In five months, we'll have seen one significant Android update (Key Lime Pie, which will drop in the next month or so) and be 1-2 months away from whatever Android L is going to be. Apple will drop, at minimum, iOS6.1 and MS will launch WP8 and possibly an update on top of that.

Just to clarify some of the images:

All I have to say: September 12th, 2010. AKA, the Calvin Johnson "process catch" incompletion. The refs get it wrong sometimes, even the "real" ones.

I'd never admit it to a Lions fan, but that last-play catch by Calvin Johnson against the Bears ~3 years ago, the one where he was wide open, caught it, went to the ground, but was declared no-catch because he got right up and celebrated (I recall debates about the word "process") might have, possibly, maybe, perhaps,…

Since this is Endeavour, the replacement for Challenger built from spare parts, the white cover is probably older than the shuttle itself. So it's not new. It IS there for aerodynamics, though. The shuttle (even with the cap) reduces the range of the 747-200 SCA so much, owing to its weight and near brick-like…

I will concede to you on the point of your humor. I just "met" you, perhaps you can be funny. I was certainly wrong to assume you were one of those non-thinkers that reads an old Jobs quote about "screwing up" and thinks they just read the Gospel.

Your phone won't let you damage the cell. As long as you didn't buy a KIRF, your phone will shut down after reading a voltage well above the point of damage. You could probably override it by holding down the power button for an hour after it shuts down, there's a limit to how smart these things are (or a limit to how…

So what about people that run for president using their middle names? Shouldn't the ballots read Henry Perot, or Willard Romney?

I still miss the old stylus. It was great for scribbling out a messy note while I was on the go. Keyboards require more concentration. Having said that, I'm not buying a 6" to get the stylus back, nor will I have one just stuck in my pocket.

Yes. Verizon doesn't use special SIMs. They're regular USIMs as used by AT&T, T-Mo and every other carrier running a UMTS or HSPA network. USIMs are just about the only thing that LTE borrowed from GSM.

No, the smartphone "0%" isn't the battery's 0%. No smartphone made by a reputable manufacturer will let you damage the battery in normal use. Even if it hits 0%, that's comfortably higher than what it takes to damage the battery. Now, if you drew the phone down to its auto-shutdown, then kept hitting the power button…

It doesn't apply anytime or anywhere. It is bad advice.

Li-ion cells don't need calibration. They have a max voltage beyond which they won't accept additional charge (unless you like exploding batteries) and a min voltage where the cell shuts down to prevent permanent damage. Those values don't change with time, only the speed from which it goes from max to min (and vice…

EVERYONE should have a can of compressed air. If you think clouds of cheeto-dust and random filth in your keyboard is nasty when blowing it out, imagine what the inside of your phone looks like.

The battery section is very wrong. The one thing people need to know about lithium cells: you can do almost precisely dick to keep the battery from dying. It's not a Nickel based cell that you has memory effects that you need to manage. Li-ion cells are a slowly decaying chunk of metal the minute they're done making…

I wouldn't say it's the worst advice, simply because manufacturers will keep you from actually damaging your battery (in this case, the whole phone), but it's certainly bad advice.

Pain=injury. Why do you even think your body HAS pain? To weed those that can play football from those who can't? You punch someone in the arm, there's a pretty good chance it will cause a deep bruise IN the muscle, making it less effective and more prone to more severe injury. That punch damages the tissue, which…

"Google" did get rid of this in their Nexus devices as of the launch of Android 4.0 almost a year ago. The problem is that to do that, you have to get rid of the USB Mass Storage (UMS) option and replace it with the slower, flakier Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). There is a good, technical reason why you have to do…

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Because, last I checked, it's not 2005 anymore.