One thing I'll say about my GS2, it's a mofo when it comes to getting all my email accounts set up to be checked on it.
With my iPhone it was easy: Gmail, Hotmail, Shaw x2, work and school Exchange addresses - all downloaded onto my phone every 15 mins.
For whatever reason, Android just doesn't want to cooperate. Granted, I've only been messing around with the built-in client, and I don't really know what all these settings mean, but why can't it just be easy?!
One thing I'll say about my GS2, it's a mofo when it comes to getting all my email accounts set up to be checked on it.
With my iPhone it was easy: Gmail, Hotmail, Shaw x2, work and school Exchange addresses - all downloaded onto my phone every 15 mins.
For whatever reason, Android just doesn't want to cooperate. Granted, I've only been messing around with the built-in client, and I don't really know what all these settings mean, but why can't it just be easy?!
Ya, email is a bit of a bitch. Gmail is awesome though. As others have suggested in other threads, you can have your other accounts push to your gmail account (or something like that)
I personally use the K9 mail app. It is free and I use it for my exchange, as well as my hotmail accounts. I find it works quite well. You can customize it quite easily and shortcut each account to the main screen with a customizable icon as well.
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One thing I'll say about my GS2, it's a mofo when it comes to getting all my email accounts set up to be checked on it.
With my iPhone it was easy: Gmail, Hotmail, Shaw x2, work and school Exchange addresses - all downloaded onto my phone every 15 mins.
For whatever reason, Android just doesn't want to cooperate. Granted, I've only been messing around with the built-in client, and I don't really know what all these settings mean, but why can't it just be easy?!
i use Touchdown for my exchange mail. it's a tad pricy, but absolutely nothing beats it as far as exchange functionality. it's like taking a mobile Outlook client with you wherever you go, and it makes my work Blackberry look sad in comparison
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i'm not digging the button-less design, i like to have dedicated softkeys for menu, home, and back below the screen.
I have been hoping for them to drop dedicated buttons, but not in the way they are. The current buttons, except for a few phones like the Droid X, are just capacitive touchscreen buttons anyway, so why not make them part of the screen? Then people could even put the buttons in their preferred order, instead of the random choices by different OEMs. Unfortunately, it seems like they're going a different way with the OS. It seems like it'll be a lot harder to do stuff without looking at your phone without dedicated buttons.
My girlfriend had an iPhone 4 and I had a S1 (used), and she wanted to try my phone so we switched. Both phones feel good in the hands but I didn't like the sharp edges of the iPhone, but it's a sexy phone. It also felt a lot heavier but I don't think that's the case... just did. I still have her iPhone (a few months) and it's gotten really slow now, I think I just download too many apps or what not. Battery life now is not even a full day, with heavy use I can hit maybe from 8-6pm? Maybe... I also miss being able to customize the screen and rom. iOS is pretty slick but having some choice is also nice.
Do I care that much I'm using an iPhone over android? not really... pretty similar phones or maybe I'm not that geeky enough to care. But I think I do prefer android over iOS.
The biggest drain on battery life with current generation smartphones is the screen. Power consumption correlates with screen size. Battery tech hasn`t kept up with the phone hardware. That`s an issue all makers have to deal with.
Agreed, I think 5 years from now we'll all be laughing at how we had to carry our chargers around with us everywhere because of how pathetic the battery life was (is).
This is the one area where I'm jealous of iPhones (besides the TSN app. Android, c'mon man!), they seem to last quite a bit longer than my Galaxy. If I forget to charge it even one night it'll surely die by mid afternoon the next day, latest.
A Galaxy battery is the size of a matchbook and very cheap. It's easy to just have a spare one in a pocket somewhere and you are back to 100% right away.
If your Galaxy has bad battery life, change up your apps or background app configuration as to how often they poll for updates, check GPS, WiFi, refreshes weather, news, etc. etc.
I lose about 1% charge every hour on mine on idle.
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Are Androids upgradeable like iPhones when new OS versions come out? Can you guys put Ice Cream Sandwich on your older hardware?
Completely upgradable until the software starts exceeding the power requirements of the hardware itself. The Galaxy S for example has gotten Android Versions 2.1 to 2.3 and it will be getting ICS. Official further upgrades are up in the air, but since things are open source, custom ROM developers will try to get the newer versions on well past what is officially supported. Huge plus if you are stuck on a longer contract and still want new features.Though it may not necessarily perform as well.
A Galaxy battery is the size of a matchbook and very cheap. It's easy to just have a spare one in a pocket somewhere and you are back to 100% right away.
If your Galaxy has bad battery life, change up your apps or background app configuration as to how often they poll for updates, check GPS, WiFi, refreshes weather, news, etc. etc.
I lose about 1% charge every hour on mine on idle.
Same here. Mine goes 3 days roughly without a charge, and I use it moderately.
Not sure I understand the question?? I did say the Galaxy S is being upgraded. Google got all manufacturers to commit to a minimum of three O/S upgrade cycles and comments from Samsung seem to indicate they would exceed that. Since they've started at 2.1 ICS would be either the last one or second last upgrade for the Galaxy S.
Roughly means that these android phones will be supported approximately two to two and half years after release with software upgrades. Usually good enough for those three year contracts ish.
Not sure I understand the question?? I did say the Galaxy S is being upgraded. Google got all manufacturers to commit to a minimum of three O/S upgrade cycles and comments from Samsung seem to indicate they would exceed that. Since they've started at 2.1 ICS would be either the last one or second last upgrade for the Galaxy S.
Roughly means that these android phones will be supported approximately two to two and half years after release with software upgrades. Usually good enough for those three year contracts ish.
Oh.
I know you said Galaxy S originally, but I'm a bit surprised that the original Galaxy S would be updated to ICS. I would expect 2.3.5, but not 4.0.
It`s not too surprising that the Galaxy S would get 4.0 if you consider that the Nexus S, which is basically a Galaxy S, was the testing platform for 4.0.
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