Let’s start talking about me first. My Name is Mario Givago but I like to spell it as Zhivago, was born in Brazil originally but been living here in UK for ages.
Well this isn’t about me, but all about gadgets. I am obsessed about electronics from little watches to powerful PCs.
I can’t say I am a brand person, but I like good things with the right price, everyone who knows me would call me Mr Google ( yes I am crazy about Google and to be honest i don’t know where this passion came from).
I started to like gadgets when everyone had an iPod and I had my Sony Discman (how embarrassing) but I loved it and promised to stay with it for a long time.
But then the Creative (any one remember that?) I was amazed with the looks and wasn’t an iPod, so I bought one and all my friends kept asking why don’t you have an iPod, but i always liked to be different, like to show to people to that there is good things out there that can cost much less and do the same thing and you don’t need to have the same things as every one to prove that you cool. I was still cool with my Zen.
Years passed I continued with my Creative Zen then upgraded to a bigger one after year! Year 2007 came and at the time I had the latest Nokia phone out here in the UK but on the other side of the pond they had the iPhone.
At the time I was working as a flight attendant for a Canadian Airline and flying to USA very often made, so that me buy an iPhone, but somehow that didn’t appeal to me at first and I gave it up and sold it.
Time passed and the iPhone 3G came out in the UK and huge queues to buy and of course I was there to get one as well. Why? I don’t know, maybe because was the first proper touch screen phone, so I got one. As a Mac user that was divine, having all my music and phone in one device, loved it.
That same year the G1 (first android phone) was released with a fair price and a promising future, one of my friends had one and looked so poorly compared to iPhone 3G that even desperate to get out of the Apple greediness I decided to stay a little longer.
Another year (2009) came along and along came iPhone 3GS, with a huge price plan and money in advance, at the time that was insane because here in the UK we are not used to pay for phones, it was always free, but I ended up paying for it.
That same year the HTC Hero was released, it looked sexy and the HTC Sense looked tasty as well, but I wasn’t so convinced yet, one of the main things that kept me away from Android was the Apps, wasn’t many at the time and my iPhone 3GS was loaded with Apps that I used at lot and also the capability with Macbook.
But from that time I was fascinated about Android and Google, was deep in love with my Gmail (sounds sad to be in love with email) and was already following blogs and gadgets sites about Android.
Year 2010 was the year of change for better of course, Nexus One (first Google branded phone) was released at the beginning of the year and everyone (well let’s say us geeks) were amazed and happy that Google was stepping out on the game. But wasn’t until later that year that a twin of Nexus One came out with a better HTC Sense skin on the top the HTC Desire with a sleek and slim design.
But I doubt didn’t stop there (I know my start sign is Libra and even when comes to gadgets I can’t decide straight away) pure Google or HTC Sense, then I choose the Desire as my first Android phone.
Then a year later I went pure Google, got my Nexus S, oh my God how much I loved that phone, first phone that after a year I didn’t get bored with and the announcement of Galaxy Nexus got me counting the days to get it and of course I was there at Phones4U to collect it on the first day. It’s been a month with my Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (Google name each major update of a desert in alphabetical order) and it’s flawless and easy to use, huge change from previous version where a normal user would find a bit confusing, its more people oriented, but I will do my own review on Android 4.0.
To sync with my Mac at the time was a few Mac software to sync my music and photos, as a gadget lover when I am spending my money on something I want it to be mine, have my looks, my taste, do what I want it to do, have the freedom to install and uninstall any thing I want, yes I did have that with iPhone but it was jailbroken, I was voiding my guarantee, losing money on something I have paid for if anything went wrong.
Apple is a great company don’t get me wrong, I love my Macbook but the way Apple treat its clients by charging a premium rate for a phone that isn’t great as many phones out there it’s disgusting. Every single iPhone out there looks the same to me, I am not talking about hardware here, but when you slide to unlock any iPhone all you see is the app grids that you can scroll right or go back left. Now that’s when the joy comes along, joy of openness called Android and one the things made me fall in love I mean deep in love with the company.
The greatness of Android comes in sizes, shapes, prices, you can pick all that, big fan of Samsung there are plenty, HTC also plenty and the list goes on.
Every Android is different, I don’t think you will ever see two Android phones home pages looking the same, you can add apps and some amazing called widgets, weather, music, game, SMS any widget that you can think of, that will make your Android unique from any Android around the world.
Another amazing about Android was the chance to give companies that didn’t even people knew about like Asus, Huawei, every can take a bite of the market and that is a great thing for us, that makes gadgets cheaper and higher quality due the amount of competition out there.
Well said about me and what I think about gadgets and mainly Google Android things.
Thanks for reading.
Mario
