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we now join the 21st century, already in progress
We have joined the ranks of the smartphone-enabled. We had been Verizon customers and the Droid Bionic looked tempting on specs, but we ended up going across the street to T-Mobile (it seems safe now that AT&T is unlikely to buy them), where they're selling an all-you-can-eat plan for less than Verizon's metered plans and the staff were very helpful besides. (By comparison, I was only able to use a dummy Bionic at Verizon and the sales guy didn't seem to understand my need to use the phone before deciding.)
We were both having trouble with the touch keyboard; I assume that's something you just have to learn to do. So we both chose the MyTouch Slide (4G), which also has a physical keyboard that we were both able to use easily. I'll try to transition more to the touch keyboard, but meanwhile I can still complete a Google search or type a text message or the like on the first try when I need to.
(In case you're wondering, Dani decided that if he really really wants the iPhone 5 when it eventually comes out, he can buy an unlocked one and switch over to it.)
So what apps are must-haves? (Android 2.3.)
Edit: How do y'all post to LJ from your phones? I downloaded both "Livejournal" and "LJ Beetle"; in both cases I could figure out how to compose a post just fine, but could not find anything like a "post" or "send" button. Once I've got a buffer to send, what then?
We were both having trouble with the touch keyboard; I assume that's something you just have to learn to do. So we both chose the MyTouch Slide (4G), which also has a physical keyboard that we were both able to use easily. I'll try to transition more to the touch keyboard, but meanwhile I can still complete a Google search or type a text message or the like on the first try when I need to.
(In case you're wondering, Dani decided that if he really really wants the iPhone 5 when it eventually comes out, he can buy an unlocked one and switch over to it.)
So what apps are must-haves? (Android 2.3.)
Edit: How do y'all post to LJ from your phones? I downloaded both "Livejournal" and "LJ Beetle"; in both cases I could figure out how to compose a post just fine, but could not find anything like a "post" or "send" button. Once I've got a buffer to send, what then?
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The apps I use the most (aside from the ones that come with the phone, like Doodle Jump, and CatchTheBus, which is Boston-specific) are Aldiko, a free ebook reader (you can upload an epub file to the phone and use Aldiko to read it), Angry Birds (duh), CloudList Pro (which my wife and I are trying to use to create a common household to-do list), the B&N Nook app, OverDrive Media (which allows me to “borrow” ebooks from our local library), and Chumash Daily Portions, a Chumash-and-Rashi reader that I feel kind of meh about (the Android Hebrew font doesn’t have nikkudot in the right place, and the app makes certain assumptions about which text I want to read on which day).