Day 5

Ok battery, now we're talking Mr. Nexus One. It's as if you actually tried to not die today.

So, when you have a decent connection going, even using it for a couple hours will ensure your battery stays ok. That and maybe running it to 0 a couple times and fully charging it again helped calibrate the settings a bit more. Nice, I was worried I'd have to return it because the battery sucked so bad. As of now it's not that great, but that puts it about equal with the iPhone. I'm guessing that as I work downtown, I'll just have to have a charging cable with me to keep it from going belly up by the afternoon. Thank you monoprice.com for having cables at a reasonable price, even for iPhone/iPod cables (I had purchased some in the past for about 70 cents apiece).

A lot of the Apps in Android are equivalent to ones in the iTunes store, so this is good. I know there's about a 140,000 app gap to Android Market's 40K, but to be honest, think about that for a second and let me know if that even makes sense. I had 100 apps on my iPhone. That means I found about 179,900 apps weren't worth my time. More is not better, especially after you dig through some of the crap that they allow on the App Store.

Some are better than others, some aren't so good. Fictionwise's eReader app is pretty good on the iPhone but definitely seems like a hacked port on Android. Compare that to Aldiko, which is about as brilliant as an ereader as Stanza. Only problem is, like Stanza, Aldiko won't let you read protected content. Thankfully, any eBook I buy is a python script away from being stripped of its DRM. It's another couple clicks away from being turned into a fully functional ePub thanks to Calibre. And then it's a copy and paste away from being in a directory that Aldiko can pick up. If I had a website, I could've put the file there and downloaded it.

That reminds me: Last night I downloaded a file. ON MY PHONE. I haven't done this in years. Again, Apple, you have taken away functionality and caused me to be amazed by it yet again. I forgot that real browsers on real phones let you do shit like download files.

The eBook stuff looks great by the way. Still not as good as my Nook but my Nook was easily 2 feet away from me and I was comfy in bed.