Karma, Nexus 4, Ski Courses and Missing Keys

I have an iPhone 5. It's new and I'm with it for 2.5 years, good or bad. But I love my phone, it's an amazing tool that allows me to do everything I need to do easily and quickly. Pascal has graciously lent me his new Nexus 4 to try out. I will avoid using the smart part of my iPhone and learn the Nexus's OS just to be able to compare both.

Nexus 4
It's a cool phone. Is Android better then iOS? After about 15 mins of play I can say that iOS is more polished. But what about usability...

So how do we turn on wi-fi on the Nexus 4? It's not in the settings, or is it? So far I can't find where I can set my wi-fi network on the beast. On the iPhone it's settings/wi-fi. Of course I could Google it but it defeats the purpose of simplicity if I have to look in a manual to do things.

Finally I figured out that I have to hold the wi-fi on/off switch for a determined amount of time I may open a sub-window. Definitely not intuitive, but neither is removing apps from iOS.

Security fails. I went to install the Blogger app so that I may edit my posts from my phone but when I looked at all the permissions, I backed down. Modify or delete the contents of my USB key? Retrieve running apps? Why? Full network access? That could be dangerous. Add or remove accounts? Blogger, that's definitely not of your business. The problem is, as opposed to iOS, I can't opt out on install for some of these services (or I didn't find the way if there's one). There's probably a place somewhere where I can tweak those but it's a lot of work just to install an app.

Now to tether to my phone...

Ski Bromont
The kids and I went to Bromont for a day of skiing and their courses. Basically, I skied while they were learning how to do it properly. They loved it. I went all over the front of the mountain, staying on black and double-black diamonds. I'm really going to enjoy these courses. The following pictures are from the Montreal:

Missing my keys
The only hick is that when we came back to the truck, I couldn't find my car keys. Fortunately, someone had found them and brought them back to customer service. Since we never were inside the chalet, it does mean I lost them outside somewhere.

Karma
Interestingly, Mathieu found a set of keys somewhere on the slopes a few weeks ago and we brought them back to customer service. Karma can sometimes be a bitch, but she can also be an angel.