dieseldiva
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I thought it might be good to open a separate thread for Droid discussions. More and more of us are getting these phones and this is a good place to share information.
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dieseldiva
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We were talking about keyboards in the iphone app thread and I was thinking about this one......sounds pretty cool, hope they bring it out soon. Sounds like just the thing needed to help those of us with fat fingers and even those tiny little people that don't have problems with these new phone keyboards. I like the one I'm using now but I'm always willing to look beyond and consider a switch.
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My fat fingers had trouble on those small keys. I ordered a stylus from Amazon. It works great. Also works great on the new Qualcomm.
dieseldiva
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Not to forget that the new qualcomm has one built in...
Doggie Daddy
Veteran Expediter
There's an app called Plane Finder that's pretty nifty. It's like Google Sky Map where you point the phone at a plane and it'll tell you airline, flight number, departure point, destination, speed, height and even the likely course. It works by intercepting the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcasts (ADS-B) transmitted by most passenger aircraft to a new satellite tracking system that supplements or, in some countries, replaces radar entirely.
Of course, knowing the airline, flight number, departure point, destination, speed, height and the likely course of a given flight is a way kewl wet dream for a terrorist with a shoulder-fired SAM.
The Department of Homeland Security is thrilled beyond words, I'm tellin' ya.
Of course, knowing the airline, flight number, departure point, destination, speed, height and the likely course of a given flight is a way kewl wet dream for a terrorist with a shoulder-fired SAM.
The Department of Homeland Security is thrilled beyond words, I'm tellin' ya.
While waiting 3.5 hours last night to be unloaded I was checking out EO on my X. I decided to try posting. Ahh, where's the keyboard?
No!! I'm gonna leave it here! To others who may have as low a cyber IQ as I have, and I know there are some out there, you just tap the area where what you type appears and the keyboard will appear.
Thanks for the PM and your concern for my image. LOL...
No!! I'm gonna leave it here! To others who may have as low a cyber IQ as I have, and I know there are some out there, you just tap the area where what you type appears and the keyboard will appear.
Thanks for the PM and your concern for my image. LOL...
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dieseldiva
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I'd like to try swype but I keep missing the "trials"...how did you get that app??
RoadKing06
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I have the Sprint Epic, I am not able to get this website on it. I went to the Sprint store and was told there is too much going on, on the website that the phone can't support it. That was disappointing to me. Just got the phone to use as a hotspot on the truck. Otherwise I love the phone.
dieseldiva
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Hmm...that WOULD be disappointing. I'm not that familiar with Sprint's line up of phones but it makes you wonder what else it won't support. If you haven't had that phone longer than the "exchange" time, I'd see about upgrading to something that's going to fit ALL of your needs. But that's just me...LOL
dieseldiva
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I don't know...I'd like to hear a tech's opinion on that one. Why wouldn't you expect to go to any web site and have consistent usage?
greg334
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You just did.
The thing is that websites who cater to mobile crowd should optimize them by being a bit more lightweight OR offer an alternative. Some sites for some mobile phone browsers remove some things like pictures and use text ads in their place to save bandwidth. I count on this reply page five graphic files and one text ad box and for someone with a poor AT&T connection, it may not load or take a long time.
If you want to get into the real details, I can or if you want a more polished explanation, Turtle could step in.
dieseldiva
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I mean no disrespect to either of you but when I said "tech", I didn't necessarily mean from the membership here. There's a lot of us here that know a lot of things about a lot of different subjects but that doesn't make any of us "techs" in those areas.
Many smartphone browsers don't even parse HTML code properly. Some can't do CSS or JS. A Mobile Web page should be written in XHTML or WML (but not both mixed in there, please). Basically, until HTML/CSS/JS support is improved in mobile devices, what is needed is a little server-side filtering. By pulling out everything a mobile device can possibly choke on before it even gets to the mobile device, you can create a mobile version of a site which is not only viewable on more devices but is much quicker to download, as well.
If a Web site is passed straight through to a smartphone, even a basic page may require massive scrolling up and down and left and right to see the entire page, because the entire page was designed with large graphics and a layout for a laptop or desktop monitor. If the page is written in, or converted to a smarphone layout, one or two screen-sized scrolls left/right and up/down is all that's needed to view the entire page. Sometimes you need several scroll-downs to see the entire page, but it shouldn't be any wide than the smartphone's screen.
Look at this page, and how far it is from the DATE to the POST#. On a Web version, that would be cut down by two-thirds or more, so that that distance is the entire width of the smartphone screen. It makes the page load faster and it's quite a bit more readable since the entire width of a posting would be visible on screen, and would render properly in either portrait or lansdcape to be wide or narrower as needed.
Here's a little nifty (http://www.google.com/gwt/n) that lets you convert any URL into a Mobile version of the Web site. It's called The Mobilizer. To get an idea, go to it in your laptop or desktop browser and enter a URL, then resize the browser window to more like the size and shape of a smartphone screen. Or go there using your smartphone's browser, then enter a URL, like [noparse]http://www.eo4me.com[/noparse]
If a Web site is passed straight through to a smartphone, even a basic page may require massive scrolling up and down and left and right to see the entire page, because the entire page was designed with large graphics and a layout for a laptop or desktop monitor. If the page is written in, or converted to a smarphone layout, one or two screen-sized scrolls left/right and up/down is all that's needed to view the entire page. Sometimes you need several scroll-downs to see the entire page, but it shouldn't be any wide than the smartphone's screen.
Look at this page, and how far it is from the DATE to the POST#. On a Web version, that would be cut down by two-thirds or more, so that that distance is the entire width of the smartphone screen. It makes the page load faster and it's quite a bit more readable since the entire width of a posting would be visible on screen, and would render properly in either portrait or lansdcape to be wide or narrower as needed.
Here's a little nifty (http://www.google.com/gwt/n) that lets you convert any URL into a Mobile version of the Web site. It's called The Mobilizer. To get an idea, go to it in your laptop or desktop browser and enter a URL, then resize the browser window to more like the size and shape of a smartphone screen. Or go there using your smartphone's browser, then enter a URL, like [noparse]http://www.eo4me.com[/noparse]
dieseldiva
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