Life: Gadget Experience after One Year from Last Post

It has been one year since I posted my last blog, which I wrote about my experience with combination of iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy Tab, and BlackBerry Bold 9700.

It was in December 2012 that I decided to change the combination to Galaxy Note 2 and iPad Mini (wifi only), and keep BlackBerry Bold 9700. The reason is simple... I need a smartphone with bigger screen, so I changed my smartphone to Galaxy Note 2 which has 5.5" screen (and some additional nice features). As consequence, I changed my tablet to iPad Mini, so I still can experiencing both great OS... AndroidOS and iOS. I bought iPad Mini wifi model only, the cellular model price has quite significant difference in price (SGD170 for 16GB model) that I think it is better buy another small and cheap android smartphone (I bought HTC Desire C) and just tethering it, iPad Mini then still can connect to internet anywhere... and, the small smartphone with normal SIM Card size can be used when I go to overseas and use prepaid SIM Card which still commonly use normal SIM Card size. Quite logical decision, right? :-)

Why iPad Mini and not the normal iPad? Well, I feel that iPad is a way too big and heavy if you thinking of bring it everywhere you go. iPad Mini is just nice, 7.9" screen size, and light. Eventhough its screen is not Retina display, it is still good enough for me, since I use it to browse internet and read news, and some social network apps most of the time. Playing games is just once and a while, not a game addict :-) The battery last quite long, around 10 hours, for my usual usage. And, I have updated it iOS to iOS 7 several days ago. Quite nice and refresh. Its iPhone apps compatibility also improves, with default to 2x zoom (in iOS 6, has 1x and 2x zoom), and the quality of graphics display is much better, so even for Instagram which has no iPad version, the photo display is quite nice already.

As for BlackBerry Bold 9700, it just a matter of time to retire it... especially if BBM for Android can run seamlessly already after last week launching disaster by BlackBerry!!

So far... I am happy with this combination of gadget.