Whatsapp is amazing. It has save me so much money. Coupled with viber I hardly call most people now.
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2012, at 1:01 AM, Francisco Tapia <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:47, Naushad Zulfiqar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A very common case for me is using whatsapp, I send pics of my kids to my >> parents, with the S2, I used to take a pic with the cam app, and right from >> there say share with and then whatsapp. But with iOS I have to take the >> pic, then load up whatsapp, click share pic, go to the gallery select the >> pic and then share it. It works, but it's convoluted for me. >> >> Apple only forces you with what they want. Which is e-mail, tweet and >> print. >> > > I love using whatsapp, it's great that it's cross platform. I didn't even > know you could do that on android. its' kinda cool. On the flipside so > you don't have to re-search for the pics that you just took, you could > touch and hold the pic on the iphone, then double tap the home button and > switch to whatsapp then paste the pic you just saved to the clipboard. at > least that saves you time from going back to get the pic from the album, > right? > > sounds like that would be something that could get exposed via the sdk like > an "open in..." button > > > > Another thing which is not consequential to most people is that XDA forums >> has a vibrant community and there are a lot of homebrew apps that people >> make. Small utilities and what not. Without going into much details, I >> can install these apk's in android without any issue. No need for root, I >> just need to select "install from unknown sources" once on my phone and the >> rest is easy. >> > > but to be fair the coolest 3rd party side loaded apps do require root :) > > >> I do like my iphone, but I do miss android for sure. To exacerbate the >> problem, my brother in law who has an S2 also installed Cyanogenmod 9 (ICS) >> on his S2, and I am amazed with ICS. It's amazing!!!!! >> > > my current problem continues to be that because I have both in my pocket at > all times, I generally use the iphone about 90% of the time, and about 10% > time I use my android, many times discovering new things all the time. > > also the android is at a disadvantage in my area, the android is vzw and > the iphone is at&t and I have excellent at&t coverage here where I get > better than 2mb throughput for the iphone, where as I'm lucky to get even > 1mb on the android. it's only when they are on wifi that they both show > off how fast they can truly be. > > -Francisco > http://bit.ly/sqlthis | Tsql and More...
