I am posting from my phone

[trinityvixen]

That is all. More to come when I work out how to do stuff on this thing.

Comments

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

HTC Incredible? I'll have to check it out.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, sir. I am getting the hang of this. Of course, I say that now and in another minute I'll have crashed it. So far, so good though. I even have some of these here aps the kids talk about these days.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I was just checking on whether you can get the Kindle app for it, and the answer is...soon.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Would that sell you on it? Because this is getting more awesome every minute.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I would be willing to try it! None of the e-readers that are out are more fabulous than a netbook would be running Kindle, if I just got a new one with XP or Windows 7, and considering the number of books I've been getting rid of and storing, e-books could cut down on that a little.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's what I'm getting two weeks ago! (I ordered from their website; it should finally arrive this week.) Good choice.

Widgets are one thing that really sold me on it (and one of a few that put it above the iPhone). It's also the only on-screen keyboard I've ever had any sort of accuracy with. And I like the optical trackball; should help keep fingerprints off the screen, at least for things like scrolling NYTimes articles.

Of course then I read about a product launch for the HOT NEW Droid X (also Verizon). :P But that's a Motorola, and personally I've never really been a fan of their phones (and I have liked HTC phones, which is what the Incredible is [they're often rebranded as Verizon]) so I'm not too concerned about buyer's remorse.

I'm also not too concerned about it because my boss offered to have the company pay for this phone. (What, you think my cheap ass would spend that on a cell phone that's going to be thrown out in 2 years?)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard anything good about Motorola phones, so I was glad to try out an excellent Droid phone by just about anyone else. So far, so good. I think you'll be happy with it.

What's the widgets do?

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

Basically, whereas your iPhone home screen is pretty much just a vast array of app icons, and you have to click into an app to actually do anything, a lot of Droid apps (including the built-ins) have more than just an icon you can drop on the home screen. An info display (like new emails or messages, weather, etc) or a quick input (wifi toggle or the like). Makes it far, far more useful to have your most-needed stuff right there instead of having to navigate to it.

I'm sure like most things with these devices it's subjective, but when trying it out in the store that's one of the aspects of Android that I liked the best.

[mephistakitten.livejournal.com]

Woo, yay HTC smartphones! My Nexus one is a close cousin of your Incredible. =) The learning curve on the phone is lovely, you get good at the finger gestures very fast.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I've found this to be true. I'm picking up the things I need to do with it faster than I would have guessed I would. Keeping fingers crossed that this trend continues.