Will the Droid supplant other electronic devices?

[MartyA]

MartyA's Garmin does rain. Droid... doesn't.
MartyA's Garmin does satellite. Droid... doesn't.

Think about that on rides past, where you didn't have cell coverage. Or it started raining.

and in the sunshine the droid Eris screen is very difficult to see and nearly impossible to adjust while on the bike.

 

[BlackCherry]

I have an HTC G1 Android. After installing the "free" Task kill app. It helped the battery life out. Before that, apps were running and sucking battery life that I was unaware of.
Worth a shot?

Thanks man, I'll look into it. Now if I can just figure out how to get rid of all of those "download complete" icons from the top of my screen I'll be all set! :huh:

 

[pcrdude]

I have an HTC G1 Android. After installing the "free" Task kill app. It helped the battery life out. Before that, apps were running and sucking battery life that I was unaware of.
Worth a shot?

Thanks man, I'll look into it. Now if I can just figure out how to get rid of all of those "download complete" icons from the top of my screen I'll be all set! :huh:

Drag it down with your finger like a windowshade and push the "clear" button.

I have a G1 from a year ago, and the software just keeps getting better and better.

BTW, you can kill apps from within the "toggle setting" app as well.

 

[MartyA]

Now if I can just figure out how to get rid of all of those "download complete" icons from the top of my screen I'll be all set! :huh:

My Eris is a little different, but on mine if you hit the Menu, then Notifications, the download list is there. Touch them and they go away, as does the little download icon at the top.

 

[BlackCherry]

Now if I can just figure out how to get rid of all of those "download complete" icons from the top of my screen I'll be all set! :huh:

My Eris is a little different, but on mine if you hit the Menu, then Notifications, the download list is there. Touch them and they go away, as does the little download icon at the top.

Woo Hoo!! I've never visited that screen before! At the top of the screen is a button that says "clear notifications" I touched that and blammo, they're gone!! THANKS!! :yahoo:

 

[ScottyUSN]

Looks like the "Old" Android phones are going to see some of the new droid 2.0 toys.

I just downloaded the Google Map update and the on the fly voice turn by turn GPS features for the G1.

No doubt it will chew up some battery life if not plugged in.

 

[Bulldog9]

I've got the Samsung Omnia, and it is my Camera (5MP) GPS, IPOD, Local Directory, Phone, and PDF and Word file reader. I WONT use the phone while riding, just plain unsafe. I do stream music through bluetooth to our headsets and have wireless coms but not through phone. When moving the only thing I use on the phone is the music. I also use it for my e-mail (pulls in all my accounts, hotmail/gmail & AKO) I have a tech mount but don't use it at this point.

THe only thing this device does not have is a slide out keyboard like the motorola droid, it is 100% touch screen, which is good for 90% of my use. THis phone has os many features, I've owned it since February, it performs flawlessly, and Verizon has great coverage. With teh outlook connector and other sync software, this is a mobile computer, with built in wifi bluetooth and broadband as well as cable connections. Bluetooth has hands free dialing as well as other functions, but you have to buy the right headset $$$$ I dont use those features, but when I use the phone in my car, I press a button and nads free dial, redial play pause mp3.

Its not a perfect device (90%), but pretty close. REplaced my PDA GPS IPOD CAMERA and rolled it into my phone. Oh, best of all, I got it for free ;-)

EDIT" Phone has a bit over 8Gig onboard and a memory slot for a mini sd card. I have a 4ig card for a total of 12GIG storage, and use 6 for music.

 

[Dangerous Dave]

Just when you thought this thread was dead and gone.......................................

I just had to resurrect it because of my last two days of cell phone shopping. Verizon has been brow-beating me about my "new every two" upgrade. So I figured, what the hell. After spending ALOT of time playing with phones in my local Verizon store, I was pretty hooked on the HTC Touch Pro2. It's a Windows phone with a BIG touchscreen and a BIG slide out 5-row keyboard. Felt good to use and was easy to navigate even just fumbling my way around with hardly a mis-stroked key on the oh-so-user-friendly keyboard. I REALLY like this phone. Well I don't know if Verizon is offering their sales people a spiff for selling Droids or what, but every salesperson in the place had one on their hip and were singing the praises of the Droid. I fondled the display model a little and didn't really care for the feel of it, but that's a personal thing of course. I tried playing with the keyboard and didn't like it at all. So one of the sales geeks comes over and starts showing me all the cool stuff the Droid does. Admittedly, there are a ton of cool apps for it and you can make the little bugger do just about anything...as long as alot of typing isn't involved. So he's bragging about how fast the OS is and how fast it loads webpages. Ok. So I ask him to go to a website that I use all the time and I know is very graphics intensive and takes awhile to load...www.weather.com/weather/local/USOH0245. It's (obviously) the weather channel forecast for Dayton, Ohio. He tries three times to type in this url on his Droid and finally gives up and goes to a different webpage. I pick up the display model and try another three times before I give up too. Horrible keyboard. Pity, because clearly this phone does alot of cool ****. But all that coolness would be forgotten everytime I started cussing at the keyboard. I think I'm gonna get myself a touch Pro2. Sweet-*** phone.

But I'm still keeping all my other gadgets.

 

[GalaxyBlue]

I don't understand the battery life thing, my friend got a Droid phone a little while ago, he's constantly staring at the thing, sending texts and getting texts, looking up stupid crap on the net, all that, he never carries his charger with him, and crashes overnight at friends houses (mine included) all the time and his phone is still going the next day, so he's got to be getting at least 24-36 hours of constant use out of it.
I on the other hand, use my phone only for calling people, as though I were a caveman or other unwashed heathen, and I still have to charge it every other day.

My Droid is Sync'd with Gmail and Facebook and is CONSTANTLY sending me updates/emails, And texts from friends, And then the phone calls i make. I get a full 24 hours on a charge before it's dead, Unless i am watching youtube vids or using the GPS.

The Droid is the best phone i have ever owned!

 

[GalaxyBlue]

Just when you thought this thread was dead and gone.......................................
I just had to resurrect it because of my last two days of cell phone shopping. Verizon has been brow-beating me about my "new every two" upgrade. So I figured, what the hell. After spending ALOT of time playing with phones in my local Verizon store, I was pretty hooked on the HTC Touch Pro2. It's a Windows phone with a BIG touchscreen and a BIG slide out 5-row keyboard. Felt good to use and was easy to navigate even just fumbling my way around with hardly a mis-stroked key on the oh-so-user-friendly keyboard. I REALLY like this phone. Well I don't know if Verizon is offering their sales people a spiff for selling Droids or what, but every salesperson in the place had one on their hip and were singing the praises of the Droid. I fondled the display model a little and didn't really care for the feel of it, but that's a personal thing of course. I tried playing with the keyboard and didn't like it at all. So one of the sales geeks comes over and starts showing me all the cool stuff the Droid does. Admittedly, there are a ton of cool apps for it and you can make the little bugger do just about anything...as long as alot of typing isn't involved. So he's bragging about how fast the OS is and how fast it loads webpages. Ok. So I ask him to go to a website that I use all the time and I know is very graphics intensive and takes awhile to load...www.weather.com/weather/local/USOH0245. It's (obviously) the weather channel forecast for Dayton, Ohio. He tries three times to type in this url on his Droid and finally gives up and goes to a different webpage. I pick up the display model and try another three times before I give up too. Horrible keyboard. Pity, because clearly this phone does alot of cool ****. But all that coolness would be forgotten everytime I started cussing at the keyboard. I think I'm gonna get myself a touch Pro2. Sweet-*** phone.

But I'm still keeping all my other gadgets.

You know whats funny, I opted for the droid over the iPhone because i wanted a slide out keyboard. I had a Touch Pro from Sprint before.

I never even slide it open now! The touchscreen on the Droid is THAT good!

 

[happyPuppy]

Be very wary of Verizon. They just announced a $350.00 early termination fee on smartphones. AT&T and the rest may have issues , but the terms to use the Droid are nuts. If I was dead set against the iPhone, I would wait for the Google phone.

https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/arti...han_phones.html

 

[Dangerous Dave]

I never even slide it open now! The touchscreen on the Droid is THAT good!

For typing?? My current phone is an LG Dare which is touch screen only. The touch screen is functionally excellent. My gripe comes from the fact that the virtual keyboard is only 4-row, not 5. If I want to type out an e-mail, it's an endless process if I actually want to use punctuation, since it requires constantly switching back and forth between the alpha and numeric keypads and constantly shifting and unshifting to get all the characters I need. If it was a 5-row virtual keyboard on my Dare, I wouldn't be phone shopping at all.

 

[BlackCherry]

For typing?? My current phone is an LG Dare which is touch screen only. The touch screen is functionally excellent. My gripe comes from the fact that the virtual keyboard is only 4-row, not 5. If I want to type out an e-mail, it's an endless process if I actually want to use punctuation, since it requires constantly switching back and forth between the alpha and numeric keypads and constantly shifting and unshifting to get all the characters I need. If it was a 5-row virtual keyboard on my Dare, I wouldn't be phone shopping at all.

I agree. On my Droid Eris it's a PITA to have to keep switching back and forth between the alpha screen and the numeric screen, and the touch screen keyboard is a bit tough to use with the small keys, I'm always hitting the wrong key because they are so close together. The good thing is you can usually rotate the phone horizontally which makes the keys bigger and therefore easier to hit the right key when you want to, but I'd still rather have a slide out keyboard. Good thing I don't do a lot of typing on it. I send most of my emails and do my web browsing from my PC, not from my phone.

 

[Dangerous Dave]

I agree. On my Droid Eris it's a PITA to have to keep switching back and forth between the alpha screen and the numeric screen, and the touch screen keyboard is a bit tough to use with the small keys, I'm always hitting the wrong key because they are so close together. The good thing is you can usually rotate the phone horizontally which makes the keys bigger and therefore easier to hit the right key when you want to, but I'd still rather have a slide out keyboard. Good thing I don't do a lot of typing on it. I send most of my emails and do my web browsing from my PC, not from my phone.

At my work, they frown HEAVILY on us using their PCs for personal use. You can in fact be fired for it. My Dare wasn't real easy to type acurately on until I recalibrated the touch-screen in landscape mode. Now I hardly ever have a mis-key. It's just the switching between the two keypads that makes me crazy. The slide out keyboard on the HTC TP2 is so user friendly it might as well be a regular PC keyboard. It's easier to type on than the Panasonic Toughbook I use at work!

I might give the Droid one more chance in the store. But honestly I've just become so comfortable with the TP2 in the short time I've played with it at the Verizon store, I can't really see myself changing my mind. If I didn't do alot of typing e-mails on my phone, the Droid would be da bomb! But I do, and that's where the Droid falls too short for me.

 

[squeezer]

For typing?? My current phone is an LG Dare which is touch screen only. The touch screen is functionally excellent. My gripe comes from the fact that the virtual keyboard is only 4-row, not 5. If I want to type out an e-mail, it's an endless process if I actually want to use punctuation, since it requires constantly switching back and forth between the alpha and numeric keypads and constantly shifting and unshifting to get all the characters I need. If it was a 5-row virtual keyboard on my Dare, I wouldn't be phone shopping at all.

This, my friends, is truth. I just want to use a comma, dammit! :angry2:

 

[GalaxyBlue]

I am still under the 30 day trial with the Droid, And the Data Card for the Mac. I am finding spots where Sprint really shines through and Verizon lacks.

2 more weeks of Verizon and the Droid (which i LOVE) and i will have my decision made up.

I might even give At&T a shot after the trial period is up and play with the iphone!

Funny, In the end i will probably just keep Sprint and get the Hero or TP2.

I am in Cell Phone HELL! :headsetsmiley:

 

[k7lvo]

I've had a couple of HP PPC's and 3 HTC smart phones (8125, 8525, and the Tilt) before getting the iPhone. Windows PPC just plain sucks, as did the 8525 and the Tilt, each of which died (the Tilt wouldn't stay registered on the system no matter what I or the AT&T personnel did, and the phone in the 8525 just up and quit with no provocation) before they were 2 years old. I haven't tried a Droid or the new Google phone, and I've had Nokia phones that were a bit better in phone performance, but the iPhone is light years ahead of everything else I've tried.

This is the first Apple product that I've ever owned, but I'm impressed enough that there well might be a Mac book in my future.

PS - I typed in the weather URL listed earlier, got it the first try. It did ask for a zip code instead of bringing up a city page, but when I entered my zip it loaded the page in 5-6 seconds.

 

[BlackCherry]

I am still under the 30 day trial with the Droid, And the Data Card for the Mac. I am finding spots where Sprint really shines through and Verizon lacks.
2 more weeks of Verizon and the Droid (which i LOVE) and i will have my decision made up.

I might even give At&T a shot after the trial period is up and play with the iphone!

Funny, In the end i will probably just keep Sprint and get the Hero or TP2.

I am in Cell Phone HELL! :headsetsmiley:

You do realize of course that even if you decide to return the Droid before your 30 days are up you will have to pay a $35 restocking fee, right?

 

[ShawnKing]

This is the first Apple product that I've ever owned, but I'm impressed enough that there well might be a Mac book in my future.

Very common attitude. It's called "The Halo Effect".

 

[Dangerous Dave]

So I'm at the Verizon store now and posting this from the TP2. First observation is that the "Opera" browser SUCKS! It became a completely different phone once I switched it to IE. Gonna play some more.