Android phones, apps and tablets

I wanted to hear it from a nerd. Albeit, a very handsome and popular nerd like yourself.

I bet murtleflaps choked on his cocoa over that one. ;)

There are nerdier nerds on here.. but you are right.. none as handsome and popular as me. The others also have much smaller hands and smell slightly of damp socks.

This seems to be getting some positive noise made about it for extending your battery life by controlling your phone's use of connection time.

http://www.gearsoft.mobi/article/3

WiSyncPlus provides ultimate control over synchronization for your Android Phone. Best of all, it allows for drastic power savings by controlling your data connection. By turning off your data connection when it is not needed, WiSyncPlus prevents the phone from constantly synchronizing and reporting statistics back to Google. Even better, it prevents ill behaved applications from chronically obtaining network updates until you say its okay. This is the first tool which truly gives control of your phone back where it belongs - in your hands!
Click to enlarge graph.
The phone was taken off of its charger on April 6, 09:20. The measurements ended when the battery reached 50% discharge on April 7, 08:45. The graph represents a total span in time of 23 hours and 25 minutes. From April 6 21:25 to April 7 08:37, the phone sat idle, with the exception of sending a single text message. The long, flat line on the lower, right side of the graph represents a span of 11 hours and 12 minutes. Notice the battery held steady at 56% charge. All of the areas where the battery can be readily observed discharging the phone was in active use, including phone calls, text messaging, emailing, and web browsing on an EDGE data connection.

WiSyncPlus is the ultimate phone companion for every type of user. Simply put, WiSyncPlus is the first must have application for your Android device. You can now see why an estimated standby time of 16-days is possible. That's a first for any production Android device.
Control when and how often your phone allows network access. This includes Google's core services.
Preserve battery power like no other application can.
Save money! Finally take control of your data-roaming fees. Safe to travel because you control when, how often, and how long your phone will allow data connections. Finally a tool to help manage your data roaming fees!
Fully control both WIFI and cellular data access in a variety of configuration options.
Create schedules so the phone works and sleeps when you do!
It is finally possible to make iPhone users envious of your estimated standby of 400-hours. That is 100-hours more than the iPhone 3G.

Android is in, Windows Mobile is in (despite rumors to the contrary), and Bada is definitely in for next year, according to Samsung senior vice president Don Joo Lee. Not making the phone manufacturer's cut? Symbian. Digitimes has it from the exec that its new proprietary mobile OS will be taking the place of the Nokia-friendly platform. Hey, all the phones to end a legacy on, the Omnia HD certainly isn't a bad swan song.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/11/samsung-dropping-symbian-for-bada-in-2010-says-senior-vp/

Bada appears to be a rebranding of Samsung's proprietary feature phone OS with some tools and an SDK added.

The statement pertaining to be from Don Joo Lee has not been confirmed, or denied, by Samsung themselves. Samsung have always been promiscious when it comes to mobile operating systems so it's no surprise to see them adopting new ones. As for Symbian, they remain a member of the board of the Symbian Foundation so I don't see any wavering in their commitment at the moment. That may change of course.

@hippy, do you think Bada will have a chance? I don't fancy it much. Its Google in the other corner, and I'll say this - that Samsung, doesn't look at all like David Haye.

As for Symbian, I think while Nokia are still their major adopters, then they're okay. But if Nokia ever swing to Android (they'll never switch to Bada), Symbian will be sunk.

The industry does not need yet another mobile platform at the moment so Samsung's announcement is surprising. They might, however, be coming at this from an app store angle with a plan to have apps available across a range of Samsung devices including mobile phones but also other consumer electronic devices.

Symbian has always relied on Nokia for it's success. As long as Nokia remain the major player in the mobile world then that is not a bad place to be. Nokia does do not rely on Symbian though, as it has three platforms in use for it's mobile devices; S40, Symbian and Maemo.

In terms of market share, Symbian remains the dominant open OS, with Blackberry second and Apple third. At the moment Android is a distant fifth (behind Windows Mobile) but that is likely to change. However, the challenge of going mass market is one Android has to address so it'll be interesting to see how they cope with that.

They'll smack the fuck out of the mass market.. just wait and see..

Murtle, more info, get Googling:
"Tell him to use DoubleTwist. Works great on my macbook."

sussed it

toggle on - USB debugging
then go to notifications and click on mount.
easy huh??

then created folders for pictures/music/video.

then placed the files in the relevant folders

now when i plug it in, it is instantly recognised, just have to go to notifications then mount

So you followed our instructions.. fuck, there's hope for mac users yet..

so, who likes the Dext?

You're the only one who owns one :P

sussed it

toggle on - USB debugging
then go to notifications and click on mount.
easy huh??

then created folders for pictures/music/video.

then placed the files in the relevant folders

now when i plug it in, it is instantly recognised, just have to go to notifications then mount

murts, where do i "toggle on" huh?

Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging (mine is ON)

You're the only one who owns one :P

So how do you know if they're any good or not?

did it.
no luck.
swapped the lead.
bingo!

ah, good stuff matt, bloody PIA.

and sorry should have said "click" on debuggering

they seem to use the "notifications" for a lot of things.

So how do you know if they're any good or not?

I don't. I've never even seen one. I know nothing about them.
I'm just trying to get a rise. It's not working.
I'm going back to my Win7 installation.
Curses.

Plus this is one of very few threads holding my attention these days. Bump it up.

my love for the HTC Hero just doubled.

AWESOME.

digging ACR (android comic reader) - got 30+ issues of the Walking Dead to get through now. sweeet.

Getting mine on Monday... Woot!

My Mac appears to have just died tho'... Snow Leopard fail... :[

EDIT: It's fine now...

Android is in, Windows Mobile is in (despite rumors to the contrary), and Bada is definitely in for next year, according to Samsung senior vice president Don Joo Lee. Not making the phone manufacturer's cut? Symbian. Digitimes has it from the exec that its new proprietary mobile OS will be taking the place of the Nokia-friendly platform. Hey, all the phones to end a legacy on, the Omnia HD certainly isn't a bad swan song.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/11/samsung-dropping-symbian-for-bada-in-2010-says-senior-vp/

This statement has been disowned by Samsung HQ in Seoul.

http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=8221

great, my google maps, can't find my location, i know where i am tho....

Have you got wifi and/or GPS turned on?

gps

Are you outside?

sometimes