I used to think that my use of a smartphone was not smart enough. I did not use enough features to actually make the cut to comment on the ability of a smartphone. I have come to realize, however, I use my smartphone better and more efficiently for extensive number of applications than most techno savvy people do. This was one of the reasns I had convinced myself with when buying a new Apple iPhone 3GS ( - thats the newest one with all the perks). For the most part I liked the iPhone. But after a while I missed being able to multitask and browse videos from any website other than Youtube and even not being able to use any other program to sync my smartphone except the shitty and slow itunes. Finally fed up with the inefficiency and incosistency of the device I had to abandon it for the new and upcoming and seemingly very promising Google Nexus One.
Bought it about a week ago. Though it overcomes most of the problems with the iPhone, it fails to deliver where iPhone worked brilliantly. Google Nexus One does a great job of integrating Gmail with the phone but still fails to create an attachment feature for the email system. The screen and the resolution is definately at par with the iPhone but the screen transitions not as smooth. The GUI experince is not smooth at all. Hard to believe its a multitasking phone with no internal memory management. No aplication to reegulate or user control it. Fiortunately a tons of applications are available for it in the Android market. Not necessarily a good thing though. A lot of choice but not enough quality, almos like Google search results!
The Android market is amknig a lot of buzz in the mobile world and attractinga lot of people/companies. The problem: you cannot find the original application from the service provider for a service like Dropbox. Try it!
Another problem with the search feature is that application names with common words return hundreds of choices and not the one you are looking for. try searching for the hugely popular where app on Android. I wasted around an hour trying to find it today. Android market needs a clean up crew. Open OS development and free and all is find but it is frustrating when there is no quality control.
What's with the five screens ? I get that people like it but why isn't there an option to shut it off or reduce it to 1 screen to save memory or something! Google cloud thing is fine but I like to manage my phone on my desktop or a laptop. I would prefer to work on a full size computer and manage my smartphone from there. Guess what there is no app for that! No you cannot find apps on a website and have direct link to download it on your phone or your management software on the PC. A one up on iPhone is an excellent contact management in the Nexus One. You can add Facebook, Twitter and Google and Microsoft Exchange contacts easily into the phone.
Some of things that make me pull my hair and both the smartphones fail to accomplish are the battery life, memory management and the cool looking hand gestures from 'Minority Report' (Of course, I can forgo this one for a while!) But all in all, the technology in smartphones is still not smart enough to reduce my work load. All the devices around me tend to add into my daily routine rather than seamlessly moving into it.
Update post:: The Dropbox official app is now available in the Android market. But a missing multitasking app still needs to be added to Android. Awaiting the 2.2 FroYo update!
0 replies:
Post a Comment