[TriLUG] Android Phone vs iPhone vs other smartphones

[David McDowell]

Oh, with all the apps flying through the thread now, what are people using
for (ya ya I'm going to ask) Word, Excel, (other M$ office apps?), and PDF
viewing?  I haven't gone down that path yet.  thanks.



On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:03 AM, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Are you finding Touchdown to be stable?  I found and installed the trial of
> it yesterday and so far so good.  I hate that it looks like I'll have to
> spend $20 for it for something Android 2.x should be doing by default with
> Exchange accounts (using the Exchange Global Access List, GAL).
>
> So far the voice dialing speech recognition I'm finding stinks.  I can not
> get it to recognize the name Jennifer even after making her the ONLY contact
> remaining on the phone.  The voice recogition for google nav is pretty good,
> except when you are driving and road noise prevents the phone from
> understanding anything.  I haven't had any trouble with the regular browser
> yet...
>
> David McDowell
>
>  On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:23 PM, David Black <dave at jamsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> 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).
>> Dave
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