I feel like such a traitor. I am the Mac Addict at work and my husband and I just recently purchased Android phones. The main reason being we could both get smart phones for the price of what a single iPhone was going to cost us per month with unlimited everything.
So far I¹m liking it. I haven¹t tried to synch much up with my Mac just yet. I¹ve been updating contact lists and such on my Mac and was waiting until I had that all sorted out before I tried porting them over to the phone. I am hoping to eventually synch my contacts and my work calendar and see how that goes. If anyone else using Android and Mac has tips they are willing to share to avoid any problems, I¹d love to hear them too. I use Entourage with exchange at work for email, calendars and contacts. I did set up a shared calendar with my husband so we could keep track of what we have going on, but I didn¹t think he¹d want to get notifications about all my work-related stuff, but many of my personal reminders were in my Entourage calendar. So we set up a free google calendar then I was able to copy all the items from my Entourage calendar into that via Apple¹s iCal so he could have access to it too and I just stripped out my work-related events. There was a little issue at the beginning because apparently Sprint requires a gmail account (You don¹t have to use it, but they do require you have one.) and if you don¹t have a calendar set up in gmail before they set up your phone you can have problems accessing the calendar on the phone after the fact. Took me forever to get the calendar working on my husband¹s phone because they set up the gmail account for him at the store and it wouldn¹t see the calendar I created in that account later. They hadn¹t done a gmail account on my phone so it worked fine for me out of the box so couldn¹t figure out why he couldn¹t get to it. After some poking around on some Android forums I finally found a fix that got it working on his phone too. Haven¹t really had it long enough to get in and do much else with it. My husband is the app King and is always downloading something new to try. I¹m using a free app called Astro File Manager that allows you to see all the files on your phone. (Thought it was odd this feature is not built in.) Plugging the phone up to the Mac brings up a hard drive icon on your desktop and you can go in and move files around that way if you need to, but this app allows that without PC access. I¹ve not used an iPhone so I can¹t compare phone service, but I do have an iPod Touch and there are pros and cons to both platforms. Some things on the Android I like better and some things I prefer on the iOS. I still use my ipod Touch because all my notes are in it already and I have some apps loaded that I like to use that aren¹t available on the Droid platform. I¹m curious to hear from other Android users too to see how they are synching and working with their Macs. Oh, by the way, no calls from beyond that we¹ve noticed. :-) Thanks! -- Beth
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