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April, 2010

  • Choosing an Incredible Verizon Smartphone. 2010-04-26 12:01 AM.
    • Technology
    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    So I saw that Verizon Wireless is having a ridiculous promotion on the Palm Pre Plus ($49 with a second phone free) and the Pixi Plus ($29) right now, with a 2-year contract. Which reminded me that my contract ended last year and I’m long overdue for a new phone. 360 words.

May, 2010

  • HTC Incredible Road Test. 2010-05-13 1:49 AM.
    • Technology
    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    If you’ve seen my Twitter feed lately, you probably know I got an HTC Incredible (aka. Droid Incredible). It’s my first smart phone so I have nothing to compare it to. 378 words.

September, 2010

  • Froyo Arrives on the HTC Incredible. 2010-09-04 10:03 PM.
    • Technology
    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Verizon pushed Froyo (Android 2.2) to my Droid Incredible this past week. In a nutshell, the changes are unremarkable. 180 words.

March, 2012

  • ICS Virtual Keyboard. 2012-03-13 3:30 PM.
    • Technology
    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    How the crap do you close the virtual keyboard in Ice Cream Sandwich, if the app doesn’t provide a way? I love my Galaxy Nexus but sometimes I miss the HTC Incredible’s Sense UI. Particularly the HTC clock, calendar, and weather apps. 42 words.
  • When 4G Beats WiFi. 2012-03-24 10:57 AM.
    • Personal
    • Technology
    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    So here at the house we switched from FIOS Triple Play back to plain old Comcast Internet, not because there was anything wrong with FIOS – in fact, in my opinion, it’s a thousand times better than Comcast in every possible way – but because of an overall strategy to lower household expenses. So now we only have two choices for TV: Over-the-air HD television using vintage rabbit ears, or Netflix on a PS3. (Guess which one I usually pick.) And we don’t have a land line anymore. None of that is the slightest bit of concern to me, in fact I’ve wanted to “cut the cord” for a long time. 193 words.

April, 2012

  • LTE Outage?. 2012-04-02 7:45 PM.
    • Technology
    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Verizon 4G LTE has been pretty bad today south of Richmond. :/ 12 words.

May, 2012

  • Mobile Internet Obtained. 2012-05-13 1:52 PM.
    • Personal
    • Technology
    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I think I’ve mentioned before that I am on a 1 Mbps Comcast connection for the time being (until I find another place to live, where I can hook up FIOS again). You might think that this would be sufficient for most Internet tasks. At least, that’s what I thought. It works for email. And some web surfing. But unfortunately, there are these things called “streaming video” and “games.” Guess what? 1 Mbps is not enough to watch high definition streaming video. It’s barely enough to watch low definition streaming video. And remember when I could see a game on Steam and do an impulse purchase and download 8Gb of files in 15 minutes? Yeah, I can’t do that anymore. I did an impulse purchase of TERA, and then sat and watched the estimated download time remaining crawl all the way up to one and a half days. During which time, I could do absolutely nothing else on the Internet because the bandwidth was saturated. 296 words.

June, 2012