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Apple User's Guide to Android
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The difference between Apple and Google is philosophical. Apple takes a one-size-fits-all approach with one phone, one on-screen keyboard, and one store. Apple offers no widgets, removable batteries, 4G, Notification LED, microSD, NFC, DLNA, turn-by-turn navigation, or Flash. The quickest way to simplify something is to take out features and options. It is like a shoe store with one style shoe, only in size 7.
Android takes the opposite approach. Android phones come in every size and style from 2.5" to 5.3", with physical keyboards and without. There are dozens of basic Android features below still not in iPhones. Not all will be important to you but some will be. Plus you can change settings and customize your new Android almost any way you want. You can set almost anything including having the phone vibrate when you touch a key. The more features and options, the longer it takes to set up initially, but it's worth it.
Android gives you freedom of choice over almost everything. But freedom, by its nature adds complexity. For many, it is a price happily paid.
Choosing a Phone
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] See the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for specs on many of the top new phones. Over the two or more years you might have this phone, you may spend $2,000+ so get the one you want. Android is evolving so quickly that no phone stays on top for long so get the best you can. Let's start by considering the basic features.
4G - Speed Thrills
Make sure you get 4G (or LTE). Monthly plans are often just as much for slow phones as fast ones. You may have this phone a long time. Don't get one that is already slow. To turn 4G on:
• Tap Home > Menu > Settings > Wireless > 4G.
• To add a 4G icon to a home screen: Long-press an empty spot on a home screen then tap Shortcuts > Settings > 4G.
Get the right size for you
What is the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? Only you can answer that question. Android phone comes in sizes from 2.5" to 5.3". A survey of 5,000 phone owners found that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. See what feels right for you. Don't let anyone tell you the one size phone you are to buy. See the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
Notification LED
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] a Notification LED for incoming or missed calls, emails, texts, Facebook or calendar events, etc. Most Androids not only have a Notification LED but the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] app can also turn the camera LED into a notification LED ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]).
microSD
A microSD card is about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Get a "Class 10" microSD for fast 10 MB/s speeds. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and are supported by microSDXC compatible phones such as the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] app frees up space on your phone by moving apps to your SD card.
Removable Battery
Apple will [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for $85 but you lose your phone for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Android [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are typically $30-$50. For most Androids, you can pop off the back cover and put in a spare battery. Better yet, get an extended life battery.
Video Calls
Flagship Android phones typically have 1 or 2MP front cameras for HD video chat. That coupled with 4G gives you an amazing opportunity for Video Calls. Android Qik, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] give you free unlimited video calls over WiFi, 3G and 4G. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
LED Displays
The iPhone 4S LCD display is nice but Apple uses [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that are always on with an LCD layer blocking light to produce colors. Organic LED phones like the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S II don't need backlights so blacks take almost no power because the LED's are off. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] but not this year.
DLNA Mirror Video to TV's
DLNA allows you to see whatever is on your phone on your compatible TV, Blu-ray player, PS3, or Xbox so you can watch HD movies or make presentations right from your phone. iPhone 4S only works [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
Full Facebook Sync
Most Androids automatically update with Facebook friends' photos, status, messages, phones, events, birthdays, emails, and notifications. Incoming calls pop-up with updated Facebook profile photos. The free [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] app does even more. Full Facebook-iPhone integration may [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
Flash
Much of the web including this site rely on Adobe Flash for multimedia but [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the iPhone. Unfortunately the HTML5 standard to replace Flash is still not finalized. But you will have Flash now.
NFC
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that the new iPhone would have [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (NFC) for instant payments, keycard, and ID like the Galaxy S II, but it didn't. Android NFC can share a contact, photo, song, application, and video or pair Bluetooth or WiFi devices. See the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
Good Vibrations
Set your Android to Vibrate (Haptic Feedback) if your phone must be quiet. Almost all modern phones have this option...except the iPhone. To set your Android to vibrate, tap Home > Menu > Settings > Sound > Silent Mode ON and Vibrate ON. Apps like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lets you customize repeating LED, sounds, and vibration reminders for missed call, emails, texts, calendar, tasks, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Setup Your Phone
Once you have chosen your phone, let's get started having some fun with it. We will find your old features and try out some new ones. You can click the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] button at the top of any page for more help.
Gmail
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is at the heart of Android's Cloud Sync and once you are on Android, Apples limitations are removed. You will get notifications when Gmail is pushed to your phone, full Priority Inbox capabilities, and can forward multiple email accounts to your Gmail. See the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
Your Contacts and Calendars
You need a Gmail account if you don't already have one to transfer over your calendars, contact names, birthdays, email addresses, and phone numbers. Transfer your iPhone/iPad to Gmail if you haven't already ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]):
1. Connect your iPhone/iPad to your PC using the USB cable.
2. Open iTunes on your computer and select your iPhone or iPad and click the iTunes Info tab.
3. Check "Sync Contacts with" then select Google Contacts from the drop-down menu.
4. Tap Configure and enter your Google email address and password.
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Sync to the Cloud
Android syncs to the cloud. On your phone tap Menu > Settings > Accounts & Sync > Add account > Google > Contacts, Gmail, Calendar, etc. Then add Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other account syncs as well. Most Androids can sync to all of these accounts automatically. When someone changes their home phone on Facebook, your phone will be updated as well.
Your Photos and Videos
1. Backup the photos and videos to your computer using the USB cable if you haven't already:
- - On a Windows PC, Click My Computer > {your iPhone} > Explore. Drag all of your photos and videos to a new folder on your PC.
- - On a Mac, open Image Capture and set up a new folder as the destination and click Download all.
2. Copy photos and videos from your PC to your Android: Connect your Android to your PC with the USB cable.
- - On your computer, create a folder on your phone called Pictures if it is not already there.
- - Sill using your computer, drag the photos and videos to your phone's Picture folder then disconnect your phone.
3. Reboot the phone: Press Power for 10 seconds > Power Off > Wait 20 seconds > Press Power for 10 seconds.
Your Music
iTunes music is owned by Apple and even the file name is encoded to make is nearly impossible to find on your iPhone. The good news is that you no longer have to use iTunes! ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].) Use the steps above to set up a Music folder on your phone if you don't already have one and drag your music files and folders (copies) from your computer to your phone. Here are some of our favorite [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]), [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]), and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are not [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] so they can be moved to a new phone without issue.
Battery Life
Android phones are fire-breathing dragons with a big displays, powerful 4G, and a half-dozen other radios. But if you know the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], you can get a great battery life.
Live Icons
A Live Icon is an icon that updates with information. The iPhone Calendar icon is a good example. With Android there are endless 1x1 widgets that use the space of one icon. For instance, the iPhone Clock Icon is stuck at 10:15 and the Weather Icon is stuck at 73°. These are [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Live Icons using [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
Toggles
Toggles are simple widgets that lets you change settings without going through menus (and a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to Jailbreak an iPhone). But you don't have to break anything with an Android. This [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] can keep your display on whenever your phone is charging. To put your Power Control Widgets on a homescreen, long-press an empty spot, then tap Widgets > Power Settings. Popular free Toggles include the Curvefish [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] widgets but there are [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
Widgets
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] show live information on-screen without opening the app such as weather, email, calendars, and almost anything else. Here are some favorites:
• [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] - The amazing clock widget in words instead of numbers.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] - Estimates battery time left.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] - Day and date in a 1x1 widget. ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with color options)
Endless App Options
Apple has the iTunes company store. The Android Market has endless apps and the same app on Android is often less expensive or even free. But that is just the beginning. Google allows you to have access to competing markets plus [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lets you "share" your actual app files with a friend.
Free App of the Day
Here is another app you will never see on an iPhone. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] offers thousands of apps at discount prices including the "Free App of the Day".
Paid Apps for free
Here is another great market to try. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has a constantly changing assortment of normally paid apps for free including mature content.
Get the Rest of the Apps
Android has apps you won't find on the iPhone. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] puts the real battery percentage in the Notification Bar. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has the temperature. You can now also have the full version of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to identify places, products, books, barcodes, and translates text in a photo. Plus you can have the full [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to send texts for free, read voicemail transcripts, and more.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Notifications done right
Apple's new iOS 5 Notifications brings some features of Android's Notifications and the Android [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] app to iOS 5. As a first attempt, Apple has done well but Executive Assistant offers so much more control over repeating notifications, ringtones, vibrations, etc. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. See the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for more.
Don't just backup, share
Apple's [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lets iPhone users backup information. But the point of a document is to share it. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for 2.25GB for free) lets you backup files for instant use on almost any smartphone or computer, not just Apples. But more importantly, you can share your documents with others.
Let's Work Together
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] let anyone you chose edit files on almost any PC or smartphones including Androids and BlackBerry's as well as iPhones, iPad's, and Macs.
Try before you buy
The Android Market gives you 15 minutes to try out an app on your phone to see if the options and features are right for you. If not, uninstall it for a full refund. Apple still gives [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] but you have them now!
Theming
Theming is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to Jailbreak an iPhone (and break your warranty). But with apps like ADWLauncher it is easy to make your Android look like an iPhone or anything else. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to change icons and the wallpaper to look like the iPhone 4S in the example screen shot at the top.
Folders
iPhone lets you put up to 12 apps in a folder. The free Android [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] app takes folders to a whole new level. You can have more than 12 apps in a folder and sort the apps as you like. You can change folder icons and customize shortcut icons and names. The screenshot at the top shows Settings, Newsstand, and Game Center folders. See: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
Visual Voicemail
Most flagship Android phones come with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that lets you see the caller's photo when you play their message (Oh, that's who that is!). The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. In addition, many Androids will show you their updated Facebook photo and Status when you look at their voicemail. See [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for details. Tap [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
No music store limits
You no longer need to buy music from iTunes. With Android you can buy music from Google or you can opt for a number of competitors. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for instance offers almost every song available, typically for about 30% less than iTunes. The best part is that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is not [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] so songs can be moved to a new phone without issue!
Music for free
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has nearly every song as well...for free.
True Hands-free
The iPhone Siri app requires you to push buttons to use it. Vlingo can turn on and operate totally from your voice. Still Siri has included many of Vlingo's other features and was an important step for Apple. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is below.
Navigation
The iPhone 4S has [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and no [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. With Android, turn-by-turn navigation is included for free.
Real Live Wallpaper
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is animated. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] slide down your screen, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It's fun to see how the Live Wallpaper responds to your touch or movements. See the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
More than just an Apple Newsstand
The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is an iPhone folder for iTunes media subscriptions, typically costing $1 to $5 a month each. With Android, you can have a Newsstand folder for all of your media content. With so many free media apps in Android, you may not see a reason to pay for subscriptions. ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...])
Find all of your friends
Apple Apple's Find my Friends app finds friends with iPhones excluding the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] who have other phones. The Latitude feature in Google Maps lets you find friends with all different sorts of phones.
Swype
That icon is for the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] keyboard holder of multiple [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Apple prohibits the use of any keyboard but their own, so no Swype. Android lets you use any [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] you like. See the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
Take control
With your computer, you take for granted that you can see your files. iPhones do not give you this control but Android does. Apps like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] let you cut, copy, and paste files as you need.
Predictive Keyboards
You can have a real predictive keyboard now. Keyboards like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] can be even faster for many users than Swype. SwiftKey users can easily break the world record because SwiftKey learns what you have typed once and then predicts your words.
A Games Center for all of your games
The iPhone [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is for iTunes games. With Android you can also have a Game Center folder for all of your games from Android Market, Amazon, Getjar, and dozens of other sources.
Multitasking
With Android any app can multitask. Android [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] automatically saves your work when you go to another app. You can start an email, start a text, open a web page, listen to music, and you can go right back where you left off in the email. Long-press Home to see your Recent Apps.
Open Source
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. No one is licensed to modify the Apple keyboard, email, browser, contacts, or other Apple apps. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. If a developer doesn't like a stock Android keyboard or other app, they can change it and re-release it back into the Android Market. Google uses licensing to reduce fragmentation so [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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← See that mouse pointer? The Galaxy S II lets you to connect a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. This along with HDMI mirroring allows easy control while on an monitor or HDTV. See this video showing USB Host, Bluetooth, and HDMI out from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
USB Host
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lets you plug in a memory thumb drive, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], mouse, or keyboard into a micro USB Host adapter as shown in these videos at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Play a game on your phone with a real controller
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You can place up to 16 apps per screen on an iPhone but you can move them around any way you like even leaving gaps between icons! Plus the Android [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) app lets you have [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], or [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] icons per screen, with 20+ apps per folder. Plus you can change icons and nest folders in folders just like a PC.
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Here are a few more of the many [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] you may want to try. Here are links to more tips and some key apps.
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• Flashlight: Turn your camera LED into a flashlight with an app like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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• Lock screen: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] - Disables lock screen, phone opens fast. • [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] ($2) lets you customize it.
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• Facebook: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (free, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) expands options for Facebook notifications, events, contact & profile sync, photos, etc.
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How To Use Vlingo's Voice Commands
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has included many of the features of found in the Android app, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for over a year. Vlingo even pre-dates Google [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. 30 states now have text while driving bans so apps like Vlingo have become increasingly important.
Vlingo is free in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. One big upgrade over Siri is that Siri is not hands-free. You must still push buttons on the iPhone to use Siri. Vlingo's [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lets you just start by saying, "Hey, Vlingo." [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
Details
• Learns: Vlingo learns and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at recognizing how you speak.
• Bluetooth: Vlingo also works with Android A2DP compliant headsets.
Setup
Tap Menu > Settings to change settings.
• InCar Settings to change the Wake up command, etc.
• SafeReader to set up how Vlingo will read and announce texts and emails.
Examples
Here are examples of commands Vlingo can answer on screen or by voice.
Call, Email, or Text
"Call Mom mobile" - "Call taxi" - "Call tow truck" - "Call Best Buy" - "Call plumber"
"Redial"
"Text Will; Let's grab a late lunch."
"Email Janet; Are you available to watch Hunter this weekend?"
"Email John; Subject, Running Late; Message, John, I’ll be 10 minutes late for the meeting."
Find
"Find a sushi restaurant"
"Movie times in Boston"
"Hotels in Seattle for tomorrow night"
"Beach front hotels in Miami"
"Downtown hotel in Dallas."
Social features
"Where are my friends?"
"Twitter status; Excited for the new season of Gossip Girl."
"Update Facebook status; Headed to New York for the weekend!"
Directions and Maps
"Get directions to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave"
"Navigate to Statue of Liberty" (the boat dock, not the island comes up)
"Map of New York"
Alarm Clock
"Open alarm clock"
"Set alarm for 30 minutes"
"Set alarm for 7 AM"
Search
"Get directions to the Smithsonian"
"Why do some sunsets look red?"
"Where is Harry Potter playing?"
"Find Italian restaurants nearby"
"Find sports bars"
"Golf courses near Orlando"
Other Apps
"Open calendar" - "Open calculator" - etc.
Music: "Play music"
Browser: "Go to Google.com"
Find Answers
"Who was the tenth President of the United States?"
"What does poison ivy look like?"
"Search: population of Portugal"
The Quick Way to "Theme" Your Android
If you answer "Yes" to these questions, you may not want an iPhone. The iPhone 4S is stil missing these features.
Do you want:
1. A faster 4G/LTE phone?
2. Any [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]?
3. A real Notification LED?
4. microSD option to add 32GB or even [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]?
5. Removable/Upgradeable Battery?
6. HD Video Chat not VGA Chat?
7. LED Display?
8. DLNA for presentations or watch movies on your TV?
9. A full Facebook Sync (photos pop up when they call?)
10. Flash until HTML5 is ratified?
11. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (NFC) to share a song or app
12. Controllable Haptic feedback (vibrate on key-touch)?
13. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (Priority Inbox, etc.)?
14. Live Icons?
15. Toggles to turn settings on/off?
16. Widgets to see apps without opening them?
17. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with the free paid app of the day?
18. Other app stores like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for free paid apps?
19. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] music options and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
20. Notification bar apps like the Weather Channel for temperature?
21. Full [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] control: how often to repeat, vibrate, LED, etc.?
22. 15-Minute free trial on apps?
23. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to change your phone into anything?
24. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with Contact Photos?
25. True hands-free Voice Commands?
26. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for free?
27. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]?
28. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the keyboard that set the typing records?
29. A Real predictive keyboards like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]?
30. To connect a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], PS3 game controller?
31. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lets you plug in a memory thumb drive, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], etc.
32. To see, delete, rename, or move actual files just like on a PC?
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What is the Right Size Phone?
What is the Right Size Phone?
Only you can answer that question. Go hold the different phones. Take time to play with them and try out the features. After a half-hour or longer, what feels right to you?
Android Central's recent Readers Choice survey found that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. That makes sense because that is about how many wear Women's Small or Men's XS gloves or smaller.
The chart shows reaching with your right thumb only while holding a typical 4.5" phone. Hopefully this is not while driving or in class because that would be wrong, right?
Notice how the keyboard is positioned right over the easiest area to reach with one hand? But let's break this down a bit. When you are typing on a laptop or PC, what size keyboard do you prefer? 15"? 17"? 20"?
You probably didn't say 3.5". Even a 10" tablet is pretty small to use both hands but you can easily use a two-thumb keyboard like the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
For those times when you are typing and holding the phone with one hand, take a look at the sizing chart above. Look at how the SwiftKey keyboard is optimized for one-handed typing:
Green is an average Men's Medium glove (size 9)
[HL]Yellow[/HL] is a Men's Small glove (size 8½)
Red is a men's XS Extra Small glove (size 8)
Again, no sizing chart can tell you what will feel best to you. That's why phones have screen sizes from 2.5" to 5.3". Plus the current phones are so thin and light that they all feel smaller.
In the end, phones are like shoes. Try them and see what feels right for you. Don't let anyone tell you the one size phone you are to buy.
Re: Apple User's Guide to Android
Good post; I noticed on the alternate browser links you linked to Dolphin and Opera Mini. Perhaps those should be to Dolphin HD and Opera Mobile (for at least year-old smartphones).
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Apple has no widgets, ... visual voicemail, turn-by-turn navigation, ... to learn about.
You are quite wrong about the visual voicemail for it was the iPhone that pioneered the feature. Besides from that the article was pretty good.
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one handy tip, hold down on the adress bar in your browser to share content via text email facebook and what ever other app it shows up, i had an iphone for a week and i so missed this option, very bad, and well have freedom on all your ringtones, zedge is the best app for that.
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This seems like a great resource for new users looking to learn about what customizations or features are available for Android. It does seem obvious that it is also written by someone who has never really used an iPhone before. For example, folders for icons have been available on the iPhone since iOS 3.
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Wow good post.Very useful.
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Visual Voicemail was actually on the original iPhone, and is more than likely the reason it came to other handsets.
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Good post; I noticed on the alternate browser links you linked to Dolphin and Opera Mini. Perhaps those should be to Dolphin HD and Opera Mobile (for at least year-old smartphones).
Thanks. Fixed.
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You are quite wrong about the visual voicemail for it was the iPhone that pioneered the feature. Besides from that the article was pretty good.
Android shows you their photo when you look at voicemail. (Oh, that's who that is!) It is Visual Voicemail.
I have taken out the missing visual reference.
But to be clear...
Apple shows you a list of names when you look at voicemail, there are no visual images.
Samsung, Motorola, and HTC also show you the updated photo from their Facebook page and their Status Update.
So when they call and the Visual Voicemail is a picture of a ring and says, "We're engaged!", you know.
Apple does not update contact photos when Facebook photos change. You have to do it by hand. And their Visual Voicemail is great, it just lacks the visaul part. Here is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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one handy tip, hold down on the adress bar in your browser to share content via text email facebook and what ever other app it shows up, i had an iphone for a week and i so missed this option, very bad, and well have freedom on all your ringtones, zedge is the best app for that.
I forgot about that one. I will add it to the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] link:
• Long-press on the address bar as a site loads to share the site link.
Make Your Own Clock Notes:
iPhone Calendar 1x1 big. Download it from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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iPhone Weather 1x1 big. Download it from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
iPhone Weather 1x1. Download it from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
iPhone Clock 1x1. Download it from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Re: Apple User's Guide to Android
On my galaxy s, I can swipe a contact name one way to call and the other way to text. Clever! Also text input can be changed to 3x4 character screen which, with predictive, makes for super fast text entry. Turn phone to landscape and QWERTY returns. Also android supports avi, wma,mp4 as well as apple video formats. Try and play avi videos on iPhone or ipad. No, u can't. Similar with audio.
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I'll agree that the article misstates that iPhone does not have visual voicemail, but they definitely did not pioneer it. I had visual voicemail on my Cingular 8125 (Windows Mobile 5.0) a long, long time ago. I'll give you that Apple improved it a bit...
Also, about the folders, the author isn't saying that it can't be done on the iPhone, he's just saying that on Android you can have as many apps per folder as you want, organize them in various ways, and change the folder icons.
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I just took out the mention that the iPhone does not have visual voicemail with visual pictures.
iPhone actually has iMaginary™ Voicemail. You imagine what the person looks like when you look at the place where their photo should go. :)
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...For example, folders for icons have been available on the iPhone since iOS 3.
I did not have a section on folders but you made me think that this is really important so I added it. Thanks!
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Folders
iPhone lets you put up to 12 apps in a folder. It is a great way to organize apps. The free Android [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] app takes folders to a whole new level. You can have more than 12 apps in a folder and sort the apps as you like. You can change folder icons and customize shortcut icons and names. The screenshot at the top shows three folders: Settings, Newsstand, and Game Center. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Useful info for someone new - I'm looking to move over from BlackBerry...
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Useful info for someone new - I'm looking to move over from BlackBerry...
I have worked with iPhones quite a bit and so had enough knowledge to write specifically about how iPhone apps compare to Android. So few are left with BlackBerry that it does not come up very much and I don't know the BlackBerry programs.
The regular Getting Started should walk you through everything. The link is in my signature below.
Re: Apple User's Guide to Android
Perhaps Apple should make a guide on changing from Android? 1. install itunes and let it take over your PC,2. Remember your sign in details, u need it whenever u wanna buy or download free stuff. 3. Get your credit card - you'll need it sooner or later, 4.When going out, don't forget the charger.
One 'downside' of android though is that some phones [e.g. HTC Wildfire] won't access certain apps. I have the Trainline app [gives details of train times in the UK] which works ok on Galaxy s, Tab and HTC desire. This app - and probably others - doesn't work on Wildfire. Annoying.
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Perhaps Apple should make a guide on changing from Android? 1. install itunes and let it take over your PC,2. Remember your sign in details, u need it whenever u wanna buy or download free stuff. 3. Get your credit card - you'll need it sooner or later, 4.When going out, don't forget the charger.
...Wildfire...
Yes, there are other downsides to Apple. You have to use iTunes for Apps, etc. Plus Apple's music is not your music. It has DCIM. If you try to move it to a new phone, you may or may not be allowed to because it is not your music. Music you download grom Google Music or Amazon is your own and not encrypted. If you change phones just move the files over. They are your files to use.
I will get that added to the opening post.
I did not mention the iPhone battery issues because them may be able to fix them in software. For now, I will keep that out.
As to the Wildfire, it is amazing the length developers have gone to to get their apps to run on it. Does it hold the record for the lowest def Android? Let alone the memory and CPU. In real life, if you see a wildfire, run.
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Thanks for the guide! It's very nice for a macbook user like me to get familiar with syncing data and files from OSX to my phone.
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Plus Apple's music is not your music. It has DCIM. If you try to move it to a new phone, you may or may not be allowed to because it is not your music.
I think that's "DRM" (Digital Rights Management). Also, iTunes has recently removed all DRM. That's why most of the songs went from $.99 to $1.29. I know this because I came from iPhone and had to "upgrade" all my older DRM music to iTunes Plus (their way of getting another 30 cents out of you for songs you already paid for) to be able to use it on my Inspire.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending iTunes/Apple. Just want everyone to have the facts.
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I need to be able to reach in my pocket and turn off the sound...
Five options:
1. Slide the lockscreen notification to open the app and unlock the phone
2. Hold down the Volumn down button
3. Put [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] toggle on the lockscreen with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
4. Use [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to automatically turn off sounds during times you can't have sounds.
5. Use [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to automatically turn off sounds at certain times or when you are at a location such as work or school.
