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On Nov 27, 2012 9:30 AM, "George Parker" <georgeparker20@gmail.com> wrote:
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> After the usual months of thinking about it and researching I have got myself an Android tablet running Android 4.1 Jellybean. After so long being able to configure everything to within an inch of it's life on various distros it is very frustrating to be back in a box.
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> Google is nasty and pernicious and very difficult to sidestep. Very controlling. I don't have an Android phone or i anything so I'm having to learn a lot from scratch but in between I'm trying to configure myself out of the traps as far as possible.
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> I've loaded the Firefox android browser to get away from the inbuilt browser that has Google in big letters on every web page you go to. I synchronised with my desktop PC but I can't find my bookmarks on the tablet. Hey ho... The email takes some getting used to and I must get away from Google play.
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> But, after only one day, I quite like the thing and I think it will repay the effort. Even if it's only to let herself sit in bed in a morning with her cup of tea checking the BBC news and emails, leaving me in peace on the desktop.
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> Any tips from other Android users?
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> George
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I got a Nexus 7 a few weeks ago. It received an update to 4.2 recently, but as for being locked down.... Android is miles better than iPhone/iPad/any win phone in that aspect.
I haven't rooted but still customised with different keyboards, live wallpapers, widgets for weather, clocks, homescreens.
If you really want to customise, try the free Nova or Apex launchers, you can change and theme just about everything!
The next step if you care to head in that direction is rooting so you can do things like overclock or even underclock to conserve battery life, use external media drives etc.
There is a one stop tool for rooting most Android devices. I recommend reading xda forums.
Firefox bookmarks are accessed by tapping the url bar to get recent sites, bookmarks and history.
If you install flash, add addblock and browser spoofer extensions you can get a pretty close to desktop experience and view full versions of sites (like iplayer )
Ray.
Sent from my Nexus 7
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