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TechCredo.com is a blog about mobile technology with focus on comprehensive guides, tutorials and articles, rather than news and frequent minor posts. Among else, TechCredo.com features one of the biggest and most popular guides to Windows Mobile on the Internet, as well as in-depth tutorials and recommendations for Android and Symbian. The site also used to gather the best and most powerful phones in the world – and the best only – with videos, specifications, reviews, previews and rumors.

TechCredo – What Does the Name Mean?

The tech prefix is naturally short for technology – Credo is Latin for “I believe”. Combine the two, and it can be interpreted as the phrase “I believe in technology”, or that this is a site with opinions about technology – both assumptions are true. The phrase “I believe” is also a reference to the X-files: one of the top shows for nerds in the 90s.

A Few Words From the Editor-in-Chief

Lars Ever since I was a little kid in the 80s, I have been deeply fascinated by a certain kind of electronic gadgets. I remember that it often felt like they were surrounded by magic, and I still get that feeling now and then. It was bliss to learn everything I could about them. From the ColecoVision (it could play Atari 2600 games!), the Commodore C64, a bunch of Donkey Kong Game & Watches, the Sega Master System, Game Gear, various early incarnations of PDAs, the Amiga, to my first PC in 1994 – I have been nurturing this interest.
And now I’m just as intrigued by handsets as I was by computers 15 years ago, and smartphones are of course becoming our new personal computers. I more or less expect a mobile to be able to do all the things my PC can, in addition to being a solid camera, video recorder and GPS navigator.

I know this must sound a bit odd to most people, but when I use a good smartphone (especially if it’s fairly new and there’s lots left to discover), it’s like stepping into another world. I can’t change the real world much, but this digital frontier of zeroes and ones, black metal and plastic, AMOLED screens and computer chips I can bring to perfection. A cell-phone is of course a tool of communication, and if one only tries I’m sure there’s something poetic to find in that. A mobile simply is the ultimate gizmo, it has so many uses, and to me it epitomizes all that I find fascinating about gadgets. I quote science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.

For each new model, I’ve become more and more interested and initiated. From just having picked a handset that seemed good based on an ad in a magazine in the early 00s, to really let the selection process be a part of the interest. I love reading and learning about upcoming models, and when I get a new device, I try to discover everything about it: I find all the best apps, customize, tweak and optimize it to my liking and every need, make up my own designs, themes and wallpapers (stylish, clean and functional). I try to make it do stuff no other copy of that phone can, and make it much better than the original. And that’s what I love about the xda-developers.

Who am I, then, some might wonder. Well, there’s no simple answer to that question. I have done many things so far in my 30 years. I’m a moderately successful singer, songwriter and music producer, a movie aficionado (with nearly 1500 titles in my collection) and I have studied film science and music history. I’m an unpublished writer, a onetime ultra low-budget independent film maker, an occasional daredevil, BMX and motocross rider. I’ve dabbled as a computer technician and web designer, worked on a farm and lived in Amsterdam for a brief time. Last but certainly not least I formed my own software company in the beginning of high school, and I’m a former programmer and interface designer (hey, shareware was big in the 90s!). I have sold my software to numerous corporations, hospitals, schools, libraries, institutions and individuals around the globe – and 12 000+ licenses purchased by the American Postal Service would be the crowning glory. After years of having focused on music and writing, I am now slowly getting back into the world of computers, design and technology as well.

In February 2009, I felt like creating a website about the frontiers of mobile technology, so that’s what I did. The site’s initial incarnation was GeekedOut.se, which I developed from scratch with HTML, PHP and CSS – it involved a lot of extra work and made maintaining and updating the content bothersome. GeekedOut.se later grew into what you see now: TechCredo.com, a site powered by WordPress. Since August 2010, I am also an editor at the Android blog Androinica.

I hope you enjoy the site, and if you do – please spread the word. Feel free to drop me an email or leave a comment if you want to get in touch.

/ Lars – Nerd Since Early Childhood and Frakking Proud of It

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