclade R1b1b2a1a1d1* (as named by 23andMe ) or R1b1a2a1a1a4 (per FTDNA ) is a paternal (...
-
I found myself wholly emptied, the mental exhaustion where you sit in your parked car and wake up minutes later, unsure how long you’ve been...
-
Introduction: A Language Model of My Own We are surrounded by large language models: systems trained on the vastness of the internet. Models...
-
Sometimes the AI chats surprise me on a new level. Here is an interaction I just had when fixing my AIKO app's Human-AI Interaction (HAi...
-
Something subtle but powerful just landed in my AI pipeline: agent_Observer. It listens. Not to spy, but to sense the mood and intent. It ...
-
On June 2, 2025, Prof. Marek Figlerowicz’s team from the Polish Academy of Sciences announced that the early Polish Piast dynasty belongs ...
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please be polite.