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Apple iPhone 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S3

By on Thursday, September 13, 2012

Now that Apple has announced the iPhone 5, it’s time for a side-by-side for comparison against the de facto Android flagship, the Samsung Galaxy S3. By the numbers alone, you can see that Galaxy S3 has set the bar and that the iPhone 5  is hard-pressed to match it. And the Galaxy S3 has been out for months now.

The significant advantages of the iPhone is size, weight, iOS 6, and the App Store. Size and weight is a matter of personal preference. While I like small phones, a lot of people love their phones with big-ass screens. As for iOS 6 and the App Store, both are under threat by the much-improved Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and fast-growing Android Play.

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No Easy Day

By on Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Read Mark Owen/Matt Bissonette’s No Easy Day. It’s a narrative of the author’s getting into SEAL Team 6 aka DEVGRU, his eventual involvement in the assault that ended UBL, and some of the events afterward.The book is written in a first person perspective. Normally, I’m not a fan of the first person but it’s appropriate for this case and it’s written in a straightforward, easy-to-read manner. I was done in a few hours worth of reading.

There’s really nothing new in No Easy Day if you’ve already read a few SEALS books and you’ve already narratives of the UBL raid. Sure there were some deviations from other narratives but then pretty much all the narratives deviate from each other. It could have been just another narrative, just another SEAL book except for the noise the US government had been making. Only made the book more fascinating and even raised the author’s credibility. But with or without the noise, it’s an entertaining read.

Rating: 4/5

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New Kindle Fires

By on Friday, September 7, 2012

Amazon has announced a whole raft of Kindle e-readers and tablets. But the interesting ones to me were the tablets. There are 3 of them, the Kindle Fire 8.9″ HD with 4G, the Kindle Fire 8.9″ HD, and the 7″ Kindle Fire HD. The bigger Kindle Fire HDs compete directly with the iPad while the smaller competes directly with the Google Nexus 7 and the much rumored iPad Mini. The battle of the big three is heating up even more. What’s interesting is that while Amazon started with books, Google with ads, and Apple with songs, pretty much all of them are now selling the same stuff: books, ads, songs, movies, etc. But Amazon has a huge leg up: shopping. Google and Apple would do well to get into that, maybe by buying eBay?

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