I was asked how I feel about Google Assistance rather than Siri. To be honest, I rarely used Siri for anything “assistant-y”, nothing beyond simple voice control items at most like setting an alarm or starting a timer. I never found Siri to be very good at more advanced things so stuck to the basics. I tried using Siri for …
iOS to Android Challenge – Some First Impressions
Some random notes from my first few outings with the Pixel XL I miss a physical home button that is easily accessible. Having to click the power button on the side to wake this thing is not as efficient as a quick home button tap that also reads your fingerprint. Sure, I found later that holding it and sliding my finger …
Dexed hits PS VR Tuesday: A Vibrant VR Shooter From Ninja Theory
Hello to all PlayStation gamers! This is Fran Mead from Ninja Theory to let you know that our VR shooter Dexed will be available soon for PlayStation VR! At its heart, Dexed is an on-rails VR shooter inspired by games like Panzer Dragoon where you wield dual blasters of fire and ice, taking down enemies whilst journeying through elegant and …
iOS to Android Challenge – Find My Phone / Friends
Here is another unanticipated challenge. I occasionally use “Find My Phone” to help my wife find her phone. Since we are on the same AT&T plan I can look up where it is on a map or get it to play a sound even if the speaker is set to silent so we can hear where it is. As of now, …
iOS to Android Challenge – Photos and Videos Sync
Keeping a central repository of my photos and videos is a top priority, and a fairly major challenge. I currently have 40,000+ photos and 2,000+ videos. These are all personal/family photos and not something I’d want to lose. Over the years I’ve switched from having all my media on my PC, to syncing it to various cloud services. Currently my main, authoritative …
iOS to Android Challenge – Quick Win App Migrations
Below are the applications that have cross-platform equivalents or were otherwise quick wins to move or install. I’ve indicated if there were any extra steps needed other than installing and logging in, for example if they needed to be re-purchased. I haven’t included any applications which required extensive setup as those will be tackled with individual posts. This list is mainly …
iOS to Android Challenge – Visual Voicemail
One of the earliest missing things I noticed was the lack of “Visual Voicemail”. On an iPhone you can see a list of your voicemails along with who they are from. It is easy to pick and choose which to listen to and is much more convenient than what feels like an incredibly old approach of following voice guided prompts and pressing …
iOS to Android Challenge – Email
Ahh, email, it seems a necessity, but really, my personal email account is more of a record of purchases and a lot of spam and unneeded advertisements than it is anything important, still, an email client is needed. The Pixel wants me to use the default Gmail client of course, which would be fine if I was using a Gmail email …
iOS to Android Challenge – Music. Failed! [Update: Fixed!]
As a musician and someone who was brought up with music being a major part of my life, with memories of my father being in bands as long as I can remember and going to live shows, also as long as I can remember, making sure the music situation on the Pixel is working well is important. I’ve bounced from streaming …
iOS to Android Challenge – Calendar & Contacts Sync
So, now that I have this shiny new Pixel XL I need to make sure it’s productive. That cannot really be done without my calendar and contacts being on here. As mentioned, plenty of times in other posts, I will be keeping other iOS device and will be using the “family” features of iCloud such as shared family calendars. Due …