[TriLUG] Android Phone vs iPhone vs other smartphones

[Dave Sorenson]

Google maps natch.. comes with the phone though will probably have an 
update available. PDANet to tether your laptop to the 3G connection 
through your phone. While not free after trial (it still works, you just 
cannot connect to encrypted sites) worth every penny.. Connectbot is a 
nice little terminal client for emergencies.

If you Ebay, get Pkt Auction.. nicely done app. Google Sky is a cool 
show off your phone app that maps the location of stars and planets 
based on the direction you point the phone. Bubble is a cool app that 
turns phone into a bubble level for hanging pictures, etc..

And don't forget Star Wars Light Saber!!


Dave



On 3/18/2010 8:07 AM, Keith Woodie wrote:
> 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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