IPhone to Droid X: Impressions of a Data Pig
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IPhone to Droid X: Impressions of a Data Pig
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#2The Mail reader that ships with Froyo is actually useful. k9 never seemed much better than the useless junk that took up space in 1.5/1.6. With the exception of not being able to move a message to a different folder, it's actually a useful piece of software.
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#3i just recently went from iPhone 2G to Samsung Captivate and i can not stress enough just how easy navigating around android is. the back button, the search button, and the notification bar are the killer features.
this author fails to find use of the search button, but for me this is an essential item. you can be in any app (contacts, im, mail, etc.) and hitting search will search that currently open app. if you hit the search button again, you can search the whole phone. i don't think i could ever go to a device that did not have this functionality.
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#4I just switched from iPhone 3GS to Android (Galaxy S). My first impression is that it's not as polished as the iPhone, but the overall gain in functionality is worth the switch.
IMO the biggest pros (that iPhone lacks):
- Micro SD card storage
- Mount the phone as a USB drive or as a modem (hallelujah, why did it take so long for phones to get this?!)
- Swype (reminds me of T9 on non-smart phones, sweet, although useless in foreign languages)
- Task management, like the OP said
- Sweet AMOLED screen
- Widgets, surprisingly useful
- Mail client allows multiple attachments (why the iPhone doesn't have this is beyond me), that aren't just pictures or videos
- Access to filesystem (yay!)
Some cons (as compared to iPhone): - Apps and the OS sometimes appear to hang when loading or when pressing buttons (it would be nice to add "loading..." screens)
- CRAPWARE - why can't I remove useless AT&T apps I will never use? This is where Apple has a definite edge. Plus they all get loaded during boot, which is a major PITA
- Lack of decent headphones (Samsung Galaxy S specific, I think).
- Power button on the side (just a minor annoyance)
- Android Market not as organized as the App Store.
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#5The Mail reader that ships with Froyo is actually useful. k9 never seemed much better than the useless junk that took up space in 1.5/1.6. With the exception of not being able to move a message to a different folder, it's actually a useful piece of software.
The built-in one doesn't support IMAP Push (IDLE). K9 does.
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#6I just switched from iPhone 3GS to Android (Galaxy S). My first impression is that it's not as polished as the iPhone, but the overall gain in functionality is worth the switch. IMO the biggest pros (that iPhone lacks): - Micro SD card storage - Mount the phone as a USB drive or as a modem (hallelujah, why did it take so long for phones to get this?!) - Swype (reminds me of T9 on non-smart phones, sweet, although use…
It sounds like some of your issues are specific to your Android device and carrier (power button on the side and AT&T apps). Verizon + Droid has been an amazing experience for me.
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#7Somewhat related, any advice on whether I should get an HTC Incredible, or a Droid X? (or something else?)
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#8Despite all the furor about iOS needing multitasking, this detail is glossed over: on Verizon you can't look up something requiring data while you're on a call.
This isn't an Android vs iPhone issue: on AT&T my HTC Aria can handle a call while checking for directions on Google Maps just fine.
It's interesting how total failure to support the most common smartphone multitasking scenario is glossed over as a "niggle".
"So where is that?"
"Let me hang up, check, and call you back."
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#9Despite all the furor about iOS needing multitasking, this detail is glossed over: on Verizon you can't look up something requiring data while you're on a call. This isn't an Android vs iPhone issue: on AT&T my HTC Aria can handle a call while checking for directions on Google Maps just fine. It's interesting how total failure to support the most common smartphone multitasking scenario is glossed over as a "niggle".…
I'm not sure if it's the most common smartphone multitasking scenario.
Considerably more common than that,I want to leave an application and come back to it without navigating from the beginning. For example, if I'm in twitter and I go to a link in the browser, I can come back to where I was in twitter. And I can do this with the back button.
Do you really check for directions while on phone calls often? Perhaps it's just me, but people don't call me for directions that much.
I do agree that the author's word choice of "niggle" is troubling and slightly outdated, especially if you look up it's etymology.
Re: IPhone to Droid X: Impressions of a Data Pig
#10Despite all the furor about iOS needing multitasking, this detail is glossed over: on Verizon you can't look up something requiring data while you're on a call. This isn't an Android vs iPhone issue: on AT&T my HTC Aria can handle a call while checking for directions on Google Maps just fine. It's interesting how total failure to support the most common smartphone multitasking scenario is glossed over as a "niggle".…
I'm not sure if it's the most common smartphone multitasking scenario. Considerably more common than that,I want to leave an application and come back to it without navigating from the beginning. For example, if I'm in twitter and I go to a link in the browser, I can come back to where I was in twitter. And I can do this with the back button. Do you really check for directions while on phone calls often? Perhaps it's…
> "niggle" is troubling and slightly outdated, especially if you look up it's etymology.
Could you expand on this? I can't find anything other than it dating to the 1500/1600s, probably from Norwegian "Nigla" (to be penurious) or cognate with "Niggardly". As with "niggardly" I don't think there's any racial connotation to the term other than its sound?