Posts Tagged ‘Android’
Android and Me Interview · Thanks a million to Eric Weiss at Android and Me--one of my favorite blogs for keeping up on Android news and tips--for interviewing me about my own Android habit, space travel, cloud comforters, third-party ROMs, and my favorite gadgets. · January 27th, 2010
Android users have a limited number of home screens on their phone (3 to 5, depending on what version you use), but folders group your home screen shortcuts into quick pop-up menus.
For example, I've got a few specific things I use on my phone when I go to the gym: a workout music playlist, a stopwatch app, my gym locker combination, a bookmark to an exercise program I'm following, and an app that tracks how far I've run. I only use these shortcuts when I'm at the gym, so I've put them all in a folder called "Gym," as shown here. When I get to the gym, I plug in my headphones, tap that folder, and everything I need to work out is there.
Here's how to create folders on your home screen to organize your Android icons.
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Gizmodo’s Essential Android Apps · A solid list of 30 good Android apps. While I don't have all of these installed, there are a ton of my personal picks here. (Downloading the Evernote Android beta now, which is not yet in the Market.) · December 11th, 2009, 1 comment
Matt Haughey on the Droid · One of my internet heroes Matt Haughey spends four hours with a Motorola Droid as a totally new user and doesn't have very many good things to say about the experience. A few of Matt's complaints are just a matter of his not being used to the interface, which is to be expected on any new mobile platform. (I didn't know how to remove apps from the iPhone home screen until I'd had the phone for awhile, either.) However, many of his points are valid. Android's got a long way to go if it leaves a savvy user like Matt frustrated. I'll be interested to see what Matt has to say after four WEEKS of using the Droid. · December 8th, 2009, 7 comments
Right now, Android is the phone OS you want only if your whole life is already tied up in your Google account. All of Android's can't-get-this-anywhere-else applications are made by Google. Android's Gmail client, Google Voice, Google Goggles, Google Maps, and even Google Sky and Google Listen are Android applications that either have no exact parallel on other platforms like the iPhone, or do things that their counterparts on other platforms can't match. Let's break this down.
Android's Gmail client is one of the two primary reasons why I went Android. If you live in Gmail in the browser, you'll swear by the fact that the Android Gmail client supports threaded conversations, labels, muting conversations, marking as spam--all the advanced Gmail goodness you get in the native webapp. The second primary app I use Android for is Google Voice. Being able to text via Google Voice for free as if it were the phone's native SMS application and get voicemail transcription in-app is awesome.* Beyond the Gmail/Google Voice two-punch, Google Maps gets updates on Android faster than on the iPhone or anywhere else, like turn-by-turn directions and What's Nearby. Finally, the brand new Google Goggles app looks like a search application I will use as often as search-by-voice.
The question is: where are the standout, can't-get-this-anywhere-else THIRD-PARTY Android apps?
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Apple made some exciting announcements about what's coming down the pipe for the iPhone this summer, so over at Lifehacker this morning I took at look at seeing how it all stacks up against Google's Android.
Overall I'm still a happy Android user, but I'll give it to Apple: the application potential and accessory control is looking really good. If they nail push notifications, iPhone 3.0 will be a really big deal. Check out the full article: Android Versus iPhone 3.0: The Showdown.
iPhone 3.0 Gets Copy and Paste and Then Some · Apple's finally caving and adding basics like copy and paste and proper MMS support to the iPhone operating system's third iteration, they announced today, plus a few other interesting goodies which catch it up to Android and then some. The iPhone still won't run background processes like Android can, but if they implement push notifications well maybe they won't have to. Yay for innovation and competition that leads to better products. · March 17th, 2009, 6 comments
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