And, the gloves come off! In this episode, the ProductivityCast gang dukes out the merits of a productive smartphone. We discuss the specific models we use, customization, productivity app selection, ease of use / intuitiveness, form factor, customer / technical support, and how to be most productive on your smartphone.

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

Show Notes

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Handspring

PalmPilot

#iPadOnly by Augusto Pinaud

Appification

Microsoft Office Professional

Quantified Self

Huawei Watch

AndroidWear

Instant (Android/iOS)

Android Support

Apple Genius Bar

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are you ready to manage your work and

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personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity here

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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and

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Augusto Pinaud welcome back everybody to

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productivity cast episode 10 I wish had

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a kazoo it's a it's the birthday tenth

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episode of productivity cast so thank

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you all for listening and thank you for

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joining us here today I'm joined with a

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gusto pin out my co-host as well as

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Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks so we are all

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together here today for this episode

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let's get into it today we are going to

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mostly fight in good good faith and good

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effort about smartphone productivity and

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and in essence what the best smartphone

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is out there to be most productive and I

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thought that what we would cover today

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was was really the the essence of how we

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use our phones to be productive and in

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the vein of the mobile productivity

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topics that we have had over the last

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several episodes I want us to talk about

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the pros and cons of the various nomally

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hardware put software that we use for

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our smart phones so I think it's

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probably best for us to go around and

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say what our primary smartphone is that

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we're using today and then we'll get

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into it

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so I'll start I am currently using a

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Google Nexus 5x as my primary phone and

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I am running Android nougat which is

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seven point X so the latest version of

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seven point I think is seven point one

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point something that's what I'm doing

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well

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apparently was established before these

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girls start recording that I you have a

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dumb phone and my gum phone is running

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can access six plus so you have the six

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plus I'm running an LG g4 Android that's

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running Android six I want to say 601

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right now that

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the current version and the Nova

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Launcher and for Android you got a name

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the launcher if you're if you're running

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Android because that's part of the fun

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of what makes it productive okay well

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well then I'll say I'm I'm running the

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Google launcher because it's a Google

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Nexus 5x and so I stick with pure

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Android yeah I'm a peer Android guy I

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just really I really love the interface

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I'm using at Alcatel I don't know the

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model number but it's running Android 6

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great so we can we can all gang up on a

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gusto actually this is probably a pretty

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good this is a pretty good percentage of

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the number of Android users versus the

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number of iPhone users globally so tall

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order ago so notice that in order for

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them to steal but they have any chance

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to be us they needed to come three to

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one oh you just brought the pain you

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just you know apples bruise easily right

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so but it's true the number the number

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of iPhones that I have the screens that

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I've cracked is far beyond the number

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that I have cracked of of other phones

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this whole glass packed phone trend

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actually I think has caused a lot of

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issue with that I know a guy who has

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managed to break multiple Samsung's that

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have the glass back I think it's he's

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got the 7 I don't know that I would

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chalk that up as a negative to one side

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or the other I think both of them have

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bouncing issues they don't handle

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impacts well that may need to agree with

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that we on they're raised to make the

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phone look prettier we has been

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sacrificed durability in a massive

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expense I don't recall and I'm sure they

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did but I don't recall on the old old

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phone so pre iPhone era that to break

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your screen down Austin I don't remember

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anybody really breaking their screen on

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Claude when they were pretty much

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indestructible I mean I think my Palm

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Pilot and I broke one is Greenup up on

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pilots as far as I remember never broke

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on the trio but even before that when I

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had the star tags I think those things

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were simply indestructible yeah I don't

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I don't think I don't know how I could

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destroy one of those LCD screens on one

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of my handspring Palm Pilots way back

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when but the handspring I mean like I

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threw that thing all over the place it

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balanced it slid it got crunched in my

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truck door several times you know in a

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coat pocket and the thing kept kept on

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ticking with the iPhone I felt as though

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I was carrying around this dainty little

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thing that every time I went outside

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there was a potential for me to to have

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a loved one die no it was a little a

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nick of the screen it was it was a it

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was a death knell and so unfortunately

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because of that I ended up going to very

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strong cases that meant that for all

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intents and purposes I no longer had an

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iPhone I had this giant brick in my

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pocket because I was always concerned

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about damaging it but let's let's let's

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veer back on on on topic which is the

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productivity of a smartphone what are

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the what are the foundations here that

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we want to really cover in terms of the

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things that make a smartphone productive

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and then we can have a better sort of

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comparison or compare and contrast as it

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relates to the various products on the

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market and I think you know to have that

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discussion we may need to come close to

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an agreement that on the smart phone

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rings they are kind of three really well

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defined

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IRA's you have the free iphone where you

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had the pump eyelets and the blackberry

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race today really we're competing

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completely different ways but they were

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near origin of this as my smartphone

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prays and then you have a moment and to

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be honest with you I don't know exactly

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