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gdaught6

(Fwd) Re: Droid

I owned 2 for about a week. Super WOW factor. And, during that time I
downloaded a ton of free apps which were really neat and a lot of fun. But
in the end, I confirmed that the battery life sucks. I mean - really sucks.

< snip, snip, snip >

Why in the world is there a cellphone thread on this reflector? Yes, I have a delete
key; yes, I'm using it. But I just don't understand how this subject fits...???

73,

George T Daughters, K6GT
CU in the California QSO Party (CQP)
October 3-4, 2009

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Phil Hystad

Re: (Fwd) Re: Droid

George:

I agree. But, it points out a major missing feature of Internet e-mail based technology. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to take a rabbit trail thread like this and QSY to some other temporary narrow e-mail reflector group. That is, a group that exists only while people are exchanging e-mails with a given timeout for dropping the "capability".

I may need to think this through a little more. Anyone who is interested merely QSY up to sub-group "Cell Phones" where we will talk through the night.

On Dec 3, 2009, at 6:57 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

> I owned 2 for about a week. Super WOW factor. And, during that time I
> downloaded a ton of free apps which were really neat and a lot of fun. But
> in the end, I confirmed that the battery life sucks. I mean - really sucks.
>
> < snip, snip, snip >
>
> Why in the world is there a cellphone thread on this reflector? Yes, I have a delete
> key; yes, I'm using it. But I just don't understand how this subject fits...???
>
> 73,
>
> George T Daughters, K6GT
> CU in the California QSO Party (CQP)
> October 3-4, 2009
>
>
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Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ

Re: (Fwd) Re: Droid

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[Not OT]

Yes, there is a K3 / Elecraft connection here. ;-) Anyone interested in
writing a K3 remote control app for the Droid/Android OS? Contact me
directly if you are. The Moto Droid makes an excellent platform for
portable remote control. I'm -very- interested in doing this for the K3.
I'm also in interested in using it for data modes etc.

[OT]

I'm extremely happy with the Motorola Droid. (I upgraded from using
using several versions of the Palm Treo over the past 6 years.)

Battery life has not been a problem for my usage profile. I'm a heavy
unlimited data plan user for email and web (many of my elecraft posts
here come via my PDA phone), but I'm also trained to dock and charge my
phone when I am in the car, office and at night. Same as I did for the
Treo. But I frequently go all day without charging until I go to bed. I
suspect many that quote short battery life during their early days of
infatuation and heavy usage of the phone as they download apps, browse
the web, call and email all their friends, view YouTube K3 videos and
generally have fun with the new toy. ;-)
All of the apps I had on my Palm Treo were available for the Droid, and
I was able to transfer over my contacts and data in short order. Via
Google calendar I'm able to stay 100% in sync between my various PCs and
the Droid. Its a huge productivity booster.

Bottom line for me: With its large high resolution touch color display,
slide out keyboard, 3G + Wifi networks, 5 MP camera / vid cam, and its
Google based Android open operating system, the Moto Driod on Verizon is
a strong competitor for the iPhone on ATT's weaker network. Numerous
phones from several manufacturers now available with the Android OS,
which is rapidly creating a strong applications base as programmers jump
on board. I've loaded numerous Ham Radio apps already. There are over
10,000 apps on the Droid site so far, with hundreds more appearing each
day. Rumor is that over 500,000 Droids have been shipped since its
introduction a month ago.

73,
Eric WA6HHQ

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Brett Howard

Re: (Fwd) Re: Droid

I'd really dig seeing an Android K3 client however in order to work
right it will probably require a PC side client. I can only hope that
we get to maintain cross platform compatibility so that Linux and Mac
users can use the Android client... I've been quite happy with the
Linux K3 utility and only have to run the windows one in a VM for short
bits while waiting for the Linux one to catch up...

Any chance of the utilities being open sourced?

~BTH

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 09:15 -0800, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote:

> [Not OT]
>
> Yes, there is a K3 / Elecraft connection here. ;-) Anyone interested in
> writing a K3 remote control app for the Droid/Android OS? Contact me
> directly if you are. The Moto Droid makes an excellent platform for
> portable remote control. I'm -very- interested in doing this for the K3.
> I'm also in interested in using it for data modes etc.
>
> [OT]
>
> I'm extremely happy with the Motorola Droid. (I upgraded from using
> using several versions of the Palm Treo over the past 6 years.)
>
> Battery life has not been a problem for my usage profile. I'm a heavy
> unlimited data plan user for email and web (many of my elecraft posts
> here come via my PDA phone), but I'm also trained to dock and charge my
> phone when I am in the car, office and at night. Same as I did for the
> Treo. But I frequently go all day without charging until I go to bed. I
> suspect many that quote short battery life during their early days of
> infatuation and heavy usage of the phone as they download apps, browse
> the web, call and email all their friends, view YouTube K3 videos and
> generally have fun with the new toy. ;-)
> All of the apps I had on my Palm Treo were available for the Droid, and
> I was able to transfer over my contacts and data in short order. Via
> Google calendar I'm able to stay 100% in sync between my various PCs and
> the Droid. Its a huge productivity booster.
>
> Bottom line for me: With its large high resolution touch color display,
> slide out keyboard, 3G + Wifi networks, 5 MP camera / vid cam, and its
> Google based Android open operating system, the Moto Driod on Verizon is
> a strong competitor for the iPhone on ATT's weaker network. Numerous
> phones from several manufacturers now available with the Android OS,
> which is rapidly creating a strong applications base as programmers jump
> on board. I've loaded numerous Ham Radio apps already. There are over
> 10,000 apps on the Droid site so far, with hundreds more appearing each
> day. Rumor is that over 500,000 Droids have been shipped since its
> introduction a month ago.
>
> 73,
> Eric WA6HHQ
>
> [Let's limit this thread to a 1-2 more posts today and then end it.]
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Mike KS7D

Re: (Fwd) Re: Droid

Hi Brett,

It will require a server program to be developed for the PC, Mac or Linux
computer that is connected to the K3. So, to provide access for Windows, Mac
and Linux users there will need to be three different server versions
developed. Then a client side application needs to be written to operate on
the Android phone (and another for the iPhone for Wayne ;-) ). That client
should be able to work through any of the server programs whether they are
Windows, Mac or Linux based.

The biggest challenge in my mind is how to put a user friendly interface on
the small screen of a Droid or iPhone. It is much easier to design a client
side interface for a laptop or desktop PC because there is so much more
screen 'real estate' available.

Mike, ks7d

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From: "Brett Howard" <[hidden email]>
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 7:01 AM
To: "Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft" <[hidden email]>
Cc: <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] (Fwd) Re: Droid

> I'd really dig seeing an Android K3 client however in order to work
> right it will probably require a PC side client. I can only hope that
> we get to maintain cross platform compatibility so that Linux and Mac
> users can use the Android client... I've been quite happy with the
> Linux K3 utility and only have to run the windows one in a VM for short
> bits while waiting for the Linux one to catch up...
>
> Any chance of the utilities being open sourced?
>

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