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[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatworthy:
Browsing, email, music and kindle.

That's about it.

I'm not sure tablets really have much use beyond that right now. But, to be fair, I do use it a lot for those things. Almost never use my laptop except for work.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
I use mines for a substitute for my laptop. I'm a student and rely on it heavily for:

Evernote

Logmein

Pulse (while in boring lectures)

Music

Web Browsing XDA and other forums

Google Docs

Dropbox (Saved my ass several times when thumb drives failed me)

Everything I can do on a laptop I can do in my Xoom. I had the Xoom for 4 days and it blows away the iPad 2 which I traded for the Xoom. More freedom and desktop like experience. To the OP I type my papers on an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risq:
got mine as a stop gap for the galaxy tab 10.1. Don't get me wrong this is a great device, its just a shame about the weight in my opinion.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatworthy:
Ha, same here. Figure I can sell this for about 400 and then grab a 16gb tab for 499.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RadDudeTommy:
I bought it so excited thinking it would help me with work and this and that, and I hardly use it for anything productive.

Maybe with more classy apps it will work better.

I'm waiting for the funds, but the second I get them I will be applying my Xoom to Photoshop CS5.5, I'm almost positive that expirence is going to be a whole other world for me.

But yeah, so now I mostly use mine for watching videos, general web browsing (personally I find it quite pleasurable in that aspect), BS gaming, and, when i travel I bring this and my ps3 with me and use the Xoom to hop on the PSN.

8 hrs of game play on Black Ops (which is all I tested for that duration of time) only uses up too 200 megs, a lot less than I initially thought.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RadDudeTommy:
I don't see why you would wanna spend another 100 dollars and cut your memory in half.

What is the gtabs screen going to be like compared to the Xooms?

Like besides weight, what's the gtab got on the Xoom?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philski421:
school work

I'm a student so I use it for notes, and if class gets boring I whip out angry birds
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatworthy:
I don't need the extra 16gb and in any case I have an SD card which I can use if needed.

Tab has a PLS screen. Supposed to be better than IPS and way better than the TFT in the xoom.

And as a European user I have more faith in Samsung than Motorola when it comes to updates.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RadDudeTommy:
That is just the opposite here in America. Motorola has shown good faith in updates since androids original release.

My girlfriends Samsung Galaxy S Captivate just got Froyo a month ago.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatworthy:
True, though I think the carriers over there played a part in that fiasco. Motorola on the other hand just don't give a **** about Europe. They don't even release most of their phones over here.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1234567188:
I use mine to take to classes for notes and dungeon defender, its also useful to take to the bed for studying
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shobirama:
NO USB, NO HDMI ports on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 means no video out and no keyboard/mouse for easier input/navigation.

I really like the fact the Xoom has a true GPS on the WiFi models. That feature seems to be missing from the Acer and Galaxy Tab 10.1.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatworthy:
Video out will be through a proprietary cable, just like the iPad. First i've heard about the gps though. Got a link?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RacerX780:
I'm using it more and more....

At home/fun: watching movies, playing angry birds (which at first I had no interest in and now I'm hooked) streaming radio/playing mp3s, surfing the web...

Work: I have two jobs.. a part time IT job, which I use dropbox, logmein, browser, office docs, and GPS.

My other job is in sales... which I use GPS almost every day... dropbox... office docs, mostly excel, and calculator..

While driving I'll either play music or videos... I cover larger distances and don't have satellite radio, so streaming is better then having to keep switching stations plus I get tired of the same music over and over again.

I'm very happy with it... well worth the money.

This weekend I just started to customize it... got a long way to go but I plan to have one screen for each job... and then a couple just for fun stuff. :)

-R
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnakeManJayd:
I use mine a lot. I keep finding more and more uses for it.

Uses:

Just discovered evernote, so looking forward to using that more

Movies/anime

Games - Angry birds, stupid zombies, robodefence

Reading - Bible and others (like "In the Plex")

Browsing and email

Pulse

Taking notes at meetings, then I can just email everyone the word document instead of rewriting it up and then doing so.

GPS, Google maps works really well, and you only need to turn on internet every 30 min or so, as it caches the maps quite far ahead of you.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

I don't really use:

music

video editing

camera
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lothaen:
Browsing

News stuff (see also browsing)

Email

Twitter

Facebook (to a lesser extent)

Games/Angry Birds

Streaming media - Plex

HDMI connection to TV (see streaming media)

Gallery for viewing photos

Emulators for SNES etc. (will probably use this more when I have 3.1)

Camera (a couple of times)

I'd probably use RDP when I get a mini server set up at home..

That's about all for now.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djlowballer:
Almost everything tbh. For non work related purposes I use it exclusively.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timrock:
reading comics

reading news stories

keeping the kids occupied during tripts

internet

watching movies and shows

playing games

email

messaging with gtalk

reading and editing docs

taking notes

browsing forums with tapatalk

accessing files that are not stored on the xoom - dropbox
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] double1:
I find that setting webpages as bookmarks on the homescreen improves my browsing experience.

I use the speaker dock from Moto and that sounds great with music player.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] brandon2x:
Does anyone know if you can put friendstream on the X?
[Droid X Themes and Apps] camiam:
no it wont work . It will only work for htc phones. Motorola's equivalent app is social networking
[Droid X Themes and Apps] bL33d:
Get the paid version of launcher pro it has friends stream widget built in.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] bradsinram:
It requires sense framework to run almost anything from sense so that's a definite no
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] cmd512:
You guys notice that you can't double tap the word to highlight with the stock version of Swype included with the SGSII? Not sure why this is no longer available, really helped speed things up with editing on the SGS versions of Swype.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Raymond77:
Yes I noticed that, makes it annoying to fix typos...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Burko:
it's to do with the samsung "correction" system.

It is possible to edit words via swype, but its a bit clunky, you long press the word, click select word, and then wait 2 seconds for the samsung crap to get out of the way.

I'm sure that the correction thing can be disabled letting us use swype more intuitively.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] drm111:
Apparently you can just uninstall the swype that comes on the phone and install the latest beta from the swype website and get that feature back.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] cmd512:
I think I might just do that, definitely makes it a lot more difficult to go back and edit!

EDIT: NOPE, that didn't work. Don't bother, it's something with the OS.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] esk02k:
I think this is actually a gingerbread thing.

Froyo used to do it fine but when I upgraded my

Old phone to gingerbread I could no longer do it.

The text selection is different.

You can click on the word you want to change then

Press the swype button once to get up the word list.

Hope this helps.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Gustopher:
Also, once you have the word list up, you can press the 'Shift' key to get a list of capitalisation options for the word, e.g. word, Word, WORD.

Swype is the main reason I'm on an Android phone. I like the SGS2, of course, but having played with dual boot WP7 and Android on an HD2, Swype was the main reason for going Android. No regrets, mind you
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] soraxd:
I would LOVEEEE to fix this.., someone freaking sticky this.. I tried installing my swype from sgs1 froyo but no good.. I also hate how , comma is where space bar used to be.. always hit it instead of space
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] esk02k:
Cool man I share your passion for swype. Been using it since day one.

As soon as I have some means to instal them like recovery I'm going to

Port my skins over and I can make custom versions for peeps.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] soraxd:
if we can get old swype back all problems would be,gone
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] esk02k:
Hmm well I have apks for the beta, my own custom version,

Maybe If I can change the name,.sign then instal it along side

Our built in version. I do prefer the beta too. Too many buttons

At the bottom on this version, but as I said, it might be gingerbreads

New way of text selection causing the problem cos it happened on

My old phone. Very annoying.

Edit : I wouldn't be able to post it here tho as its against the rules.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] zxz88:
If you want to edit the word, just single tap the word and tap the swype icon on the bottom left of the keyboard which brings up all your options.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Burko:
We have a winner. Don't double tap, long press, or highlight the word. as long as the cursor is next to the word, the swype button will show the suggested words list.

Burko
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] f0ffen:
Thanks for solving that for me zxz88!

Now, how do I ad words to it?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ghazi.urfali:
press anywhere on the word you want to correct to get the cursor there, then just press the swype key in the bottom left corner of the keyboard.....does the trick without having to select the whole word again....i had the same problem you did, then realized there must be another way....
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] soraxd:
actually.. that isn't too bad, I still don't like how much of the spacebar was cut to add 2 new keys tho.. I ALWAYS hit ,,,,,, for space
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] cmd512:
Yes, but Swype previously you could just double tap to bring up the word choice, one less step = faster.

BTW, this looks to be a Gingerbread bug, not Swype's... and is documented on Swype's forum: http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?2928-Gingerbread-2.3.3-Double-Tap-opening-Edit-Menu.

On a side note... can one of you nice people post up the "libswypecore.so" file from XWKE2's /system/lib directory? It got deleted when I installed the beta version, I think the stock version runs faster.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Burko:
Surely a double tap and 2 separate taps are the same number of steps? I find the new way more intuitive in day to day use.

In fact if you are correcting the word you have just typed, you don't have to double tap at all anymore. One less step = faster right?

Burko
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] zxz88:
No problem, to add words I believe you just type out the new word instead of swyping it gets added as a new word so the next time you can swype it!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] cmd512:
Wrong, it's all about WHERE you're tapping. If I quickly double tap on the word, my finger doesn't move from that spot and I can immediately pick the replacement word. If I have to put the cursor on the word, then move down to the keyboard all the way to the lower left to hit the option button, and then move back up to select word, of course that's slower.

Pretty straightforward really... how could you say the two are the same? It's like saying you're both driving from points A to B, who cares about distance, lol.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] prodygee:
I just tap a word once so that the cursor is somewhere inside of that word and press the Swype button on the bottom left corner. This at least allows you to edit the tapped word with similair options.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mouki_9:
i don't use the space bar that often on swype, just swype the next word, it will put a space in between automagically :P
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] cmd512:
Yes, but previously, you can just double tap on the word, it would highlight, and the word selection box would automatically pop up. That's what I miss, and Swype already listed it in their "known bugs" section on their forums as a Gingerbread issue. Whether or not Swype is working with Google to resolve this is a different story...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Gustopher:
It may be a minuscule amount more effort, but it works better to my taste. On previous ROMs/devices I have used (may be my error) the double tap to select option would also display the editing options, often obscuring key parts of the word choice window.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] cmd512:
Yeah, it's by no means a deal breaker as I'm still using Swype. But, it definitely slows down the editing process if you follow their suggested "finish typing everything, then go back and edit" as you're constantly moving from the text box, down to options button, back up again to select, and repeat.

Plus, your move cursor and click options key has always been available as an option for editing. The point is the double tap for word select no longer works, big difference there.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Burko:
In all honesty if this is bothering you, I can assume you're undergone neural pathway optimisation to maximise your response time........ I think your making a big deal out if nothing here. Things change, some people like it some don't. Let it go.

Burko
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] JexL:
When i press the word and press the swype key it used to always bring up the word choice window. Yesterday suddenly after a friend played with my phone it started acting weird. and instead of word choice window it brings up the tips window. Anyone know why?? its really frustrating me. the word choice window only comes up like 60% of the time now!!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Ohkuni:
Same here, except I get the Tips every single time so can't use the Swype button at all. Noticed this happen since I flashed the Lite'ning ROM on KE7. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ngkkv:
anyone finds that its accuracy is really bad now?

mine is 2.72.77.25374.25547.1252.OXX on stock OS. and i think its accuracy is really bad. a let down when i show my friends.
[General Questions and Answers] Corey Bryant:
Sorry that I had to post here, but I don't have enough posts to post on the other boards.

I was trying to basically get specific links to developing apps for Android, Windows Mobile 7 Live, and iPhone and links for the image requirements

I have two apps that I am interested in developing. One if pretty similar to direct uses to a website to sign in. However I would like to know if it is possibly to have some real estate (preferably at the top) to add a link to my website.

The other, is basically an app to build for my RSS feed to my blog. I would also like to maybe have some real estate at the top to promote my URL. Both apps are free.

From what I have been trying to read, some marketplaces do not charge anything for free apps and some charge something. I was wondering if it might be easier to get a developer that has an account and can develop the app / submit it as well?

Thank you!
[Acer Iconia A500] muqali:
Anyone have any recommendations from a bigger name developer? Unless it's open source, I don't trust stuff from Chang Wang, Mahatma Gupta, or Vasiliy Stratkov. Too little quality assurance for my taste, so I'm looking for people who've already taken the risk for me :-D
[HTC Inspire 4G] jonx15:
Was out today and thought I'd stop by and check out the infuse...

I spent about 5 minutes goin over it...

The screen looks awesome....

Touchwiz looks cheap...

GPS could not lock on my location..but the Atrix and the Inspire on display had no trouble at all..

I may be a little jealous if the display and battery size of the infuse...otherwise I'm stickin with the inspire...
[HTC Inspire 4G] trell959:
good there really isn't a plus from other galaxy s phones. Sure there's a better camera, bigger screen, ffc, and a better screen but what's hardware without software?
[HTC Inspire 4G] newter55:
I messed with one for five minutes as well. Salesman was really hyping it up how it was the best phone on at&t right now. I agree the screen is nice but I still prefer the inspire.
[HTC Inspire 4G] MtGoat:
I feel just like that whenever I look at my wife’s Galaxy Captivate’s bright screen, until I try to navigate that damn Touchwiz. Grass will always be greener on the other side when it comes to technical toys. But with all the things I can do with my Inspire 4G, I can do without the faster CPU, front facing camera, and the extra .2 inches of high def screen until next Inspire (something comparable to) comes out.
[HTC Inspire 4G] buradd:
if we sell enough of them, samsung gives us goodies, we win points that we can redeem for electronics and such...

so you're damn right its the best phone we have at AT&T right now..

(i still use my inspire and i think its way better than both infuse and atrix, much more solid built etc)

but yea.. when the next phone comes out that gives us salesmen something good in return, guess what.. it's gonna be the best phone you can buy for your money!! i guarantee it!! *wink*
[HTC Inspire 4G] secretasianman:
The Infuse looks very interesting to me.

I checked out a non-working demo unit at Costco and it's about the same size as the Inspire and the screen was noticeably bigger. Bravo Samsung for coming out with a 4.5" screen phone and using as much real estate on the front of the phone as possible.

The GPS lock problem... hmmm... gee Samsung... haven't you learned?

As far as the UI: Come on... most of us hate TouchWiz. That's a given. Just replace it with LauncherPro or ADWLauncher. I bet half of the Inspire users here don't use Sense (though I do and actually like Sense).

Would I trade in my Inspire for the Infuse (I bought from Costco): No. I'm still pissed off at Samsung over the Captivate GPS issues... but if the Infuse turns out to have 100% working hardware and features as advertised it'd be a step in the right direction winning me back. I would recommend it to non-phone obsessed friends who don't care about quick OS updates.

We'll be hearing about any defects or problems within a week if there are any.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Cobra302:
I played with one too. Reminded me of my captivate just bigger. kinda cool, but eh. I still prefer my Inspire!
[HTC Inspire 4G] -Kevlar-:
I love sense, and when I had my captivated, everything about it was HTC. notification bar, battery meter, signal meter, app icons, etc. I wasn't phone obsessed as far as updates until I got into Android. So that may change for them.
[HTC Inspire 4G] nooomoto:
Samsung's hardware is tempting, but I'll never forget the garbage I (we) went through with the Captivate. Dying earpiece and external speakers (both happened to me on different handsets), sleep death, no GPS, the OTA update that bricked stock phones...all of this and more, and the phone hasn't even been out for a year.

Not only that, but Samsung insulted us by releasing a GPS "fix" app in the market that "restored the GPS to factory settings"...you know, the ones that didn't work in the first place?

I'm not a fanboy and won't spend my money buying products from a company that is all to happy to ass-rape me for giving them business. Apple has the luxury for rabid fanboyism, so no matter what they do, people will still buy their products. Samsung doesn't have that, they just think they do for some reason.
[HTC Inspire 4G] floppy__:
The good side of the Infuse is his unlocked bootloader.

My wife has a Inspire and I have a captivate, I have to say the captivate is really easier to unlock. But I agree with most of you about the captivate, a stock captivate is really not perfect, but I'm running my cappy with Contiuuum 5.4.1 (Android 2.3.3) and I can say bye bye to all the problems, my gps is a dream and my battery time is amazing.
[HTC Inspire 4G] stuartmc:
I have a SE Xperia X10 and I'm in the market for a new phone, so I went to my local AT&T store for the Sunday release of the Infuse. I played with it, and with the Inspire, for about an hour.

I came away from the experience thinking my next phone will be an HTC...now if I can only hold out for the upcoming "Holiday." hee hee. Here's why-

1. I have owned Samsungs before, including a brief stint with the Captivate, and I'm unimpressed with the company as far as updates and support.

2. The HTC aluminum unibody case just says "build quality" to me. The infuse felt just like the Captivate in the hand - like flimsy, cheap plastic that should not be used for high-end phones. I know some people want light weight, but come on - few extra grams won't kill ya and it just might save your phone if you're a little rough with it.

3. The Infuse's screen was way too color over-saturated for me. It's bright and clear, but looks surreal to me. I would tire of that in hurry.

4. I could detect no speed or smoothness advantage for the Infuse. Heck, I could load up a custom rom on the Inspire, overclock it conservatively and just beat the snot out of the Infuse... which leads me to....

5. There seems to be a whole lot more developer time and interest in the HTC devices, which means loads more fun for me.
[HTC Inspire 4G] dstevens:
I have both phones with me right now and here are my quick observations between the two phones (Inspire running current version of LeeDroid 2.3.3):

Web browsing: Inspire – Seems to load pages faster and better scrolling.

Camera: Infuse – For some reason the pictures from my Inspire produce a redish look and are too soft, almost out of focus.

Build quality: Inspire – HTC = solid. I don’t notice much difference when carrying them in my pocket as the Infuse is lighter.

Screen: Infuse - However the Inspire is not bad. I could live with both. After looking at the Infuse I do notice a little bit of softness to the Inspire’s text.

Call quality/Handset speaker: Infuse – I have always had an issue with the call quality of HTC devices for my taste. I have to say that the Infuse has one of the best sounding speakers. I would rate it on par with the iPhone 4 or better.

GPS: Infuse – I get a lock in about 10 seconds. Inspire takes about 1 minute with current ROM/Radio.

Battery life: Infuse – But not by much (10 to 15% better).

Speedtests: Infuse – Speed tests seam consistently higher using Speedtest.net (between 4-5 download and 1.5-2 upload).

Battery charging: Inspire – for some reason the Infuse (and most Samsung phones) take forever to fully charge.

Reception: Still need a few more days with the phone but did have an issue with it the very first call. Called AT&T to make a change to my account and dropped the call five times. The lady at AT&T apologized and said that her land line has been dropping a lot of calls lately (WTF?!?!). I should have a conclusion within the next few days.

I’m not going to get into Touchwiz vs. Sense as there are several write-ups on this but based upon the above, I’m leaning towards the Infuse. Call quality is fantastic on my side as well as the other side. I travel a lot so being in airports and cars this is very important for me. The other item is camera quality. Images may be a little oversaturated by they look sharp and I’m no longer to grabbing my wife’s iPhone 4 to take pictures or videos.

Hope this helps anyone looking at both of these devices and let me know if you have any questions.