Has anybody here gone from an iPhone to an Android phone?

[miles]

How about user-installed apps?  What's the trick to getting rid of them?

Now, after living with this thing for over 24 hours, I can say that I am getting some things figured out.  I also consistently do the wrong thing in certain circumstances, leading me to believe that whoever it was that developed this UI has a different sense of what is intuitive than I have.

[fineout]

go to the market then hit the options/settings button thing and there is a my apps menu, then you can uninstall from there

[miles]

go to the market then hit the options/settings button thing and there is a my apps menu, then you can uninstall from there

Really? That's ridicu lous.  

[fineout]

actually theres a much easier way,go to settings then applications and you can do it from there

[scottzilla]

How about user-installed apps?  What's the trick to getting rid of them?

Now, after living with this thing for over 24 hours, I can say that I am getting some things figured out.  I also consistently do the wrong thing in certain circumstances, leading me to believe that whoever it was that developed this UI has a different sense of what is intuitive than I have.

You can completely uninstall apps under settings-manage applications.
If you want them off of you home screen simply long press and move to trash.

It takes a while but soon you will see how dumb Windows really is.   They were the only game in town so we were forced to learn the dumb way of doing things.

[tigertom1965]

I have an HTC Aria and I updated it to Android 2.2. I am hating this phone but am stuck until around Thanksgiving this year (2 year contract). As a phone and using bluetooth I don't have complaints. The battery life has dropped off considerably since it was new but it is sporadic. I always charge my phone every night but now have to charge it at around 5 pm instead of 11 pm. As far as apps go I have everything I need except the ability to synch. My phone has my latest contacts from my last working synch but the calandar never synched correctly. I cannot delete a recurring appointment without deleting all of the recurrances. I have done the updates to fix this but it still doesn't work and HTC won't return my emails. The newest synch program from HTC now will not allow my phone to be seen at all on my computer. It does allow it to charge the battery but not synch with it. This is my number one problem (No synching of my calandar). For some reason my phone now only vibrates when someone calls even though it is set to both ring and vibrate. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. When I connect with ATT and try to do an over the air update it just hangs and never finds an update. When I updated to Android 2.2 from 2.1 it was supposed to format my micro (?) SD card but it didn't so now I have multiple duplicate folders on my card. This is a royal pain to keep track of where things are now kept. I would never buy another HTC phone again. As far as buying an Android phone........if the phone I really wanted has Android I will definately makes sure everything is working like I want it during my trial period this time. 4G phones are not needed unless you live in a 4G area of the country. If you travel a lot you will find that most places don't even have 3G yet. At least where I travel to. The browsers that most of these phones use is still not completely compatible with windows standard browsers so I tend to see the WAPP websites more often. Also this phone doesn't have Flash 10.3 available on it. I don't think I can get 10 at all. Also the screen is too small for most web browsing, the keyboard is tiny either way (Tilted to side or not) and I constantly fat finger my words. One other big turn off is that it constantly auto corrects words that are not spelled wrong to some other word. If you do use facebook on your phone it works semi ok for that but many things are missing. My Hotmail used to freeze all the time when I accessed it through the web browser. I have set up my phone to download my email from Hotmail, GMAIL, and a work place through the air (Not using any synch program) (Pop servers though).

[FJRmgm]

Resistance is futile:

Announced 6-28-11
Google announced at its annual Google I/O conference last month that as of the beginning of May, the tech giant was activating 400,000 Android new devices each day.
That amazing pace seemed almost impossible to keep up, but fast forward to Tuesday and Google’s Android boss shared a new stat. “There are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it’s growing at 4.4% w/w,” Andy Rubin posted from his Twitter account.

[miles]

After a week of living with this Android phone, I'm getting used to some things about it, but I miss my iPhone.  In fact, I'm going to try to live with this new phone for a month, and then decide- but at this point, I expect to return to my iPhone with joy in my heart.

[scottzilla]

After a week of living with this Android phone, I'm getting used to some things about it, but I miss my iPhone.  In fact, I'm going to try to live with this new phone for a month, and then decide- but at this point, I expect to return to my iPhone with joy in my heart.

The iPhone is super intuitive and the apps are just plain better, IMO.  Have you tried to mount your droid to a pc?  This often changes people's perspective of android technology. Just drop and drag, create folders, etc.

[Marcster]

I didn't have an iPhone per se, but on Monday, I went from a "Quick Messaging (dumb) Phone" supplemented with a Apple Touch 2nd Gen to a HTC Inspire 4G.

So far so good...  Many of the same apps that I used on the Touch are available on Android...  Same but different.

[squeezer]

I have an HTC Aria and I updated it to Android 2.2. I am hating this phone but am stuck until around Thanksgiving this year (2 year contract).  (snip)

The autocorrect can be turned off in settings. Whether or not the browser chooses wap sites can be changed in browser settings.

I also had calendar syncing issues so I just switched calendars. I use one called CalenGoo (who thought up that name?).  It syncs seamlessly with Google Calendar. I use Outlook on my work computer, and it syncs with Google Calendar too, so I'm synced and good to go without ever plugging the phone into the computer.

On my blackberries, I always had to replace the battery after a year. We'll see if I have to do that here.

I've got the HTC Incredible 2 and the wife has the HTC Thunderbolt. We're both in love with them.

[Rincewind]

After a week of living with this Android phone, I'm getting used to some things about it, but I miss my iPhone.  In fact, I'm going to try to live with this new phone for a month, and then decide- but at this point, I expect to return to my iPhone with joy in my heart.

I think that's what would've happened if I had gone that way.  I'm glad to have gone with the iPhone 4.  If you can wait, there are rumored to be three new iPhones around the corner.