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After 10 years with Nextel, the last 5 with the same phone, finally made the switch to Verizon and their moto Droid. And I can't be happier. Haven't noticed any dead spots and the wireless modem deal is much better. Might be good enough to FTP with. All of the Android aps available make a big difference. 5MP photos with flash and HD videos for Youtube. I knew a phone with a standard 16GB micro SD card had to be a good sign. This is nice stuff.  I'm even able to post on a UBB forum with the native browser.
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I'm typing this reply on my new Motorola Droid. :-) UBB is pretty easy to use on these things, but mobile templates would be fabulous. Oh, and it's pretty sweet that it has wifi
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Harold, I've been a Verizon customer for many years and have always had great coverage and support. As far as the wireless aspect, I use their MiFi and FTPing files is very good, but sometimes I do get some time outs from it. But, the speed is excellent overall. I have the 5gig plan and haven't even come close to that limit even with 2 of us using it all the time.
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I just got the HTC Droid and I will tell you. Linux in a cell phone is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I love the HTC Droid and I can do anything with it I can do with my laptop.
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I'm waaaay behind the times. I do maybe two texts a week, and use the phone as a phone. I've taken a couple of pictures for wallpaper. I don't do anything else with it!
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I'm with Steve; though it's more because I can't afford a do it all phone 
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my moto droid is being delivered today (htc eris)
how are you tethering it to use it as a modem? verizon doesn't allow that I thought?
on my onmia, I use WMwifirouter, which is awesome, but they don't have a droid app yet.
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The HTC Eris Droid does not need to be tethered to use as a modem to surf the internet. It accepts all type of site and https certificates with the stock browser.
You and size the screen by simply touching the screen with two fingers and moving them apart to toward each other to magnify or reduce the screen on a web site.
You will love the phone it is a great phone. Better then the iPhone for sure as I have had the chance to use one of them too.
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I'm buying a Nexus One today. And throwing the iPhone into the trash.
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The HTC Eris Droid does not need to be tethered to use as a modem to surf the internet. maybe I misunderstood, I thought I read that it was being used as a wireless modem for a laptop. I realize I can surf the web from the phone, I want to use my phones data connection on my laptop.
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Thanks for the links Harold.
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I found that one, haven't tried it yet (phone didn't show up till today) how well does it work?
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I like it a bunch. Has enough juice to load up all 10 homepage tabs on FF with no problem. This is free unless you need secure, then you gotta pay up.
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![[Linked Image from speedtest.net]](http://www.speedtest.net/result/745482312.png) Maybe I won't be FTPing UBB updates. I'm still happy with the big speed increase over Nextel.
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how the hell do I transfer files from my PC to the phone? was this thing supposed to come with any software? it doesn't show up in windows mobile center in win7.
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Somewhere in the phone there's an option to mount. Then you can move photos and videos on and off and delete after offloading to your computer. Click "Market" on the home screen to download and install aps.
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I found it. having a hell of a time getting my contacts sorted out, why can't I sync without look... having to upload all my contacts to my gmail account is something I didn't want to do, makes editing them a pain in the ass, as I keep them all in outlook, now I have to update them in multiple places.
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Maybe that's why I just use my phone to call people!
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so far I am happy with it. like I said, my only major gripe is syncing, the rep at the verizon store said it could sync with out look, but I haven't been able to do that and have found no supporting evidence that it does online anywhere. (unless you have an exchange server)
I ordered a Skinomi TechSkin - Invisible Screen Protector Shield for it, as well as an extra set of cables and chargers.
that was something else I was surprised by, I thought it used a standard USB mini b connector like the older HTC items, as that is supposed to be standard, and it doesn't. also found a "carbon fiber" snap on case for it. I don't like the rubberized cases as they don't slide smoothly in and out of pockets, etc.
I stayed up till midnight fussin with it last night, playing with apps, etc, 5:00 this morning came way too soon, and I have a lot of driving to do. going to be a long day. glad tomorrow is saturday!
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Nexus One baby! *happy dance*
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And here I thought iphones were required in your office.
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My insinct died last night and just picked up the HTC hero with droid in it
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And here I thought iphones were required in your office. We have two nexus one users now, and two andriods. There are still 7 iPhone users.
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I just found a leaked build of android 2.1 for the eris, tempted to install it, but think I will wait till the official build comes out, which should be soon, was promised for 1st quarter 2010.
though reading all the posts, no seems to have had a problem with it yet, but it is still too soon to tell a far as I am concerned.
if verizon doesn't post the official rom as promised, then I will try it out.
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If it works are you going to let us in on it too?
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you can check out the thread here, http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=112930no one has reported any major issues from what I have read so far. this is only for the HTC Eris droid phone
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Thanks. That's the phone I have.
I have found many useful apps by clicking the market icon then putting in my Google account information. Most all are free too.
I love the bar code scanner. I found the car charger the cell store was selling for $38 for $6.99 online. Found many other things for better prices as well too.
I downloaded quite a few apps but the most important is the TaskKiller app that you can turn off the stuff your not using when finished with it so it is not dragging down your battery as fast.
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That and the ssh client are the first things I installed, Dave.
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I was using taskiller, but went with advanced task manager pro.
I also went with "better Keyboard" to replace the stock one.
I have been playing around with several apps trying things out. having a lot of fun with it so far :-)
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My wife and I are going to try geocaching with the c:geo app. This has been something she has wanted to do for several years, but I had been too cheap to buy a real GPS unit.
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I just discovered that my TomTom has the ability to do that, I just found an option got entering coordinates, never even knew it was there!
my omnia had GPS and I had some good software for it, but the battery life was horrible. I want to see how the Eris does recording tracks, etc when I go for a hike or run.
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HAH! even though the phone has a funny shaped USB connection, you can still use a mini-b cable.
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I found that out too on the USB. It totally chews up the power though when using GPS and tracking.
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I have found it is possible to sync with outlook, without having to use google at all. though now that I have migrated everything over, I may stick with google for now, at least till the next time I have to set up the phone again, like when I put 2.1 on it. http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/15396-my-tutorial-syncing-eris-outlook-without-google.html
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I use Sprints wireless modem for my laptop and I'm sort of satisfied. You've got to deal with the slow periods which are doing work hours (which is when I need it most) and at night or early morning is when it is fastest. I'm waiting for 4g coverage in my area.
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If anyone wants to add me on lattitude, PM me. Need some people to play with these features
Side note, I can't post using opera mini
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Opera mini beta 5 seems to be a little better.
Sending PM just for the heck of it.
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Opera mini beta 5 seems to be a little better.
Sending PM just for the heck of it. that is what I have installed, and on my site at least, I was unable to post, it went through the motions, but when I hit submit, the page would refresh, and the post would never be there, I use the default browser, it works fine.
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has anyone got flycast to work on a google phone?
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Is that anything like the flying cursor fly I keep try to swat. 
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apparently flycast doesn't work on the eris yet...
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wow Harold, you certainly get around from day to day! I keep checking to see if you are anywhere up this way, lol.
have you tried any of the other GPS apps? I am liking Gowalla so far, and have been playing with Footprints
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dhufstader's Apps on the Eris Phone: Eris 63 total, 55 free (87%), 8 paid (12%), 33MB total size, $17.26 total price View this app list on AppBrain
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I get paid by the mile.  Just the myposition, c:geo, gps status, and I'm playing on Foursquare with updates sent to twitter and facebook. When I find the time in between UBB upgrades, I want to set up word press on my site and try to use it as an aggregator of my social network stuff plus my moblog. I kind of doubt I end up way over by you. The farthest east I have been would be Allentown, PA this winter. I've also been an hour east of I95 in North Carolina this spring too. I think it's kind of neat to see where you stop for fast food and stuff like that. I'll try those two you listed up there and see how they do.
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i just put the latest developer version of android 2.1 on my phone, it has some bugs, but is pretty sweet, I can't want for the finished product to be publicly released
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Would really like to switch over to an android phone, but stuck with AT&T for another 6 months, and the only one they have available right now is the motorola backflip, which I've heard some pretty conflicting reviews on.
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i thought AT&T had the Hero? (
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Sprint has the hero, I love it so far!
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Sprint has the hero, I love it so far! oh that's right. my bad.
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I know of three people all ready that bought out their contracts and jumped to the HTC Droid Eris and are not sorry they did it. Two of them work for a cell company.
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if anyone is holding out, what for the desire, has twice the CPU power! and comes with 2.1
the eris/hero isn't even listed anymore on HTC, and my insurance lists the desire as the replacement, I may have to lose my phone!
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Well apparently I can get the Nexus One unlocked on AT&T through Google, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna pony up $500+ for a cell phone, since it isn't subsidized at all.
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yikes @ $500 
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yeah. not worth $500.
just keep an eye on the market, there are new phones coming out, or switch providers! lol
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I would just wait the 6 months if my contract were up then. There are a bunch of really good phones coming out by the fall/winter. Along with all the Android phones, HTC said they are coming out with a Windows Phone 7 Series. Streaming Netflix and Xbox integration seems pretty cool, but I doubt my wife will let me wait that long for us to get new phones.
Our contract is up in a couple weeks and we'll probably get an Android phone. I'm currently waiting for one of the following: Nexus One, Incredible, Evo or Galaxy S.
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Still won't be affording a new phone anytime soon lol... I'm not on a contract plan so I don't get any of the "perc's"
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Nothing wrong with that Giz. Spending the extra money makes sense for some people and not others.
I've been thinking about getting something for my laptop for a long while so that I could work remotely whenever I needed to. And thanks to Harold's links earlier in the post I hope this will allow me to do that without spending much more money.
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any of you using a windows mobile phone, WMWifirouoter rocks. allows USB tethered, bluetooth PAN, or turns your phone into a wifi access point.
they are working on a version for android, but the phone has to be rooted for it to work, and there are some other issues as of now.
I had it on my omnia and it worked amazingly well
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I bought the HTC Droid mainly cus it is NOT Windows based but a Linux based OS. Had a "smart" phone running Windows Mobile and it totally sucked.
Rick I am surprised you can't afford a $500 phone.
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I bought the 500 dollar google phone, and got a plan on T-mobile that is $20 less than what I was paying on AT&T. 20x12x2, $480 in savings. My phone costs me $20 dollars. Dig it.
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Need to note that my AT&T plan was a year over the contract terms, so I had a get out of AT&T free card.
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I bought the 500 dollar google phone, and got a plan on T-mobile that is $20 less than what I was paying on AT&T. 20x12x2, $480 in savings. My phone costs me $20 dollars. Dig it. Sheesh, for that price you should have ordered 2 and sent one to me 
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Rick I am surprised you can't afford a $500 phone. he's married
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Rick I am surprised you can't afford a $500 phone. he's married SHE has the $500 phone... lol
"No matter where you go, there you are."
"If you can't do something smart, Do something right"
"There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those who can't"
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Rick I am surprised you can't afford a $500 phone. I've become pretty scrooge like when it comes to spending. Maybe it's because I'm older now and would really like to just work a single job someday
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Sirdude and Bad Frog, you guys gave me a really good laugh. Never had crossed my mind.
I have my wife trained very well. I tell her I want it and i get it. If I don't get it then I go out and get it anyway and don't tell her I got it.
Have an area of my house where my wife don't go so I can usually hide my secrets in there, LOL.
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I really wanted a smart phone, but unfortunately business is slow and it's just not viable right now...
I have the basics I HAVE to have (bluetooth and the ability to call people lol), someday i'd love to have a basic blackberry with wifi for productivity...
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I really wanted a smart phone, but unfortunately business is slow and it's just not viable right now...
I have the basics I HAVE to have (bluetooth and the ability to call people lol), someday i'd love to have a basic blackberry with wifi so I can play more games and waste time more efficiently... I fixed that for ya, gizz.
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efficient waste of time has become an art form..
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I only game on my xbox360... In fact, I'm rather angry I can't delete the stock games on my Nokia to reclaim some space...
I'd like to be able to have some sort of office apps on a mobile device, a small browser that works and can parse javascript, and an ssh application (that would hopefully support ssh keys)
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my nexus one has an ssh client that supports keys. As did my iphone, but not as nicely. iphone had only safari available. nexus one has chrome, which si webkit, same as safari. both do javascript. not sure on flash. there are other browsers available for nexus one. I think i heard that opera is. with the iphone you have only one email client, for all of your accounts. on the nexus one you have a client for your gmail account, and then a wide range of clients available for other email accounts. If you have more than one mail account you're going to end up with 2 clients. kinda screwy in that aspect. The iphone comes with a fixed amount of storage. the nexus one uses an ssd card, so you can buy various sizes. it came with 4 gigs, or 6 gigs, i can't remember. you can swap out cards, of course.
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Well the nexus does sound better than the iphone in those areas
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They both have strengths and weaknesses.
The thing that iphone has going for it, well over anything nexus has, is that you can go to the apple store and see it, use it. With nexus, if you don't know someone that has one, you're S.O.L. as far as really getting your hands around it before you buy it.
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If you are interested in the Nexus One then just check out the HTC Incredible or EVO. They aren't exactly the same, but the Incredible has almost all the same specs. And the EVO is probably better. I assume their sales numbers will be a lot higher than the N1 because people will be able to play with them in the store.
Having a phone that people can't experiment with prior to purchasing is a strange move.
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Rick has joined the android movement!
"No matter where you go, there you are."
"If you can't do something smart, Do something right"
"There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those who can't"
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Yep, Droid Incredible. It really is quite incredible
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Awesome. I got an Incredible also. I'd still like to see a mobile option for the forums, but it does a pretty good job of displaying everything on my forum. I really like how you can zoom in on a section and it will rewrap the text to fit the dimensions.
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My droid is the Eris HTC you take two fingers and place them together on the screen and move them apart to blow up the screen and it auto places the text in a wrap in the desired area of the screen.
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My droid is the Eris HTC you take two fingers and place them together on the screen and move them apart to blow up the screen and it auto places the text in a wrap in the desired area of the screen. yeah, the pinch to zoom feature is nice I just installed the latest 2.1 build on my Eris, solved most all the bugs the last build had, loving it so far
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