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From: nospam on 13 Aug 2010 18:43 In article <9a138cff-57ce-4673-8064-9e05deb5806a(a)i13g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, ed <news(a)atwistedweb.com> wrote: > > So there is something hard about docking your iPhone, backing up, and > > then restoring on your new phone? > > you're comparing apples-oranges as i said. yeah, going from iphone- > iphone is easy. going android-android is even easier, with regards to > backing up contacts. you'd get your new phone, put in your gmail > info, and have everything synced and ready to go before you leave the > store. no need to dock anything. but the rest of the stuff is more difficult, such as app data.
From: John Navas on 13 Aug 2010 18:45 On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:04:11 -0700 (PDT), in <fff0d579-f7bb-46e1-a9d3-719e73bbddcb(a)w30g2000yqw.googlegroups.com>, KDT <scarface_74(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On Aug 13, 4:26�pm, John Navas <spamfilt...(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:45:07 -0700 (PDT), in >> <2e99bca8-230d-4ce3-92d4-38125d517...(a)w30g2000yqw.googlegroups.com>, KDT >> >> <scarface...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> >On Aug 13, 12:32�pm, ed <n...(a)atwistedweb.com> wrote: >> >> unlike you, i can't speak for "most stores" and what software they >> >> have (and i'm not sure how you do). �:P �but my local sprint store >> >> (that i went to) can (and did) transfer them as google contacts that >> >> sync. >> >> >It was Best Buy. >> >> There's a lesson there. �;) > >Best Buy doesn't require you to wait for a rebate -- unlike, >ironically, buying directly from Sprint. There's a lesson there. ;) Hint: Don't buy from Sprint. >> >But isn't it a lot easier just to use iTunes to back >> >up your old phone and then restore? >> >> No. �There's a lesson there too. �;) > >So there is something hard about docking your iPhone, backing up, and >then restoring on your new phone? It requires tethering to bloatware on your computer that has a nasty habit of corrupting its own database and/or your tethered device, whereas I use the cloud seamlessly and easily right from my mobile wherever I happen to be. "Different strokes for different folks." -- John If the iPhone and iPad are really so impressive, then why do iFans keep making excuses for them?
From: John Navas on 13 Aug 2010 18:48 On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:05:14 -0400, in <Wrj9o.24704$RZ1.23447(a)newsfe24.iad>, Todd Allcock <elecconnec(a)AnoOspamL.com> wrote: >Sorry I haven't been clearer. I've been backed into a corner by a third- >party app, Overdrive Media Console, an audiobook management app that >allows you to borrow audiobooks from local libraries over the 'net and >sync them via iTunes to iPods/iPhones. For whatever reason (presumably >DRM) the software requires any iPod receiving the books to be in manual >management mode. I dislike Overdrive (albeit not as much as I dislike iTunes). What I do instead is convert the Overdrive downloads into DRM-free MP3 files, which are then easily copied/synced to my mobile. Details available on request. -- John "Assumption is the mother of all screw ups." [Wethern�s Law of Suspended Judgement]
From: John Navas on 13 Aug 2010 18:49 On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:02:14 -0700 (PDT), in <3809fb7d-7454-4dd4-a1a5-e71936df2432(a)q22g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, KDT <scarface_74(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On Aug 13, 12:45�pm, Todd Allcock <eleccon...(a)AnoOspamL.com> wrote: >> Sense, essentially, is a multi-purpose app. �The native Android music >> player is surprisingly crude. > >And so is the included HTC media player..... In your opinion. I think it's just fine. Likewise everyone else I know (other than you) with an HTC Android. "Different strokes for different folks." -- John If the iPhone and iPad are really so impressive, then why do iFans keep making excuses for them?
From: ed on 13 Aug 2010 18:50
On Aug 13, 3:43 pm, nospam <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > <n...(a)atwistedweb.com> wrote: > > > So there is something hard about docking your iPhone, backing up, and > > > then restoring on your new phone? > > > you're comparing apples-oranges as i said. yeah, going from iphone- > > iphone is easy. going android-android is even easier, with regards to > > backing up contacts. you'd get your new phone, put in your gmail > > info, and have everything synced and ready to go before you leave the > > store. no need to dock anything. > > but the rest of the stuff is more difficult, such as app data. i didn't say it wasn't. you want i should confirm everything i agree with? :P |