Any smartphone OS for the foreseeable future will be free as in
kittens. It would be nice if the battery were to last longer. I
don't know what the the battery life is on 'standard' android, never
seen one.
I use my Droid X2 pretty hard, and a days use is usually about 40% of
the full charge, which is way better than other phones I've had, but I
plug it in at night anyhow. If it became an issue I'd just buy a second
battery.
Yes, the monthly fees are too high. What to do? The carriers will do
what they feel they need to do to maintain their margins. Voting with
your feet isn't necessarily a solution.
Carl
On 1/10/12 4:21 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
The issues I bumped into were:
- The handset mfgrs and the carriers all wanted to piss all over
Android, primarily the UI. The handset folks built UIs that were to
distinguish them from others, but succeeded only in having their
version of android have worse battery life.
- So I wanted vanilla android. That should be easy, right? Well,
apparently the carriers didn't want that, so I was forced into their
upgrade schedule. Also there were claims that the handset makers
wanted more control over things like the camera .. the standard
android wasn't good enough.
- A ray of hope appeared with CyanogenMod which gave ninja users the
ability to upgrade their firmware, but looking deeper into them, they
too had lots of problems keeping up with the latest drivers.
Now I realize I could become a phone sys admin and hacker ninja, but I
got tired of that keeping my initial iPhone running on TMo via unlock
hacks. Annoying and time consuming.
So it appeared weird to me. Why would the open phone platform, which
showed so much initial promise, seem to be backing away from being
free (both beer and speech).
So the control you don't have is the initial promise of
- Carrier independence .. they still own you and have absurd contracts.
- OS independence .. the handset folks have "improve" android and its
hard to go back to vanilla and the firmware you'd prefer.
Maybe I was just expecting too much: a great hacker phone os that
would work on lots of phones and release me fron contracts, absurd
plans, limits on networking (tethering, limits, huge over-run costs).
In short, I though the evil trinity would be broken and google would
be a hero.
No.
I guess my next best hope is that the Moto buy, plus maybe something
like buying Tmo, could let Google control the initial android dream.
I feel a bit like the Obama "Yes You Can" ripoff.
-- Owen
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:38 PM, glen <g...@ropella.name
<mailto:g...@ropella.name>> wrote:
Owen Densmore wrote circa 12-01-10 10:48 AM:
> We have had several phone chats. I kept finding Android a bit
difficult
> to deal with, mainly because of the new trinity: Phone Makers,
Cellular
> Carriers, and Mobile OSs. I found the evil trios not providing
what I
> wanted and kept thinking I was being painted into a corner.
>
> This post discusses part of the problem. No, its not an iPhone vs
> Android rant, but interesting history on Android and its loss of
control.
> http://parislemon.com/post/15604811641/why-i-hate-android
I suppose I'm just dense and should keep my mouth shut. But my very
density prevents me from keeping my mouth shut. ;-)
Precisely what control does an android user _not_ have? I seem to
have
control over every aspect of my android device (Droid 2 Global),
including which carrier I use.
--
glen
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