I have been using mobile phones for many years, but I just used it, not being influenced by it, until I got this one: Nexus One.
The most application that I use on N1 is Email. Android 2.X supports Exchange accounts. This is really a must have for my office emails. How can I access my office mails without a handy client, using web access? Come on, buddy, you must be kidding me.
The N1 Email client is just good enough for me: synchronization with my office email account, compose a quick reply on the fly. All are done transparently with some settings that are not those that can only be done by a veteran geek. This is good.
Also, it synchronizes my contacts, both in gmail.com and in my Exchange directory. This saves me a lot of time wondering where I should put my new contacts.
Of course, it has some fallbacks.
First of all, it does not support a customized signature saying Sent from my N1. You know how much I envy when I read a message with a Sent from my iPhone or Sent from my Blackberry signature? I wish I could do that on my N1 and I am willing to pay for this simple feature! (p.s. I had done a search in Android Market and find this application which seems to fit my requirement: Touchdown. It will cost me $20 so I will keep on evaluating for another 29 days!)
Another frequently used application is my Twidroid (an Tweet-like client but connected to BT group\’s own chat server running Status.net). With this application, I can stay tuned and online chatting with my buddies and get a catch on what is going on and share my findings.
There are also some other applications that I use almost equally often: Gmail, GTalk, Maps, Handcent SMS, 3banana, Camera. These applications themselves are fully functional but the best part of it is that they are fully integated. When I was in Zhangjiajie joining the company\’s vacation, I opened 3banana and created a note and quickly wrote down my comments, opened up the camera to take a shot of the scenes that I would like to share, and then sync to my 3banana server, and finally, share it with my BT friends with Twidroid! If I were not not using an N1, I could only have done this many, many hours later and will be much more troublesome.
Another example. I used to keep two calendars: one for my office and another for my personal activities. This approach is not so good. Why should I keep two calendars when I am only available for one thing at one particular time slot? With N1, I can seamlessly synchronize my calendar events with my Google Calendar (on web) and with the help of a simple standalone program running on my notebook, I can synchronize my calendar with my Outlook too!
This has removed my last headache in combing two calendars. Now I can accpet an appointment initiated from my colleagues in Outlook and after synchronization, within a few minutes, my N1 will show this event too; or I can create my home/personal events at home in my desktop\’s Thunderbird application and after a few minutes, this entry will show up in my N1 and later (after synchronization) in my Outlook Calendar as well.
This is really fitting my needs.
Mobile phones was considered to be a tool only. But this tool is now getting stronger and changing my life style.
Before N1, I can hardly imagine that an old man as I am, an absolute non Gen-Y people, could adopt to these new stuffs so quickly and readily. I mean, I know these applications exist but I am not using them because a simple task is very much torn apart and will take my much intervene to make it happen.
N1 makes it cooler.
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