Take a risk<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/technology/personaltech/windows-phone-is-back-full-of-great-tricks-state-of-the-art.html> .
*-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ *_____________________________________________* On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > OK .. I'm likely to buy an Android phone, but I confess I'm confused by > the differences between the handset manufacturers. > > They all attempt to have somehow "improved" on the core Google software. > And some/most of the phones are locked and/or require jailbreaking to do > do fairly standard things. But I thought the whole point of android was > being open, right? And there are radically different reports on battery > life that I don't seem to be able to parse having to do with "task > management", "notifications", and other things. > > So I'm confused and there isn't a lot of help on the web. I decided to > simply reduce the choice to the carrier I prefer, TMobile. These are the > androids they offer (on contract) of interest: > > $260 HTC Amaze > $230 Samsung Galaxy S 2 > $199 HTC Sensation 4G > $100 Samsung Galaxy S > $100 T-Mobile G2x > Free T-Mobile myTouch 4G > > > Do any of us use one of these phones? Or something close? Any > recommendations? Possibly other androids I should consider? How to tame > them? > > Sorry to obsess about phones, but god, this stuff is confusing! I should > blog post on the differences in cellular tech and protocols, carriers > (Verizon, ATT) ripping folks off, and so on. > > Thanks! > > -- Owen > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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