New Social Group - Ex-Blackberry Users

[cLovis_ll]

i still love my tour but hey, count me in..

[Traydoggz]

I held a wake for my BB curve on Friday when I bought my Droid. For me the BB turned out to be just a texting device, I couldn't get over the fact that I was not able to receive my emails from work on the BB, and that damn truncate message drove me up the wall. Oh well, so I lost BBM, I'll survive.

[jj14]

Count me in too! I had a S1 and a Tour. No comparison...the Droid is completely amazing

[bguild]

I guess you convertees haven't had any issues with Exchange sync on your Droids huh? Honestly, Exchange support is kind of poor on this phone. Search the forum for the other threads with details if you care to. No Exchange AS provisioning support, no GAL, no Accept/Decline buttons on invites being sent. I love my Droid to death, so I've decided to overlook these things until they are fixed in a software update (hopefully soon)

[New2Droid2010]

Hello All, I just got my Droid X - I had a BB Storm 1 and have been a BB user since BB was a big wide thing with no phone on it - a loonnng time. The Droid seems neat but honestly I have a headache after having fooled with it for the past 7 or 8 hours or so. I miss my "MISSED CALL" notification that popped up on my BB :-(, keep touching the touch screen to get a home screen and NADA and can't figure out why all of my FB friends are now in my contacts and why my contacts are showing only the history of text messages, etc. :-( I have downloaded and read the manual but it really isn't that helpful. I'm usually pretty savvy at learning new things and I hope I will learn this. I'm blown away by the browsing capabilities and how fast this thing is but I have no email (other than Gmail) and that, along with these other issues is making me wonder...anyone else having BB withdrawal??? :-)

Loving this forum though so thanks for all of the posts!

[qoncept]

@New2Droid:
Download Missed Call from the market. You can set up LEDs for different notifications just like with your Blackberry. I also use SMS Popup to make txt messages come up when I get them.

Droid X handles Facebook different than my Droid did. I don't think people have found a happy solution yet. In the meantime, open the My Accounts app and delete your Facebook account if you don't want those people showing in your contacts. On the Droid, Facebook could sync with just your Google contacts. I'd assume they'll fix it on the X as it seems NO ONE IN THE WORLD wants all of their Facebook contacts showing on their phone.

I'm not sure what you mean by contacts only showing the text message history. I did notice there are 3 dots at the top of the contact's screen now on the X, for 3 screens. Try swiping your finger from right to left or left to right in the contact screen.

[New2Droid2010]

Thanks so much for the tips! That's exactly what I needed to do with the contacts. Now if I can just get my law firm email set up and figure out a few more things I will be cooking with gas! I just don't find the user guide all that helpful with detailed questions so I appreciate this forum and in particular, thank you for your help!

[qoncept]

Yeah, I know what you mean, but I don't know how they could make a comprehensive guide to everything you want to do. There are so many apps you can download that interact in different ways and change functionality from version to version that it's really impossible.

Blackberry might be documented better because so many of its hidden features just aren't all that intuitive. Most things you can figure out in Android with enough playing around, but on BB there are things you'd never find without a guide. FWIW, the ONLY thing I miss about my Curve is the keyboard, but I'd rather have more screen and a smaller phone than have a keyboard (the original Droid keyboard was completely worthless).

That is one thing I find kind of annoying with Android -- Google seems to change things from version to version (I've used 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2, plus Moto's customizations on Droid X) just for the sake of change. The default Android keyboard has some non-trivial changes in every single version.