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Android Pub : Getting To Know Me

Hi, I'm Android Pub. No, I don't frequent English watering holes at the day's end (though I did spend a good time studying in the UK), Android Pub is just my handle as the publisher of Android Alliance - The Philippine's First Online Magazine for Android Users.

Why I'm writing this intro is for all readers of Android Alliance PH to understand where I'm coming from as I share my stories on my Android journey. After having written about my first Android, a Motorola Dext, I was about to write about my second Android. Then it dawned on me that it would be best to tell you the story of what I do and why I need two Androids - ALWAYS. So here goes...

A little bit about myself. I'm an advertising executive. I used to work in a multinational ad agency in Makati. I left the agency a few years ago to slip into semi-retirement. As I write, I am at the threshold of starting a new engagement with another multinational agency, not as an employee but as a strategic alliance partner.

I am also a multipreneur and a Certified Digital Marketer. I blog. I write. I take pics...loads of them. If you're wondering what these pics are, these are mainly pictures of the billboard advertisements in EDSA, SLEX, C5, NLEX and elsewhere in the country. I take a lot of pics of advertisements as well when travelling abroad. Thus a phone with a good quality camera is very necessary.

I also play golf and usually work while playing. Hence the need for a phone that is easy to use in between shots when people I work with bug me via phone or SMS in the middle of the game.

This picture shows me planking on the golf course while my son and his teacher from school are watching. This is how I literally take Steve Jobs' urging to Stay Foolish.

More about me soon as it leads up to "My Second Android".

Cheers!
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To Err Is Human : More on MotoBlur

This is the post where I can sort of let my hair down so to speak. For more than a year now, I have referred to my first Android phone as a Motorola Blur.

I have actually missed the fact that it is a Motorola Dext as seen in the pictures below.

I said to myself, "How could I have missed that?". Frankly, there is only one explanation to it. Like a kid who opens his new presents on Christmas morning, I was eager to dive into my first Android last November 2010 when I bought it in Singapore, easily dismissing what was on the package. Nevertheless, the proof is shown below. It is a Motorola Dext.

I made this emergency post because The Scribbler called my attention that one of our readers, Nikki Vias, made mention that Motorola Blur or Motoblur is not a phone but a software or user interface which collates the updates on social networks in one place.

Aptly put, Motoblur is a push-based service focused on social networking developed by Motorola. It aims at functional similarity to Palm's Synergy, including such features as Remote Wipe. Motoblur includes a variety of widgets which combine various social networking portals such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter as well as other services (news or weather reports) all in one place. Feeds and data are regularly pushed to these widgets.

Blur is the UI, Dext is my phone. MotoBlur is not only on Dext, it is also on Motorola Atrix 4G, CLIQ (DEXT), Backflip, Devour, Flipout, Charm, Droid Pro, Flipside, DEFY, Bravo, Droid X, Droid 3, Droid 2, and Motorola Droid Bionic.

Apologies to all who may have been briefly confused as I was. The fact that when I would turn on my phone and the Blur logo appeared did not help in reminding me that the phone was a Dext.

Oh well, to err is human...and that's why we need exobrains like Android phones!





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