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Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by gleb »

jrockway wrote: post #40

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…

K9 is good. Not up to the standards of 6 year old ChatterEmail on Palm just yet, but vastly better than the builtin client of iPhone's Mail.

And it's an active Open Source project improving on original Android's source, a direct benefit of Android's openness:

* http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/

* http://www.slideshare.net/obrajesse/k9

* http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/source/list

* http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail/topics

Incidentally Mark Blanc, author of ChatterEmail on Palm now works for Google on Android Email (among other things?).

As best as one can tell he gave up on the idea of creating a killer email client for Android on his own or was acquired:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Blank

* http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Emai...

* http://forum.androidcentral.com/android-applications/22105-m...

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by ChRoss »

adbge wrote: post #38
albertzeyer wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

iOS4 is just horrible in my 3GS. I hit "App low memory" error during my first hour of use, and now I need to clean apps in App switch manager to free up some RAM when the phone feel sluggish. It gives me additional thing to do. I only like the folder feature.

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

#43

Post by jsz0 »

jrockway wrote: post #40

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…

K-9's UI is kind of terrible though it is fully functional.

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

#44

Post by jsz0 »

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.

I get pretty bad lag (contacts, dial pad especially) on my Eris after a few days. Advanced Task Killer clears it up though. I feel like HTC Sense users get a lower quality experience in general. Poorer performance, cruddy built-in apps replacing the better stock apps, widget overload by default, too many bundled applications, etc.

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by yoden »

loire280 wrote: post #22
nubela wrote: post #2

Having 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…

I'm glad you like your phone, but of course your brand new Android phone surfs the web better than your old iPhone. It's got a faster CPU, more RAM, and a higher-resolution screen. Web surfing is very similar among similarly-specced phones across all of the major OSes (it's mostly the same browser, after all).

Not really that true, I have an 3rd gen touch and a Moto Droid, and I much prefer the android device. Better resolution, better browsers (parallel load of tabs, faster tab switching, capability to render more than one tab at a time, flash integration (skyfire), etc), better integration with other applications (youtube, quickoffice, music app, gallery app, etc).

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by yoden »

kyleslattery wrote: post #18

> The Back button, it is wonderful. I said this before, and after nearly a month I am even more convinced, the lowly back button is the most significant architectural advantage for Android. To me (a Droid user since day 1), the back button and the whole workflow of launching other apps from within an original app started off as something I liked, but it's kind of a strange concept. When it works well (open a browser…

Home resets your state completely. Much more sane to do that than leave state hidden around. You want what you were just doing? Back. You want to do something different? Home. Simple.

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by yoden »

astine wrote: post #32
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.

Yep, android has always been similar to how iOS 4 works. To do multitasking on a mobile right, you need to save state when you get backgrounded anyway... so rebooting the phone basically loses you nothing.

That being said, the only time I reboot my phone is when Pandora hangs itself into an unrecoverable state (100% pandora's fault). Still better than the iOS pandora player though.

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by gleb »

jsz0 wrote: post #43
jrockway wrote: post #40

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…

K-9's UI is kind of terrible though it is fully functional.

Ugly it definitely is.

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by sprout »

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…

I've found I do have to reboot my MotoDroid occasionally. Usually the guilty party is GPS - it absolutely refuses to give fine location unless I reboot the phone.

I've also had issues with airplane mode totally ruining my 3G until I reboot. (I now avoid airplane mode.)

Re: IPhone to Droid-X: Lots to Like

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Post by tocomment »

Droid X Questions:

Is it better than the incredible?

Does Droid X have a hardware keyboard? I can't tell from the page.

How does the HMDI thing work? Does it connect to a television somehow? Do I have to pay to do that?

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