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

[m21knight]

I have had my hands on a lot of different mobile devices and the thing that impresses me the most about my Droid is the sheer potential that the Android OS has on such a great hardware platform. This is why I think the ultimate iPhone killer will be an addroid device....Nexus anyone?

No no no........thank YOU for listening ;-)

 

[TimChgo9]

Android is but the Droid is not. You have to look at individual phones within Android. They are all aimed at different audiences.

Hell, if you want to look at operating systems take a look at how old Windows is. And now look at how long it took them to get an operational OS for their phones that is even remotely capable of doing what it should do.

I believe I was using Windows as early as 1990??? Yeah, that makes Windows 20 years old, if not older.. WinMo has been on portable devices (Pocket PC's) since 1999? It has been on cell phones since about 2003/4? Yeah, long devlopment curve there. I remember when Windows CE, and Windows Mobile were first introduced and the tech pages were devoted to article after article about what was lacking....

So, yeah, give Android a chance. I believe this OS has far more potential than WinMo, or Apple's OS.....hands down.

 

[Sleeve]

IF we all just sit here either quietly or politely taking turns raving about how our lives changed once we found Droid, what do our vendors have to make progress? If we can't point out gaps we tolerate and maybe hear what other people have tried to get around the gap, then shouldn't we all be somewhere else than here?

I think at this point, most ranting OPs are aware of what exists, and if they've been around more than a week, what is coming. I have some rants, but I don't me-too because they've already been covered very well by other members.

If we make excuses for omissions and marginal implementations, or question the OP's real need for such a niche feature, we're just suppressing the image of what the mass market is willing to accept. While the Android site has a great defect and feature request tracking application, it's almost as useful to collectively support gaps in Android that will benefit all of us if solved.

The only real way we're going to guide those who decide about this platform's ability is at the source. I've checked, my rants are documented:

Issue 1181 - android - [VoiceDial] Voice confirmation for Voice Dialer - Project Hosting on Google Code
Issue 1892 - android - Announce caller id and SMS via handsfree headsets. - Project Hosting on Google Code

Forgive a minor soapbox, if you will... An open and welcoming response to criticism that improves the platform for all rather than a reactive, defensive response designed to re-establish personal satisfaction that we made the right purchase decision would be a valuable improvement in the usefulness of these types of threads. Too many threads have gone down the path of taking sides and crushing the dissent when it should be us against the vendors rather than us against each other. Yes, it's reasonable that the Android platform should be given time to mature, but we're the ones who are in the best position to guide its upbringing. If Johnny's getting a D in social studies, should we just say Johnny's young, he needs time? Or should we work on the problem so he aces AP World History in high school?

 

[clunker]

Right on - continue with the airing of grievances!

I agree, if you have an Android phone and like it enough to keep it, but find some of the missing features an egregious omission, don't switch phones and move on. Enter your gripes on every forum you can find, shout it to the heavens, in the hope that Google and the App Market developers will hear what you are saying. That's one of the things a public forum is for, airing grievances. Happy Festivus, all

 

[DROIDMASTER]

I really miss my windows phone sometimes and I would have probably bought one of the new HTC's if it was available. Don't get me wrong I love the droid, but it's lacking some very critical features.

1) Tethering - this is STOCK on all windows phones and stupid PDANET wants to charge me $30 to do it. Terrible that it wasn't included.

tethering is not yet supported by VZW, thus no standard tethering app for the droid. Also many WM phones are not that easy to tether as well

2) Slingbox - this just sucks to not be able to use my phone as a sling client but not as bad as...
I am sure that Sling will have a app soon for Android. Android was not a hugely popular platform until it launched with other carriers beyond just TMobile.

3) Flash - no ability to play flash is a total bummer since I can't do either the sling nor flash sites

Funny that you bring up Flash for WM. As flash is only flash lite on WM devices. At this point. And has a much sub-par browsing experience period

4) GOOD Video Options - video is POSSIBLE on the droid so all of you people saying "hold on it's coming" it should BE HERE. We have PATHETIC youtube, which has shows split into five small videos (come on guys 2010 here). So, it is clearly POSSIBLE to stream video. The other aps are just god awful! One was great at streaming russian news to me, awesome. The others have the same content for at least a month at a time and very little of it. Shotime has boxing CLIPS, not full fights and I've not seen much better on any of the network channels. Yeah, the neatness of video on your phone is like SOOO 2005, so can you NOW focus on your content before you release a lame ap.

You obviously have not done your home work, you can go to m.nbc.com and stream TV or video's you can stream from the FREE TV.com app in the Android Market. You can also stream from the JetFlicks app that has a lot of quite good content on it.

Oh, thanks for listening.

Oh, No... Thank you for listening

I was gonna do this same thing but looks like my points have been proven... DROID DOES!!!!

 

[TimChgo9]

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.

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When you connect your phone to a PC, you have to pull down your status bar, and tap the "USB Connected" box in your status bar, and then "mount" your SD card so you can transfer files. I do it all the time, it's simple, really.