Tech Tips and Reviews
I don’t get it. My G1 Seems to download and upload fine while on the phone. In fact some times I forget to turn of the Pandora Radio and Cherry player when the phone rings . lol
So what ever AT&T is talking about… They must be talking about another carrier other than T-mobile
Anyone else notice this ?
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
Goods
The aps are free-cheap and very useful.
The screen is huge compared to bb8100.
Sim cards are such a luxury.
Qwerty!
Touch screen menus.
Text messages organized by senders.
Youtube actually plays.
Streaming radio apps and a aux connection in car means way more stations than xm radio. For free!
Camera super high quality.
I’m writing this with G1 and a wp-app.
Video recorder up to 30 minute videos.
Barcode scanner. Helps me find things that I already have but no idea where to get more of. That is a huge plus.
Opera mini!!!!!
Bads
Battery life is trash .
Cold days kill touch screen make it inaccurate.
Many aps crash.
Costly service.
No close feature for browser. Page back.
# button hard to do while recording voice mails.
Huge learning curve. More like a laptop than a phone.
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.
A Online Radio ap for For Android
This aplication is amazing. I love the thing. It shows speed of downloads, and volume of downloads. Hundreds if not Thousands of radio stations. I did not get to try them all. Just found the ones I wanted and I was good. I set my G! to use my Local area Wifi Network here at home ( I get 20mbs) and it streams to me from aol/winamp radio at an amazing rate. Since they use aol, they need to use aol video also.
I really like this application.
The Shop Savvy Barcode Scanner for androids
The application gives some sense of security. Knowing that you can scan an item and check local prices that might be better than what you are about to pay for the item at the establishment you are at currently. There is a downside though. It seems the application only finds Target Stores, I mean the store with the big circle looking like a dartboard target.
On some occasions it does show Walgereens. Really it should show more than one vendor location. instead what ever vendor they choose, they show all locations of that vendor. It is supposed to show you the cheapest place to purchase the item. See I think that might be a bit of bs. I have a feeling it’s a sponsored programs, like just an advertisement market. it does no search other than your location, and how to find their sponsor who carries said product. See I bought a coffee bean Grinder from Kroger for 9.99 (I am not paying $100+ for a grinder, I’m just not. While standing in Kroger I scanned it, the results I got said Target for $12.99. i looked down at the price on the shelf, 9.99 ..
The model I got was proctor Silex fresh Grind model number E160B. Barcode 0 22333 91600 1 . Here it is at Target for 12.99 . Sorry Kroger does not have it on their site but
Reciept picture
LOL that should do. Don’t bother scanning car parts, because clearly they have no car parts sponsors.
Goods
The aps are free-cheap and very usefull.
The screen is huge compared to bb8100.
Sim cards are such a luxury.
Qwerty!
Touch screan menus.
Text messages organized by senders.
Youtube actually plays.
Streaming radio aps and a aux connection in car means way more stations than xm radio. For free!
Camera super high quality.
I’m writing this with G1 and a wp-ap.
Video recorder up to 30 minute videos.
Barcode scanner. Helps me find things that I already have but no idea where to get more of. That is a huge plus.
Opera mini!!!!!
Bads
Battery life is trash .
Cold days kill touch screen make it innacurate.
Many aps crash.
Costly service.
No close feature foe browser. Page back.
# button hard to do while recording voice mails.
Huge learning curve. More like a laptop than a phone.
Logged into my ups account and checked tracking. They left the dang thing on the front porch. A $400 phone left on the porch. Really?
Oh well had family at home to bring it in for me. So I called.
Good thing, after the scare I had last night with my Blackberry 8100 (lol just look at last night’s post.) I have two phones in my pocket. Only one has the sim card, the other is ready and waiting for just in case the BB8100 craps out on me.
I have no idea what to expect of the phone.
From what is being said at Computerworld.com (http://blogs.computerworld.com/google_ceo_hints_google_linux_netbooks_may_be_coming)
We see hints of it coming.
Again I think Google is funnier than apple about info leaks. Misguided leaks and disinformation.
I am counting on something portable, smaller than a notebook, bigger than a cellphone.
Like a psp or something, with an occasional advertisement here and there to cut the cost, then again, that is what we thought would happen with the”Gphone”. Remember when we called it that? We thought we would get spam from time to time, but the phone would be free and extremely useful, but actually if you upgrade to that phone before your contract is renewed, you are looking at +$300(usd). So what ever they are saying at computer world about special low $99 prices, are way far fetched. Might even get hyped in speculation then dropped later, just like they did with the G1. I mean really, it’s a 100% pure advertisement box, why the hell isn’t it cheaper ?????