Smartphones

[rowyn]

One of the things that I thought would be nice about having a new smartphone was that it'd play Youtube videos and such like. Because the Android OS supports Flash.

And for about three weeks, my phone could play videos. Then Youtube and apparently every other video form on the web upgraded to a new form of Flash which Adobe hasn't released of the Android, and my smartphone can no longer play videos.

...

Between the crappy keyboard* and the no-cut-and-paste-email, I am almost tempted to buy an old Sidekick from e-Bay.

* Salesperson on the crappy keyboard: "You get used to it."
Me on the crappy keyboard, after 12 days' use: "I think I'll get used to it."
Me on the crappy keyboard, after two months' use: ".... I think what I'm getting used to is NOT WRITING on my phone."

Comments

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

I *think* if you hold down on the body of the email - at least with my Android - you get a prompt that will let you select text. Granted, it's unwieldy, but you might play around and see if that works for you (and if you like it.)

[rowyn]

What's the name of the program you use for email? Neither of the pre-loaded email apps let me select text. My workaround has been to go to the webpage and start a reply to the email there. Then from the browser's text input window, I can hold down the screen to get a copy-all option. It's a pretty clunky way to get there, though.

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

I just use gmail and the app that came preloaded with my phone. :-/ But at first, I didn't think there was a way to do copy/paste either, so I haven't really been using it...but I've stumbled upon it a few times recently, just by accident.

[rowyn]

*pokes at her phone* Ahhh, the POP mail client on my phone allows cut 'n paste (but still no select all, sigh). I use gmail as my primary and don't want to use the POP client though, since the POP client doesn't sync with the gmail webpage the way the Gmail app does. The Gmail app doesn't allow text selection. :/