Android, just got one

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So, I just got a couple new Android phones and they are pretty good. However, they are not nearly as intuitive as the Iphone. They do however allow you to do more with them so once I get it figured out I think they will be good. I have two weeks to decide if I like them. I can return them for a ten dollar re-stocking fee within two weeks if I don't like them.

Any tips from you Android users out there?
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A lot of the stuff that is up-front on the iPhone lives in the little menu box on the lower left, below your screen.

When you're in a function and can't understand why you can't do something, push that little button.
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Android!
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So, what I know so for: The Video chat sucks balls, the Battery life is abysmal, 5 hours with very light use. Android seems pretty good and the overall function of the phone is good, but, with the shit battery life and crappy video chat I will be taking it back today and waiting to see if Verizon gets the IPhone in January.

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11/14/2010 12:31pm
Which phone did you get that is only getting 5 hour battery life? go into the android market and get the advanced task killer. Its a nifty little program that kills all the background programs that youre not using that suck off your battery. Also are you continually connecting to your wi-fi? that will suck more power as well.
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What phones did you get?
Sounds like Droid 2 or Droid X with Verizon?
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mx757 wrote:
Which phone did you get that is only getting 5 hour battery life? go into the android market and get the advanced task killer. Its a...
Which phone did you get that is only getting 5 hour battery life? go into the android market and get the advanced task killer. Its a nifty little program that kills all the background programs that youre not using that suck off your battery. Also are you continually connecting to your wi-fi? that will suck more power as well.
Still lame you have to do that. I have a palm-pre running webos at 1000mhz, and with wi-fi on it last all day unless I run lots of music/game apps.
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My battery lasts all day +.

Don't know what's up with yours...
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11/14/2010 3:21pm Edited Date/Time 11/14/2010 3:28pm
So, what I know so for: The Video chat sucks balls, the Battery life is abysmal, 5 hours with very light use. Android seems pretty good...
So, what I know so for: The Video chat sucks balls, the Battery life is abysmal, 5 hours with very light use. Android seems pretty good and the overall function of the phone is good, but, with the shit battery life and crappy video chat I will be taking it back today and waiting to see if Verizon gets the IPhone in January.
Here's what I can tell you about battery life. I have an Android phone and I can drain the battery from a full charge to dead in less than 10 minutes with certain operations (ROM Manager backup). Having said that I can also make the battery last several days. It all depends on what you have turned on/off. You can stick switches on your desktop for your Mobile Network, Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, Sync, etc. Only turn on what you are using at the time and the battery will last for days. I ride my street bike with the MP3 player playing but with everything else turned off and after about 8 hours I will still have 90% battery left. Disk activity sucks battery. Network sucks battery. The LCD display sucks a LOT of battery. Bluetooth sucks a LOOOOOT of battery. Turn that shit off if you aren't using it. Since this is a new device you are probably playing with it a lot and they display is on. That's going to suck a lot of batter. If you aren't using them turn them off. What version of the OS are you running? There are also updates that extend battery life.
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11/14/2010 3:41pm
It was the My Touch 4g from T-Mobile. Running Droid 2.2 I think.
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myTouch 4g?!? Shit, I didn't even know they had that model. I just got the myTouch 3g not too long ago. I'm behind the times! Anyway, they are probably almost identical as far as power requirements.
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mx757 wrote:
Which phone did you get that is only getting 5 hour battery life? go into the android market and get the advanced task killer. Its a...
Which phone did you get that is only getting 5 hour battery life? go into the android market and get the advanced task killer. Its a nifty little program that kills all the background programs that youre not using that suck off your battery. Also are you continually connecting to your wi-fi? that will suck more power as well.
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Still lame you have to do that. I have a palm-pre running webos at 1000mhz, and with wi-fi on it last all day unless I run...
Still lame you have to do that. I have a palm-pre running webos at 1000mhz, and with wi-fi on it last all day unless I run lots of music/game apps.
LOL, palm pre?

Is Palm still in business?

Dude palm threw the hail marry and hired a bunch of apple employees and developed the OS. The bad part is they hired the wrong ones!!!

Do yourself a favor and go buy an iPhone!
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My Blackberry will last a couple of days with WiFi and BT on the whole time, 3 or 4 with them off.
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Yeah but Blackberrys suck. Smile
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mx757 wrote:
Which phone did you get that is only getting 5 hour battery life? go into the android market and get the advanced task killer. Its a...
Which phone did you get that is only getting 5 hour battery life? go into the android market and get the advanced task killer. Its a nifty little program that kills all the background programs that youre not using that suck off your battery. Also are you continually connecting to your wi-fi? that will suck more power as well.
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Still lame you have to do that. I have a palm-pre running webos at 1000mhz, and with wi-fi on it last all day unless I run...
Still lame you have to do that. I have a palm-pre running webos at 1000mhz, and with wi-fi on it last all day unless I run lots of music/game apps.
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LOL, palm pre? Is Palm still in business? Dude palm threw the hail marry and hired a bunch of apple employees and developed the OS. The...
LOL, palm pre?

Is Palm still in business?

Dude palm threw the hail marry and hired a bunch of apple employees and developed the OS. The bad part is they hired the wrong ones!!!

Do yourself a favor and go buy an iPhone!
Webos is Linux, and everyone knows the problems with iphones these days. Please just stop now.
11/14/2010 5:45pm
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Webos is Linux, and everyone knows the problems with iphones these days. Please just stop now.
So you are saying palm didn't hire a bunch of apple employees?

They didn't copy pinch to zoom, and have a huge war over iTunes?

Problems with iPhones these days? Really? What problems are there? Don't be lame either and say antenna gate. My 3GS did the same thing. Apple even showed other phones doing the same thing.




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Billy Jack wrote:
Webos is Linux, and everyone knows the problems with iphones these days. Please just stop now.
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So you are saying palm didn't hire a bunch of apple employees? They didn't copy pinch to zoom, and have a huge war over iTunes? Problems...
So you are saying palm didn't hire a bunch of apple employees?

They didn't copy pinch to zoom, and have a huge war over iTunes?

Problems with iPhones these days? Really? What problems are there? Don't be lame either and say antenna gate. My 3GS did the same thing. Apple even showed other phones doing the same thing.




I don't care who palm hired, webos is a linux os with a linux kernel and it is stable. Did you get your free bumper yet?

By the way, Apple did some hiring of their own

The Pal-Pre went up against the comparable iphone and pretty much took the cake. You'd need the new iphone to compare to my older palm pre just to beat it.
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It was the My Touch 4g from T-Mobile. Running Droid 2.2 I think.
theres your probelem, you bought into T-Mobiles fake 4G claims.
11/14/2010 6:15pm Edited Date/Time 11/14/2010 6:18pm
Billy Jack wrote:
Webos is Linux, and everyone knows the problems with iphones these days. Please just stop now.
tcannon521 wrote:
So you are saying palm didn't hire a bunch of apple employees? They didn't copy pinch to zoom, and have a huge war over iTunes? Problems...
So you are saying palm didn't hire a bunch of apple employees?

They didn't copy pinch to zoom, and have a huge war over iTunes?

Problems with iPhones these days? Really? What problems are there? Don't be lame either and say antenna gate. My 3GS did the same thing. Apple even showed other phones doing the same thing.




Billy Jack wrote:
I don't care who palm hired, webos is a linux os with a linux kernel and it is stable. Did you get your free bumper yet...
I don't care who palm hired, webos is a linux os with a linux kernel and it is stable. Did you get your free bumper yet?

By the way, Apple did some hiring of their own

The Pal-Pre went up against the comparable iphone and pretty much took the cake. You'd need the new iphone to compare to my older palm pre just to beat it.
LOL, that is the stupid quote of the day!!!!!



The palm pre was never close to the iPhone.



Hell, the 1st iPhone was better than the palm pre!! LOL

If the pre was so much better, why did apple sell more iPhones on day one than palm sold total?
11/14/2010 6:47pm
I am still trying to make my ipod into a smart phone. will happen soon
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tcannon521 wrote:
So you are saying palm didn't hire a bunch of apple employees? They didn't copy pinch to zoom, and have a huge war over iTunes? Problems...
So you are saying palm didn't hire a bunch of apple employees?

They didn't copy pinch to zoom, and have a huge war over iTunes?

Problems with iPhones these days? Really? What problems are there? Don't be lame either and say antenna gate. My 3GS did the same thing. Apple even showed other phones doing the same thing.




Billy Jack wrote:
I don't care who palm hired, webos is a linux os with a linux kernel and it is stable. Did you get your free bumper yet...
I don't care who palm hired, webos is a linux os with a linux kernel and it is stable. Did you get your free bumper yet?

By the way, Apple did some hiring of their own

The Pal-Pre went up against the comparable iphone and pretty much took the cake. You'd need the new iphone to compare to my older palm pre just to beat it.
tcannon521 wrote:
LOL, that is the stupid quote of the day!!!!! The palm pre was never close to the iPhone. Hell, the 1st iPhone was better than the...
LOL, that is the stupid quote of the day!!!!!



The palm pre was never close to the iPhone.



Hell, the 1st iPhone was better than the palm pre!! LOL

If the pre was so much better, why did apple sell more iPhones on day one than palm sold total?
Apple sold more phones because there are many uninformed buyers that just buy what the market throws at them. As for the stupid quotes of the day, I suggest you google iphone vs. palm-pre and see the results from various different tech websites.

Against the comparable iphone, the pre beat it on many levels, including speed, multi-tasking (older iphones did not do that) and better camera and video (better resolution and megapixels with palm-pre). You would need the new iphone to beat the older palm-pre.
11/14/2010 7:43pm
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Apple sold more phones because there are many uninformed buyers that just buy what the market throws at them. As for the stupid quotes of the...
Apple sold more phones because there are many uninformed buyers that just buy what the market throws at them. As for the stupid quotes of the day, I suggest you google iphone vs. palm-pre and see the results from various different tech websites.

Against the comparable iphone, the pre beat it on many levels, including speed, multi-tasking (older iphones did not do that) and better camera and video (better resolution and megapixels with palm-pre). You would need the new iphone to beat the older palm-pre.
It is obvious you are a palm fan. I personally looked at the phone before buying the current iPhone of that time.

I played with it for 15 minutes and knew it wasn't for me. It was very lagy with a weak display and the camera pictures didn't look at good as the iPhone. It isn't about megapixels...

For the record how many years has apple won Jd powers award for cell phones?

How many for palm?
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I don't know man, I would actually get an iphone if sprint had coverage with them....so I got a palm pre. That's honesty! Ha ha
11/14/2010 8:31pm
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I don't know man, I would actually get an iphone if sprint had coverage with them....so I got a palm pre. That's honesty! Ha ha
Glad you finally admitted it!
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Verizon will rule when they get the iPhone on the CDMA network.
With BB, Droids and Iphones, and the coverage, the rest are obsolete.
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11/15/2010 11:42am Edited Date/Time 11/15/2010 11:42am
Android flew right on by iPhone. At least they are way farther ahead than Microsoft. Smile


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Got on Andriod here in NZ 2 weeks ago on a Garmin Asus phone....its been absolutely brilliant...nice and fast as well plenty of handy features. Only problem I found is the camera is a bit average and I cant get rid of predictive text.

Happy customer here Smile
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Download Angry Birds app. Great time waster. There is a deal on Ebay for only $22 shipped you get two droid batteries, a wall charger, a wall plug, a car plug, a case and a dash holder. Would be $150 at the phone store. We keep an extra battery charged all the time.
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11/18/2010 1:24pm Edited Date/Time 11/18/2010 1:25pm
Android can work on any manufacturer so they are going to sell more units. Doesn't make it better but it does offer you more choices. iphone is just great. I have had dozens of smartphones over the years and it just works so fluid.



I have a friend that develops iphone apps and we were talking about android and he was saying that the android just feels unfinished and unpolished compared to ios.



There both good but I think you would really like the iphone. I am an apple fanboy though but I freakin love google overall.
11/18/2010 8:52pm
I have read that the 4g really, really sucks down the battery life. Read that when they first released the 4g phones, so don't remember where I read it, but that could very easily be contributing to the problem. Pretty sure it can be switched between 3g and 4g to help save some battery.

I have a Verizon Droid (Moto Droid 1). In general, with the newer versions of Android (2.0 and up) and running on the newer/stronger phones with more memory, there is no need for a task manager as Android handles tasks very well by itself, and task managers can actually screw things up more. The big things are turn down the screen brightness and turn off things when you aren't using them (ie BlueTooth, wi-fi). I can usually get through a full day (24 hours) and sometimes more without having to recharge, depending on how much I'm on my phone. As somebody else mentioned, when you first get the phone, you are playing with it a lot, and the screen being on will drain the battery. GPS drains the battery fast, so don't have Maps running in the background (the GPS will only be running when apps that use it are running, so you don't need to turn off the GPS when you aren't using it).

As for finding things on the phone, the menu button is your friend... tap it to get additional options in apps and on your home screen. Check out the Settings icon and look through all the menus. Hold down on the home screen to bring up options. Hold down on icons in the launcher to make a short cut on the home screen. Hold down on icons on the home screen to drag them and move them and also to bring up a trash can at the bottom of the screen to delete (will not get rid of the app, just the short cut). Look through the market to check out the tons of apps available (and yes, they even allow "adult" type apps in the market LOL).

Improvements have been made with each OS version, which are free and pushed to the phones (when the phone manufacturer and carrier are okay with the version and ensure it runs properly on the phone).

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