[TriLUG] Android Phone vs iPhone vs other smartphones

[Keith Woodie]

Ok.  I believe I have decided to go with the Motorola Droid.

Anyone have a good list of "can't live without" apps?

One I know I want to download first is the "locale" app (more info at:
http://www.twofortyfouram.com/)

Thanks.
Keith Woodie


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:23 PM, David Black <dave at jamsoft.com> wrote:

> I recently switched from iPhone 3G to Droid and could hardly be happier.
>  Frequent dropped calls in the grocery store, while sitting on 15-501 and
> other times, even with five bars, got old.   It's refreshing to again have a
> phone that actually holds calls, even within most buildings!
>
> Here you'll find a sample and ffmpeg script I hacked together to produce
> visually flawless, full-res video for playback on the Droid:
> http://xen3.relay.net/~dave/droid/ <http://xen3.relay.net/%7Edave/droid/>    BTW, encoding to 856 horizontal pixels is not an error.
>
> The lack of support for Exchange security policies in Android 2.x was an
> early disappointment, but I've come to prefer the compartmentalization the
> Touchdown Exchange client app provides, even if it did cost $20.  This way
> only the client app and cached data from Exchange are locked down/encrypted,
> not the entire phone (which happens to belong to me, not my employer).
>
> BTW, anyone who hosts email on the Zimbra community edition and wants to
> try/help debug an Active Sync plugin, check out
> http://z-push.sourceforge.net/soswp/ and the Zimbra backend plugin,
> http://zimbrabackend.sourceforge.net/
> The author of zimbrabackend has a Palm Pre and we have iPhone and Android
> users testing as well.   I currently use it only for contacts sync but email
> and calendar are coming along.
>
> Dave
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