Droid - Just arrived and first take!

[dougwilson2000]

I piece of plastic will very little effect on heat. The heat comes from the bottom half and what about the thicker covers most have on Droid?
The plastic may keep your slide tighter with it on verses with it off.

 

[Deleted User]

4. Yes! On your dial pad, left of the phone symbol (send button), there is a button that like a old roll of film (two circles with a line connecting at the top). This button when pushed takes you to voicemail.
By going to menu- settings-call settings-voicemail settings you can adjust it to put in your password and 1 to go straight to your messages.
Right now it has *86. For example if your password is 6677,then you would make the number in the space *86,6677#,,,1. The commas are pauses. Now when you press the button ,you go straight to your messages.

OMG How did you know my password?!

CREEPER!

But yes that is a good way to do it, or just use G Voice its so much better, plus with a transcript of what the message is, better then the Visual Voice Mail from VZW, (I know also!)

 

[Berkshire5]

All,

Thanks again. I am still having trouble with the instant push mail. It is sat up correctly, but still having a delay. I'm guessing this is Google's issue?

 

[aaron19953]

Nature of the beast. Google push is better now. Droid only polls every 15 minutes or so. If polling was constant, your battery would suffer big time.
A few minutes for email is not bad, seems like GV SMS are a lot quicker now for texting back and forth, must have a priority push on them.

No, gmail is PUSH.. the gmail app does not poll. If you're not getting your messages quickly, it's just an issue with google

mine is not syncing realtime right now either..

 

[aaron19953]

also, when in doubt check out the google apps status page
google mail has a "service disruption" right now

Apps Status Dashboard

 

[Berkshire5]

No, gmail is PUSH.. the gmail app does not poll. If you're not getting your messages quickly, it's just an issue with google

mine is not syncing realtime right now either..

Good to know that its not my device... If I had to exchange for a new one after one day of ownership, it would be a huge turn off.

I was just on the phone with tech support and was told 3-5 minutes delay is "normal." I then proceeded to explain "instant" does not equal to 3-5 minutes of lag.

Another clueless tech.

 

[johnny99]

I use Google Voice for my voice mail. It transcribes all my voice mail to text, so I can easily identify and delete the junk without ever listening to it. The transcriptions aren't always accurate, so I still have to listen to some of them.

 

[mazz0310]

For the news widget you have to go to settings -> location -> and enable the first check box.

 

[rushmore]

There are several Android devices coming out with a real keyboard, but two main ones are:

1. Droid 2
2. Nexus 2 Enterprise Edition