[TriLUG] Android Phone vs iPhone vs other smartphones

[David McDowell]

Also note, there is an update released today:

Starting 3/18, Verizon Wireless is pleased to announce a new software update
for the DROID by Motorola. Users will be able to upgrade their software to
version AP: ESE53/BP: C_01.3E.03P to receive new improvements and
enhancements.

   - At noon on 3/18, 1,000 users will receive notification of the update.
   - At 11:59 PM on 3/18, 9,000 more users will receive the update
   notification.
   - After the first 10,000 users receive the update on 3/18, there will be
   a 24-hour period when no additional upgrades will be delivered.
   - On Day 3 (3/20), 200,000 users will receive the update notification at
   11:59 PM. This schedule will continue each day thereafter until the update
   has been delivered to all users.

My Droid is currently running (if I parsed all these parts correctly):
ESD56/??: C_01.3E.01P which is firmware version 2.0.1.  I'm not sure what
the new firmware version will be, nor do I have a clue where the BP part of
the versioning comes from.  Look for your update this weekend I guess!  :)

David McDowell


On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Keith Woodie <kwoodie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually according to a bug fix listed in the below link it has been fixed
> or at least improved in eclair (2.1).
>
> https://review.source.android.com/#change,11236
>
>
> Keith Woodie
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Keith Woodie <kwoodie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Smells like a needed android app....
> >
> > Maybe 2.1 improves on this too :)
> >
> > Keith Woodie
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Christopher L Merrill <
> > chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 3/18/2010 1:37 PM, Keith Woodie wrote:
> >>
> >>> I really appreciate all of the helpful responses!
> >>>
> >>
> >> I forgot to mention one thing that I'm _really_ unhappy with on the
> >> droid - the search function in the contact manager.  It is bad.  Way
> >> beyond bad, really, closer to useless. Kinda shocking given that Google
> >> is driving Android.  Since 1995 I've been able to search all contacts
> >> by any field on my various incarnations of the PalmOS. In the Google
> >> contacts app, you can ONLY search by first and last name (note that
> >> google.com/contacts does not have this problem).  Search by company
> >> name?  Nope. Search by city or street?  Nope. Search by nickname or
> notes?
> >> Faahhgedaboutit!  This is a constant irritant for me.  So if you're
> >> coming from Palm or any other OS with a contact search that is actually
> >> usable, consider yourself warned :(
> >>
> >>
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