I'm currently rocking a Blackberry Tour 9630 and frankly it's getting a bit boring to me. And the Bold 9650 is essentially the same phone. So I ordered a Droidx, but I've already dialed sales to cancel twice but hung up before I got to an operator. Thing is even though my BB is boring and slow it does everything I need it too do. Email, calendaring, reminder notifications.
I'm currently using gsyncit to sync my outlook calendar and contacts to gmail so I don't think that's a problem.
Here are a few things I need the Droidx to do.
1. Be able to talk and input a new calendar appointment at the same time. A lot of times a customer will call and make an appointment. I need to be able to edit my calendar while they are giving me their information.
2. Instant email, I use gmail for personal but my business email I have hosted on a dedicated server it's not exchange but does have imap idle. I understand the default mail client is only pull / polling every X minutes but theres alternatives like maildroid and K-9. Are these decent and will it display a mail icon on the main screen with the amount of new msg?
3. Reminder notifications, I have Blackberry set to remind my of appointments 30mins in advanced with popup covering my screen, audible alert, and blinking LED. Same goes for when I receive a new msg whether it's email, facebook, sms, mms. I want the same thing with Droid.
4. Copy and paste. I copy and paste a lot for example I'll copy and paste a number from my call log to an email or calendar entry. Or a web address my email or sms.
I would also like to hear from other ex-BB users who switched especially ones that actually used a Blackberry for calendaring, email, messaging, etc. How was the switch, are you happy? What do you miss from the Blackberry if anything? Thanks.
I'm currently using gsyncit to sync my outlook calendar and contacts to gmail so I don't think that's a problem.
Here are a few things I need the Droidx to do.
1. Be able to talk and input a new calendar appointment at the same time. A lot of times a customer will call and make an appointment. I need to be able to edit my calendar while they are giving me their information.
2. Instant email, I use gmail for personal but my business email I have hosted on a dedicated server it's not exchange but does have imap idle. I understand the default mail client is only pull / polling every X minutes but theres alternatives like maildroid and K-9. Are these decent and will it display a mail icon on the main screen with the amount of new msg?
3. Reminder notifications, I have Blackberry set to remind my of appointments 30mins in advanced with popup covering my screen, audible alert, and blinking LED. Same goes for when I receive a new msg whether it's email, facebook, sms, mms. I want the same thing with Droid.
4. Copy and paste. I copy and paste a lot for example I'll copy and paste a number from my call log to an email or calendar entry. Or a web address my email or sms.
I would also like to hear from other ex-BB users who switched especially ones that actually used a Blackberry for calendaring, email, messaging, etc. How was the switch, are you happy? What do you miss from the Blackberry if anything? Thanks.