wolfboy

Photo Streams only good for syncing pics you take on the camera phone. What about importing existing photos from my computer? Or organizing my photos the way I want to?

I have to re-organize all my pictures since iOS doesn’t do subfolders.

For instance, I want: Photos > Folder > Subfolders
(Photos > 2010 > 5.28 Friend’s Birthday, 4.13 BBQ at X, etc.)
(Photos > 2011 > 7.29 Beach, 10.31 Halloween, etc.)
(Photos > Other > Wallpapers folder, Cars folder, etc.)

Instead I have to move and rename everything around following the iOS Photo Apps hierarchy: Photos > Folders
(Photos > “2010.5.28 Friends Birthday”, “2010.4.13 BBQ at X”, “2011.7.29 Beach”, “2011.10.31 Halloween”, Wallpapers, Cars)

and have like 80 different folders instead of 3 main folders with subfolders inside them. On top of that, I have to mix together IRL photos with non-IRL photos.

And if you do have any subfolders when you import, it’ll just throw folders out altogether and vomit the thousands of pictures you have into one giant photo directory.

I’m also running a Galaxy Nexus and a 3rd gen iPad, which imo is the best combination. The iPad is the better tablet, higher res and more tablet apps. The Nexus is the better phone since they made ICS so good. With that said, I’m in the same boat as you when you say there’s no dream OS. They both have pros and cons, but it mostly boils down to: Android has no games, iOS Google integration sucks.

A bigger list below:

iOS
+ Apps and games: by a huge amount. Has all the 3rd party support and usually gets them first.
+ Robust Back-up system: I love that it restores data too
+ iTunes Match: Love the match feature and playlist sync
+ Siri: I don’t have it, but can imagine it’s much easier to just say “Do this at X o clock”, I hate manually entering times and dates on Android when creating events.
+ Stock Reminders App that integrates with Siri. Why Google didn’t include a Google Calendar Tasks App in Android, I don’t know.
- Adding Photos through iTunes: GARBAGE. One of the worst things about iOS.
- Settings: Some settings are in the apps themselves, some are in the Settings App. Very annoying.
- Google integration sucks. You have to set it up as an Exchange account and do these workarounds.

Android
+ Google integration is awesome, expected
+ Chrome. Dat sync
+ Apps talk to each other. Everything feels connected very well, whereas on iOS it feels like they’re all separated
+ I like that I can change default apps like the browser. It’s much more like a computer than iOS in that sense.
+ Drag and drop photos
- No full back-up system. You can only redownload apps and that doesn’t even include data. When you switch to a new phone, all the game save data is gone. One of the reasons I don’t game on Android. Speaking of which…
- Games: missing quite a lot.

It still blows my mind that carriers are still charging $20 for text messages. If you’re paying for a data plan, shouldn’t that include the data that text messaging uses too?

1. iPhone 4/4S
2. Nokia Lumia 800/900/N9
3. HTC One X/S
4. Galaxy Nexus
5. HTC Evo/Droid Incredible (loved the red innards)

Wow, very innovative. Definitely for power users, but so are the multi-touch gestures on the iPad. I feel as time goes on though, it’s necessary to continue adding more of these “invisible” actions if they want the platform to grow. The mass population can continue doing things the long way while power users can use these shortcuts. I know I wouldn’t use computers nearly as fast if I didn’t have keyboard commands and had to right-click or hit the Edit filemenu every time I wanted to copy and paste something.

I give him a week. Two weeks max.

The rounded square inside of the Home button is shaped to match the app icons. Why’d you turn it into a rectangle?

Apparently it takes a lot less time to launch a smartphone than to implement an editing comment feature on The Verge =D

There’s tons of posts online that have concluded that Straight Talk will terminate/cancel your plan (including your phone number) without warning if you:

1. Use more than 70 to 100mb a day
2. Use more than 2gb a month

It sounded good on paper, but I’m kind of weary of them at this point. Straight Talk doesn’t actually state what their limitations are, but they’re clearly there.