FYI - it appears Droid can't play .m4r files

[bravo4]

I created a bunch of custom ringtones on my iPhone, all DRM free. Can't play them on my Droid. I guess I will have to find a way to convert them to .mp3 for it to work. Unless I am missing something?

Just another PITA thing to do. I wish AT&T had a decent network or I'd never have left. iPhone still pwns if you jailbreak it. Sux to admit it.

[russell5]

I had a jailbroken iphone. And yesterday i bought the droid. Sooo much better than the iphone. I beleive .m4r files are just renamed aac files. Name it to .aac and try again.

[bravo4]

The iPhone is vastly superior, the only way this phone has the iPhone is on it's somewhat openness and multitasking (both of which I had on my iPhone after being jailbroken).

Here are the ways in which the Droid is far inferior and not even usable from a business standpoint:

1. no solid backup solutions - sure your mail, calendar and contacts can sync, but if you lose your phone and need to restore, plan on some hours and never getting quite back to where you were
2. no v-card (.vcf) contact file handling - this is common in the business world. Blackberry has been doing this for years, is it that hard?
3. No .ics file handling - get a meeting invite from a Blackberry or some calendar clients in this standard, can't even open it (pretty stupid).
4. You have to have an app just to kill other apps, tons of apps stay open, no way to close them upon exiting like on the Blackberry Storm. Ends up eating memory and killing performance and battery. My battery drains faster than my iPhones, and I thought the iPhone's was terrible. You have to baby this thing to nurse more battery life out of it.
5. Crappy apps, lots are not compatible with the Droid. Few are solid.
6. No media management - as a working professional, the last thing I have is time to mess with loading media. Apple makes it way too easy.
7. No auto-text - I need a dictionary I can edit for often used words and phrases (I couldn't do this on my iPhone but could on my Storm II, is this that difficult to implement?), shortcuts for auto-correcting into words or phrases often used.
8. Contact scrolling is lame, I can't jump to a letter section. More steps involved to search and find a contact. Slower than iPhone in so doing.

This is a frustrating experience for me. I've had quite a few smart phones for almost a decade now, from the old Nokia bricks to the original Blackberry, to the Moto Q and other WinMo devices and now this - though this is my first Android phone because I've read about such issues, I thought now would be the time to try on 2.0. Boy, was I mistaken. I am actually thinking of going back to AT&T after eating the ETF's! Ah! And their coverage is just so terrible.

[hondamx525]

Originally Posted by bravo4

The iPhone is vastly superior, the only way this phone has the iPhone is on it's somewhat openness and multitasking (both of which I had on my iPhone after being jailbroken).

Here are the ways in which the Droid is far inferior and not even usable from a business standpoint:

no solid backup solutions - sure your mail, calendar and contacts can sync, but if you lose your phone and need to restore, plan on some hours and never getting quite back to where you wereBackups for what? give an example about what you mean.

no v-card (.vcf) contact file handling - this is common in the business world. Blackberry has been doing this for years, is it that hard?

Is this something your blackberry could do or your iphone im confused.

No .ics file handling - get a meeting invite from a Blackberry or some calendar clients in this standard, can't even open it (pretty stupid).

Sorry dont know what this is.

You have to have an app just to kill other apps, tons of apps stay open, no way to close them upon exiting like on the Blackberry Storm. Ends up eating memory and killing performance and battery. My battery drains faster than my iPhones, and I thought the iPhone's was terrible. You have to baby this thing to nurse more battery life out of it.

Whats wrong with needing an app just to close apps? You have to jaibreak the iphone just to allow backgrounding, and then you have to install sbsettings on top of that. SO i dont see how its any different. Also the battery is new so the more full runthroughs you do the more the battery life wil improve.

Crappy apps, lots are not compatible with the Droid. Few are solid.

Compatibility will come, this is the first android 2.0 device and many people do not have 2.0. Apps will get updated as times goes on.

No media management - as a working professional, the last thing I have is time to mess with loading media. Apple makes it way too easy.

No auto-text - I need a dictionary I can edit for often used words and phrases (I couldn't do this on my iPhone but could on my Storm II, is this that difficult to implement?), shortcuts for auto-correcting into words or phrases often used.

There is a dictionary that you can add words to. Look for it in text and locale in the settings.

Contact scrolling is lame, I can't jump to a letter section. More steps involved to search and find a contact. Slower than iPhone in so doing.This is a frustrating experience for me. I've had quite a few smart phones for almost a decade now, from the old Nokia bricks to the original Blackberry, to the Moto Q and other WinMo devices and now this - though this is my first Android phone because I've read about such issues, I thought now would be the time to try on 2.0. Boy, was I mistaken. I am actually thinking of going back to AT&T after eating the ETF's! Ah! And their coverage is just so terrible.

The beauty is that unlike the iphone, you can replace the phonebook app. There are plenty of apps that replace the phonebook and have quick letter by letter contact jumping/management. Not everyone wants what you want, but luckily some do so the other apps are a good choice.