Bye Bye Atrix HD

 Bye Atrix HD

Today I listed my Motorola Atrix HD for sell, I can tell you for sure, I will miss this phone when it is gone. We have had good times together, it has been through a lot with me. It is also what made me start developing. Not sure what will come of this and where android will take me.

Well like I said, we have been through a lot. Battery mod, ROM testing, many drops/falls, and some bricking. Thank god for Matt Groff, leader of batakang, or my phone would to this day probably be bricked. Just two days ago I was on Swappa and found a Galaxy Nexus for an awesome price, and you can't pass that up. So in a single click of the mouse it is on to a different phone.

I feel kind of a bond with this phone, as it kind of started off my android development. I mean 6 months ago I was an Apple using sheep that had done no more than Jailbreak and root an Inspire 4g. I mean I flashed the heck out of the 4g, but it was never mine. I put hours of learning and developing for the AHD, that was mine. Not to mention I can honestly say I have come to enjoy the xda AHD community.

Well we all know how useful it is to develop for a Nexus device at my level of knowledge. So I am concerned on where I will go from here. Another Moto phone in my future? Well absolutely! The thing is when? Hopefully the same Motorola devs will still be around when I get back. Who knows a lot can happen in just a few months, I guess I can just hope for the best.

So with this all being said Joker 2.0 and another ROM I am currently working on with Matt Groff, will be all I have for the locked bootloader Atrix. I will be on the lookout for something decently priced in need of a dev, hopefully Motorola, but until then I will be amongst all of the normal phone users.   

Android the Best Mobile OS?

      So I recently decided to make the move from IOS to Android.  Some people have made the same move and others have moved to IOS from Android.  One thing is for sure, Android is improving greatly and IOS is falling off.  For my first post I will tell exactly why I feel this way and hopefully bring anyone who reads this to understand my thought process and agree with me. 

      Lets start with IOS, which in all respect, is a pretty great OS.  There are set limitations by IOS, restricting users from doing almost anything to customize their experience.  That is fine for some also, but using the exact same UI for two years, no thanks just kill me.  IOS does do some things well like their app store, music player, easy-to-use feel, quick access to almost anything, and that is just a few.  Lets be honest before ICS, IOS out performed Android greatly.  So this is not an article meant to take anything away from IOS, because in what IOS does, it does it well.  

      Android on the other hand, in the past, has been horrible.  Android has been slow, unreliable, dull, difficult to use, and ugly.  That is all before ICS, which is fast, easy to use, fun, and down right sexy.  ICS is already out of date and we are looking at 4.2 JB (which in my opinion is only slightly better than ICS) so let us skip over ICS and move on.  

     4.2 JellyBean, it has a ring to it, a certain roll of the tongue.  This OS, ships loaded on the Nexus 4, this is what the android community needed.  People look for things with an "Apple Feel", you know the feeling of quality, the feeling of ease, the feeling of speed.  That is what, in the past, only Apple had.  Not anymore Android brought it this time, and they did a damn good job.  Widgets on lock screen, quick setting in the notifications center, and a re-vamped clock (just to state a few), are a step in the right direction.  That is just for the OS though.  We also have phones coming out for android more powerful than ever expected, I see a shift from IOS to Android in the future.

     So we all need to use these OS and decide which one is right for us at this point.  IOS feels dated, if you used the 3gs, you have used the 5.  Android has changed for the good, with a better setup than ever before in every upgrade they release.  The SG3, Nexus 4, Note II, DNA, and Razr Maxx HD those are fresh and new, ready for more attention than the iPhone.