I miss my window's phone - critical things DROID is missing

[adrynalyne]

Does anyone besides me think its funny that 2/3 of what the OP is whining about is out of Google's hands?

Go cry to Adobe, or the Sling Player devs. You wil get further.

 

[Martin030908]

As soon as I saw "no flash" as a complaint I immediately looked under the bridge for the rest of them (that's where they live). No device has full flash. And when it is available, Android will be first. Do some research before blasting a device OP.

 

[natty_lite]

If somebody tried to force me to go back to WinMo, I'd beat the snot out of them.

LOL at that.

IIRC, there is no free tethering option for Windows. PDANet is not free software. Internet sharing, at least from what I remember could not be achieved without hacking the phone - which puts that aspect on equal footing with the Droid. If gaining those of those characteristics of Windows Mobile is worth losing everything you're gaining using the Droid then you should return your phone immediately and get an Imagio,Omnia II, or TP2.

 

[swickdick]

Flash player Is coming and we can wifi tether, works for me and mores to come

 

[adrynalyne]

If somebody tried to force me to go back to WinMo, I'd beat the snot out of them.

LOL at that.

IIRC, there is no free tethering option for Windows. PDANet is not free software. Internet sharing, at least from what I remember could not be achieved without hacking the phone - which puts that aspect on equal footing with the Droid. If gaining those of those characteristics of Windows Mobile is worth losing everything you're gaining using the Droid then you should return your phone immediately and get an Imagio,Omnia II, or TP2.

Quite a few phone manufacturers/carriers have the tetheing option on Winmo phones removed, for obvious reasons.

By default from MS, however, Winmo 6.1 and 6.5 have tethering.

 

[iPirate]

Tethering is in 2.1 I believe

Flash is coming soon

My winmo phone didnt have flash, you are lucky!

 

[adrynalyne]

Flash Lite hardly counts as Flash iPirate

 

[Martin030908]

Tethering is in 2.1 I believe

Flash is coming soon

My winmo phone didnt have flash, you are lucky!

His didn't either. It's Flash lite. Not full Flash. Which we WILL have on Android and he WON'T on WinMo right away.

 

[Tekmazter]

1) Tethering - Hate to break it to you man, but I've got an XV6700 sitting in my glove box running WM5 which doesn't support tethering out of the box. This 'full featured' business oriented phone required me to HACK the registry to get that functionality and again, that's WM5. The point? The phone was marketed as a full on everything business phone, yet out of the box it didn't support what Treo's and BB's were supporting at the time. This phone was still sold by Verizon a little over a year ago. You're being a little over critical here. BTW ... tethering is coming to the DROID (confirmed) the first half of this year. You don't have to buy squat.

2) Slingbox - Do some homework next time:

During the CES, Dave Zatz from Zatz Not Funny just had the chance to talk with John Gilmore, Sling Media' General Manager, who unveiled an upcoming Adobe Flash-based SlingPlayer being demo'ed in their booth. This means that you'll be able to turn your Sony PS3 into a SlingCatcher and additional mobiles should be more quickly supported. At the end of the day, it could mean that smartphones like Windows Mobile, Android and webOS will soon be able to be used as a SlingCatcher. According to Gilmore, the Flash player will hit the market first half of 2010 with initial support for the Slingbox Pro-HD and with the Slingbox Solo to follow-up.

Furthermore Dave Zatz had an opportunity to briefly chat with Sling's mobile product manager who announced that a SlingPlayer Mobile client for Android is definitely coming; although Sling Media isn't prepared to discuss timings today. Unfortunately, Palm's webOS is currently being "evaluated", meaning a potential launch is much further away. However, here Palm Pre and Pixi users might get a chance using Flash instead since Flash will be definitely supported on webOS smartphones.

3) Flash - as others have noted already, it's been shown on the N1 and now the DROID. It's about as imminent as you can at this point.

4) GOOD Video Options - Frankly, this is a non argument. The video capabilities of this phone are outstanding. Have you uploaded a movie to this thing yet? Also, with FLASH being added there is going to be far more down the road. And you know Netflix is coming as all efforts on that front are moving into streaming content. http://rc3.org/2010/01/08/behind-the-netflix-warner-bros-deal/

 

[Martin030908]

Tekmazter,
I didn't know Netflix was working on mobile options Thanks for the link. I'm excited.

 

[Tekmazter]

Tekmazter,
I didn't know Netflix was working on mobile options Thanks for the link. I'm excited.

Hey Martin, I have not confirmed Netflix is working on a client for Android yet. I am more or less making a prediction.

It's obvious the direction they're taking the business. Up to now it's been very difficult for Netflix to develop a robust catalog of movies for streaming online due to copyright and licensing laws. It was clear they were going to have to do something to get the movie labels behind them. When this was announced, the writing was pretty much on the wall. It's a good move and I hope it's one that works.

The api is avaialble so anyone who'd like to dev a client in the mean time ... I'm game: http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/30/netflix-api-open-to-all-let-the-developing-begin/

 

[TekHawk]

1) Tethering - Hate to break it to you man, but I've got an XV6700 sitting in my glove box running WM5 which doesn't support tethering out of the box. This 'full featured' business oriented phone required me to HACK the registry to get that functionality and again, that's WM5. The point? The phone was marketed as a full on everything business phone, yet out of the box it didn't support what Treo's and BB's were supporting at the time. This phone was still sold by Verizon a little over a year ago. You're being a little over critical here. BTW ... tethering is coming to the DROID (confirmed) the first half of this year. You don't have to buy squat.

2) Slingbox - Do some homework next time:

During the CES, Dave Zatz from Zatz Not Funny just had the chance to talk with John Gilmore, Sling Media' General Manager, who unveiled an upcoming Adobe Flash-based SlingPlayer being demo'ed in their booth. This means that you'll be able to turn your Sony PS3 into a SlingCatcher and additional mobiles should be more quickly supported. At the end of the day, it could mean that smartphones like Windows Mobile, Android and webOS will soon be able to be used as a SlingCatcher. According to Gilmore, the Flash player will hit the market first half of 2010 with initial support for the Slingbox Pro-HD and with the Slingbox Solo to follow-up.

Furthermore Dave Zatz had an opportunity to briefly chat with Sling's mobile product manager who announced that a SlingPlayer Mobile client for Android is definitely coming; although Sling Media isn't prepared to discuss timings today. Unfortunately, Palm's webOS is currently being "evaluated", meaning a potential launch is much further away. However, here Palm Pre and Pixi users might get a chance using Flash instead since Flash will be definitely supported on webOS smartphones.

3) Flash - as others have noted already, it's been shown on the N1 and now the DROID. It's about as imminent as you can at this point.

4) GOOD Video Options - Frankly, this is a non argument. The video capabilities of this phone are outstanding. Have you uploaded a movie to this thing yet? Also, with FLASH being added there is going to be far more down the road. And you know Netflix is coming as all efforts on that front are moving into streaming content. rc3.org - Behind the Netflix-Warner Bros deal

not seeing anything in that link about netflix coming to mobile but really would love it if they did my ps3 with netflix live is all my tv does atm lol

 

[Martin030908]

Tekmazter,
I didn't know Netflix was working on mobile options Thanks for the link. I'm excited.

Hey Martin, I have not confirmed Netflix is working on a client for Android yet. I am more or less making a prediction.

It's obvious the direction they're taking the business. Up to now it's been very difficult for Netflix to develop a robust catalog of movies for streaming online due to copyright and licensing laws. It was clear they were going to have to do something to get the movie labels behind them. When this was announced, the writing was pretty much on the wall. It's a good move and I hope it's one that works.

Ooops. Sorry if I made it seem like you were confirming it. I realize it was just 'new's regarding Netflix going mobile. I got a little over excited. Wasn't trying to put you on blast! :icon_eek:

 

[Legalgear]

Listen, it is a great phone, but it is missing some key features. Oh and whoever said JetTV was viable, that is a joke. That's my point, if you can have an ap like Jet TV, clearly streaming is more than possible, so it is just irritating to not have a better outlet for streaming content. JetTV is horrible if you ask me as is NBC, which I don't watch (even though they had very few episodes in general). Sure I can upload a movie, but who wants to watch the same movie over and over.

I wanted the HTC Touch Diamond 2, but they were out of stock and my phone was dead. I also had a XV6700 and it tethered out of the box (I will admit they hid the icon) and it was a decent phone, just too slow for the screen.

I love my droid, but I will say it is lacking in some key areas. Other than that it is a very solid device and the best phone I've ever owned.

By the way, you don't own any of Motorola nor Google, so keep that in mind when you give me the love it or leave it speech.

I also can't hook up my droid to either the Mac or PC, it shows it on the PC as a drive, but won't allow any transfers.

Finally, the windows office apps on WinMo were awesome and worked flawlessly, something I can't say on the droid. To load a droid up with all of the free software that comes with Windows would add an extra $200-300 to the phone.

 

[Donkey Hodie]

I also can't hook up my droid to either the Mac or PC, it shows it on the PC as a drive, but won't allow any transfers.

I'll leave others to comment on the rest but this must be pilot error on your part. I connect mine to a PC (and a Linux box) all the time and transfer files. I synch my music with the PC, easy peasy.

I'm no Droid apologist as I don't think it needs one. There are a few capabilities I wish it had but they're coming.

As was said earlier, I'd beat the snot out of somebody who tried to make me go back to WinMo.