Hi All,
First off, I would like to state I tried with my limited capabilities to search for the topic on both Google and XDA and didnt turn up anything useful.
I have been a winmo user for the last 3+ years, but recently switched to Blackberry after relocation to UAE since they have the most lucrative data bundles. I think its a very handy utility device but i miss the fun factor of WinMo and trying out new things so last week I went ahead and bought an HD2.
Now coming to my question, the thing i noticed was the lack of integration of the different applications with the underlying OS. If some of you have used a blackberry you would be familiar with the 'universal inbox' and integrated notifications from LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter (among other social networking applications) with the messaging architecture of the OS. I am looking for something similar for Windows Mobile, Facebook and twitter applications which provide updates/notifications on the home screen if not a single inbox.
Pardon me if its something trivial, but i'm coming back to Windows mobile after a 8 mth gap and probably need to re-learn a few things
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Hi all, I have had Windows Mobile phones for about 2 years now and have thoroughly enjoyed hacking them with the help of the awesome developers here, my old vogue and now my touch pro become instantly better phones when I load up somebody's well designed ROM. But with all of my messing around with my phones the one thing I have never come across is a really great calendar app.
I have tried all the standard winmo apps from developer 1 etc. But they are all just variations on the windows mobile calendar... which to be honest, considering what else is out there on other platforms is total crap.
I want to know if anyone has come across a really solid calendar app, something more like google calendar or the palm pre's calendar, for windows mobile? I realize that the winmo app was designed to sync with outlook and not necessarily be the end all calendar for it's users, but for a lot of us non-business consumers it's not enough, we (or at least I) don't use outlook and am not satisfied with simply syncing my google calendar to my phone (which has many annoying limitations btw)
Anyhow any thoughts, suggestions, or perhaps guesses as to why no such application has yet found it's way to windows mobile? Perhaps that will change?
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Sean
you must be kidding
Thumbcal!!!
nir36 said:
you must be kidding
Thumbcal!!!
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Complete agreement, nothing else comes close to being finger friendly.
Go with Thumbcal on your poll!
Wow how did I miss this great app. Ok of all the calendar apps I've tried this is hands down the best. I think if you could drag-input appointments the way you do in google calendar perhaps within a new "day" view, that would be cool. Oddly enough I think that's about my only complaint, everything else is fantastic... if I could drag and drop so to speak my work schedule into it one day at a time instead of inputing the title/time in the create appointment screen it would be damn near perfect.
Ok no I take that back, built in 2 way sync with google calendar without the use of activesync and some other "palm pre" like features and it would be perfect. But for windows mobile this is pretty darn close!!
Just to throw in my two pennies worth. I tried Thumbcal quite extensively, and quite liked it, but it still seemed lacking. It's certainly the best actual APP for calendar purposes, in a finger friendly style.
However... having tried every WinMo interface under the sun, I have now comfortably settled on the Manila 2 TF3D Calendar Tab included in various Topaz / Rhodium ROMs, tied in with the TF3D Compact Homescreen with dated appointments and all synced to my Google Calendar via Active Sync.
The only slight issue I have with this set-up is that the calendar tab takes about 5 seconds to load appointment highlights. If anyone knows of a tweak to speed this up, that would be close to perfection.
Hey folks,
is it at the moment (in the future?) possbile to use a fullfeatured android-system without a google account/being bound to google? I love WM 6.5, because it comparatively is independent of any cloud stuff. Windows Mobile Phone 7 is very closed and lives in the cloud. So how open is android and to what extent is it spy-/adware?
Thx
My thoughts:
I was a WM5/6 user for quite a few years (at least 4+ years). I heavily hacked my WM phones to get the functionality I craved.
After fooling around with various Android ports to my HTC Titan, I decided to give the TBD Verizon Android phone (aka Droid) a chance when it came out. Since that fateful day, I haven't had a single regret. The Droid (and Android) is absolutely amazing.
Prior to my Droid, I had a couple of almost totally unused GMail accounts. I was resigned to the idea that to get the full functionality out of my Droid, I needed to move into the Google "cloud".
I have been amazed at how well everything flows together, now that everything syncs/baselines off of my main GMail account.
I'm not sure how functional the phone will be if you don't have a GMail account. Here is my (probably inaccurate) guess of functionality degradation you will face by not using a GMail account:
1) The Google Market may not allow you to purchase any apps. App purchases are paid through Google Checkout - Which is associated with your GMail account.
2) EMail integration is obviously very well implemented with Google. When a message is sent to my GMail account, it seems like I get it just a few seconds later on my phone. You can also set up your GMail account to poll any of your already existing email accounts from other providers. While not updated as fast as your GMail account, it still operates very well, and also color-codes which email account your messages came from. If you don't want to use GMail, the K-9 Mail app can work as an alternative to the GMail app.
3) Syncing with Google Contacts and multiple Google Calendars won't be available to you. The instant syncing of contacts/calendars is *very* useful, and works totally seamlessly. Again, updating a contact (or event) on the web (or your phone) nearly instantaneously updates the phone / web, respectively. You don't have to worry about losing contacts or calendars anymore. If you already had a GMail account with Contacts & Calendars, all that information is available on your phone within a minute or so after you have powered up your Droid for the first time. (Note: I do have some moderate gripes about how contacts are displayed & grouped on GMail & Android. I hope Google will be addressing these items soon). If your Droid gets damaged and you don't have a GMail account, you will probably have to manually reenter all your contacts / appointments.
4) Other non-Google "push" apps (such as Flight Tracker Pro) probably won't work since they need your GMail address to send their integrated information to your phone to update their app status.
5) Probably a bit of other stuff, but I'm too tired to think right now.
As far as my "who is watching my activity" paranoia level is concerned, I don't have any concerns at all about Google. I haven't seen a single instance in the months I have been using my Droid where Google appeared to be targeting any overtly obnoxious advertising in my direction. (However, if you are still concerned about ads, there is a hack to Android to block all ads). If I had any concerns, I would certainly trust Microsoft less (by a few orders of magnitude) than Google.
I'm not entirely sure how Google is making a lot of money from the Android adoption, other than having more devices natively using Google for searching (which can result in their advertising revenue). But from what I have seen, it is no worse than when you are using Google on your PC to do your web searches.
After using Android for months now, I can't ever see going back to WM6 again. WM6 was incredibly lame in comparison. Web browsing on Android is what I always hoped the WM6 platform would achieve (but never seemed to reach). Android is an amazing OS, certainly comparable to the Apple iPhone in almost all aspects, and exceeds WM6 in most aspects.
My advise would be to take the plunge and get an Android phone & GMail account set up. Try it out. If you don't like the OS (or Google cloud stuff), you can always return the phone within a couple of weeks for all the carriers, and go back to a WM6 phone.
The only thing you really need a google account for the Market. I have all syncing (mail, contacts and calendar) turned off and auto sync turned off. I believe you have to leave background sync turned on but that's it.
For everything else I use a hosted exchange account.
if you can live without google voice and google talk, then yeah. It is a fully functional OS. Market is not essential to core functionality and you can always install apks directly from sdcard as well as switch your search engine to whatever you prefer.
Hey there,
I have decided that I truly despise the native windows mobile facebook app. Is there any other (preferably free) ones that are good? I do think the current iphone one is quite good and easy to use, is there anyway to use that on the HD2? The WinMo one is just a pain in the arse to be honest.
Thanks
xx
I just use the touch site, works well, better than the native app.
the touch site lots of times doesnt work for sending messages it doesnt recognize when i type into the box
Hi all,
I've tried the facebook mobile site, touch site, facebook lite and market place app and they all have bad points. The worst is not all your friends status updates show. I tend to use the full site on my HD2 internet browser. Saves loads of problems. Will probably keep on using it till we get a good facebook app that is similar to the iphone app
can't really agree that the iphone facebook app is all that great though...
privacy issues is one thing, where syncing your contact with the iphone facebook app allows facebook the right to own every contact information in your iphone!
and their syncing system allows strangers on facebook to be synced to your iphone contacts... perhaps they synced it with contact information they got from other iphone users, based on phone no.s and etc, but ignoring country and area codes, which ends up syncing your iphone contact to a stranger in facebook, because they have the same phone no. (excluding country code)... that alone is scary enuf...
at least i'm happy with HD2's manila facebook integration, a little manual, but safer, and the album viewing is just smooth, with auto update of the avatar on the phone...
the app is not that impressive them, i have to admit... but iphone's privacy violation just gives me the jitters...
I'de like to know some of the best things about wp updated.
I'm thinking to try wp, I've already had android and I want to try wp.
I'm thinking about Htc Titan what do you think about this phone?
Nokia is better?
Thanks
WP.
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best thing about wmp is that it's not wmp
If you are into Facebook and Twitter, one of the best things is that in the People hub, you can see all the feeds together in one place. And if you want to follow a specific person or persons, you can put that person on your home page and then you will see their updates right in the tile (icon). And for many programs, the connection to Facebook and Twitter is built in and you can easily post things to those places.
It doesnt freeze
It doesn't lag
It doesn't need a reboot for in some cases even a year
It doesn't have malware issues
It doesn't have spyware issues
It remains fast every time you use it (even after a year)
It doesn't need 2-3 cores to run
It isn't heart rippingly expensive
It has Facebook integrated
It has Facebook Chat integrated
It has Windows Live Chat integrated
It has Twitter integrated
It has LinkedIn integrated
It has XBOX games
It has Zune subscription services
It has Office integrated
It has Bing search integrated
It has Bing Maps integrated
It has Music recognition integrated
It has QR-code and barcode reader integrated
It has Skydrive (25GB) cloud storage
It has Live tiles so you dont have to open apps
It has a dedicated camera button
It doesn't "need" custom ROMs
It has excellent handset design choices
It just works!
Hi everyone!
I've recently bought an iPhone as a secondary device, just to satisfy my curiosity. I've been using both iOS and Android (N4) for over a month now, and while I still prefer using Android as my primary, here is one thing that's bothering me: I discovered that the native Email app on iOS detects calendar events that the Gmail app on neither OSes can detect. I've searched the Internet to see if there are specific formats that Gmail requires the event to be written in, but I haven't found anything concrete (Here is a link that asks a similar question, yet with no satisfying response.).
My question is: is there any email client for Android that detects the calendar events similar to how Email on iOS does it? Its a really useful feature, and saves a lot of time and hassle.
I've attached screenshots of the same email on both apps to demonstrate the situation.
Thanks!