Using Phone as a Laptop for a week

     8 GB of RAM and the fastest processor. We here this year after year, but with all this power why have we not used phones as computers? 

    Hello this is TheTechBoy, and I am writing this article from my phone. My laptop broke, and the only laptop I will be using, will be for a project that I am only allowed to, mostly, use a laptop on. 

  Also I have heard and read about people who try to use iPad as laptops. This week I am using an Android phone as my primary computer.

Apps installed

• Hackers Keyboard

• Grammarly

• Our business email client

• Google Analytics

• Blogger (done previously)

Day 1 (Text Formatting)

I installed the before-mentioned applications and got to work transferring a pre-written article to the blogger application. This was a simple task, however, for more advanced editing, such as HTML code I would have to use the web application. Fortunately using the web application on mobile is easy.

Checking email in Gmail and Outlook is a simple task, but deleting 50 emails at once means you have to tap each one individually. Looking at our business mail was basically the same experience.

Here are a few spreadsheets that were made entirely on a phone.

Unfortunately, as you can see copying and pasting spreadsheets can be difficult. The first formatted spreadsheet copied correctly but the unformatted one looks kind of weird in Word. However in Blogger it will not show up correctly at all. Also, in order to copy charts into Word, I have to put Excel into view mode.

Day 1 review.

 Typing is kind of inaccurate using “Hackers Keyboard” in 44% size in portrait mode and 35% size in landscape mode. Also it tries to capitalize things a bit too much. However it makes it easier to do keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl-B and Crtl-Z. Unfortunately this application will be deleted as some of the features can be done in Word.

     Some other challenges include the keyboard not coming up when I touch the document and navigating using the cursor is a challenge.

     Using Excel mobile is great and the Blogger web app is very useful. However,  when importing the Word document into Blogger it looses formating. Also, the Blogger application was deleted.

In all I give this day a 6/10 rating.

Day 2

   

   Yesterday I found out that I could not edit two images at the same time. Today, ay I will be making a presentation, importing posts into Medium, and attempting to edit images. Making the presentation was fine and was quite simple in PowerPoint. It formatted well but the same issue of trying to move the cursor appeared. I may install a Touchpad app to fix this problem. 

Posting things on Medium was fairly easy, but getting the alt text from the source code was too hard so I had to rewrite it. Also, the formatting was hard to use on the Medium web client, so I may have to start using the application. Also, I still want a way to use the same application side by side. 

Unfortunately, I did not get to edit images, but while trying to install GIMP on Termux, I found I could install Gentoo Linux and Windows XP. By modifying the commands, I may be able to install Windows 10. 

In all using PowerPoint was easy and importing posts into Medium was simple, however, getting the atl code was not. In all this day gets a 7/10 ranking.