[TriLUG] Android Phone vs iPhone vs other smartphones

[Adam Gregory]

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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/>
>>> <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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