Hi all, I've been using WM since ages.
The X10 mini pro is tempting me to commit hersy and buy and android phone
May you help me with some questions I have:
- Is a FULL file explorer preloaded ??
- Can I download/EDIT/save office docs ??
- Can I hot auto check my hotmail ??
- A win live mesenger is present ??
- Can I easily change the UI or is it "closed" ?? (sort of the xperia "panels")
THANKS in advance
gtrab said:
Hi all, I've been using WM since ages.
The X10 mini pro is tempting me to commit hersy and buy and android phone
May you help me with some questions I have:
- Is a FULL file explorer preloaded ??
- Can I download/EDIT/save office docs ??
- Can I hot auto check my hotmail ??
- A win live mesenger is present ??
- Can I easily change the UI or is it "closed" ?? (sort of the xperia "panels")
THANKS in advance
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Hey
1. there is no file manger installed but you can download one from marked
2. you can buy doc to go then you can edit doc
3. you with exchange
4. there is many good msn apps in marked
5. you can use any home's from marked like adw launcher
gtrab said:
Hi all, I've been using WM since ages.
The X10 mini pro is tempting me to commit hersy and buy and android phone
May you help me with some questions I have:
- Is a FULL file explorer preloaded ??
- Can I download/EDIT/save office docs ??
- Can I hot auto check my hotmail ??
- A win live mesenger is present ??
- Can I easily change the UI or is it "closed" ?? (sort of the xperia "panels")
THANKS in advance
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Following on from the previous answer
1) Not pre-installed, but you can easily download and install a free one directly from the Market (i.e from the phone itself) - ASTRO File Manager and ES File Explorer are two good ones, but there are plenty to choose from
2) Again, not pre-installed, but you can download a free app called "Documents to Go" that will let you read office docs. http://www.dataviz.com/ - You'll need to buy the full version (currently $15) to be able to edit docs too
3) Googling suggests that you can probably make it work using pop3 - I don't use hotmail, so I can't try it out
4) Nothing pre-installed, but there are lots on the market. I'm currently using Trillian which works nicely (free beta, will probably become a paid app)
5) Yes - there are lots of alternative launchers, so if you're not happy with the S.E. "4 corners" homescreen, you can easily switch for another one - most of these are free, too
So, it sounds like you might have to fork out some cash to be able to do everything you want
I use maildroid for all my email accounts including Hotmail. Just download it for free in market
Sent from my rooted X10 mini PRO using XDA App
THANKS for your replies.
Let me see if I get it right:
OK so Android looks like a different approach (more iPhone-esque than pocketPC-esque) but able to expand to more advanced capabilities with some investment
(and the market looks pretty ample)
One final Q:
Front camera for video call ??
(I could just check pdadb.net for that one, but sometimes having the phone in-hand brings on some surprises)
No video calling afaik, though I suppose some app could potentially do it via the front camera.
Although the launcher can be changed easily, the OS theming requires the phone to be rooted and a system file to be replaced to change, so you'll have a lot of blue until the phone is rooted.
There are thousands of apps on the market and also around on the web, some are junk, some are great (including a lot of free ones), you shouldn't have too much trouble finding software to fill whatever needs you have.
Android is a pretty fantastic phone OS, I don't think you'll be dissatisfied with it, the user experience is much the same across different phones, so really it's about getting it on hardware that can fill your needs.
front cam ??
so it DOES have a front camera
thanks for the info
good news !!
aPaullyG said:
No video calling afaik, though I suppose some app could potentially do it via the front camera.
Although the launcher can be changed easily, the OS theming requires the phone to be rooted and a system file to be replaced to change, so you'll have a lot of blue until the phone is rooted.
There are thousands of apps on the market and also around on the web, some are junk, some are great (including a lot of free ones), you shouldn't have too much trouble finding software to fill whatever needs you have.
Android is a pretty fantastic phone OS, I don't think you'll be dissatisfied with it, the user experience is much the same across different phones, so really it's about getting it on hardware that can fill your needs.
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gtrab said:
front cam ??
so it DOES have a front camera
thanks for the info
good news !!
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I have not seen a front camera on the mini pro, and the one i have has not a front camera
No front camera in mini pro
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Hey gtrab,
I was just like you, I always swore bt WM. And never wanted to try anything new. But while I was on a trip, my dash was bugging out on me and I needed a new phone. I went for the x10 mini pro cuz it was cheap.
Now my view has changed, android took a while to get used to from wm. Not a lot of things were intergrated like wm, I needed an app for every little thing. Just to get a comm manager thing going, I needed to download like 6 widgets for it. And there was no folders to organize the apps. Things weren't in abc order. But installing a new launcher solved it.
The thing about the x10 that is making me stick with android and ditching wm6.5 (maybe untill wm7 comes out) is there is no crashed. Android runs smooth and stable. I havent soft reset my phone in 2 months. Even tho a wm rom was stable it still has issues and I needed to soft reset it once a week just to get something to work again. Even my girl friend likes my phone, she always hated my wm phones cause it was hard to use, and it would always mess up on us when im talking to her over the phone. It would always go like, "the comm manager isnt loading, I need to reset the phone to turn on the bluetooh, ill call u back"
Because of this I think im going to stick with android now.
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Thanks for your words Ray_Jai
I am 100% sure to go Android as soon as possible, my only concern is "which" phone to choose
The X10 mini pro is an amazing little phone, the only thing stopping me from buying it is the screen res 'cause I do a lot of web navigation, and the older android version (Froyo has flash 10.1 web support)
The newest Desire Z and Moto droid 2 world edition are tempting me
Np,
The small screen is a killer for me too, but I do most of my web reading from RSS readers, so it's ok for me. I only use the phone for email and light web surfing, I rarely play games or watch movies on it. I tried to install some games, but many of the games weren't supported. so if you're into that, it might not be that good. but for everything else, it does a pretty good job.
Hi everyone,
I have a Android tablet and I want to use it as a second screen for my computer.
Of course there is Apps for this like iDisplay, but it's not at all comfortable, and i prefer USB. So is it possible to use the tablet like a second screen only ? Turn off Android and just use the screen of the device ?
With Windows 8 we can easily share the screens, and i want to optimise that point...
Thank you for your help ! :cyclops:
second screen
iDisplay workds perfectly well
splokow said:
Hi everyone,
I have a Android tablet and I want to use it as a second screen for my computer.
Of course there is Apps for this like iDisplay, but it's not at all comfortable, and i prefer USB. So is it possible to use the tablet like a second screen only ? Turn off Android and just use the screen of the device ?
With Windows 8 we can easily share the screens, and i want to optimise that point...
Thank you for your help ! :cyclops:
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Not on my computer and my tablet. I have windows 8 and there is some bugs...
iDisplay
It is only available for Android and iOS
http://www.getidisplay.com
No we can use it with Windows but it's not my question....
Can we use an Android tablet as a simple connected srceen ?
[Q] 7D-503L how can i install SMemo/ SNote in X1 - Please help!! because i have a huge smemo i did before, or any apk can open it like samsung?
cowk612 said:
[Q] 7D-503L how can i install SMemo/ SNote in X1 - Please help!! because i have a huge smemo i did before, or any apk can open it like samsung?
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S-apps are totally dependent on the TouchWiz framework.
There is NO WAY you can port them except maybe convert to PDF.
I found this out after a few weeks using my Note 1 3 years ago. Ever since then, I have used Handy Note Pro, and recently I discovered DioNote, which is perfect for the X1.
Although I love my Note phones very much, I advise everybody NOT to use S-note or S-memo, but use these other great apps instead.
thx
@joytest What kind of pen you use for jotting note?
bthoven said:
@joytest What kind of pen you use for jotting note?
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The Adonit Jot Pro or Jot Mini ( I have this) works wonderfully.
I tested many drawing/sketching/noting apps on the X1, the best is DioNote with individual stroke rendering.
DioNote does not recognize your text, but each stroke is an element which can be edited.
Papyrus, Adobe, HandyNote, etc....all the stylus recognition sucked.
Thanks a lot. Dionote looks great. It has zoom panel to write on like other iOS apps (GoodNotes, Zoomnote).
However, I still can't find an active stylus (narrow tip stylus using battery, without bluetooth connection) working well on Android. I tried Biopen which said it supports both ios and android and found that it sucks on Android, barely useable.
I intend to use it for notetaking, mainly.
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Thanks a lot. Dionote looks great. It has zoom panel to write on like other iOS apps (GoodNotes, Zoomnote).
However, I still can't find an active stylus (narrow tip stylus using battery, without bluetooth connection) working well on Android. I tried Biopen which said it supports both ios and android and found that it sucks on Android, barely useable.
I intend to use it for notetaking, mainly.
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The screen on the X1 is capacitive, so you won't be able to use any active stylus.
Adonit Jot/ Jot Mini has a narrow tip and very good accuracy.
The good thing is that Dionote's zoom panel registers the Jot stylus incredibly well. I was very surprised because all the other note/sketch apps can't register a long stroke properly without break, or I had to draw/write slowly.
I was hoping that someone can help me with a couple of Ready For questions:
Wanting to try out Ready For PC that is present in the newer Motorola phones, does anyone know if it is possible get the APK and try it out? This phone does wired Ready For just fine when used with an external display.
I also wonder if anyone has any app recommendations or knows of any apps that allow the use of widgets on the Ready For desktop when connected to an external display? I really like being able to dock my phone and use the phone simulator on the display while opening up another app or two to use while working, but I think using the standard desktop widgets would be killer. I have tried a few apps meant for DeX without much luck, the only one that has been useful is SecondScreen to change the density of my 3200x1800 14" touch display that I am using with the phone.
Hi everyone,
I've recently baught a S23 Ultra for his power to use it on one side as a powerful android phone and on another side as my professional PC.
for this last side, i've heard that android 13 run windows app.
Does someone know more about it ?