Moving to Android from an iphone

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agboyd13

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...and I have a few questions before I take the leap. btw I will be getting a Desire

1) I hear the SMS is stored as conversations per contact as on iphone. Is there any way to revert to traditional messaging whereby 1 message is shown per entry ect...

2) Some of my music needs it's volume adjusted. Right now I do this through itunes. How should I tackle this for when I want to listen to the same music on the desire? Is there any program anyone knows off that can do this?

3) In google maps can I do route planning the same as on google maps on the iphone or online? Set and save bookmarks ect? And street view?

4) Some questions on apps, maybe someone can tell me if these are available on the market. Btw the Android Market website looks shabby, I could probably put a better one together. Are they not going to revamp that at some point?

Ok so are the following apps available for Android.

Shazam
Ebuddy (would this include push notifications?)
Skype
Any app for online streaming radio. I found TuneIn Radio foriphone the best ive used and wunderradio the worst.
Units converter (is this one native/in built?)

5) Is there any way I can security lock some folders on my memory card say I don't want some videos or pics to be accessed by anyone without the need for a PW.

6) On GSM Arena it says it plays WMV files out of the box. Is this true? And when can we expect the update that will allow Div X? And similariry the HD video update?

Thanks
 
1) Not that I know of, but why would you want to? There are a number of replacement Messaging apps on the Market, some very good ones, but I don't know if they can show unthreaded messages.

2) There are a number of programs for Windows that can normalise the volume of your MP3s. MediaMonkey is quite popular, but I don't use these myself so maybe someone else could recommend one. Can you not continue to use iTunes for this? So long as you have the files in MP3 format you can just copy them onto your SD card.

3) Yes - you can do all of that on Google Maps. You may also be able to get turn by turn voice directions on the Desire. You can on the Nexus and it's practically the same phone. Bookmarks? Not sure. You can "Star" locations... but I've not really used this feature. Someone else help with that one?

4) You're quite right - Google's Market website is terrible. The best sites to look at the Android Market are http://www.androlib.com/ and http://www.cyrket.com/m/android/

Shazam - yes.
eBuddy - yes.
Skype - kind of... you currently can't do VOIP stuff. But they are working on it, and Skype recently advertised for a programmer position to work on this specifically. It could be a while though.

Not sure about streaming radio. A lot of people use Spotify.

5) There are a number of apps that can encrypt folders or files (some specifically for your naughty pics). Or you can "hide" them by simply renaming the file or folder so it begins with a . character. This is the standard way for Linux to hide files/folders.

6) Don't know in all cases.
 
Thanks for your reply extorian!

For the itunes one yes I can continue sorting the volumes in itunes but doesn't that only output into an iphone/ipod? Or is that stored as metadata of the mp3 like coverart ect? If so then im sorted.
 
I don't know to be honest - I've never used iTunes.

I would have thought it re-encoded the MP3 with the new volume. That would take some time though... so maybe it's just some clever metadata tag like you say that the iPhone reads and uses to adjust the volume automatically on playback. I really don't know though, I just knew that iTunes had some option to adjust volume.
 
I've just today got the desire having had the iPhone 3G for the last 18 months and so far I'm not too impressed, I find its not as intuitive ad the iPhone but it certainly has its merits. The thing that's bugging me the most is the updating of news and social networking sites, along with the fact the apps aren't up to the same quality of the iPhone equivalent.

To answer your query regarding radio streaming though, the desire does have a built in fm radio which should meet some of your radio needs

I'm going to play a bit more and see if I can't sort some of the thing that are bugging me
 
I've just today got the desire having had the iPhone 3G for the last 18 months and so far I'm not too impressed, I find its not as intuitive ad the iPhone but it certainly has its merits. The thing that's bugging me the most is the updating of news and social networking sites, along with the fact the apps aren't up to the same quality of the iPhone equivalent.

To answer your query regarding radio streaming though, the desire does have a built in fm radio which should meet some of your radio needs

I'm going to play a bit more and see if I can't sort some of the thing that are bugging me
 
there are a lot of apps that will streem music im using a anline raidio that i love. the apps such as Facebook could be a lot better but that's not the phones fault but the developers fault. i personally love the app store especially 2.1 firmware. im glad that you are coming over to the light side. one peice of advice dont compare these phonea to the iphone becouse you will be disaponted. there are very different operating systems and do things some what very differently.
 
Any suggestions to show off what Android can do? I like the hardware and I keep reading how much more "open" the OS (compared to iPhone) is but I'm a bit like a donkey with a yoyo at the moment - I've no idea what to do with it (to get it to its full potential that is)

Cheers
 
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