{"id":8649,"date":"2013-01-12T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8649"},"modified":"2013-01-12T19:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T19:28:46","slug":"phoning-it-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8649","title":{"rendered":"Phoning it in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired (if that&#8217;s the right word) by <a title=\"Young Masher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.masher.tv\/?p=2318\" target=\"_blank\">Young Masher<\/a>, I decided to have a long, hard look at my phone, what&#8217;s on it, how I use it and how often it gets used.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I have a Nexus S3:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8650\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8650\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8650\" alt=\"S3\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/S3-300x192.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/S3-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/S3.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I like my Nexus S3, it gets a lot of use every day; from very early in the morning, through to very late in the evening, and in to the night.<\/p>\n<p>The big selling point about this phone, the one thing that makes it a quadzillion times better than any other handset I looked at, is the absolutely awesome battery life.<\/p>\n<p>So, the applications installed on it are, alphabetically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adobe Flash Player<\/li>\n<li>AndFTP<\/li>\n<li>Audioboo<\/li>\n<li>BBC News<\/li>\n<li>Calculator<\/li>\n<li>Camera<\/li>\n<li>Clock<\/li>\n<li>Contacts<\/li>\n<li>ChatOn<\/li>\n<li>Chrome<\/li>\n<li>DomainTools<\/li>\n<li>Drive<\/li>\n<li>Dropbox<\/li>\n<li>eBay<\/li>\n<li>Email<\/li>\n<li>FileExplorer<\/li>\n<li>FM Radio<\/li>\n<li>Evernote<\/li>\n<li>Facebook<\/li>\n<li>Flipboard<\/li>\n<li>Freeview TV Guide<\/li>\n<li>Gallery<\/li>\n<li>Game Hub<\/li>\n<li>Gmail<\/li>\n<li>Google Local<\/li>\n<li>Google Maps<\/li>\n<li>Google Navigation<\/li>\n<li>Google Play Books<\/li>\n<li>Google Play Movies<\/li>\n<li>Google Play Store<\/li>\n<li>Google Search<\/li>\n<li>Google Talk<\/li>\n<li>Google+<\/li>\n<li>GuitarTuner<\/li>\n<li>Lookout<\/li>\n<li>Meetup<\/li>\n<li>Messaging<\/li>\n<li>MusicShop<\/li>\n<li>MX Player<\/li>\n<li>My Vodafone<\/li>\n<li>My Web<\/li>\n<li>Nexus Availability Checker<\/li>\n<li>Ocado<\/li>\n<li>Phone<\/li>\n<li>S Planner<\/li>\n<li>S Voice<\/li>\n<li>Skype<\/li>\n<li>SpeedTest<\/li>\n<li>SwiftKey 3<\/li>\n<li>Talk<\/li>\n<li>The Pill<\/li>\n<li>TweetDeck<\/li>\n<li>Twitter<\/li>\n<li>WhatsApp<\/li>\n<li>WordPress<\/li>\n<li>YouTube<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of these come with the handset, so having them there is no indication that I have ever used them.<\/p>\n<p>But which applications do I use?<\/p>\n<p>To one degree or another, pretty much all of them, with the very notable exception of Facebook, which I do not use on my phone ever.<\/p>\n<p>But here is a list of the applications that I do use every day &#8211; and some of them (the bold ones) get used dozens, if not hundreds of times a day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BBC News (a scaled down, mobile News app)<\/li>\n<li>Camera (it takes photos and shit and that)<\/li>\n<li>Clock (also my second alarm clock of the working week)<\/li>\n<li>Contacts (my Gmail address book)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drive (formerly known as Google Docs)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Evernote (the mutts nuts of portable note-taking)<\/li>\n<li>FileExplorer (it explores hardware for files)<\/li>\n<li>Flipboard (a brilliant RSS aggregator)<\/li>\n<li>Freeview TV Guide (for, you know, TV guide information)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gmail (my primary email app)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Google Navigation (SatNav)<\/li>\n<li>Guitar Tuner (use this when I&#8217;m doing guitar practice in the car)<\/li>\n<li>Lookout (my sentry\/guard system)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Messaging (the SMS application I use so well and so frequently)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Phone (it makes and receives calls! 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