Finally Picked Up A Droid.

[LiveDose]

Pretty sweet, Samsung Captivate. Time to get some apps and start playing around with this thing.

Any recommendations?

[candyflip]

Nice choice. Considering you're on ATT, why did you choose the Android phone over the iPhone?

[sarettah]

I love my droid...



Stuck with a data plan from some third party though. Some company called "Force" or somesuch.

[crazytrini85]

Originally Posted by sarettah

I love my droid...

That is not the droid he's looking for.

</jedi mind trick>

[Wizzo]

Google Star Maps, Yelp, and Advanced Task Manager are all useful.

[candyflip]

Advanced Task Manager and other task killing apps aren't needed if you're running Android 2.1 or higher.

They were a good thing with older versions, but now they're just redundant and often eat up resources themselves.

[LiveDose]

Hey Candy I have so much stuff loaded on my ITouch and I figured try something completely different since Droid seems to be making a huge leap. My wife has the IPhone and loves it. Maybe next time...

[KillerK]

big mistake

[seeandsee]

enjoy in it, android have good apps too...

[yume-hostplex]

Just enjoy it !

[candyflip]

Originally Posted by LiveDose

Hey Candy I have so much stuff loaded on my ITouch and I figured try something completely different since Droid seems to be making a huge leap. My wife has the IPhone and loves it. Maybe next time...

I've got the iPod touch too and have an original iPhone that still get's some use. Love my Android phone more.

[LiveDose]

Originally Posted by KillerK

big mistake

More details?

[HD Content]

Droid rocks!

[DirtyJs]

I dumped my blackberry for a droid over a year ago.. best thing I ever did..

[NetHorse]

I know everyone is going to get their panties in a twist over this comment, but seriously, the Iphone is still king. This girl I recently started dating bought a droidX and I got the playing with it the last week or so. Even though it's loaded with features it just doesn't operate as smooth as the Iphone. The OS, the responsiveness of the touch screen, the buttons, the feel, the size, etc, etc..

[BigDeanEvans]

Originally Posted by NetHorse

I know everyone is going to get their panties in a twist over this comment, but seriously, the Iphone is still king. This girl I recently started dating bought a droidX and I got the playing with it the last week or so. Even though it's loaded with features it just doesn't operate as smooth as the Iphone. The OS, the responsiveness of the touch screen, the buttons, the feel, the size, etc, etc..

I was playing with my business partners droid, and i must say its like a cheap version of the Iphone.. at least that was my initial impression. It's kinda like a Ferrari kit car.

[SomeCreep]

Originally Posted by LiveDose

Pretty sweet, Samsung Captivate. Time to get some apps and start playing around with this thing.

Any recommendations?

get an iphone

[SBJ]

Originally Posted by candyflip

Advanced Task Manager and other task killing apps aren't needed if you're running Android 2.1 or higher.

They were a good thing with older versions, but now they're just redundant and often eat up resources themselves.

that's not true. I have a motorola Droid on 2.1 and I use my Advanced Task Manager quite often. I find when I lauch it programs I never even use will be running in the background and by using this app I can make my battery last all day on the go

Originally Posted by NetHorse

I know everyone is going to get their panties in a twist over this comment, but seriously, the Iphone is still king. This girl I recently started dating bought a droidX and I got the playing with it the last week or so. Even though it's loaded with features it just doesn't operate as smooth as the Iphone. The OS, the responsiveness of the touch screen, the buttons, the feel, the size, etc, etc..

Well I know a few girls that work at a bar I go to and they tell me my Motorola droid is faster than their iphones all the time.. Also 3g on AT&T is a joke. I live in a town of 800 people and with Verizon I have 3g even in my small town and everywhere.



Apps I like a lot are
Advanced Task Manager
Where
Weatherbug
ak notepad
sportstap
Bay Blackjack
Color Flashlight
google sky map
meebo im
pandora
bartender (not the best but the best free one i found.. my ipad has a better free app)
find starbucks

[Naechy]

i am just more iPhone boy

[candyflip]

Originally Posted by SBJ

that's not true. I have a motorola Droid on 2.1 and I use my Advanced Task Manager quite often. I find when I lauch it programs I never even use will be running in the background and by using this app I can make my battery last all day on the go

It most certainly is true. With 2.1 and up, any use of a task manager is just redundant. Those programs you see "running in the background" aren't fully running and portions of some programs are used by portions of other programs.

The ONLY people who who recommend using Task Managers are the folks making them and offering them up in the market. But even they know that the older models running the outdated version of the OS REALLY need them.

However, developers of task killing apps are of a different opinion. Arron La, developer of Advance Task Manager, suggests that task killers are more important for legacy devices like the G1 and phones running older versions of Android.

“It’s very bad to kill services on Android because those services are loaded with a lot of information and are ’sleeping’ without using battery usage,” says Christophe. “That’s why TaskOS doesn’t show services…Killing one application when you know what to do is [beneficial]. Killing mass applications is bad.”

There’s a great deal of confusion about the way Android handles multitasking, says Android Software Engineer Dianne Hackborn. In a recent blog post, Hackborn clarifies that Android doesn’t require apps to close when users are “done” with them; however, that doesn’t mean apps running in the background negatively affect performance. Look at this particular excerpt from Hackborn’s article:

applications may seem present to the user without an actual process currently running the app; multiple applications may share processes, or one application may make use of multiple processes depending on its needs; the process(es) of an application may be kept around by Android even when that application is not actively doing something.

What exactly does this mean? You don’t need to kill an app just because a task manager says it’s running. Android automatically closes apps if the phone requires RAM

All you iPhone peeps know that Android is now the #1 smartphone platform in the US right and about 200,000 new Android users are signed up daily? Android then Blackberry and then iPhone.