Comments on: Book-tours with Android

By: DrPretto

DrPretto — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I love my Nexus One, I dont want to root it at this moment, but I installed Froyo 2.2 manually and it made it Much better. Now my battery lasts around 30h instead of 24h, and I have more Free memory (around 100mb or 200mb if using the advanced task killer). By the way I love surfing the web with my Adobe Flash 10.1, a really Magical web experience.
Now android is growing with better phones, apart from HTC Desire (Nexus 1 twin brother), the HTC EVO 4G, HTC Incredible, Samsung Galaxy S, and the forthcoming Motorola Droid X and Droid 2.
For sure this will be the Android Year.
I will always support Android and Linux based gadgets instead of crApple.

By: elix

elix — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m not with T-Mobile PR, Cory, so I can’t be sure, but if your plan actually should be unlimited unlimited (i.e., no overage if you exceed X bandwidth usage), but after 10GB of usage in one month you’ll get throttled back to extra-slow (i.e., EDGE speeds).

For a very brief time, T-Mobile had a solid cap, and then they tossed it out again in favour of just throttling if you use more than 10GB of wireless data a month. (Wi-Fi, as usual, doesn’t count.)

By: Chesterfield

Chesterfield — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

phead, Google Maps navigation is quite good in the US.

By: hapa

hapa — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

maybe the revolution needs ground rules

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/grow_up._turn_off_your_phone/

By: Micheal Kelly

Micheal Kelly — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hrm. I can do all of that with my non-rooted iPhone 3GS. But then, being in Canada I’m not on AT&T. It boggles my mind that they want to charge extra for the right to tether down there.

By: turn_self_off

turn_self_off — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

sadly android is not that much linux. Most of it is inside the dalvik java VM.

By: phead

phead — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Google Maps navigation must be better overseas, in the uk its somewhere between hopeless and “Turn left into the lake”. Tomtom is car navigation, end of story, its like comparing MS paint with photoshop.

As for the mobile revolution, the new isheep 4 data plans seem to have ended it. Do everything and anything with your new phone, but only for a few minutes till you blow the data allowance.

By: func

func — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m with Micheal – I’ve had tethering running for years on a normal Iphone in Canada. It really does rock – I set up a shared network running off the phone with my fiance last summer while she was working on her thesis, before our high speed internet was hooked up. Worked great for months.

That said, Canada has some of the highest mobile phone rates in the world, and being locked to one carrier is criminal for those of us who like to travel. My phone gets jailbroken whenever I go overseas – and I found that it was cheaper to run it with prepaid cards in Australia, Taiwan and Thailand than at home in Canada.

By: Johnny Washngo

Johnny Washngo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t have my N1 rooted but it does run FroYo which I have found to be fantastic on the daily train commute.

I can switch on the wifi hotspot on the N1, and connect my notebook to it wirelessly for surfing. Tethering is nice but I prefer to keep cables to a minimum ;)