Droid disappointment

[missmypalm]

I've used Palm products for years and had to upgrade this month when Verizon discontinued my wireless sync. Got a Droid 2 which gets great reviews. This is not an intuitive phone and did not come with a manual.  Sync to Outlook is cumbersome for calendar, contacts & email and does not have near the features for tracking categories & additional info in any of these.  Forcing me to set up an google account did nothing for me. Still not getting internet service. Palm has always had touchscreen & keyboards...way ahead of their time and the Droid feels like a step backward.  Screen & camera are nice but these are not high priorities for a business phone.  Going to have to return it for a Blackberry. Droid seems great for the adolescent market, not established business users. Spent way too much time looking at tech boards for simple solutions and reading horror stories.

[budone]

As with most devices from any company, the manuals are online for you to download. I would it is too late now, but I would download K9 Mail.

If set up correctly, mail delivery is instant and not batched into time increments. (And this doens not kill the battery)

Good Luck on your search

[gerio]

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missmypalm wrote:

I've used Palm products for years and had to upgrade this month when Verizon discontinued my wireless sync. Got a Droid 2 which gets great reviews. In my opinion, This is not an intuitive phone and did not come with a manual (easily found online, almost all phone makers are doing this now) (Intuitiveness is in the eye of the beholder).  Sync to Outlook is cumbersome for calendar, contacts & email and does not have near the features for tracking categories & additional info in any of these.  Forcing me to set up an google account did nothing for me. Still not getting internet service . Palm has always had touchscreen & keyboards...way ahead of their time and the Droid feels like a step backward.   In my opinion, Screen & camera are nice but these are not high priorities for a business phone.  Going to have to return it for a Blackberry.  In my opinion, Droid seems great for the adolescent market, not established business users. Spent way too much time looking at tech boards for simple solutions and reading horror stories.

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There, fixed those for ya...Yer welcome.

That's an interesting opinion, especially when read by a 52-year-old guy whose secondary duty with our little company is to take care of our mobile needs and IT (as it were) needs in the office. I moved everyone to Google Gmail and Google Contacts 3 years ago, I got sick of dealing with Outlook . And 7 people around me with Droids have no problems connecting to internet, syncing our calenders or contacts (4 of them got Droids this year, as for the iPhone hold-outs, oh well)

There's 2 differences that I see here. Most of my time reading forums is spent reading posts like this. And I don't attempt to spread my opinion around as the Gospel Truth to be followed and adhered to like an edict from the Mount. 

Geri O

[AZSALUKI]

palm products are becoming obsolete. bb's are doing everything they can to try to keep up with droids and the iphone. there will be a learning curve when switching from any device to another....but there's a reason the the android (powered by google) operating system passed RIM (bb) and OS (iphone) this year, to become the highest selling operating system out there.

[mdram]

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missmypalm wrote:

I've used Palm products for years and had to upgrade this month when Verizon discontinued my wireless sync. Got a Droid 2 which gets great reviews. This is not an intuitive phone and did not come with a manual.  Sync to Outlook is cumbersome for calendar, contacts & email and does not have near the features for tracking categories & additional info in any of these.  Forcing me to set up an google account did nothing for me. Still not getting internet service. Palm has always had touchscreen & keyboards...way ahead of their time and the Droid feels like a step backward.  Screen & camera are nice but these are not high priorities for a business phone.  Going to have to return it for a Blackberry. Droid seems great for the adolescent market, not established business users. Spent way too much time looking at tech boards for simple solutions and reading horror stories.

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im told by my it that android syncs very well with with exchange, which is used by many business instead of just outlook.

so maybe its just not for adolescent business users

i got a d2 for the wife, sho has never used a smartphone and is not tech savy, but she finds it very easy to use............

[sethg311]

Maybe Hp will hook you up if you want a step back even further, heard they will be coming out with a new palm/hp POS!

[JPHBucks]

Bottom line: no smartphone is ideal for everyone.  If a person prefers the Palm OS, it seems churlish to suggest that they "should" prefer another OS.

It has taken me a while, but I'm finally at the point where I prefer the Android OS to my old BlackBerry.  And even now the inability to sync with my Outlook contacts list without going through gmail seems pretty stupid.  But I'm living with it, and the many useful apps available in the market have been a real boon.  Bottom line for me is that the Samsung Fascinate (the phone I chose) is a terrific business tool that I'd not want to trade back in for BlackBerry of any flavor.  But my mind is still open to new possibilities for future use - Windows 7 phone, maybe?

[B33]

My BB 9650 i had was messing up all the time and was as slow as a tortois and the pictures it took well i wont say on here as this is a family forum. and the only thing i missed on it is the led notification that the BB had. then i got my X my msg are set up like there are on my pc an i receive them just as quik.: my X an incredible are good picture shooters on my incredible u can in a room thats dark take a photo with the leds on an it looks as good as if u done it in the day time and getting on the web with that darm BB im not that old then again im not that young eather any way u had squint to see on the screen what ur looking for on my X thats definitely no problem nor is it on the incredible an on a BB there is no adobe anything just headaches( i did like mrs pacman and track pad) but thats the only thing an my led.!   Im Done   

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One more thing i wanted to add: played madden 11 full season undefeated 16-0 as the steelers then played the Vikings in the Super Bowl at Cowboys New Stadium Won 50 to 44 Vikings ended there season 11-5.