I am constantly staying on top of news now that I became fully invested in knowing what's coming next. The WPCentral app and website are awesome for all the latest app updates, phone rumors, and OS update schedules. I'm always checking the app, and I'm a frequent visitor and contributor in the forums. And I'm not just a Windows Phone news junkie. I'm a cellphone news junkie and I supplement that appetite with sites like Phone Arena, Pocketnow, and The Verge.
But there were simpler times in my life when I was the "general/normal" consumer who most of the time had no clue what was going on behind the scenes in the mobile world. I used to be the last to know when instead of knowing an update was on the horizon I would get a notification saying one was available and think to myself "I wonder what this is."
It's funny now to think that I used to be that guy. As much as I love the rumors, the speculations, the podcast talks, and the forums I'm taking a break for a while from the constant chatter that is the mobile world. I mean, I spend a lot of time reading articles and watching videos and reading consumer thoughts/rants. Time I know I need to be used doing more productive things. So I have decided to take a break from it all starting tomorrow until September 1st(I'll be off so I can play catchup that day)
So that means I will be unpinning my beloved WPCentral app from my start screen and disable toast notifications in the settings. I won't be submitting my usual forum entries("pictures taken with your Lumia 920" and "loving the pro shot camera app"). I won't follow the links from Daniel's or WPCentral's Twitter pages. I will not visit any of the aforementioned news sites.
I'm really waiting on an official announcement to some pretty exciting devices from Microsoft/Nokia and I don't want to spend that waiting time not being productive because I'm constantly glued to my phone.(this is me 70% of the day) So I'll hopefully do more reading, get back into my art work, start hitting the gym consistently, and spend more time building my faith/relationship with God during this time away. But for the rest of today I'll be doing my usual going back and forth between sites keeping an ear out for the Cyan update release schedule, the next update to the OS, hopefully some reliable news about at least an announcement event, and keeping an eye out for the latest in Android and iOS devices/features as well.
Anyway I said all that to ask: Are you a news junkie like me and do you take breaks?
But there were simpler times in my life when I was the "general/normal" consumer who most of the time had no clue what was going on behind the scenes in the mobile world. I used to be the last to know when instead of knowing an update was on the horizon I would get a notification saying one was available and think to myself "I wonder what this is."
It's funny now to think that I used to be that guy. As much as I love the rumors, the speculations, the podcast talks, and the forums I'm taking a break for a while from the constant chatter that is the mobile world. I mean, I spend a lot of time reading articles and watching videos and reading consumer thoughts/rants. Time I know I need to be used doing more productive things. So I have decided to take a break from it all starting tomorrow until September 1st(I'll be off so I can play catchup that day)
So that means I will be unpinning my beloved WPCentral app from my start screen and disable toast notifications in the settings. I won't be submitting my usual forum entries("pictures taken with your Lumia 920" and "loving the pro shot camera app"). I won't follow the links from Daniel's or WPCentral's Twitter pages. I will not visit any of the aforementioned news sites.
I'm really waiting on an official announcement to some pretty exciting devices from Microsoft/Nokia and I don't want to spend that waiting time not being productive because I'm constantly glued to my phone.(this is me 70% of the day) So I'll hopefully do more reading, get back into my art work, start hitting the gym consistently, and spend more time building my faith/relationship with God during this time away. But for the rest of today I'll be doing my usual going back and forth between sites keeping an ear out for the Cyan update release schedule, the next update to the OS, hopefully some reliable news about at least an announcement event, and keeping an eye out for the latest in Android and iOS devices/features as well.
Anyway I said all that to ask: Are you a news junkie like me and do you take breaks?