Testing MobileWrite

Not as good as Transcriber on WinMo, but perfectly usable, once l get a universal stylus

Android file system

I realize they're going for an iPhone-style walled garden experience to a certain extent, so the average user isn't supposed to be browsing the file system, but it's a PIA to find anything compared with Windows Mobile. "/sd" is simple enough, not as straight forward as "/Storage Card", but why are the majority of my files on the local phone storage located at "/emmc/" instead of something like "/My Documents" like on WinMo?

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Glitchy SD card access?

Could be something in the way the Mac handles USB mounts - I know I'm supposed to unmount the phone drive before disconnecting it from the computer, but after several days of disconnecting the phone frequently from my PC (Windows 7) with no consequences, the contents of the card disappeared on the third disconnect from my Mac.

Weird thing is that, while the drive was empty according to the file manager I installed on the phone as well as the default Photos and Music apps, the contents showed up fine in the Finder when I reconnected it. After backing up the stuff I wanted to the Mac, I tried multiple times to get the contents to show up on the phone itself. Finally I tried taking a picture and that did the trick - the new photo showed up along with all the old photos, as well as the music and videos as well.

So we're good now, but I'll be unmounting the phone from the Mac before disconnecting from now on.

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Android sales surpass iPhone

http://m.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/android-sales-surge-surpass-iphone-updated/2019?tag=nl.e539

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AudioManager widget

Discovered the AudioManager widget on the app store, which may help with another feature from WinMo that I'm missing on Android - a system-wide equalizer and audio booster.  The music volume when played via the headphone jack on the Incredible is way too low, even when set to max, and on WinMo I can just turn on audio boost, but with Android there don't seem to be any options for boosting or equalizing the audio.

TouchDown!

Installed the 30 day trial of TouchDown, an Exchange client for Android, works great.  It even supports that "set default action when deleting a message" feature I whined about in another post, so I guess that's a MS Exchange thing.

FroYo's due to come out some time next week, but I'll believe it when it happens.  In the meantime, I've got TouchDown to cover me, and if I don't have native Exchange support that works 30 days from now, I'm shelling out for the Pro version.

Improved Exchange support coming in FroYo?

It's rumoured that FroYo will include fixes for Droid's Exchange support - I hope so, because I can't currently connect to my company's Exchange server, and I feel like I'm flying blind. My WinMo phone has no problem connecting, and neither do any of my iPhone using friends (those with iOS4 even have support for multiple Exchange accounts, something WinMo has NEVER had)