Priyank Patel - 1:46 PM - LimitedGot Galaxy Nexus from rogers a week back. I am really happy with this phone overall. Battery life could be better but there are not many smart phones in market which get good battery life anyway.One interesting problem, I was facing on nexus. Took me couple of hours of troubleshooting on phone and quick google search to resolve my issue.
Problem: Google Voice search and voice dictation or anything with voice would not work. It always threw "Server Error" at me. It was working after I changed the default language from "English (US)" to "English (UK)". Funny. As soon as I change the language back to English US, google voice search was back to server error. Even with English UK I wasn't getting good success rate of recognition.
Solution: Under Account and Sync. Disable google contact sync and voice search with English US will work. I am not sure what the problem is but this is the only way to fix it.
Frustrating and interesting at the same time. Check out the following link. I know link is for razr maxx but it fixed issue on my galaxy nexus. Give it a shot if you are getting this issue.
The 8 Best Innovation Ideas From Around the World - Ross DeVol - Business - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/the-worlds-best-innovation-ideas/248695/
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I noticed Circle in Gmail today morning. Interesting. Find emails by grounds/circles.
CoffeeCompany WiFi headlines.
Holland’s largest chain of coffee shops is called CoffeCompany. They wanted to attract more students, so they installed WiFi in some of its stores near universities. The problem is, lots of students just come into the store for the WiFi but hardly look at the menu.
So CoffeeCompany decided to move the store’s menu into the WiFi menu of customers’ laptops. They periodically changed the wireless network name from the normal “CoffeeCompany” to hard-selling headlines. So as students looked for a network, they found menu lines such as “mmm….YummyMuffinsOnly1,99″
This is beyond awesome.
Now this is cool. Providing free wifi and getting your message across at same time. Nice way to get wifi users to buy one more coffee. :)