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Originally Posted by ScotiaBurrell
very cool.
I bought a virgin mobile LG elite after reading many reviews and handling the phone in person.
My priorities were size and ability to ride unnoticed in a pocket plus good web connectivity and performance. I liked the iphone and its size - I had a ipod touch that I liked a lot. It is same size. Turn screens off, and appearance is very similar. I doubt that is a coincidence.
But I did not like the price of the iPhone. For what I use the phone for, the $130 price and the drop to $35 a month cannot be beat.
Coming from ios, I really like the sharing menu! It makes evernote so much more useful. I also use Pocket to save articles for later reading, but will move to Instapaper soon now that a android client is there. But some apps are not as good. No good client for simplenote. no good offline dictionaries compared to ios either. Nothing equal to tweetbot. I loved tweetbot.
I like being able to pin contacts to 'desktop? screentop?'. Spending time in Play market is fun. Reading apple bloggers will make you think there is no software for Android -- but that is not true! Lots of fun stuff. And qcodes are useful!
I like that I could change my dialer and my sms program. I also like that I could change the launcher. I don't use many widgets -- they kill battery. I can remove my battery.
I used a program called quadrant it confirmed that the sales specs were wrong: is a 1ghz phone, not 800. Is fast! No lag...but I only play card and word games. Productivity stuff not so demanding on cpu. GPS connects fast! Has NFC, but I dont really understand it much.
Now I am rethinking my intention to buy a iPad. But apple produces portrait and I like that, not widescreen.
What android websites you all read other than mobileread?  |
Congratulations! I've been a longtime customer of VirginMobile and really like the LG handsets that they make available. (My current phone however is now an 32GB iPhone 4 $310 brand new, running Straight Talk prepaid $45/month unlimited everything)
One of the noticeable differences between iOS and Android is battery life. With the Android sets that I've used, I could eek out about a full day of use on a single charge. Having a swappable battery was a lifesaver for those times when I forgot to attach it to the charger before going to bed.
I used a free app called "Quick Settings" to quickly and easily enable/disable 3G. By turning it on only when I needed to, I was able to get 2-3 days of use before having to charge it.
I suggest investigating similar tools (there may exist one that can be programmed to turn 3G on and off at specific times of the day).
You may also discover that the maturity/polish of some apps on Android leave something to be desired. I'm still looking, without any success, for what is essentially the Android version of WriteRoom for iOS. There are a handful of apps that come close, but none match it... so the search continues.
But searching and discovering is part of the benefits of going Android. You will find that you can really customize and configure your phone to be a better personalized fit than the I-will-tell-you-what-you-like approach that Apple takes with iOS.
again, congratulations and enjoy!