Day 2 with the Nexus One
I promised to keep you up to date with how I get on with Google’s Nexus One. Today is actually already day three without using Apple’s phone and I’m still enjoying it. The only thing that I am really starting to miss is a decent mail client. This could potentially become a real problem.
The Nexus One has a decent mail client but it doesn’t support the certificates that our Exchange server uses. That means I have to rely on third party solutions and the only option available in the free Android Market is the Touchdown client. It works fine but the UI is just… well… let’s be kind and say that it doesn’t look that good. The mail client that I want to use (Moxier Mail) is not available as a free download and because there still is no official way to get paid apps in the Android Market in Belgium, I can’t buy it. I really dislike the UI on Touchdown… So much so that I find it horrible to use.
I really really hope I can solve this soon because I really need a decent Exchange client…
Other than that I am really happy with the Nexus One’s performance and its features. And having Flash in the Nexus One’s browser already changed the way I used the mobile web. Yesterday I heard about another act of violence/vandalism in Brussels and so I wanted to look up more info on the web. The article on the local news site I visited also had a video… Flash Video. I just hit the play button and watched the entire clip in the Nexus One. If I was still using Apple’s phone, I would have needed to take out my laptop to see the clip…
After watching that clip, I was curious to see how other Flash Video enabled sites would work. I opened up CNN.com, picked one of the news clips, hit play… and it immediately started playing. I also tried the BBC’s iPlayer and some other local news sites. They just worked… without the need for the publisher to republish their content in a different format. I just opened the browser, opened the exact same sites that I visit/use on my laptop and clicked “Play”. Now that’s a magical web experience!
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Please!
Ow man…I really need this phone, but Nexus One was not available in Brazil yet.
So I still waiting until we can use Nexus One too, I hope not for a long time. =)
See ya.
I am starting to envy you :) I wish I could have been watching some Web TV shows like that on a go. Need better 3G for that though.
Hmm it seems Flash 10.1 has way to access mobile devices features like accelerometer. Should be fun to play with them :) How about fullscreen? Can you run Flash on it in fullscreen?
Why don’t you root the phone and use the market enabler?
http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/
or
http://blog.vegeby.nu/2010/01/20/marketspoof-2-2-requires-root/
I also live in Belgium and I’m waiting for my Nexus to arrive by mail…so I haven’t been able to try it out myself just yet.
Have you tried Andspot.com?
Have you tried the Nokia N900 yet? Truly an amazing device with every bell and whistle you can think of. Don’t believe the negative UI reviews that it has received. It’s a very intuitive device.
Rest of the phone aside, isn’t the lack of a decent mail client a big downer for the platform (and the Android market)?
maaaan! I want a Nexus One, I can’t wait for 3G compatibility with ATT!!!
For email – you could forward all your mail to a gmail account. Android gmail client is excellent.
@Neil: The pre-installed mail client really is decent but because it doesn’t support our corporate Exchange certificates, I can’t use that. So yes… It is a big downer that Android doesn’t yet support those certs but it also took Apple multiple versions of the OS before they were supported!