[TriLUG] Android Phone vs iPhone vs other smartphones

[Keith Woodie]

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....
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> Maybe 2.1 improves on this too :)
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> Keith Woodie
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> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Christopher L Merrill <
> chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
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>> On 3/18/2010 1:37 PM, Keith Woodie wrote:
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>>> I really appreciate all of the helpful responses!
>>>
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>> 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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