The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[Jake]

I just switched all of my "cloud" shit away from Apple's iCloud service, over to GoogleThings.

I've had iCloud since it was .mac, then MobileMe, then iCloud. Since I was a long-time member, when they switched from MoMe to iCloud, I got 20 GB of storage for free. Well, that storage is being taken away and I will only have 5 GB at the end of September. I'm using about 8 GB now, so I figured I'd move everything over to GoogleStuff, and just keep iCloud for my automated iPhone and iPad backups.

The transition was pretty easy. I set an auto-forward for my Apple email address so it will continue to work. And now, all of my email/contacts/errything show up on my work phone as well as my iPhone. Hooray.

I am really curious to see what Apple does with their "announcement" event on September 10th. I still have a year-ish in my contract, so the iPhone 5 is staying for now. But I'm not 100% sure that I want to blindly order the next iPhone when the time comes. This new "Moto X" looks intriguing, although the specs are lesser than my work S3. I'm also intrigued by the HTC One, although that's got a skin over top of Android.

If I get an Android phone next, I don't want any TouchWiz or Sense or whatever. Just straight-up Android. On good hardware that isn't flimsy. With good battery life. So basically, not an S3. I don't know why people like this stupid thing. It's too big, physically, and the battery life sucks. The back casing is micro-thin and so is the screen. It feels like a toy compared to my iPhone.

So. Think I'll be able to find the mythical Android phone when the time comes? Or should I just keep drinking the Kool-Aid since it's been good to me since 2007?