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Ah yes, the big leap away from the Apple ecosystem.. it was bound to happen sooner or later.

But wait, this doesn’t mean that I am completely leaving it.. maybe just their phone line? I recently bought a new phone, as an upgrade to my dying, uber slow, ancient, REALLY slow, irrelevant iPhone 3G.

I’d like to think that I was really patient with this phone that I was able to use it for 5 years, whereas most people would probably just upgrade whenever a new model came out. Well, not everyone has that privilege to purchase an upgrade, let alone a brand new model especially an Apple product. That’s when I started looking for other options.

It was a tough decision but in the end, I decided to try the Android OS for a change. Before, I wasn’t into the idea of even trying it at all, let alone consider.. but as I did my research, I realized that in some ways, it has more pros than cons versus an iPhone.

Say hello to my new phone, the LG Nexus 4!

Note: All comments beyond this point are based from my observations from using this phone. Opinions from using it personally. Just a heads up for anyone who might come across my entry and not agree.. I’m looking at you, serious Android and Apple fanboys/girls who feel the need to ALWAYS defend your chosen OS.

You wanna know what’s more embarrassing other than being a newbie iPad user? The fact that I’ve had an iPad for a YEAR but I’ve started using it just recently. =)) I haven’t found a use for it last year, and it just became paperweight most of the time.

See, I’m not really an iPad person. I prefer iPhones or the iPod Touch because it’s smaller, and easier to bring on the go. Plus more apps are compatible with it.. exhibit a: Have you seen how ridiculous Instagram looks in iPad? They’ve undergone so many upgrades and updates but they still cannot manage to develop an iPad version. Ridiculous!!

A little bit of background: The iPad was bought together with my laptop last year. Originally my dad’s but I guess he likes his phone too much to give this gigantic tablet a chance.

Until recently.. when I decided out of the blue to crack its insides open. Suddenly my iPad went from something IDGAF-about to I-have-to-have-this-with-me-at-all-times kind of item. I wish I have done this sooner to save money on the actual books that I’ve bought. :))

So yeah, for the past couple of days I’ve been exploring Cydia and Installous nonstop and since then I’ve filled my iPad with junk games. The first thing I did as soon as I got Cydia was to find the fix to hide that pesky Newsstand app. Bye bye, worthless iOS feature! Good riddance!

This is how my iPad looks right now. Lol I feel like I’ve lived under a rock for the past two years. Everything about it just looks cool to me right now.

Very neat and organized, just the way I like it. What are your current must-have apps on your iOS device? Preferably games. 🙂

Doing the necessary backups before finally saying goodbye to Snow Leopard and a big, big hello to Lion.

I hope I don’t chicken out again. Or maybe to chicken out is a good idea, since according to some reviews Lion isn’t that good at all.

Yup, I’m using Time Machine for the very first time.

There’s always a first time for everything

The saddest news in the history of Apple universe greeted my blurry eyes this afternoon after waking up from a 10-hour sleep from last night. When I got up, I did the usual: Morning (in this case, afternoon) bathroom rituals, and head infront of the computer to check on my social networking sites and see if there are any updates for me.

When I got to tumblr, my dashboard was flooded with posts related to Steve Jobs. Photos, tumblr-user-made graphics, inspirational quotes, and videos about him. I got confused and didn’t know what was going on. Some of the reasons I had in mind were a) maybe he suddenly released the iPhone 5 while the world was sleeping and thought that was a smart move hence the inspirational quotes (lol sorry I just woke up at that time and death was the last thought in my mind), b) he did something definitely out of the box this time like going back to headlining Apple as the CEO after a snoozefest performance about the new iPhone/Pod models, and d) he passed away earlier today (this I figured out after a couple of pages of backreading).

Unfortunately my final guess was the reason for this sudden Steve Jobs news flow on my dashboard. 🙁

RIP Steve Jobs