IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like
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IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like
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#2Having just moved from the iPhone experience of 3 years to an android experience. YES, YES, and YES! The android is the true fully featured phone. With the iPhone, I felt the need to tether because surfing the web is so clunky. Now, even though I have the power to tether, I don't. Because its so much easier and fun on my Milestone!
The annoyances that plague this guy, well, doesn't really affect me, apart from the distinct radio groups that doesn't integrate together well, yeah, with SipDroid, that does become an annoyance when I'm moving and using VoIP. Other than that... Wow. Android. I am now a 100% fuck-you Apple anti-fanboy. Just saying.
Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like
#3> "Wifi Tethering. I don’t need to tether often, but when I do, I do. I rooted my phone quickly, just so I could use one of the many apps in the Marketplace to tether my laptop via Wifi. Worked flawlessly, no extra charge."
That's tantamount to saying "I jail-broke my iPhone quickly, so I could use one of the many apps on Cydia to tether my laptop via WiFi" ... except you don't need an app for that because tethering is built into iOS. You need a different network provisioning file in the States, and elsewhere in the world tethering is enabled by default.
I liked the form factor of the HTC Aria but found his following points to be deal breakers, so am back to iPhone for now:
- every couple of days, you do need to reboot the phone
- no cellular data while you are in a call
- no cloud push in Android 2.1
- separate email apps for Gmail and everything else
- IMAP email is very weak; really weak
- the OS (and therefore the apps) are really clunky at switching between voice/data/wifi
I was also put off by the extremely popular apps carrying name brand logos that disclaimed association with the brand while asking permission to make charge calls from my number.
Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like
#4" Every couple of days, you do need to reboot the phone. "
Love how this was tossed out there as an afterthought. Huge, obnoxious deal-breaker. I love losing state every 2 days! /sarcasm
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#5We recently moved from a family of iPhones to a Droid and Droid Incredible. I can't believe we didn't make the move sooner, although I suppose the Incredible isn't old enough to have made it much sooner. Regardless, for those not wanting as large of a phone, check out the Droid 2, due out imminently:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/see-what-droid-does-...
Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like
#6> "Wifi Tethering. I don’t need to tether often, but when I do, I do. I rooted my phone quickly, just so I could use one of the many apps in the Marketplace to tether my laptop via Wifi. Worked flawlessly, no extra charge." That's tantamount to saying "I jail-broke my iPhone quickly, so I could use one of the many apps on Cydia to tether my laptop via WiFi" ... except you don't need an app for that because tethering…
I agree with your tethering comment, but FWIW there are a handful of tethering apps you can get without rooting Android that allow any user to tether for free.
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#7> "Wifi Tethering. I don’t need to tether often, but when I do, I do. I rooted my phone quickly, just so I could use one of the many apps in the Marketplace to tether my laptop via Wifi. Worked flawlessly, no extra charge." That's tantamount to saying "I jail-broke my iPhone quickly, so I could use one of the many apps on Cydia to tether my laptop via WiFi" ... except you don't need an app for that because tethering…
Tethering is also built into Froyo, which I've been happily using since May.
Also, "no cellular data while you're in a call" is a CDMA vs GSM issue, not an Android/iOS/Blackberry issue.
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#8" Every couple of days, you do need to reboot the phone. " Love how this was tossed out there as an afterthought. Huge, obnoxious deal-breaker. I love losing state every 2 days! /sarcasm
It's odd, because that hasn't been my experience with Android at all. I've got a Droid (not X, not 2, just the original), and the only times I've never needed to shut it down. In fact, the only times it's been off have been from me forgetting to charge it. Last I checked, my uptime was 550+ hours with no sluggishness at all.
Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like
#9Having just moved from the iPhone experience of 3 years to an android experience. YES, YES, and YES! The android is the true fully featured phone. With the iPhone, I felt the need to tether because surfing the web is so clunky. Now, even though I have the power to tether, I don't. Because its so much easier and fun on my Milestone! The annoyances that plague this guy, well, doesn't really affect me, apart from the di…
With the iPhone, I felt the need to tether because
surfing the web is so clunky.
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#10" Every couple of days, you do need to reboot the phone. " Love how this was tossed out there as an afterthought. Huge, obnoxious deal-breaker. I love losing state every 2 days! /sarcasm
I blame motoblur lol.
The only time I've rebooted my nexus one has been for updates.