I have spent the last week as an android noob coming from the 9700 bberry and iphone. I have posed many questions which have been unanswered or misunderstood. So here's my take for those looking to leave bberry and Iphone
1. Forget your email client as you know it. On an exchange server using activesync forget html emails unless you want to go to a 3rd party client, but watch out if you sync calendar and contacts with exchange because there are multiple issues with turning off exchange email only and leaving contacts and calendar to sync. Apparently this is a known issue that nobody likes to talk about. Also, if your typing in landscape mode, the is no onscreen button to send mail, you will have to flip to portrait, also no ability to search server from device. Also forget the delete prior messages feature of bberry, you will need to tick all emails physically for multiple delete. They will try to blame earlier 2003 exchange servers, however everyone knows that even the iphne 3g renders html from these servers.
2. Forget your Today Screen from bberry which showed the last 3 emails, last 3 calendar entries and missed calls, all allowing you to jump right to them. Although senseui claims to be completely customizable, they haven't figured how to do this yet. You can get an angenda view from your calendar, but after that, forget it.
3. The touch screen vs physical keyboard: Chalk this up to droid. We've been riding this dinosaur long enough. I was the last convert and was worried this would be the biggest issue, it's not. The keyboards fine and the speech search, to text, etc., is the wave of the future and I love it.
4. Hey, you know that awesome camcorder? Yeah, about that. You can't hold your phone like 90% of other users because if you do, the video is sideways. So, your required to turn it sideways and shoot. Not a big deal, other than bberry and apple dont require this. I mean who cares unless your filming fireworks, between buidings, or just trying to establish a framed or prespective shot. Going to get a lot more photobombs this year.
5. The toughest jump for bberry users will be the size of the phone. Forget front pocket storage, if your in business, and forget one hand operations from a locked screen. This phone does a lot of things good but forgets the basics and it's huge.
I'm a chump for android because I believe that they are the future, but the things listed above along with others like not being able to stream netflix, and no HSUP without root. This stuff is nonsensical given the thousands of geniuses who did and are now developing this os. If you want business customers to ditch bberry and iphone, get the basic features right. Android is too good for this crap.
1. Forget your email client as you know it. On an exchange server using activesync forget html emails unless you want to go to a 3rd party client, but watch out if you sync calendar and contacts with exchange because there are multiple issues with turning off exchange email only and leaving contacts and calendar to sync. Apparently this is a known issue that nobody likes to talk about. Also, if your typing in landscape mode, the is no onscreen button to send mail, you will have to flip to portrait, also no ability to search server from device. Also forget the delete prior messages feature of bberry, you will need to tick all emails physically for multiple delete. They will try to blame earlier 2003 exchange servers, however everyone knows that even the iphne 3g renders html from these servers.
2. Forget your Today Screen from bberry which showed the last 3 emails, last 3 calendar entries and missed calls, all allowing you to jump right to them. Although senseui claims to be completely customizable, they haven't figured how to do this yet. You can get an angenda view from your calendar, but after that, forget it.
3. The touch screen vs physical keyboard: Chalk this up to droid. We've been riding this dinosaur long enough. I was the last convert and was worried this would be the biggest issue, it's not. The keyboards fine and the speech search, to text, etc., is the wave of the future and I love it.
4. Hey, you know that awesome camcorder? Yeah, about that. You can't hold your phone like 90% of other users because if you do, the video is sideways. So, your required to turn it sideways and shoot. Not a big deal, other than bberry and apple dont require this. I mean who cares unless your filming fireworks, between buidings, or just trying to establish a framed or prespective shot. Going to get a lot more photobombs this year.
5. The toughest jump for bberry users will be the size of the phone. Forget front pocket storage, if your in business, and forget one hand operations from a locked screen. This phone does a lot of things good but forgets the basics and it's huge.
I'm a chump for android because I believe that they are the future, but the things listed above along with others like not being able to stream netflix, and no HSUP without root. This stuff is nonsensical given the thousands of geniuses who did and are now developing this os. If you want business customers to ditch bberry and iphone, get the basic features right. Android is too good for this crap.
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