I have lamentably always been a fairly lame nerd with regard to mobile phones. All that mattered to me was the ability to receive and make phone calls. I don't even "text" people. Besides, with my aging eyes, some of the text on the screens of fancier phones was just too small for me to read.
But now, with OS's like the iPhone's and Android, increasing the font size is a matter of a thumb-swipe, so I can consider these smarter phones. And because I've made more money than usual this last quarter, my company has to find things to spend that money on, so that I don't have to give it all to the Spanish govern- ment in corporate taxes. So I'm thinkin' of having my company buy me a cool Android phone. I know that you have one, and since you are usually as knowledgeable about fun nerd toys as you are opinion- ated about them, I thought I'd ask your opinion. :-) So what's a cool Android phone? I tend to like Samsung equipment across the board, but really haven't invest- igated any of these phones yet, so any recommendations you might have would be of interest to me, and helpful. More important, since you obviously use and write apps for Android phones, what are some of the cool ones? I know *diddleysquat* about phone apps. Can't say I have ever used one or lusted after one, with the excep- tion of Jamie Oliver's "20 Minute Recipes" app for the iPhone. Shake the phone, and it gives you a healthy recipe you can make in 20 minutes, at random from a database of such recipes. I hear it's the biggest- selling iPhone app in the UK, and one of the biggest- selling worldwide. Hearing about it almost made me buy an iPhone. But that is literally *all* I know about the new era of mobile telephony, so I'm all ears to hear what you can tell me about these toys. If I were to score one of these Android phones, what would I want to have running on it? For example, can they access a WiFi connection and run Skype, like the iPod can? Thanks in advance, Turq, the Phone-Impaired
