Android Leftovers

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Leak: Could these be the specs for BlackBerry’s first Android phone?
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FINALLY! Blackberry Rumored to Release 'Venice' - a slider QWERTY large screen touch-screen smartphone in Novermber
Gosh all my Christmasses and Birthdays are arriving on one week. First Elop is fired. Then Trump joins the Clown Circus to give the funniest election season ever. Then Nokia confirms it returns to smartphones next year. Now comes the rumor of 'Venice' the Blackberry Slider, apparently scheduled for November release. Wow this is awesome news (what is next for this astonishing week, will Kimi win in Austria?)
So Blackberry Venice. Its a rumor but Ubergizmo reports today that the device was shown as prototype to carriers and has a launch date of November. Want the specs? Drool over this: 5.4 inch touch-screen with Quad HD resolution. Very nice. Camera? 18mp on back, 5mp for selfies? This too is best-ever for the BeeBee. What about that keyboard. Yes, finally yes, a SLIDER QWERTY. This is the phone I have to have and will go buy immediately it is out. Cool beans, thank you gods of mobile, thank you all at Waterloo, I take back every nasty thing I've written about you in recent years. This is a killer smartphone for Christmas 2015. I miss the keyboard of my old BB Bold, this is a must-have smartphone for anyone who longs for a physical keyboard in a modern phone with also large screen (and good camera).
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Fallout Shelter Android will 'hopefully' be available in a few months
Bethesda announced and released Fallout Shelter during its first-ever E3 press conference, and so far, it’s been absolutely killing the App Store top-grossing games chart. Unfortunately, Android owners have been sitting idly by while iOS owners have been merrily playing the role of a Vault Overseer. But Bethesda has revealed it is working on an Android version of the game.
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KDE Plasma 5.21: Everything You Need to Know
KDE Plasma 5.21 is out and in a Beta way. Just because we are dealing with a Beta version of this Linux-based desktop environment does not imply we shouldn’t be at the edge of our seats. It is a test, and every test needs a pass mark. That is why the Linux community exists; to approve all running tests. Plasma 5.21 Beta has not lost its pretty UI touch. All its Beta upgrades we will discuss are redirected towards improving the usability index of every Linux user that fancy it.
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For me, running Mabox was a curious experience. The reason being that the distribution never seemed to do anything objectively wrong or buggy. Everything worked properly, the system was fast, stable, and often offered multiple approaches to accomplishing tasks. Mabox inherits Arch Linux's large repositories of software and the cutting-edge packages which make its grandparent famous. The lightweight Openbox window manager is flexible and fast. Plus I like that Mabox doesn't ship a lot of applications, just some good basics, and gives us multiple tools to add more items we might want. However, Mabox never felt like a good fit for me.
It's hard to put my finger on why exactly this was because the distribution, objectively, does a lot of things well. However, the style of the distribution isn't at all to my taste. The Openbox session is very busy and I like quiet interfaces. Mabox is a cutting-edge rolling release and I like static and boring. Mabox has a tonne of status panels, shortcuts, and an elegant welcome screen. I want my operating system to stay out of the way and not distract me. Mabox has many configuration tools and they all seem to work, but the number of them (and the lack of a central organization for them) can make it harder to find the options I want to adjust.
I guess what made the experience feel odd is Mabox uses a really minimal window manager, but with all the bells and whistles enabled. It ships with very few desktop applications, yet the menu is crowded with options. The system looks really sleek and modern, but a lot of options require we tweak text-based configuration files by hand. It makes for an odd series of juxtapositions.
Objectively, I think Mabox is quite good. The only real bug I ran into was Firefox and the desktop panel using the same shortcut, but otherwise the system was fast, smooth, and capable. It just has an unusual approach to several aspects of it. Which makes me feel the distribution is objectively good, but subjectively not to my taste.
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