I have had only one previous smartphone, which was a Blackberry with paltry specs of 600Mhz CPU. Even so, I find this a lot faster for common tasks and apps.
On Blackberry, pretty much all the common messengers and social networking tools are made by RIM, for RIM's OS, on RIM's hardware. Because of this and the unified messages inbox, everything is so perfectly integrated and I really miss this!
On Android, all these apps are done by different developers.
On top of that, a lot of the apps I've tried are really flakey.
Here's what I've tried so far:
Facebook: Great when it works, even provides notifications! But most of the time I get an authorisation failure error when logging in which doesn't go away until I uninstall the app and download it again.
Windows Live Messenger: Worked great first time, haven't been able to sign in again since then, it just hangs after entering the login details.
Yahoo Messenger: No issues, does exactly what you'd expect.
Everything else works to a certain degree, but various niggles and lack of a standard UI is irritating.
So rather than trawl through the thousands of apps, I need somewhere or someone to tell me which ones are worth using
.Also, is there a decent photo viewing app? Not sure why but the tablet seems to really struggle viewing photos, it renders them really badly and takes several seconds for each picture to display normally. It's similar to what my old 200Mhz Palm did, but possibly even worse!
Might try out IM+ when I get home, that seems like an easy way of making things tidier. Are there any other all-in-ones I could look into?
. But yeah, it's not quite the same to compare, Blackberry is a lot more closed. There are very few apps besides RIM's own ones that are worth downloading.
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