[TriLUG] Android Phone vs iPhone vs other smartphones

[Dave Sorenson]

I went to a Droid Eris made by HTC (same basic phone as the Hero) and am
glad I did. It blows the Blackberry 8830 I had out of the water. Two
downsides, the Eris is Android 1.5, but Verizon is promising the 2.x
upgrade OTA soon and battery life could be better. I have to charge it
every night. I am pulling 4 email accounts every 5 minutes and using it
heavily for mobile data though.

Sync with Gmail calendar and e-mail is effortless, And I've gotten work
Groupwise mail syncing via IMAP and a delegate rule for my calendar items.
Plus 2 IMAP mailboxes on my personal server.

I was at a conference the last 2 days and used PDANet to tether my laptop
for connectivity with no issues at all. In fact I had a faster 3g
connection than the conference center wireless would connect at. (2.3Mbps)

The application store for the Android is growing every day and I even have
found some applications for Ham radio that are pretty obscure.

My wife has the Motorola droid and I'd recommend that as well. I wasn't
impressed with the slide out keyboard so I went with the less expensive
Eris. The Motorola does use the 2.x Android the only thing I miss is turn
by turn directions in Google maps, but that will come when mine updates to
2.x.


Maybe I've become a Fandroid... I don't know, but you can keep your Jesus
phone. (ducks and puts on flame proof underware) :-)
Dave


> I've got a mac and use ical and mac mail apps. The iphone made it simple,
> sync all my calendars, email accounts, music, etc.  If you already love
> your macbook, you won't be disappointed in an iphone.  I got the wife one
> was well, I was tired of trying to get other phones to sync contacts etc
> from my mac.  Also being able to download the source and write your own
> apps only really matters *if* your actually going to do that.  I haven't
> found anything that I really needed from my iphone that I need it to do.
> I do wish that the iphone had flash though for some sites, but hey flash
> is something I can live without.  And the Visual Voicemail of the iphone
> rocks! I'd really miss visual voicemail if I didn't have the iphone. Yes
> I'd like to be able to put my own apps on it without jail breaking it.
> But I'll live without that if it means my phone is stable.  My phone is
> the last thing I want to dork with.  I have all kinds of BSD and Linux
> boxes to tinker with.  Also I have relativel
>  y decent coverage from AT&T, but my opinion is all cell phone companies
> suck, they all can be better and have better coverage, and it's pretty
> subjective since everyone visits different places, it really depends on
> where you go and what you do.  If AT&T would have had a droid at the time
> I got my iphone I would have considered it, But I really like the iphone
> and the fact it just works.  If you're already a mac person you can't go
> wrong.
>
>
> Matt P.
>
> On Mar 16, 2010, at 7:53 PM, kwoodie at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Ok so I am thinking about switching from my blackberry curve to a
>> Android based phone or an iPhone.  Which is the best in the eyes of
>> TriLUG?
>>
>> FYI I do own a mac book pro, so any Mac specific benefits should be
>> considered.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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