I used to have a personal iPhone 3G.... and a work issued basic cell phone (from US Cellular). I had been a blackberry person before the iPhone, though I was strong considering going to a basic personal cell phone too...except I fell more the iPhone, though its the first phone where I got to experience ETF.
But then the University contract with US Cellular expired and we could go with any provider that the state had contracts with (so not US Cellular)....so now I have a work issued Droid 2 (Verizon Wireless) and I have a basic cell phone from Sprint. I miss US Cellular, might switch to them for my personal phone when my contract is up (or when I get to the midway point, depending on how angry I get....it was a feature phone, but the twitter app stopped working a few weeks after i got it....long enough to just be outside the 30 day return window, at first they emailed that there would be an update...but now they nothing about any updates.)....they're the only one with good coverage at home. At work, there's a US Cellular repeater in the building (but Verizon is close enough to come in through it as well)....no T-Mobile or Sprint service. There's a touch of AT&T service in the corner of office that is conference room and bathrooms. Perhaps someday, AT&T and Sprint won't be temporary towers sitting in the hotel parking lot across from campus (sprint has been temporary since the tornado that cut through campus in 2008, not sure about AT&T...they didn't come to the area until after the tornado....they acquired cellular one's gsm in the area...but not its sites... since us cellular got their cdma spectrum (so before AT&T entered, there was GSM service at work since it on the same tower as US cellular, that our repeater is pointed at...) I thought about going T-Mobile, especially with the WiFi calling capability they have on their androids...but not sure it'll still be an option when the time comes... they would be my second choice at home, but once I was on a call as I was walking to work....and it was pretty much a block from the office when the call dropped. Though they didn't have much with wifi calling capability at the time, seemed like they were going to discontinue it entirely...so was surprised when a co-worker told me that it just became available on his android phone.... For laptops there are 3 first gen MacBook Pros (I have one -- me and a co-worker are 1st user's of one), until recently manager was trying to have at least one working Powerbook G4 (was also trying to keep a working Power Mac G5 on his desk, think it was up to parts from 4 different ones). He finally gave in....and has a more recent MacBook Pro. The other SA got a Dell Vostro of some sort. Not sure who's going to get the next new laptop when we get around to hiring the new senior position they are working on creating (for the 2 regular positions we had, we only hired one.... he got the 3rd Gen1 MacBook Pro....the 3rd person to get it) The CIO is a big iPad fan.... (which is apparently why he hates that we had outsourced to Zimbra before we hired him....) Right now I'm playing around with a Viewsonic gTablet (w/VEGAn-TAB Gingerbread on it) ... (the missing scroll bar in the Zimbra webclient issue also affects me on the gTablet) On 5/13/2011 10:34 PM, Tom Perrine wrote: > We're playing with Xoom and iPad (2) tablets at work. It's funny > because more of our sysadmins have Android phones than iPhone, and > almost all the sysadmins have Macbook laptops. Clearly no (or little) > Apple fanboy or Android cultists :-) > > Which is a better all around sysadmin tool? Droid XOOM or iPad? > Which has a better set of tools that are useful in our field? What > are your favorite tools for these devices? -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
