Personal review of Verizon Android phone

[erikasinclair]

I like this phone, but I have a couple of gripes. I have had it for a week and so far, the issues I have don't seem to be resolvable.

1. SYNCING CONTACTS: Problem
I had updated my entire address book in my old PDA in preparation to get a new phone and just have everything transferred over. This was not possible. The only fields that successfully transferred were email addresses and phone numbers (no postal addresses). I tried several methods, believe me. So I entered a few addresses into gmail (which is easier than doing it on the phone itself), and found that I cannot specify "street", "city", "state", etc... it's just "address". So the whole address just gets synced into the "street" part of the address book on the phone, forcing me to manually cut and paste the information from "address" into the different data fields within the phone in order to keep them separate. So in order to have everything entered as separate data fields I'd have to do it on the phone itself, which is incredibly tedious and not something I am interested in taking the time to do. Maybe there is something I am missing, but so far that seems to be the only way to do it.

2. SENDING ATTACHMENTS ON EMAILS: Problem
Why can't you attach a file to an email fro mthe phone? It seems that the only way to do this is to have the file open and click on the option to send it as an attachment to an email. Fine if you want to send it to one or two people. But if you have a group email to send (with 50 email addresses, for example), and try to set up a draft on your computer and then attach a document later from your phone, you just can't do it. Also, if you have multiple files that you want to attach to an email from your phone, you can't. There is no way to do either, unless I am missing something. It's the same on the iphone too (which my husband has). I have looked into apps to help with this. Nothing. Strange that this is not possible, especially given a phone that runs on google software.

That's really it. Everything else I can work with or customize to my liking. Overall, I think it's a fun toy, but not sure it will work to manage my life. We'll see, I'll give it another week.

[Diviance]

Yeah, I don't really get why google doesn't use a normal method of typing in addresses on gmail. It is rather annoying, though not really something that isn't ignorable.

[Iceberg]

Is that really a review of the Droid..."Verizon Android Phone".. or just the Actual Android system.

[extorian]

To move my contacts over from my previous phone, a Nokia N95, I exported the contacts from my phone into Outlook, then exported them from outlook into a CSV file, then imported them into Google using the website.

It was a long time ago, but if I remember correctly it merged the street, town, city, post/zip code, etc into one long line for the Address in Google.

Hrm - or maybe I imported it into Excel and merged it myself... actually I can't remember. But I did manage to automate the process somehow anyway.