Is anyone juggling both Android and WP7?

[MO3iusONE]

I've said this before but, WP7 is, at this point still pretty young. Dont get me wrong, its nicer looking and smoother than Android but, I just feel that I could be more efficient with Android. Whether its having different style unlock screens, or widgets, it just works well. I sometimes feel that WP7 is more show and no go, or at least at this point thats how it seems. When I had my Dell Venue Pro, I always had my Droid Pro in my pocket, not so much because I like Android better overall, but mainly because I'd get such horrible service with Tmobile, so when trying to send a text message via Google Voice, it would justhang on the screen, or it would be a hassle having to start up a program over and over again (lack of multitasking)

In the end, my biggest concern is google voice, notes, and gmail calendar. I'm sure in time WP7 will be the OS that I want it to be. its Micorsoft, they got money.

 

[dkp1977]

There's no EverNote or Catch.com applicaiton for WP7...

You're wrong here. JDB Pocketware offers an Evernote app for WP7: Here you go.

 

[jz9833]

The problem with android is that after you have had a nexus one nothing else really compares. It was so nice to get supported directly through google and have the greatest dev community possible. Not even the NS dev community can really compare to what the nexus one used to have.

Unfortantely my n1 broke and I was forced to get a vibrant. I went from 2.2 back to 2.1 and had no hope to see an upgrade. This ruined the android experience for me (on top of everything else sammy) so i got an HD7. WP7 is the smoothest OS I've ever seen and its music integration is top notch, however, it was annoying loosing out on so many features.

Recently I bought a Thunderbolt and while I love 4G LTE it still has all the old pitfalls of android. Lets be honest guys the iOS app store and WP7 marketplace are far more of a premium environment than that joke google calls the market. Netflix still isnt on android and thats a very sad joke and who knows when we will see hulu plus.

Unfortantely there still isnt a perfect phone OS.

iOS: Can't side load apps, no file explorers, etc.
WP7: Lack of features (i know its still new but there is still no 4G WP7 phone)
Android: The crap market and slight lagginess inspite of the best hardware.

It all depends on picking the worst of evil for yourself.

 

[N8ter]

You're wrong here. JDB Pocketware offers an Evernote app for WP7: Here you go.

3. Editing notes only supported for text notes.

And then:

1.Cannot attach photo from camera
2.Cannot attach image from gallery
3.Has Ads

Not really useful for serious note takers. And the 1st party EverNote app won't hav Ads in it (I just can't stand them, especially when there isn't a paid version available with full functionality and no ads available for purchase).

But yea, an app does exist. My bad...

 

[N8ter]

I was unaware that any of us were looking for a "perfect phone OS" - which will never exist because different users are different and different users' requirements are different.

We're just looking for what works best for us as individuals.

The showstopper with iOS for me is the screen size. If the iPhone had a 4" screen, I'd have one. But 3.5" is too small. Way too small, for me.

If the next iPhone has a 3.7-4" screen I will jump all over it, though.

P.S. Search for apps on Amazon's App market and then just get them by name from the Android market if you don't wanna sift through the cruft

 

[vangrieg]

different users are different and different users' requirements are different.

Really? What's the point in all your "WP7 has nothing Android doesn't have" posts then?

 

[N8ter]

What's the point in your wp7 > Android posts then? Its for discussion, and I'm laying out reasoning why it doesn't meet my requirements. Ou act like I'm some isolated incident. Explore opinions outside of this forum someday

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[inmnbob]

I have both Evo shift And Arrive . Like them both. More functionally in Android currently but I prefer the interface of Win phone

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[thesecondsfade]

It's not FUD to say that I could not answer some calls with Android on HD2 because it happened to me several times. If you want to use many of Android's multitasking apps (ie:Lookout), it bogs down the system a lot... often to the point where one cannot answer a call. Not FUD at all.

 

[N8ter]

My roomate uses Lookout on his phone. It works well and doesn't bog it down (he has a Vibrant as well). I don't, because I'm smart enough that I can use a Windows 98 PC with IE5 and not get infected with malware.

Android automatically shuts down unneeded tasks when RAM is low. There is a small performance penalty when it shuts stuff down (just like when a computer is swapping stuff to disc), but it's not enough to where anyone would be unable to answer a call due to lag. The HD2 had more RAM than most pre 2011 (Dual Core) phones, as well (the TMOUS version, I'm referring to since I see you're from the US). 576 vs. the 512 that most had (with 448 accessible to apps, vs. 304 available to apps on the Vibrant, for example)...

Not that it matters, most people who want an Android phone will buy one, and WinMo's reputation was so terrible that the vast majority of users who want Android aren't in the position where they have to put it on an HD2 to use as a daily driver.

Also, like any sane developer, I give 0.5 ****s if your hack up uber modded HD2 running an unsupported OS works fine or not...

That being said, the general consensus among HD2 Android users contradict your experiences wildly. Either you did something wrong, or you're just spewing FUD. The HD2 is wildly reported to perform as good if not better than many native Android devices, even running the OS from an SD card. Go read their forums...

If I can make calls with 5+ apps in the background on a Vibrant with significantly less App-Accessible RAM - probably one of the laggiest devices ever released to the general public (Thanks Samsung/RFS) - I have trouble believing the HD2 was lagging so badly that you couldn't even answer a call.

Yes, Android phones lag - like the Galaxy S lag machines did - but that is often not really the case of the base OS, but rather an odd modification made by the manufacturer. Galaxy S lag has much to do with Samsung's use of their proprietary RFS filesystem (which stalled the system on write operations especially), not the OS choice used...

 

[theclueless]

i definitely love the cleanliness of wp7, but the lack of asian languages input, no good IM app, and quality of games are pretty big deal breaker for me; hope the mango update will address these issues... especially games
android is a good os, but not optimized as it should for release quality product; the openness of the market is great, but lack of quality control means more junk apps than it should

 

[thesecondsfade]

My roomate uses Lookout on his phone. It works well and doesn't bog it down (he has a Vibrant as well). I don't, because I'm smart enough that I can use a Windows 98 PC with IE5 and not get infected with malware.

Android automatically shuts down unneeded tasks when RAM is low. There is a small performance penalty when it shuts stuff down (just like when a computer is swapping stuff to disc), but it's not enough to where anyone would be unable to answer a call due to lag. The HD2 had more RAM than most pre 2011 (Dual Core) phones, as well (the TMOUS version, I'm referring to since I see you're from the US). 576 vs. the 512 that most had (with 448 accessible to apps, vs. 304 available to apps on the Vibrant, for example)...

Not that it matters, most people who want an Android phone will buy one, and WinMo's reputation was so terrible that the vast majority of users who want Android aren't in the position where they have to put it on an HD2 to use as a daily driver.

Also, like any sane developer, I give 0.5 ****s if your hack up uber modded HD2 running an unsupported OS works fine or not...

That being said, the general consensus among HD2 Android users contradict your experiences wildly. Either you did something wrong, or you're just spewing FUD. The HD2 is wildly reported to perform as good if not better than many native Android devices, even running the OS from an SD card. Go read their forums...

If I can make calls with 5+ apps in the background on a Vibrant with significantly less App-Accessible RAM - probably one of the laggiest devices ever released to the general public (Thanks Samsung/RFS) - I have trouble believing the HD2 was lagging so badly that you couldn't even answer a call.

Yes, Android phones lag - like the Galaxy S lag machines did - but that is often not really the case of the base OS, but rather an odd modification made by the manufacturer. Galaxy S lag has much to do with Samsung's use of their proprietary RFS filesystem (which stalled the system on write operations especially), not the OS choice used...

You really like hearing your self talk don't you? or I guess seeing yourself type... I have no energy to argue with you about this. You can sit there and tell people they're spewing garbage all day but it doesn't change that different people have different experiences than your own dude. Chill out. I don't have anti-virus software on my computer either. You're not a genius. My wife uses my computer too and she's not tech-savvy at all... and we still don't get viruses. Get off your high horse.

 

[woodbane]

Plus, I thought I read that Evernote was coming to WP7 anyway?

I moved from Android to WP7 - HTC Aria to a Samsung Focus.

I had lots of fun with all the rooting and ROM flashing on the Aria....for a while. After I'd had the Aria a couple of months I realized I was actually tweaking and modding the damned thing more than I was using it!

I went the WP7 route and have never been happier. I love the platform as it is and am excited to see what Mango brings. I think we're going to see a real surge in quality devices with the Nokia merge as well. I've used many high end Nokia phones and the hardware is generally kick-ass. Symbian isn't so bad, just different and a bit dated in todays smartphone world but it is rock solid and I've never owned another Smartphone that would go 5 days on a single charge!

To reinforce my decision to go WP7, a work colleague came in after this last weekend gushing over her new HTC Inspire she had upgraded to and wanted me to set up her work email and a few other bits.

After playing with it for an hour or so and setting it up for her, my immediate thoughts were:

1. Android is just too fragmented compared to WP7
2. It seems to take many more steps to achieve the same things I do on WP7 in half the time, it just seemed harder to set it all up.
3. Shockingly, even though I know the interface can be tweaked to the nth degree on Android, I found the user interface a bit "dated" already!
4. I'm happier than ever I made the switch, WP7 just feels way more natural as a phone OS to me

Don't get me wrong, Android is a great OS with many, many cool features and is a tweakers dream but for a solid smartphone experience that's slick, user friendly, and is (hopefully) just going to keep getting better as the OS matures - I think Microsoft is really on to something with WP7.

 

[Tone_]

Plus, I thought I read that Evernote was coming to WP7 anyway?

Sounds like it

http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/vie...sid=39d42534053a8c0711ec19d93de1b062&start=75

 

[thesecondsfade]

Android...is a tweakers dream

Glad to hear that Android is a good choice for meth-heads

 

[mikkybukky82]

I carry both two phones too but use Omnis 7 as my main phone.

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[N8ter]

You really like hearing your self talk don't you? or I guess seeing yourself type... I have no energy to argue with you about this. You can sit there and tell people they're spewing garbage all day but it doesn't change that different people have different experiences than your own dude. Chill out. I don't have anti-virus software on my computer either. You're not a genius. My wife uses my computer too and she's not tech-savvy at all... and we still don't get viruses. Get off your high horse.

What high horse?

Getting viruses is for re-re's. If you're not getting them, that doesn't make you smart, it just means you have an IQ above 60'ish.

 

[thesecondsfade]

I don't, because I'm smart enough that I can use a Windows 98 PC with IE5 and not get infected with malware.

If you're not getting them, that doesn't make you smart, it just means you have an IQ above 60'ish.

Don't use it as an example of how you're smart if you don't think it makes you smart.

 

[N8ter]

Yes, it means you have an IQ about 60'ish.

That's the threshold for Mental Retardation.

I said "I'm smart enough" to imply that getting infected with a virus involved some level of stupidity. That's why I used the overexaggeration of using Windows 98 with IE5...

WTS Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking Skills...

 

[lynxinteractive]

Currently using an LG Optimus V as my "Everyday" phone. I develop and play on an LG Quantum and an HTC HD7. I love WP7 and would use it as my everyday phone in an instant, except for the fact that I am currently paying $25 a month for my Opitmus V on Virgin Mobile for 300 minutes - unlimited text / data. If I went to a carrier with WP7 I would end up paying 3x more for a lesser plan. Will be getting a company phone as soon as the Trophy hits Verizon. So this Android / WP7 thing should come to an end for me in a day or two.