Anyone have one of these? I love my Samsung i760 running WM6.1, but I have recently gone through 2 of them (touchscreen is flaking on this one) and they don’t make them anymore and it is going to cost me to replace it (out of warranty by a month). Verizon is offering me the Motorola Droid for $150 and I am thinking about it.
I am running the following apps on my i760
Slingplayer mobile (have my security cameras dvr hooked up to it)
SPB Mobile Shell (nice today app)
SPB Backup (automatically backs everything up to the memory card every night)
SPB Weather (as it sounds)
WMWiFiRouter (turns my phone into a wifi hotspot)
The Mobile Shell will probably not be needed on the Droid and I am sure there is a nice Weather plugin, I think Sling is working on an android app. Anyone know of the availability of the other stuff for the droid?
I assume it doesn’t come with MS Office, but I assume there are plugin’s to read word and excell stuff (the only thing I ever use it for on my phone now).
I wish I could get one, but I have a year left on my contract with T-Mobile. I love my G1, but the Droid seems like an awesome upgrade… I’m sure you won’t regret getting one.
There’s not much I need to backup because most of my information is synced with Google (gmail/calendar/contacts), but if you want to backup apps/files/settings, most apps I’ve seen require you to root your phone. I haven’t seen any that doesn’t require it.
Oh and if you do get one, make sure you install my app, Home Buddy, to interface with Vera (I assume you have one)
Hope that helps. Good luck and let us know if you get one!
Thanks! I am probably going to pick one up in the next week or so.
[quote=“rakstar, post:3, topic:165196”]I wish I could get one, but I have a year left on my contract with T-Mobile. I love my G1, but the Droid seems like an awesome upgrade… I’m sure you won’t regret getting one.
There’s not much I need to backup because most of my information is synced with Google (gmail/calendar/contacts), but if you want to backup apps/files/settings, most apps I’ve seen require you to root your phone. I haven’t seen any that doesn’t require it.
Oh and if you do get one, make sure you install my app, Home Buddy, to interface with Vera (I assume you have one)
Hope that helps. Good luck and let us know if you get one![/quote]
I’m interested, but have to wait for my New Every Two to be up in March. Also, I am waiting to see what Verizon criples on the thing and if there are other issues. My contract is up at the end of the month but I’ll probably just stay with them. I was looking at Sprint’s new plan where you can call anybody on any network but have heard from a few people that Sprint has terrible customer service.
I was wondering about the crippling as well (they seem to do this to every phone, although with hacks there is usually a work around), but in all the reviews I have read this is not mentioned on this phone. Maybe this is not possible because of the OS and the partnership with Google this time? I know the GPS/Google Maps does not cost extra and this is directly competing with the vznavigator service. My new every two isn’t up until March either, but there is a $100 rebate on the phone right now and they are going to give me $50/off because of the problems with my i760 so it brings it down to the $150 that is costs new every two people anyway. I may try to go pick one up this afternoon if I have time. It is getting really annoying to not have the touchscreen working on the i760.
I checked this phone out the other day, nice phone but the major issue I had is it will NOT play RTSP streams from my Linksys cameras. The WVC54GCA, WVC210 and WVC80N all have RTSP video streaming that can stream a 160x120 live video image to my Verizon LG Voyager and other LG and windows mobile devices…wierd that this new device won’t play my streams…so, Im sticking with my voyager for now.
I’ve had one for two days now. So far, an excellent device. I haven’t had much chance to try a lot out on it, but so far its excellent. It looks like Verizon hasn’t clamped down on it, it appears to be blissfully free of much of the crap they put on their other phones. You can even select an MP3 from your music to set as a ringtone.
Sadly, one of the first things I tried in the browser, https://findvera.com fails!!! Not sure why yet, perhaps it doesn’t support https?? I haven’t had a chance to debug it yet though.
What kind of phone do you have now, ASI? If it’s an LG, there’s a small freeware proggy called bitpim that can convert any mp3 to a LG style ringtone. I have the Versa, and the wife has the Dare.
WiFi is up and running beautifully…auto connects to known SSIDs just like the iPhone.
And it runs Google Voice as well. Once you’ve installed GV, it automatically MAKEs calls and SMS messages from your GV number.
Is it any https:// site that you cannot connect to or just the findvera site? I assume if you can’t go to findvera.com you cannot go to findvera.com/mobile either??
I’ve gone to a few other https sites without issue, so yes, it seems to just be findvera.
Same result for findvera.com/mobile too.
“Web page not available”
Not sure I understand all the tech info in the following thread, but it seems there might be an easy solution. It obviously isn’t a Vera issue, it is an android issue.
Yeah…there’s a lot in that thread, but it did prove the issue is not with findvera. Just about at the end of the thread, someone said they tried Opera Mini and it worked.
Well, I tried it, and I was able to get through to the login screen. What a TERRIBLE interface on that browser, but that’s another issue. But that proves the problem lies with the Android default browser.
Thanks for the suggestion!!
It doesn’t support the pop-up keyboard in many cases (but not all) which is really strange. So you have to just use it with the slide out keyboard. But even then, you have to hit the menu button to pop up so you can get the OK button…really klunky. I’ll play with it more tomorrow in all likelihood.
