Motorola Droid and other Android phones

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Ooh, I want that one :p



Admin edit: Not sure why this was posted in the iPhone thread. I have moved all related posts to this new one.
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Ugly? I actually prefer it to the iPhone. Agree with the HD2 though, thats to do with the multitouch innit?

TBH I only use my phone to, erm, phone people really. Not sure I need all the extra gubbins!
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
lol, fair enough. I actually prefer the shape to the iPhone, and definately want a real keyboard on my next phone if I can.
 

db

#chaplife
tek-monkey said:
lol, fair enough. I actually prefer the shape to the iPhone, and definately want a real keyboard on my next phone if I can.
yeah, as nice as the missus' htc hero is, it's useless for emulators because there is no physical d-pad, or useful buttons :(
 

shoes

Well-Known Forumite
Trouble is, being a motorola you won't enjoy the benefits of the build quality of Nokia or HTC.

Personal experience I admit, but I have had two motorola phones and borrowed a third and all of them were absolute shite. Particularly the L7 SLVR - that couldn't even make calls properly. Neither could it's replacement. Or the replacement for that one. And then it fell to bits day by day.

I can highly recommend HTC in terms of build quality / touch screen accuracy and responsiveness, my only gripe being that under WM 6.1 its a bit glitchy and slow :(
 

db

#chaplife
yeah, my experience of motorolas is the same - i.e. they're shit.. do they still have the green/red phone buttons the opposite way round from every other phone manufacturer in existence?
 

Sofa

I'm a Staffooooooordian
It does look tasty. I wonder what will be around this time next year when my contract will be up for renewal

Regards Motorola's dubious reputation when it comes to build quality, the impression I got from that review is that if something is lacking in any way they would have jumped on it. I can imagine older Motorola phones being cheap and nasty because they were largely design-led fashion accessory type phones, rather than being a fairly serious piece of kit, which Android phones are.

I look forward to our first Forumite review of the machine.
 

shoes

Well-Known Forumite
Sofa as an adroid user (and self confessed fancier lol) could you tell me whether android will do the following:

Exchange email
Exchange Caldendar
pop/imap mail
word processing/spreadsheet compatible with microsoft office word and excel? Also being able to view powerpoint presentations would be an advantage.
PDF viewer
ActiveSync (or similar)

If it can do all of the above then I will seriously consider looking at one for my upgrade, although as previously stated this won't be for a fair of while yet (summer - damn 18 month contracts!).

My current HTC Windows mobile does all of the above, and reasonably well albeit slowly, and I need something like this for work (although I am trying to con them into giving me one of the company N97's at the moment :) ) but I'm not particularly enthusiastic about another windows mobile. Can't say I'm that enthusiastic about the OS on the N97 either, which is why I'm interested in alternatives. Your reports of android seem favourable and you're the only person I know that has an android phone.
 

shoes

Well-Known Forumite
dirtybobby said:
yeah, my experience of motorolas is the same - i.e. they're shit..
And there's me being diplomatic trying to dispell my image as an opinionated c**t :teef:

Also about your other half's Hero - mine has four buttons on the front, well touch sensitive areas you cannot change the function of anyway, and all of them irritate the hell outta me. A d-pad would have been soooooo much more useful!
 

My Name is URL

Well-Known Forumite
Everyone I have heard from that has a Hero raves about it.

BTW The Moto Razr was one of the best phones ever made. How many other 5 year old phones still look sexy?
 

Sofa

I'm a Staffooooooordian
shoes said:
Exchange email, Exchange Caldendar, pop/imap mail
Not on 1.6 which my phone is running, although the review of the Motorola said 2.0 is running Exchange and a unified mail client.

shoes said:
word processing/spreadsheet compatible with microsoft office word and excel? Also being able to view powerpoint presentations would be an advantage.
There is a free doc/xls viewer which works well and for a tenner you can edit office files with it.

shoes said:
PDF viewer
Yep, the free version I use is fine.

shoes said:
ActiveSync (or similar)
As in folders which sync on your mobile and pc - dunno, never used it, but I would be surprised if there is not an app out there.
 

shoes

Well-Known Forumite
gk141054 said:
Everyone I have heard from that has a Hero raves about it.

BTW The Moto Razr was one of the best phones ever made. How many other 5 year old phones still look sexy?
Well how it looks is subjective, personally I'm not a fan. Although all three of my old Nokias (5110, 3210, 3310) still work as far as I know, the 3310 for sure as I used it recently.

Can't say i liked the motorola operating system of that era either, it did silly things like closing the sms application if you didn't touch the phone for 60 seconds. Did it save the messge you were half way through? Did it boot :teef:

As for the android reply from sofa - sounds good to me.
 
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