Android disappointment??

[Slug]

Probably just the marketing people haven't changed their terminology since the 90s

More like the marketing people hijacked the terminology for themselves.

WAP is "Wireless Access Protocol" one 'layer' of which is/was WML, the subset of HTML designed for memory and graphically-constrained devices. The terms 'WAP browser' and 'WAP site' sprung from that, but WAP itself, or at least the lower layers of it, is still in use to allow interoperability of devices and software with disparate networks such as GSM and CDMA.

 

[funkylogik]

I don't think my old Palm Centro, from which I just migrated (more on that later) even has a "totally off" setting--other than removing the battery. I cannot recall ever "switching off," totally, any wireless phone I've ever had, since my first one: A Motorola Contour on Ameritech.


Now ponder what you wrote, there, for a second. If it "switches itself on," how could it ever have been truly "off?"

Here's a little not-so-secret-secret: Most modern appliances (i.e.: TVs, other entertainment devices, appliances, etc.) never actually "turn off" when you turn them "off." They just... nap. How else could your TV, for example, be turned on by the press of a button on a remote?

As I noted above: I'm just migrating from a Palm Centro to an Android "smart"phone. There are certainly things I miss about my old Palm device, but I'm finding my Android device appears to be more than making up for those things by supplying additional new functionality.

As for the text message time & date thing (looks...): The text message app on my HTC Sensation 4G gives me date and time on each. As for alerts: It blinks the led indicator, that's also the charge indicator, for any notification. I wish it would occasionally make an abbreviated notification sound, until the alert was acknowledged, like my Centro does, but, like I said...

Here's the test: Use your new handset for, oh, say a month. Embrace it. Learn it. Truly use its capabilities. I don't mean make stuff up, but use the things that make sense for you to use. Then pick up your old phone and see if you think you could go back to it. (Some people can and do, btw.)

Jim

Yeah as i always say to new android converts (at least in this case he's coming from Java, not RIM or iOs) is to start with a completely open mind, dont expect or want to replicate anything, one of the major things making android better than iphones is you can replace all the core apps with one you prefer and set it as default. If theres a function you can think of that you'd like, there probably is an app for it.
The sms time-stamp thing i dont really understand.. if you mean texts recieved when you boot the phone then (the same as with your sony java phone) the times will be wrong.
If you mean they never show the time then ive never seen an sms app that doesnt show the time RECIEVED. Even bare stock android's messanger app shows it.
Hope you learn to love the phone.
First thing id do is customise your homescreen (wish i was sitting with you lol) so its completely unique and makes you smile inside each time you wake the phone :beer: