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Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by kyleslattery »

jokermatt999 wrote: post #8
sspencer wrote: post #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

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.

With my Droid, I regularly have to reboot to get GPS to work, and I've had the issue on all 3 of the Droids I've had (replaced due to other issues).

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by astine »

sspencer wrote: post #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

I think that it depends on the state that you are losing. All the state worth keeping on my phone is saved to disk (sd card actually,) so it wouldn't matter if it were rebooted. The only problem would be that I wouldn't be able to use it while it was booting.

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by metamemetics »

It took me until this month to get a smart phone because I'm surrounded by computers all day at home and work so I never wanted my phone to be one. Was going to switch to Sprint Evo or Droid-X but ended up stuck with ATT for a while longer so iPhone4ed it. Despite all the web-tabloid tech-drama, my general disdain for iLifestyle marketing, and having never owned an Apple device... I actually couldn't be happier so far. I just use the digitally imported (http://www.di.fm) app for music so I've never had to mess with iTunes, maybe that's why?

edit: going to get OSX to triple-boot with win7\ubuntu, maybe my mind will change once I give the SDK a whirl

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by matwood »

theBobMcCormick wrote: post #23
Terretta wrote: post #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…

The no cell data while in a call is a CDMA issue, not a phone issue. An ATT or Tmobile Android phone can use voice and 3G data at the same time the same as an iPhone. Also, I'm not sure how the no cloud push in 2.1 can be a reason for switching from Android to iPhone. Does the iPhone have a cloud push feature equivalent to the one Android 2.2 cloud push feature? I'm assuming that's the "no cloud push" feature he's ta…

I'm not sure if it's equivalent, but setting up the iPhone to treat your Gmail account as an Exchange Active Sync account gives the iPhone most of the cloud push features (Mail/Calendar/Contacts). I can add a contact on my iPhone that syncs OTA to Google that then syncs to my mac address book.

Google voice texting and messages don't integrate perfectly yet, for example if I get a GV text on my iPhone and read it it doesn't show read in GV on the web (unless of course I use the GV app/html5 site to read it). Also contact groups do not sync from Google Contacts.

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by mirkules »

keltex wrote: post #21

"I pine for a Mini-USB conenction, but Micro-USB is much better than some properietary connector. (I like Mini better than Micro because the slightly larger form factor seems far more durable. Time will tell.) " Actually the Micro USB was designed to be more durable than the Mini USB... up to 10,000 connect / disconnect cycles. Plus the wear parts in the Micro USB are in the cable rather than the device. Much cheaper…

I heard this from other people too, but somehow it just /feels/ less durable for me, especially when I am plugging it in. I feel some grinding of metal parts and often wonder if this thing will last. Actually, I feel the same thing with the iPod/iPhone connectors, but it's definitely more pronounced on the micro-USB connectors.

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by WiseWeasel »

generalk wrote: post #20
Terretta wrote: post #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…

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. It's built into Froyo (Android 2.2) as well. - every couple of days, you do need to reboot the phone Don't know if that's a phone-specific issue. Haven't had to reboot my Nexus One except for the Froyo upd…

By that time, Verizon may support 4G LTE, at least in major metropolitan areas, which does support simultaneous voice/data usage.

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by jokermatt999 »

kyleslattery wrote: post #31
jokermatt999 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

With my Droid, I regularly have to reboot to get GPS to work, and I've had the issue on all 3 of the Droids I've had (replaced due to other issues).

Have you tried just toggling the GPS settings? I occasionally have issues with it, but toggling the setting has always worked for me.

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by adbge »

albertzeyer wrote: post #27
StavrosK wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an iPhone and I think I know what the GP is saying (although I haven't tried Android). I have a 3G which is basically unusable for the web because it's so slow , and I haven't even put iOS 4 on it. Apart from that, however, Safari basically just has no features. The form filling is so broken that, when I type half my email address in and it offers to fill it out, I tap on it to dismiss it and it fills the box…

I have read somewhere else that iOS4 has improved the MobileSafari speed/performance. Maybe you should try it. Whereby I couldn't really tell the difference. I have an 3GS and it was fast with iOS3 and it is as fast in iOS4.

iOS4 makes the 3G nigh unusable because the phone is constantly forced to flush memory to swap causing the UI to hang while the OS waits to write to disk. So, no, do not upgrade a 3G to iOS4 for improved anything. (Well, the icons are a little prettier.)

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by jrockway »

IMAP email is very weak. Really weak. Even the third party clients are weak.

How so? I am an IMAP power-user and K9 meets all of my needs. Flagging works, push works, folders work, SSL + auth works in both directions, and it supports my self-signed certificate. K9 is infinitely better than my work Blackberry, which is supposedly the "premier push email experience".

I am really not sure what more an email client could do for you.

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