Hey guys noob to the boards here. People prolly have posted this a million times before but here I go again.
So, I have had an iPhone literally for 3 years, iPhone then the 3G and then the 3GS. Kinda bored of it now a little bit - great apps but kind of restricted as to what you can do with it. Love the operating system as the handset runs smoothly & the touch screen I love too and I do use iPod quiet alot too, mostly in the car as a mp3 player.
I've had a htc tytn a few years ago & I liked it although it was windows based and I can't really sat d windows. Read up on Android system & a had abit of a play on the desire on a colleagues phone, quiet liked the feel of it and was wow'ed by a few of the functions.
I want to be able to do all the things I do on my iPhone, on the new handset. This includes:-
- keep contacts, emails & calendars in sync between my new phone & my MacBook Pro - I currently use MobileMe on my iPhone but was wondering if there's anything similar for free? Does google's wireless sync work well? Or any others you would recommend?
- wireless printing - I'm going to upgrade my printer at some point - can I do wireless printing via the handset without too much messing around?
-I use quiet alot of apps on my iPhone currently. Mostly social networking & things like Shazam for music recognition & just everyday apps like eBay flixter etc
- I use the iPod quiet alot on my iPhone, is the interface pretty neat on the Desire? And does it work well? When I use to have a Sony a few years ago the mp3 player wasn't great on it had to reset it alot to get it working etc - also I know you can't transfer purchases made on iTunes but I can fix that however do android have their own online music store or anything or am I best off using things like play and amazon as iTunes stillworks with those purchases plus I guess they'll transfer to the desire?
- it would be great to have navigation software on it , it's bit pricey on the iPhone so I just used googlemaps which works well as it routes the directions plus the built in gps tells you if your on route - is googlemaps available for desire aswell? I know it sounds stupid as it's googles OS but best to check these things right?
- also my colleague showed me a speech to text for SMS is that a built in function? It worked amazingly well!
- are there plenty of apps to play with on marketplace and what are the prices like? Eg; iPhone apps start from free / 59p
- what web browser is used on desire?
It would be great if you guys can help & for anyone that's switched from an iPhone it would be fab if you can highlight any big differences good/bad.
As I.said earlier, I want something that won't give me issues as I haven't with my iPhone but runs just as well as the iPhone.
- oh and one last thing are software updates free too?
- and I keep hearing bad things about battery life ?
Thanks everyone
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So, I have had an iPhone literally for 3 years, iPhone then the 3G and then the 3GS. Kinda bored of it now a little bit - great apps but kind of restricted as to what you can do with it. Love the operating system as the handset runs smoothly & the touch screen I love too and I do use iPod quiet alot too, mostly in the car as a mp3 player.
I've had a htc tytn a few years ago & I liked it although it was windows based and I can't really sat d windows. Read up on Android system & a had abit of a play on the desire on a colleagues phone, quiet liked the feel of it and was wow'ed by a few of the functions.
I want to be able to do all the things I do on my iPhone, on the new handset. This includes:-
- keep contacts, emails & calendars in sync between my new phone & my MacBook Pro - I currently use MobileMe on my iPhone but was wondering if there's anything similar for free? Does google's wireless sync work well? Or any others you would recommend?
- wireless printing - I'm going to upgrade my printer at some point - can I do wireless printing via the handset without too much messing around?
-I use quiet alot of apps on my iPhone currently. Mostly social networking & things like Shazam for music recognition & just everyday apps like eBay flixter etc
- I use the iPod quiet alot on my iPhone, is the interface pretty neat on the Desire? And does it work well? When I use to have a Sony a few years ago the mp3 player wasn't great on it had to reset it alot to get it working etc - also I know you can't transfer purchases made on iTunes but I can fix that however do android have their own online music store or anything or am I best off using things like play and amazon as iTunes stillworks with those purchases plus I guess they'll transfer to the desire?
- it would be great to have navigation software on it , it's bit pricey on the iPhone so I just used googlemaps which works well as it routes the directions plus the built in gps tells you if your on route - is googlemaps available for desire aswell? I know it sounds stupid as it's googles OS but best to check these things right?
- also my colleague showed me a speech to text for SMS is that a built in function? It worked amazingly well!
- are there plenty of apps to play with on marketplace and what are the prices like? Eg; iPhone apps start from free / 59p
- what web browser is used on desire?
It would be great if you guys can help & for anyone that's switched from an iPhone it would be fab if you can highlight any big differences good/bad.
As I.said earlier, I want something that won't give me issues as I haven't with my iPhone but runs just as well as the iPhone.
- oh and one last thing are software updates free too?
- and I keep hearing bad things about battery life ?
Thanks everyone
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