Tag: Hassle

  • Google Contacts could make adding contacts to other accounts a hassle (APK teardown)

    Google Contacts could make adding contacts to other accounts a hassle (APK teardown)

    Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google appears to be making a change to the Contacts app. When saving a contact, you’ll no longer have the ability to choose which Google account or device it is saved to. You can still use “move to another account” to move a contact to a different account. Google…

  • Is importing a phone worth the hassle?

    Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority There are two main reasons why you might decide to import a phone to the US. It might be that you’ve heard a particular model is cheaper in another country, but it’s more likely you want to get a smartphone that isn’t available to buy in America. Perhaps you like…

  • Momento: Caching at Scale and More, Without All the Hassle

    The Momento co-founders, part of the engineering team that built DynamoDB at AWS, wanted to make adding a dynamic cache to your application as simple as creating an S3 bucket. More recently they’ve added Topics, a low latency pub/sub feature and are turning their attention to storage as part of the platform. “Sitting in Amazon,…