Oh yeah and I forgot about the TiKL feature... Freaking sweet! Makes talking to someone in a hurry easy!
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:25 PM, James Peluso <[email protected]>wrote: > I've had a droid-x for work purposes for a couple weeks. It's the greatest > work phone I've ever had. I love my iPhone for personal use I think email is > easier to read because of all my outlook folders in the iPhone. The major > flaw with the iPhone i find is the OS releases destroy the use of my phone. > I updated to 4.0 and my 3g was unusable I then went to 4.1 and things were > good for about a week and now my phone is slower than a pentium II. > > Back to the Droid, it's fast, snappy, the market works well for me, there > are tons of apps, I rooted it and run better backups, I can created a > hotspot on the fly when I need too at no extra charge. I'm still getting > used to the twitter client but overall it's a great phone. I enjoy the > driving features it offers when I mount it in my car. I'm able to actively > see the traffic with no lag and judge the best route home. It's saved me > time and that's precious when it takes an hour to get home you leave work at > 5 and your 10 month old goes to bed at 7. > > Just a couple of thoughts. > > > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Freedom and flexibility are inversely proportional to stability and >> simplicity. Android has too many cooks; it suffers from the fractured nature >> of having so many different user interfaces, versions utilized (my dad's >> crappy Moto Backflip still uses ver. 1.6), and no central quality screening >> of apps. I permanently turned off all of the push functions on my iPhone >> with one toggle and solved my battery issues (and could have easily set up >> individual push rules for each app if desired). >> I'm probably just one of the fortunate ones, but I really don't have any >> reception issues with ATT. The only dead areas I hit are spots in my >> hospital where the cell repeaters don't reach. I've had no issues with >> dropped calls, either. I have no love for ATT, but they aren't any worse >> than any other cell company I've dealt with. You want bad customer service, >> deal with Comcast. They truly set the gold standard. >> I guess this makes me a bigger Apple shill than Ed, but for my needs >> Android just isn't there yet. Most of the handsets feel cheap and >> plastic-y, and the OS/interface feels jittery and beta-ish when I've played >> with it. The benefits of the handsets haven't been of value to me yet; I >> don't need an HDMI out or FM radio. I have more onboard memory than I can >> use, I don't need a micro USB slot. The biggest boon to me as a consumer is >> that they have forced a greater pace of innovation. Competition is good for >> all of us. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Sep 30, 2010, at 2:41 PM, "Edward Crosby" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > http://zd.net/bKqX7E >> > >> > Hey, Dr. Jen & Serv, do you have to constantly babysit your Droid X? >> > I do have to agree with him about the heat issue. My Droid 1 gets super >> > hot sometimes and it's rather annoying. >> > >> > -- >> > Have a Better One, >> > Edward Crosby >> > http://www.edwardcrosby.com >> > ----- >> > "There are no atheists in foxholes or firmware updates." >> > Merlin Mann >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "The Unique Geek" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> >> . >> > For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Unique Geek" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Jim > > blog <http://jimpeluso.wordpress.com> > "Keep moving Forward" > > -- Jim blog <http://jimpeluso.wordpress.com> "Keep moving Forward" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
