New to Andriod Inspire

[Icstars06]

I have only had 3 smartphones since getting a cell phone 6 years ago. My first was the Blackberry Bold it was great for awhile but started having problems. Then when the Blackberry Torch came out I got it on day one and was really happy with it until about 2 months ago. It keeps messing up, the apps weren't working right, there was no memory for any thing. And 2 weeks ago I had finally had it dropping calls, freezing and just not working. I wanted to get a new phone but didn't want the iPhone as my husband has it. And I didn't like the keyboard (I'm a big texter) and the screen was really small as I'm blind. Lol not really it was just hard for me to see.

So my husband took me into our ATT store "just" to look at what phones they had to see if I could find one that I liked and wanted to maybe get. We were in the store for 30 mins, and in that time I played with two phones one was a windows phone which I had used before and still hate. And the other was the HTC Inspire. After going though some of the settings and texting on it, to see how it was to type on. I loved it!!! We told the ATT sale guy that I wanted that phone and with in 15 mins I was walking out with it.

I can't believe I didn't switch to an Andriod sooner, after having the phone a week now I still believe that I was using a Blackberry. They are so slow and outdated. I mean he'll they don't even take good pictures, I can go buy a 25 dollar camera that takes better pictures. What took me 5 mintues to do on my Blackberry takes me seconds now. The fact that I don't have to pick and choose what apps I want to download cause I don't have room for them or they slow my phone down.

The only thing i can say that I miss from my blackberry is being able to set ring tones for text messages for different people, yahoo, twitter, and so on. There is probably an app or a widget for it that I just haven't found yet. But other than that I have nothing bad to say.

I am happy to have joined the Andriod family!!!!

 

[2manyPHONES]

Welcome to the inspire family!

You can set different ringtones for people when they call but as for texts and emails you can set a different tone for all not individual. But if you use a 3rd party app like handcent i believe you can set different ones for individuals. A good place to get free ringtones and wallpapers is the zedge app (free).
you can change the tone for text by going into the text app menu-settings-notification sound (note mine does not list zedge as an option to pick tones but there is a way around this)
SO to use zedge tones here download astro file manager from the market (its free). open it go to sdcard, there should be a zedge folder-ringtones-menu-edit-select all-menu-edit-copy (then hit back arrow 2x) find the media folder-audio-notifications-menu-edit-paste.(note you can also paste them in the ringtone folder under media) Now when you go back to your text app you can see all the zedge tones in that stock system list. Since you have an option to change the tone itself in the text app you can then from the homescreen tap menu-settings-sound and change the notification sound in there, which will be used for email. (note you might want to do this one first since it might reset the text one but im not 100% sure on that)
but i use handcent (and i think chomp and go sms both have this option as well) and in menu options for handcent i can set a different tone from my email tone (i also do not use the stock email i use k-9) since i have k-9 i can set up a different tone for each of my email accounts by going into each account separately so example from main k-9 screen tap account 1 then menu-more-account settings-notifications-new mail ringtone (once set go back to k-9 main screen with accounts listed and tap account 2 follow same as before) then for texts i go into handcents menu-settings-notification settings

side note if you use a 3rd party email or text app make sure you go into the stock ones and turn notifications off otherwise you will get double notifications. (email is menu-more-settings-notification settings-uncheck email notifications. For texts its menu-settings-uncheck received notification)