Android answers only, please.
I ended up buying a Samsung Galaxy S II. It's got a huge, bright, high-resolution screen, an insanely fast dual-core processor, and some crappy carrier/manufacturer customized version of Android that'll be gone by this time tomorrow. :)
Verizon, with charger/etc... worth asking I guess.
plan isn't offered anymore (hasn't been for about 6 years... lol).
So I just buy "new"(to me) hardware and move the service around. The
sales lemmings at teh store shit bricks when they pull up my account info.
I'm on a treo 700p right now. It works fine, does what I need it to,
but it's starting to fall apart. I've had this one for about 3 years
now, before that was a Startac.
Have an ipod touch... long story, but it's for sale on ebay. Basically
i'm sick of iShit... itunes specifically. I'd like to be able to put a
PDF on a memory card and view it on my mobile without having to sync
with my home computer to do so. I know I could email it, but jesus
christ, it should NOT be that difficult to move a file between any
workstation and a mobile device.
The iTouch was an upgrade from my phone mainly because
it had wifi and a
regular headphone connector. If treo had that, I'd be perfectly
content. But iTouch had no phone. And after having to reboot that
thing once a week, and the crippled op system... i'm willing to give
android a shot. Buddy's got one and seems to like it, although he's not
using it nearly to its capabilities.
So for now I'm using my 9-year-old Gen2 iPod (Still gets ~7hrs on one
battery charge) along with my treo. But i'd like to consolidate the
two into a single upgrade.
I highly recommend it.
[ http://goo.gl/D30XB ]
The FCC has found that AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile is "not in the public interest."
The game's not over, of course, but it's good to see that the FCC has actually listened to the public interest groups that were opposed to the merger and will at least be holding more hearings.
It seems that AT&T now must present additional evidence showing that the merger will create jobs. Heh. That ought to be amusing.
[ http://goo.gl/xa6MZ ]
AT&T has withdrawn its application with the FCC to acquire T-Mobile.
Skeptics are claiming that AT&T will first focus its efforts on lobbying DoJ to let it through, and then they'll use DoJ's approval as a cudgel against FCC.
Non-skeptics think that this may perhaps open the door for T-Mobile to be acquired by some other company that does not yet have a wireless presence in the US. Deutche Telekom definitely doesn't want to hold on to it.
Perhaps they also realized that T-Mobile's customer base is largely made up of subscribers who have solemly vowed to do business with anyone other than AT&T. :)
In any case, it's good news. I'm a happy T-Mobile subscriber and I didn't want to get annexed into the AT&T/Verizon model of "our unlimited data plan is only unlimited for the first 2 GB, then you have to pay more"
anyone have an android with 2.2 (Froyo) or better that they're interested in selling?
I have to get one to replace one I lost.
Tue Oct 25 2011 10:53:03 AM EDT from IGnatius T FoobarTry the Galaxy S II before you make that decision. I'm really loving this phone. I think you would enjoy the big screen and fast speed. I'm pretty sure it's available on Verizon.
http://www.bgr.com/2011/11/24/verizon-may-launch-galaxy-nexus-droid-4-on-december-8th/
I read they were going to release the Galaxy S III in early 2012, but not sure of the carrier.
Pretty decent so far... crashes on occasion though.
Streamed internet radio on my ride to work this morning. :lol
It's replaced my itouch in every aspect except my music library.
Is there a decent way to get this thing to sync with my existing itunes
playlists?
It really can't be *that* difficult.
The other audio-related annoyance I have... maybe someone knows the
answer to this... So I set my "ring tone" and "alert tone" to a MIDI
file. That MIDI lives on the internal memory, /mnt/sdcard. Any time I
mount the phone's media on the computer, the ring/alert tones default to
something in the phone's main memory. Any way to change that so it
quits doing that?
It's not rooted... yet.
If it's on /mnt/sdcard though, that's usually *not* the phone's internal memory. On some phones the internal memory is somewhat limited, but if you can move the MIDI file to it, you're good to go...
Di Nov 29 2011 03:46:33 CETvon AnimalThat MIDI lives on the internal memory, /mnt/sdcard. Any time I
mount the phone's media on the computer, the ring/alert tones default to
something in the phone's main memory. Any way to change that so it
quits doing that?
After fooling around with my mother's Nook, I have decided I don't like tablet computers. That is all, I didn't know what computer level room to put that comment in. Have a good night.
There's the "internal memory" that things like /system, /etc, /bin etc
all live on. I can see those in the file manager.
There's a /mnt/sdcard, and there's a /mnt/sdcard-ext.
If I pull out the sdcard, I can still access /mnt/sdcard. So that's
apparently a partition on the internal memory for things like photos,
audio recordings, and the like.
When I plug this thing in, it'll mount two volumes on my computer; one's
the sdcard, the other is sdcard-ext.
I've tried moving things into and out of the "internal memory" that's
not in /mnt/sdcard, and always gotten a "permission denied" or other
error.
Hail to the superior android OS!
My Nokia C7 has an internal memory (less than 1gb, for "/etc et al."), an internal flash memory of about 8gb and an external sd card as well. But I can write to either of them, though I seldom do it via the file manager, I choose it in config dialogues. My Sony Ericsson phones where the same (some of them had a transparent layer so the directories existed internal and on sd card and you saw them as an overlay in your phone explorer).
But all of them mounted the bigger internal memory and the external card as usb devices when connected in the appropriate mode. So important stuff needs to go to the small internal ram. Background image vanishes too, if you connect via usb and it is located on the mounted place.
Solution: Try to save ringtone with the corresponding config dialogue into internal memory. Or buy a phone with a serious OS and leave the android to the kiddies :-P
Right now most tables are simply content display devices - if you accept that, then they're OK. Too pricey, but OK. The plain old e-ink Kindle and Nook are fine, because they're simple book readers, and they do it pretty well. But if you try to anything particularly tricky in an iPad and any android tablet, you'll get frustrated pretty quickly.
I still like the Newton, though. I could actually do some pretty good data entry on the 2100.