Samsung Galaxy S4
News, Technical ·Tuesday April 30, 2013 @ 22:15 EDT (link)
My Samsung Galaxy S4 phone arrived today; they really did send it overnight as promised, even though the estimated arrival date was the 6th. So far I am very happy with it, although there was a slight glitch with T-Mobile showing the phone with no data plan at all rather than the unlimited one I had selected; but that was fixed (while at the Wild Ginger on 116th restaurant tonight enjoying the first sushi I've had in a long time). At home I was on WiFi, and it didn't show that I didn't have a data plan until I checked at the restaurant (I wanted to search for Yelp reviews).
Given that the last time I had a cell phone was around 2003, in Memphis (it was stolen and Verizon wouldn't use its GPS to locate it and required me to pay out the contract, souring me on cell phones for a while), and that that one wasn't "smart" at all in comparison, this phone is a wonder… I'd like to experiment writing some apps for it, which apparently is fairly simple to do on Android (one reason I didn't get an iPhone, although I have to suffer with a Mac (Mini) at work for my sins).
When I called the T-Mobile local store yesterday, they didn't expect to have the phone until the 15th, which is another reason I was especially surprised to hear from Honey that it had arrived today. Fun toy, fun times. I need to get a case for it.
Books finished: A Prisoner of Birth.
