This is just a mini rant, but I'm also kind of expecting someone to give me a solution. It's not always the 15th.
I know there are tons of widgets, Android, HTC and otherwise that display lots of calendar info and customizations including the current day, but I like to cram as many quick links on my main screen as possible, and I would just like a minimum sized icon for the calendar with the current day on it. How hard is that? The iPhone has it, ha ha.
On another note, I think Google is going to own us the way Microsoft does shortly. Maybe it already does. (Sure, I know Microsoft doesn't own everybody.) I have so many complaints about Microsoft, but the features it provides I would not want to do without. Besides the fact that I make a great living developing software on Microsoft hardware and software using Microsoft tools, in daily life Windows based machines provide much service to life. With this latest Chrome to Phone feature and the new Voice control features, Android + Google has become all that much useful. It's as much about the fact that all this tech helps create more free time in life as it is that they are just plain cool. I guarantee that Android+internet+MS+Google added about 40% more actual vacation enjoyment time to my recent trip to Portland than would have been there without it. We would have spent hours looking at maps, making phone calls, questioning people, driving around without these things. Not to mention the simple fact that I'm sure we would have gotten thoroughly lost at least once, probably during rush hour without Google maps+Navigation. Instead, we found what places we might want to go on Google, then we researched further these places on Google. We communicated about our choices Facebook online, and SMS, and we logged all the info and addresses online, + I added all the locations as contacts for easy lookup in Maps and Navigation. Made plane, hotel and car reservations online, checked in online. Remapped mid-day several times while driving. At the same time took many quality photos and videos just with the Android phone (of course also used higher quality hardware as well.) Piped music in the car from Pandora from the phone in the car. Kept up with all the losers at home on Facebook. Vacation is much more enjoyable when you can stick in all the faces of the people working back at home in 100 degree high humidity while you're skateboarding epic skateboard parks in cool, dry Oregon. Booked hotels on the road during the trip when we changed our plans on the fly, saving both time and money and driving. I'm sure there's more stuff we used related technologies that are so common we took them for granted. Just excluding internet + laptop + Android phone, the trip would have been completely different. Instead of 15 skateparks in 7 days, it probably would have been more like 7, with way less skating time, probably whole days lost for navigation and other days just not as fruitful because we would not have been able to just just plans on the fly when we wanted to and still get to places.
I just upgraded to 2.2 finally (BakedSnack ROM 1.3), and am trying out the new features of Froyo, etc. I've been lamenting a bit that iPhone has so many more apps and so much more integration with other things, but some of these new features are great.
But can't the Calendar icon just say 13 today?
I know there are tons of widgets, Android, HTC and otherwise that display lots of calendar info and customizations including the current day, but I like to cram as many quick links on my main screen as possible, and I would just like a minimum sized icon for the calendar with the current day on it. How hard is that? The iPhone has it, ha ha.
On another note, I think Google is going to own us the way Microsoft does shortly. Maybe it already does. (Sure, I know Microsoft doesn't own everybody.) I have so many complaints about Microsoft, but the features it provides I would not want to do without. Besides the fact that I make a great living developing software on Microsoft hardware and software using Microsoft tools, in daily life Windows based machines provide much service to life. With this latest Chrome to Phone feature and the new Voice control features, Android + Google has become all that much useful. It's as much about the fact that all this tech helps create more free time in life as it is that they are just plain cool. I guarantee that Android+internet+MS+Google added about 40% more actual vacation enjoyment time to my recent trip to Portland than would have been there without it. We would have spent hours looking at maps, making phone calls, questioning people, driving around without these things. Not to mention the simple fact that I'm sure we would have gotten thoroughly lost at least once, probably during rush hour without Google maps+Navigation. Instead, we found what places we might want to go on Google, then we researched further these places on Google. We communicated about our choices Facebook online, and SMS, and we logged all the info and addresses online, + I added all the locations as contacts for easy lookup in Maps and Navigation. Made plane, hotel and car reservations online, checked in online. Remapped mid-day several times while driving. At the same time took many quality photos and videos just with the Android phone (of course also used higher quality hardware as well.) Piped music in the car from Pandora from the phone in the car. Kept up with all the losers at home on Facebook. Vacation is much more enjoyable when you can stick in all the faces of the people working back at home in 100 degree high humidity while you're skateboarding epic skateboard parks in cool, dry Oregon. Booked hotels on the road during the trip when we changed our plans on the fly, saving both time and money and driving. I'm sure there's more stuff we used related technologies that are so common we took them for granted. Just excluding internet + laptop + Android phone, the trip would have been completely different. Instead of 15 skateparks in 7 days, it probably would have been more like 7, with way less skating time, probably whole days lost for navigation and other days just not as fruitful because we would not have been able to just just plans on the fly when we wanted to and still get to places.
I just upgraded to 2.2 finally (BakedSnack ROM 1.3), and am trying out the new features of Froyo, etc. I've been lamenting a bit that iPhone has so many more apps and so much more integration with other things, but some of these new features are great.
But can't the Calendar icon just say 13 today?
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