[Cialug] Tonight's meeting

joshstrobl at hush.ai joshstrobl at hush.ai
Wed Nov 18 21:22:25 CST 2009


it was great meeting everyone, I should be able to attend the 
January meeting, will not be able to attend December meeting due to 
transportation issues. Does anyone live in Ankeny that would be 
willing to provide transport to this meeting and back? 

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:32:05 -0600 David Champion <dave at dchamp.net> 
wrote:
>A co-worker has one of the WinMo HTC phones - it's really nice 
>looking 
>hardware. He complains that it has really bad lag issues - if you 
>get a 
>call, do the on-screen slider to unlock the phone & answer, it 
>takes 
>several seconds before you can talk to the caller. He also has had 
>it 
>crash several times. He's in the process of trading it in for a 
>Motorola 
>Droid phone.
>
>I also like the Pre phones a lot - there are a few Pre owners on 
>this 
>list. I've been a Palm phone user in the past - had a Visor Phone 
>(not 
>really a great phone, but one of the first smart phones) and a 
>Treo 600. 
>The Treo had a good smart phone UI that was usable with your 
>fingertip 
>on a touch screen... in contrast to the WinMo phones that feel 
>like 
>you're trying to run Windows on a 3" screen...
>
>But... for the ultimate nerd phone, the Nokia N900 with Maemo 
>linux just 
>became available today. If you don't mind dropping $600 on a 
>phone.
>
>-dc
>
>jrnosee at gmail.com wrote:
>> Well, I wanted to make it tonight.  I'm still trying to figure 
>out if 
>> my next phone will be WinMo or Android.  Seems I've come down 
>with 
>> something.
>>
>> Anyone with input on WinMo vs Android?
>>
>> Right now my choice is WinMo on a Sprint Touch Pro 2 (when I can 
>
>> afford one :(  ) and hope someone will port android so I can 
>have my 
>> pick later.
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