Android (22 Viewers)

[Martin]

You either go Menu - Settings - Then I don't know how to guide you in English

OR

You add a widget for 3G data transfer and then you can turn it off or on whenever you want.

I disabled data over mobile, there's a setting for that. Still, something must be up cause Vodafone sends me a message saying "here's how to activate your web/mms bs". I never wanted that, must be something the phone is set up to do on its own.

 

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[Zé Tahir]

I spend about 40 euro a year on phone use. Actually, less than that. Do they give you unlimited use for that price?

A year?? That's a cheap plan. If you pay that monthly you could probably receive unlimited data. How are you going to get by paying 3 euros a month?

 

[Martin]

A year?? That's a cheap plan. If you pay that monthly you could probably receive unlimited data. How are you going to get by paying 3 euros a month?

What do you mean going to? it's my current use, on prepaid cards. I'm not going to fork over more money to the beloved phone companies just because I choose to replace my 5 year old (at least) phone.

 

[Zé Tahir]

How much usage would you say that is? I don't know about the rates over there but I can't imagine anyone getting through a month with $5; not even with extremely conservative usage.

 

[Martin]

How much usage would you say that is? I don't know about the rates over there but I can't imagine anyone getting through a month with $5; not even with extremely conservative usage.

I make like zero calls a year. I mean if I make a call it's like an exception. Recently I've had to call support at my ISP, call around when I was looking for apartments and stuff like that. But social calls are close to zero, it's all online. I do send some messages but it's such torture typing them out that I keep it to a minimum. I don't mind that as much cause it's cheap, so if I had a phone that made it less sucky I would do it more.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I just realized that I don't need a smartphone like this anymore. There's a lot of things you can do with the phone and the apps you get, but it's just something I don't need. I really don't travel much to make use of the GPS\maps\etc. I really don't make many calls. I receive more calls than make them. I don't tweet a lot, or even post on Facebook from my phone. I feel that a simple flip-phone would meet my needs better now.

 

[Martin]

Can we rename this to "the thread where Martin asks stupid questions about Android"? I found out my phone wasn't faulty after all, I was just using it wrong.

Anywho, now I have another question. In the Messages app. How do you know which messages (which seem to be shown all in a single list) are incoming/outgoing? The heading on the screen is "All messages".

 

[JCK]

Can we rename this to "the thread where Martin asks stupid questions about Android"? I found out my phone wasn't faulty after all, I was just using it wrong.

Anywho, now I have another question. In the Messages app. How do you know which messages (which seem to be shown all in a single list) are incoming/outgoing? The heading on the screen is "All messages".

Start using Handcent SMS where it displays the messages as a conversation.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

The stock SMS app in Android 2.1 also displays messages as a conversation.

 

[.zero]

Martin, Handscent, ChompSMS and other 3rd party SMS apps are good but the stock messaging app is good enough

 

[Bozi]

martin,you possibly should have mentioned about your phone usage before getting this phone,the thing with a smartphone,more specifically and android phone is that to get the best use out of it you really need unlimited internet access

 

[Martin]

martin,you possibly should have mentioned about your phone usage before getting this phone,the thing with a smartphone,more specifically and android phone is that to get the best use out of it you really need unlimited internet access

"If I had a million dollars" and so forth. Don't worry, it's still a superb upgrade on my 5+ year old flip phone.

 

[Bozi]

aye but to me the difference with an android phone is like when i first installed Ubuntu and wore never to go back to windows. my Android goes everywhere with me now and everyday i find something new to love about it



well except for the fact that my (now ex) gf has done something terrible,she went and got the HTC Desire,i mean come on

 

[IrishZebra]

Are there plans for reasonably priced Adroid phones in the near future?

 

[Martin]

aye but to me the difference with an android phone is like when i first installed Ubuntu and wore never to go back to windows. my Android goes everywhere with me now and everyday i find something new to love about it



well except for the fact that my (now ex) gf has done something terrible,she went and got the HTC Desire,i mean come on

I'm connected here at home, when I go out I lose connectivity. No wifi at the office

But it's a nice device anyway.

 

[Bozi]

the plans on TMobile are reasonable cheap and you get the phone free

 

[IrishZebra]

If I had a job I would go bill pay, but I have to stick to read-to-go

 

[Bozi]

I'm connected here at home, when I go out I lose connectivity. No wifi at the office

But it's a nice device anyway.

i use last FM when i cycle to work so i don't need to worry about cramming my SD Card full of music,Laputa for downloading books,ebuddy and soccer livescores....the list goes on of handy apps you will almost certainly end up discovering. not to mention google maps has helped me out on numerous occasions already

 

[Martin]

i use last FM when i cycle to work so i don't need to worry about cramming my SD Card full of music,Laputa for downloading books,ebuddy and soccer livescores....the list goes on of handy apps you will almost certainly end up discovering. not to mention google maps has helped me out on numerous occasions already

tried kindle for android?

 

[Bozi]

no not yet