That was all on my phone, an HTC Hero. The moto droid can do the same, all the android phones are similiar hardware except for the moto droid having a better screen and the samsung moment having 8 gigs of built in memory. There are something on the order of 100,000 apps for iphone, I think at last count 20,000 were either tip calculators or flashlight apps. Tongue in cheek of course...there are thousands of android apps, and I can't say I've gone looking for an app and not found something suitable. So far so good.
I broke my foot in four places a few weeks ago, so I've gotten to know my couch far better then it or I ever hoped. That said I have spent a lot of time on my semi new phone putting it to the test. As far as if I multitask well...you did see i was on IRC right? Not exactly a brain taxer...same with twitter. Both are more time wasters, leftovers from being on the net so long. It's a nice distraction while I keep my foot up, and even nicer I don't need to sign out of twitter, IM or IRC and just play around on whatever I want keeping them all open while also looking at an occasional email or engadget page. On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:33 PM, David K Watson <davidkirkwat...@gmail.com>wrote: > That is the kind of answer I've been looking for, that I haven't > seen at all anywhere else. Whatever works for you, fine. You > make a good case for your phone. (Was all that on your phone, > or was it at your computer and you are giving an example of > what you'd like your phone to do?) However, do you know that > the Droid can do all that now or at least will be able to do that if the > right apps are made for it? If so, then there is definitely a > place for it at the smartphone table. > > On a side note, what are you, a hyperactive teenager? You > sound like one seriously distracted dude, dude, if that is > representative of more than a tiny fraction of your day. > Live your life however you want, but I hope that you know > that there's lots of cognitive science which says that kind of > multitasking seriously impairs your critical thinking, memory > and mood. Science also says that no one does multitasking > anywhere nearly as well as they think that they do. > > From: mike <xha...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: Moto droid by Andy ihnatko >> >> In answer to your specific question, at the time I sent the last email >> where >> I said I want to be able to multitask, I was answering an email, on three >> IRC networks (talking in two channels actively), on IM with a friend in >> London and checking twitter for a search I'd done. If I'm on IRC on the >> iphone, I can't switch back and forth to IM without shutting down the >> other >> app...I can't answer an email without shutting down other apps. >> Disconnecting from IM and IRC every time I want to read an email would be >> tiresome, I've done it. I like my little cell phone world I can create on >> a >> phone I can multitask on, do I *need* it? Of course not. But combine >> that >> advantage on a network that is MUCH cheaper and I'm very satisfied with my >> choice knowing I've lost some things and gained some things. >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
