Curiosity is setting in at the TruXterTech camp. as to what Cell phone operating system do you feel gives you the most abilities that you like.
Rim- Research in Motion from Blackberry
Apple – Iphone
Android- Android/Google
ISA – Nokia OS
Windows- Microsoft
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This isn’t a poll of phone manufacturers, it’s more of a poll of phone operating systems. If you could use any operating system on your phone, what operating system would you prefer?
If your cell phone/ Smart phone could run any cellphone operating system, what would be your end choice in phone software?
Category: smart phone
Android Must Have Apps
Now these picks are not by some internet standards or by any other influence other than me seeing extreme use in them.
Shop Savvy Bar-code scanner. Yeah the results have not been up to what I expected but hey, they do offer a chance to look at the products on amazon and see what other people’s reviews are of the items.
Zxing scanner. Not near as good as shop savvy, but is another scanner so I have two to pick through. Choices are wonderful.
Cherry Rplayer – you can manually insert radio stations you like – I of course have ZRock in mine, because well they only have an iphone app and well I want to hear Zrock Dang it!
Opera Mini– because it does some stuff that google browser will not, like play myspace games right off their site, without need of an ap.
Pandora Radio – I love the way it lets you pick a music type and just ride with it. (audio out to audio in on my car, excellent sound.)
Digital Clock from Socialmobile , it’s like my back up alarm clock (only use it while it’s on the charger though)
Twit.tv by Mediafly – all the Leo Laporte podcasts I can listen to.
Pretty much everything I have found, are just trials or do not live up to what they charge you, or just plain ol toys.
still waiting for Myspace Mobsters Android ap. Or a nice pdf viewer that costs no money and does not have trial period.. like foxit for Droid would be real nice. Mozilla Firefox for android would be nice. Hulu would be good.
Tv.com player would fricken rock if it had shows i like in full episodes. like Smallville Two and Half Men. but seems like everything that I like, is just 1 minutes snippets, really how much bandwidth could 300×200 really be ? They could soooo make some money from the ads, kinda like hulu does, if they would just do it . Youtube ap is great, but don’t hit pause, you freaking video fail every-time you do hit pause.
A-online radio has great features but it does not make the list. It just does not buffer very well. See Pandora radio isn’t as free roam as Aonline, but I can plug my G1 into my car stereo, turn on Pandora radio and let it play all the way from work to home. I plug in A-online and it plays for all of about 20 seconds. If it is not a buffer issue then the garbage shuts off every time the back light turns off. I know it’s one of the two and I can do nothing about either.
A very good write up on ZdNet called 10 Must Have- Android Apps
One Month Review of G1 HTC Android.
Well I have had my G1 for one month.
On day one, it crashed about 3 times.
On day two it got an update to something, no clue it happened so fast and I had no idea how to work anything on it, that I may never know. After the update I had crashes the whole day . Finally found the applications and what ones I could install.
I have to have all background processes turned off, otherwise it is super dead slow. Barcode scanners all seem to be just advertisement for national companies. Mostly target and some drug store. Read More about the Android Barcode scanner here.
While searching the apps online, every single app has some clown saying ” app froze would not run had to uninstall found better one” then they say the name of the supposed better one. I have come to the conclusion they are smearing and trying to promote their own app.. If it freezes, turn background processes back on.. you will move slow, but yeah, it will work.
Storage,
I hate the limitations of this cell phone. I have an 8 gig memory card in the machine, but it seems to only install new apps to the phone, not the memory card. That bugs the hell out of me, because default storage for the phone is like one song. There is no way to change that.
The phone has been out for just over a year, yet they already have the G2 on it’s way to the shelves? if not already released???? why? they knew it sucked?
Screen area is huge and the resolution is remarkable. The camera takes an amazing picture, audio is pretty good through good head set, if you have the right adapter. Internet is super fast if you use the wifi settings and have a fast connection at your house (lol). I have actually seen over 2 megs a second, considering I have a 20meg a second connection, it is possible. Pandora Radio and ars radio are the best features. Other than running around in your skivvies playing with the light-saber app.
yesterday I pulled out one of my old Motorola phones, slapped my sim card in it, and bam, I get a bunch of text messages.. Has that freaking phone been missing my texts? Is that why she dumped me ? is that why i lost that bid for the job? what in the heck ???
Not happy, selling pretty soon.
I will be going back to my Blackberry 8100, just hope I can get used to the double tap simi qwerty keyboard.
Blackberry 8100 Late Review
I myself do not have the funds to be an early adapter. I find this convenient because by the time I purchase the cool stuff, it is already on the second edition, all of the bugs are worked out, and tons of people have tweaked and modded it to make so much more use of said products.
So here we are on my fifth month using a Blackberry 8100.
Moving up from my Motorolla Rizr to the bb was a huge step up. I didn’t actually need to install opera mini on it but i did it anyway. Everyone had millions of applications to use on the device. Applications that where out from “mod my moto” that actually worked 100 times better on the blackberry version. Opera mini actually worked better on the blackberry, but I got a better advantage from the moto though.. moto browser just sucked bad.
I had issues with the firmware though. As I tried to install themes, my Blackberry started crashing a whole lot. I mean I was getting lock ups all the time already, but it got really bad when I downloaded themes and activated them. so I hobbled over to the Forums at blackberryforums.com and found a thread about upgrading blackberry firmware . Great thread . Leads you to the actual firmware . See it seems the firmware we have in the united states that is on the blackberry website, or in the u.s. is like version 1.? (that is one point something or other). The version on the Asian server is like version 4.0 something or other. It’s crazy how it works. It actually took me off what the heck ever network I was on and put me on the edge network. oh just for a heads up. the people at Tmobile informed me that if you see a lowercase “edge” in the signal area, you have a crappier signal than if you see it all caps.
I got locked out of my blackberry after a theme install
Techy Tools use that to sync up with your Blackberry.
Ok while I am writing this. I kind of had to throw out some links I thought you may want while I goof around and try the newest version of the firmware. So.. there’s the links. Right now while I am typing this, I am 5 minutes into the upgrade
screenshot of the actual install
and crossing my toes and keeping the page on “previous versions” hot in my clipboard and the page open. in case it all goes wacky on me. Also I might look around and see if people have a specific choice of versions. maybe I will see why and try them all. I have just hours before my g1 shows up in the mail, I will use that one for a week or so and then sell it on ebay or what ever at barely used price. I will check it out just to review, but I really love my blackberry and all of the tweaks out there for it. from browser to notepad.
Er crap.
Just got a bad error saying that some junk had to be saved as a back up and I should reload and restore. i think my cat jumped on it and wiggled it loose before the install was complete. Ok freak out time. 1 am and I have to work tomorrow. So now I am doing it all again, but not selecting the “back up” feature. I already have a back up of everything still in good. I don’t want it to back up the crap version, over the full version.
Ok crap just got the notice again.. This time I copied so i could paste it here for everyone to see.
A fatal error has occurred while updating your device’s software. Please try again.
Device communications error encountered. [A:0x00000025]
Yeah this isn’t good. so.. I go off and try and fix this.. meanwhile I se a black screen and blinking LED.
Erm.. Uh oh.. Now the program does not detect anything on the end of the usb cable.. did I mention the “uh oh” part?
Battery pull time… lol the action of a desperate man.
Dang… Blinking light… now I run back to the forums!!!!!
Ok that was scary. computer wouldn’t identify the usb device (my fricken phone) so none of the software would work.. I left the update program open at first page disconnected the phone, yanked out the battery and waited a second or so, plugged back in and bam… windows identified it. I am updating now :-)
Erm
Error 507 a circle a square a triangle with a circle around them all and line through the circle.. so I disconnect reconnect and rerun program
Newp No good.
Life saving post here wipe it and reinstall cross fingers and hope for the best