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Carl Tollander on
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Any smartphone OS for the foreseeable future will be free as in
kittens. It would be nice if the battery were to last longer. I
don't know what the the battery life is on 'standard' android, never
seen one.
I use my Droid X2 pretty hard, and a days use is usually about 40%
of the full charge, which is way better than other phones I've had,
but I plug it in at night anyhow. If it became an issue I'd just
buy a second battery.
Yes, the monthly fees are too high. What to do? The carriers will
do what they feel they need to do to maintain their margins. Voting
with your feet isn't necessarily a solution.
Carl
On 1/10/12 4:21 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
The issues I bumped into were:
- The handset mfgrs and the carriers all wanted to piss all
over Android, primarily the UI. The handset folks built UIs
that were to distinguish them from others, but succeeded only in
having their version of android have worse battery life.
- So I wanted vanilla android. That should be easy, right?
Well, apparently the carriers didn't want that, so I was forced
into their upgrade schedule. Also there were claims that the
handset makers wanted more control over things like the camera
.. the standard android wasn't good enough.
- A ray of hope appeared with CyanogenMod which gave ninja
users the ability to upgrade their firmware, but looking deeper
into them, they too had lots of problems keeping up with the
latest drivers.
Now I realize I could become a phone sys admin and hacker
ninja, but I got tired of that keeping my initial iPhone running
on TMo via unlock hacks. Annoying and time consuming.
So it appeared weird to me. Why would the open phone
platform, which showed so much initial promise, seem to be
backing away from being free (both beer and speech).
So the control you don't have is the initial promise of
- Carrier independence .. they still own you and have absurd
contracts.
- OS independence .. the handset folks have "improve"
android and its hard to go back to vanilla and the firmware
you'd prefer.
Maybe I was just expecting too much: a great hacker phone os
that would work on lots of phones and release me fron contracts,
absurd plans, limits on networking (tethering, limits, huge
over-run costs). In short, I though the evil trinity would be
broken and google would be a hero.
No.
I guess my next best hope is that the Moto buy, plus maybe
something like buying Tmo, could let Google control the initial
android dream. I feel a bit like the Obama "Yes You Can"
ripoff.
-- Owen
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:38 PM, glen
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wrote:
Owen Densmore wrote circa 12-01-10 10:48 AM:
> We have had several phone chats. I kept finding
Android a bit difficult
> to deal with, mainly because of the new trinity:
Phone Makers, Cellular
> Carriers, and Mobile OSs. I found the evil trios
not providing what I
> wanted and kept thinking I was being painted into a
corner.
>
> This post discusses part of the problem. No, its
not an iPhone vs
> Android rant, but interesting history on Android
and its loss of control.
>
http://parislemon.com/post/15604811641/why-i-hate-android
I suppose I'm just dense and should keep my mouth shut. But
my very
density prevents me from keeping my mouth shut. ;-)
Precisely what control does an android user _not_ have? I
seem to have
control over every aspect of my android device (Droid 2
Global),
including which carrier I use.
--
glen
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