I would be interested in this, perhaps even a demo of android app development if anyone's willing to do that. <div><br></div><div>Also, the plug on swype... I completely and totally agree. I have not used anything quite like it. I think at some point, Swype will be out for general release, at least I hope so. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Jeff Newmiller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us">jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I am not often in Davis these days, so I won't be likely to show up at a roundtable, but I want to put in a plug for Swype if you go touch screen only. I prefer it to a hardware keyboard. Look for it when you choose a phone since their website states they don't want to market it direct through the App store, and many manufacturers are bundling it.<br>
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Other apps...<br>
K-9 Mail (POP and IMAP)<br>
Keepass Droid<br>
NewsRob<br>
Mypod (asterisk: it doesn't always respond well to user interaction... and the UI is a little hard to get used to)<br>
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"Bill Kendrick" <<a href="mailto:nbs@sonic.net">nbs@sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>I recently got my 2nd Android-based phone (went from Google Ion aka T-Mobile MyTouch to the new MyTouch Slide), and I know a lot of folks out here are either (1) also using a variety of Android devices (I'm guessing most, if not all, are phones) or (2) interested in what all the buzz is about.<br>
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>From my own standpoint, I feel like I've only scraped the surface of what these things can do, and find that there's a lot of variety in terms of devices capabilities, OS versions, and carrier and/or device specific issues or pitfalls. (e.g., Google is rolling out a feature that will allow App purchases via carrier billing rather than Google Checkout + credit card... except T-Mob already does that... guess we made a lucky choice.)<br>
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>I wonder if others out here would be interested in participating in a roundtable so we can share what we've learned. Particularly interesting to me is which apps are good and trustable. (I find the market mostly "rough", with a few gems, and a lot of creepy stuff. Why does a tic-tac-toe game need access to my phone & contact info? :-P )<br>
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</div><div class="im">>Since we're booked thru early 2011, it wouldn't be for a while. Another alternative (esp since these devices are hard (I think!?) to throw onto a projector) would be to do a less formal one at one of our social gatherings.<br>
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</div>>-bill!<br>
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