![]() But if you really can't stand terrible batteries-I'd stay with the iPhone. If you are still on the limb about getting the phone, my question to you is this: why are you switching? If you want to make phone calls-sure, go to the Evo. I did it, finally, but nowhere near how I wanted it to be. ![]() Before, with Mobile Me, everything synced perfectly and without any problems. One reason which really almost drove me back to my iPhone, or the new iPhone 4 was the syncing. You have to do some pretty funky stuff just to get it to sync, and it doesn't always work perfectly. If you are like me, and actually didn't really use your gmail account (after getting some professional ones), you're going to get irritated. EVERYTHING about the Android phone is linked your gmail account. iCal and your Address book can sync with Gmail. She immediately noticed the difference and thought I was calling from a land line because it "didn't sound like I was on my other phone." I hadn't told her that I got a new phone. First person I called is someone I talk to a lot on the phone. As for the call quality.well let me put it this way. But the days when I'm just at the hospital and just kinda fire off a text or two or look up drug info on Epocrates and driving home wishing I had enough battery life to listen to my podcasts, I really hate the phone. Those are the days when I use my phone as an actual phone and make a lot of calls. I couldn't handle their terrible service (I'm in the SF Bay Area, one of their WORST service areas) anymore. I don't even dare use it for any music playback-not that the Android music player is something to write home about- because it'd kill my life even faster. It's not worth it to me, so I retweaked it (got my live wallpaper back, yay Koi pond!).Īnyways-my point is, the battery on the Evo is absolutely terrible. And the end result? About maybe an hour extra worth of battery life. Now it's just a phone with a big ol screen. Basically, I end up with a stripped down version of a smart phone. I fiddled with the right settings, I turned off live wall papers, I turn off this and that and everything. I have done EVERYTHING that everyone has mentioned. I want to be able to get to the end of a day with steady use and think, I'm glad I have enough battery left in case I needed to run out somewhere. Obviously, if I really cranked up the use, it would go down to about a day. mine would last me a day and a half of pretty solid use. It did what I wanted it to do, it synced with MobileMe and my photo albums, it had my iPod, it had the apps I wanted and needed. Hopefully, you'll have better results than I did, or maybe Google will improve this.Īlrighty, here's my deal. Unfortunately, for me that was a deal killer so I gritted my teeth and moved to an iPhone 4. Maybe I could have gotten it working smoothly, but after a couple of weeks playing with it I gave up for now. ![]() However, in the single area of syncing my Mac contacts and calendars with the phone, it just wasn't as smooth. ![]() Overall, I really prefer android to iPhone, because of the UI, the more open attitude towards both apps and multiple hardware vendors, and the wider choice of carriers. Also some calendar entries were odd, though I don't remember the details. Similar weird results for entries with a company name but no personal name. So it lost the differentiation, and android made the wrong decision when it guessed. When I looked at the gmail contact list, I found that it has no first and last name fields, just a single name field. When synced to the android, this would be alphabetized under "A" - first name = John, last name = "& Jane Doe". For instance, I have contacts of the form John & Jane Doe - last name = Doe, first name = "John & Jane". The problem, I think, is that the gmail contact list and calendar just aren't as sophisticated as Apple's. I tried for a few weeks with a Nexus One - a different android phone - and got it to work, but not to my satisfaction. It works, but not as smoothly as syncing with an iPhone via MobileMe. Mac Address Book and Calender will both sync with gmail, and so will the Android. ![]()
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