Amazing Android

I've had it for a week now and what can I say... Android is amazing! Forgive me for splurging my first salary but every peso spent on this device is definitely worth it! Last week, my brother and I went over to the land of fulfilled dreams... Greenhills. After surviving the beckoning of the vendors and a lot of haggling, we went home with our dream devices, an Ipod Touch 32 GB for him and a Samsung Galaxy Spica for me. Why did I decide to get the Spica, among all the gadgets in the market today? Well, it boils down to two things. One, I am a sucker for all-in-one devices. I want my devices to play music, surf the net, send texts, play games, read books, among ten thousand other features. And I want all this functionality on one device. Tall order? Not with the plethora of all-in-one devices in the market. The problem? Price. Enter the Galaxy Spica. Value for money was my second reason and this phone had the highest ratio of features per peso compared to the other all-in-one devices like the ubiquitous Iphone and the executive Blackberry. For all its features, the Samsung Galaxy Spica only costs a reasonable Php 13,000. Add to this the ultimate icing on the cake - the Google Android OS.



I've been a Google fanboy ever since I read the first Google article in Time Magazine. I love everything about them.. their unconventional and creative approach to solving problems, their mission of organizing the world's information, and their propensity to give away all their products for free. Everything Google produces has this mix of tongue-in-cheek playfulness and efficient functionality that really connects to me. So choosing a device that runs Android was an obvious choice. For all that Apple talk on user experience, I believe Android will eventually be able to trump them because it doesn't limit the users to a walled garden. With Android, everything is intuitively simple, no-frills, instantly connected and infinitely customizable. I've already customized most of the stock applications for better software downloaded over the Android Market. I've also turned my phone into an e-book reader, news magazine, and gaming device with the other apps I installed, to the point that calling it a phone already sounds like an unfair understatement. Holding the Android-powered Galaxy Spica feels like holding the future in the palms, fingers traversing the slick piece of sci-fi technology that somehow made it to the present. With the growing presence of the Android OS in the smartphone market, Google will indeed own the future of mobile technology.