Android Phones

[Sir Light]

I picked up a HTC Hero from Sprint and I can agree with what Alan says about his My Touch  phones. Been playing with it a little bit atta time so that I can get used to the phone, so much to learn and to play. The back of my Hero is not easy to take off thou. 

One of the nice things I like about is the automatic sync of my contacts and calendar using my gmail account. If make a change in the phone, boom, my gmail.com account gets updated and vice versa.  

I also do have the Sprint Everything plan with unlimited data, messages and picture messages. I have 450 minutes on the plan. One may think that is bad but the plan comes with unlimited mobile to mobile so that is good. 

Jon


---- Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote: 
> My wife and I recently each picked up the T-Mobile My Touch phone.
> 
> - Nice, smooth operation most of the time.  Once in a while it pauses
> for a few seconds before bringing up the requested task.
> - Battery life is easily good for an average day but will chew up
> quick if you use all the features, all the time.
> - Don't get it if you are just going to talk and text.
> -- You must subscribe to a data plan if you get the phone and will be
> paying about $75 a month for service.  That's cheaper than iPhone and
> some Blackberry plans but still, it's a chunk of change.
> -- On the other hand, once you start using the data service, doing
> email, web browsing, Twitter, maps, etc., you may start doing things
> beyond just talk and text.
> -- The data plan is all you can eat, data and texting.
> - The back of my phone seems to come off too easily.  Don't know if
> that is for all phones or just mine.
> - One can "root" the phone to get terminal access (BusyBox) and even
> more control.
> -- This takes you off the "official" updates from the service provider
> but could be good.
> -- I have not done this but plan to do so to get the
> http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/ going!
> -- After "rooting" you can load several different ROMs to get
> different features and really go off into whatever you feel like
> hacking.  I don't plan to do this.
> 
> Alan
> 
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Hello,
> >
> > Now that Android has been out for a while, anyone care to talk about their experiences
> > with it? Is it a joke, great phone for an IT guy, better for a joe blow who will only talk
> > and occasional text??
> >
> > nathan
> >
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