Really well said. I came here to make a similar comment but you said it better than I could have. I do wonder which Android phone you are using because I have not experienced the crashing and glitching you describe with either of my android phones. Completely agree on the battery life issue. We sat through a boring 3…

THANK YOU. I cannot stand Samsung hardware or software. I'm not sure how it became kind of the dominant "Android" maker when HTC made such better products, both on the hardware and even custom UI side of things (I actually kinda liked Sense back in the day).

Ha, I just replied to you in your thread. In general, I agree with you :-)

Android is better than iOS is better than Android. In that order.

I use(d) both, and while I'm pretty dead set on Android as my phone OS of choice, I feel I'm going to need to play devil's advocate and defend iOS since I know most Lifehacker readers are very pro-Android.

Android is surely the more powerful operating system, but it suffers from some pretty serious problems, especially…

Notify Me! will do the pop up/wake up combo for any* app you want. Last time i checked, it was free. Between this and lightflow i never miss a notification

"You'll get the sound quality you expect from Bose". Very diplomatic statement there.

Not at all! If it works for you, that's perfect. That's the beauty of Android, in a nutshell. You don't have to conform to some cookie cutter standard.

No, my rule of thumb is don't be stupid, and avoid foreign apps. If it doesn't come in English, then I won't download it.

But but but but... But fragmentation, Whitson! If you don't immediately upgrade to the newest possible iDevice, Apple will be fragmented!

I've used an empty prescription vial for months that works great for keeping ear bud cords useable.

Shit, I've been using Open/Libre for about 5-6 years; haven't missed Microsoft one bit.

I don't think there has ever been such a landslide Hive Five as this.

I'm glad the reign of Skype is over. Now only if the people I know knew that...

You're thinking of Mini USB. Micro USB doesn't wear out, as they very smartly moved the latch out of the female connector and onto the male connector.

I love Monoprice, but I do wish they'd partner with ShopRunner or something to offer free shipping. I must admit, the idea of paying $5 in shipping for a $5 order of cables is a big deterrent for me. I often end up going with something on Amazon Prime instead.

Or just stop using twitter, if a service is being hostile to it's users why keep using it? Twitter would be nothing if it was not for these apps and the users that like using them.

What the heck are you doing to your Micro USB connector to wear it out in a few uses? I've got one cable that's about 3" long with USB on one end, micro usb on the other and have been using it with my original Kindle Fire since it first came out.. Maybe it's the quality of the plug. I've also got two other cables…

Very true. And unless you use some sort of secure VPN service, you should really count on every site you hit and every internet-based service you use to be logging and tracking your usage.

I would not say an electric razor is quicker or cheaper. It is only more convenient. Assuming the shaves are identical (which they aren't, but for the sake of this thread) I can wet shave very quickly. Once you have the hang of it, it only takes a quick lather and a few well executed passes and done. My electric…