Category: cell phone

Why the QR Code Does Not Fail

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The internet is full of stuffy close minded “I’m popular I can change the world with my opinion” dust ball morons who can only hook up with a woman if he pulled up in an Italian car and waved bills around. They are bashing the whole concept of QR codes.

QR code is perfect for guys like me. Guy who hook up with women, based on his looks and personality and creativity.
When I am in a club, and I meet a woman and the music is loud, and I have been pretending to hear and understand or even care what she is saying, but I hear the distinct sound of “well can I have you number?” I just whip out my phone and boop. There it is. The QR code is on my back ground. If she is smart enough to know what it is, she will be impressed and I will have scored me a smart one.
If she does not know what it is, she will be impressed if I take the time to explain it to her and show her how to use it on her phone. just scroll the screen to the far right… There it is. My QR Code that puts my name, number email address and website, in her address book. After she scans, scroll my screen back to the default center position like all good 5 screen androids are. And bam, she has all of the contact she needs.
Business card replacement. Save a tree, put a fricken QR code on your phone and evolve yourself.

QR Code Tech Site

QR Code Tech Site

Now the good reason to put a QR code on your website, and it have content that is only accessible via barcode scan, Is yuppie elitism. Let them feel as if they are getting something that only the rich and smart can have. They will pay double price for that crap. Yuppies are just that way.

Why hand out coupons instead of putting the products directly on sale? For the bait. That’s all. It’s all it’s own advertisement. Make people feel like they are getting something special at a special price and that no one in the world can have it but a select few, They will buy it up.

I myself check all QR codes I see just to see what’s on the other side.

GEOCaching, One of the largest scavenger hunts to date. Take it up a knotch and leave a QR code in a random place and have it leave a clue to the next QR code. To eventually find your $5-$10 you left behind in the final spot to compensate for any fuel lost.

From Chris Pirillo

360 Degree Camera For Iphone 4S

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With your Mouse and pointer, hit play, for the video to start. Once the video loads and begins to stream and you hear Chris start talking, click down with in the video and move your mouse left or right in the viewable area of the video and watch what happens.

Chris Pirillo from Chris.Pirillo.com has helped fund a great ap and a gadget add on for your Iphone 4s, to record full 360 degree panoramic view. Allows you to record in 360 degrees of the position the Iphone is in. The app is called “GoPano”
What can you don with a camera like this? unsuspected surveillance of the old couple behind you while you look like you are recording two birds in a meadow. Security of your house while you take off to some other state.
Or just a zillion and one hacks that can be done to this to bring the GoPano into more uses.

Ok you didn’t get your Iphone 5

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Ok, so the Iphone 5 never happened and you got the Iphone4 with expansion pack. Do you really care?
Did you really think they would pop out a new Iphone only one year after the release of the Iphone4?
Iphone 4s sounds about right.
Sure you are upset and next week you will buy one like an apple zombie. They do this to you every single year.
You apple freaks give me a head ache.
First disappointment, then redemption with a hokus pokis act of a long winded story as to why the new phone is cool and you need one because it allows you to do something you could do already. And now it’s the “must have” phone. Every single year you do this.
In the end. The Iphone is just a phone. In the end the Iphone has a crappy battery life. If you use all of the cool features you added to your Iphone, you will drain the battery and not be able to make a phone call. yet every year, knowing it’s like this, march like a good little mac zombie and buy one.
Get over it, quit griping and start buying your new Iphone 4s already so you can be one of the first people say “yeah I bought one, they are awesome you should get one” and then when everyone gets one you can say “yeah I’ve had mine, I know it all, big deal” in the most smug manor. Like all mac tards.
Oh don’t forget when you are bragging about it, line for line, quote the article you read that hypnotized you so you sound like you know tech.

Hands On Droid Bionic

Posted onAuthorTech Review Man


The feel of the Droid Bionic is of good quality. This phone is pretty heavy, so it’s weight is greater than what the Bionic looks like it would weight. 5.60 oz is pretty heavy for 5.02″ x 2.63″ x 0.43″ dimensions. 4.30″ screen area quite large. Compared to any other android or Iphones I have held, this thing is the big screen tv of cell phones. The 1080p 8mp camera is probably the largest bonus. Software moved smooth and fast. Response and reaction super fast. All other android phones I have held moved nothing like the Droid Bionic. I saw none of the freezing I normally see on my Android. really makes me not like my ZIO. At all.
4g fast, just like using wifi on my comcast connection at home.

Sanyo Zio Review after 2 Months Use

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This is a follow up to the original review of the Sanyo Zio that I did when I first traded in my T-Mobile phone. I switched from T-mobile to Cricket.

After two months of using this device, I have to say that I am sure sick of shutting down programs so I can save the battery. Advanced task killer is a great program for shutting programs down. but there is no application that turns other applications off to stay off. So all of the apps on the Zio keep restarting just seconds after turning them off. The best way I know that seems to work. is go into the settings area of the phone, under Applications/ Running Services. Find the Application that keeps restarting and turn the thing off there. Why do they not make the programs any more with menu options to turn the apps off and conserve battery?
The touch screen is all over the place. Typing a message has become the longest, daunting task.
I have no resorted to getting a program called “Hey Tell”. Lets me record a short message and send it through internet. Works great on my wifi system. because I sure don’t get enough signal at home with this thing, to send a voice message.
Search opens everytime I do something that takes a lot of focus.
Sometimes it’s the web browser that opens. I have so much as held the thing with 4 fingers between both hands, so I knew I wasn’t accidentally bumping any buttons.
Everytime I pull down the top menu to get the short cut items of preloaded processes, the top slider gets stuck. The fix is to swipe again as if I hadn’t yet. Frustrating. Now I look like I have a scratch and sniff phone.
some useless apps that run all the time, you have to “root” your Zio just to disable them. and what I mean by disable, you have to remove the apps. Hope android market has the same apps, if i ever want to sell this.
Zio in no way compares to the G1. Google’s G1 blew the Zio out of the water, with older firmware and all.

I sure wish Google would pay more attention to Cricket and make something of them. Just a bit of a nudge with a handful of phones just for Cricket, would be nice. Like the G3 ??????

Review score:
6/10 useability
6/10 signal
9/10 appearance
4/10 battery life
3/10 ease of use
Full score is 5/10

Android Apps 2011 – our top choice

Posted onAuthorTech Review Man

Our top 5 Android apps for your Android based phones.

ixMAT Barcode Scanner
a href=”https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ixellence.ixmat.android.communityamp;feature=search_result”Barcode scanner/a for your Android phone. This one scans a large choice of barcodes.

Dungeon Defender
object width=”560″ height=”345″ classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” /param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” /param name=”src” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/BeyQ-PC_cwc?version=3amp;hl=en_USamp;rel=0″ /param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /embed width=”560″ height=”345″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/BeyQ-PC_cwc?version=3amp;hl=en_USamp;rel=0″ allowFullScreen=”true” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” //object
Online Role playing game, for your android device.

a href=”http://truxtertech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/d-game.png”img class=”size-full wp-image-1380″ title=”d-game” src=”http://truxtertech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/d-game.png” alt=”barcode to game” width=”158″ height=”158″ //a

Dungeon Defender barcode

Wifi Toggle Switch
a quick a href=”https://market.android.com/details?id=com.curvefish.widgets.wifionofffeature=search_result”switch/a you can place on your main screen to toggle wireless signal connection on and off. So you don’t have to flip through the main menu and then the settings

Rev3Remote
let’s you get quick access to a href=”https://market.android.com/details?id=com.awc.revremote.freefeature=search_result”Revision 3/a content and videos. Works better than the revision 3 certified ap.

Hey tell. Hey tell is a way to send your friends short messages, voice messages, via your internet service. Cuts down on minute usage. If you have wifi, its free to use.

WordPress
For those of you with an android phone who also run a website that uses a href=”https://market.android.com/details?id=org.wordpress.androidfeature=search_result”wordpress/a, then this ap is probably the best find you will get for your android phone. EVER!

Google Buys Motorolla Mobility 12.5B

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Google is purchasing Mototolla Mobility for $12.5 b
That’s right. Google is buying a cell phone company.
Now maybe Google can deliver what they hinted we would get with android, to begin with.
Anyone remember the hint that if Google sold you a phone for dirt cheap, they could bundle it with ads?
I mean imagine buying a brand new phone for $5 or something cheap, and paying a monthly fee of $5-$10 as long as you get video ads and text ads and picture ads sent to your phone on a regular basis. GPS always on and you getting local discounts and deals.
Does this mean that Android phone will become a bit more reliable? does this mean that some some Android phone willl have better o/s implementation and optimization? Or is that against the law?
Let’s see if Google delivers.
News Source for the purchase

Why not optimize for Mobile

Posted onAuthorTech Review Man

Why not optimize for Mobile
because mobile devices need to evolve and become more compatible with today’s standards. Why would we roll back our current knowledge and technology to be more compatible with the hardware that is half hearted and incomplete but being sold as new technology just because it is touch screen?
Touch screen is many years old and a fail attempt back in the day. Nothing new is going on with touch screen to make it any better than it was 12 years ago. If we have to make our websites have a special section just for certain mobile devices, then the manufacturers of said mobile devices need to get with the times.
The longer we cater to the needs of the hardware manufacturers, the longer we will be stuck in this rut of no evolution.
Time and time again I have to warn you, that software should always exceed the hardware, and hardware manufacturers need to get off their rump and advance or stay on the porch and call their junk beta and prototype and quit pawning it off as current technology and finished product.
There is no reason that I should create a website m.truxtertech.com .
If you are on a mobile browser and can not see this website then your mobile browser sucks and need to get one that works. Try Opera moni browser.

No Smartphones

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There is no such thing as a “smartphone”.
They do’nt exist. If anything, there is a touch screen piece of junk that makes you even more stupid than before.
Touch screen? what the heck? why are suddenly amazed by a touch screen? back in 1997 I worked in a gas station that had touch screen cash registers, they used a form of the wayne system cash register. After a full day’s shift of working those registers, my fingertips would hurt from pounding the screen to make it work. All touch screens eventually become misscalibrated.
The most frustrating part of a touch screen is hitting the delete button 100 times out of frustration, and instead of it deleting, it types the letter “L”. So now you not only have the thing you wanted deleted, you now have 100 letter “L”s on your screen.
Your text messages to your friends you eventually give up at trying to fix them, so now your friends get these indecipherable messages.
God forbid you have a bandage on your hand. You may as well be dead to the world because the touch screen will never function with that. Been there.
The auto correct may as well be Opie from family guy.

This is old tech and is useless. Why are we migrating to a fail of a project? It’s almost as bad as paying $2000 extra dollars for a television just because it has 3d, and only 2 pair of glasses. Because you know extra glasses will cost a fortune. On top of that, all of the 3d shows, and it’s typical high-def, will be lower def than regular, because well…. two different technologies.
Now. To Quote a saying from Rita Mae Brown’s novel Sudden Death
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. ”
and no that was not Einstein nor Benjamin Franklin.
but here we are. Using the same failed technology, and it looks like we are headed into a tech world that is totally dependent on touch screen and built on the whole portability system of the phone, like tablets and the like.
We are pushing cell phones and tablets out that run on cell phone operating systems, with these half hearted web browser displays, yet they play racing games and can do graphic design? Well let’s motivate these manufacturers to create better web browsing for these devices. Why we should not design special sections of our websites for mobile browsers.

Let’s keep the phones as just that…. phones. keep the computers as computers and maybe just a device that is in between, let’s not move everything to touch screen (because it’s easier than carrying around a keyboard everywhere). I hate the fact that we can not calibrate this crap for ourselves.