Accessing Board from Phone

[Lin]

Well, I gots this new smart phone, see.  It runs on something called Androgen or something.  So's this morning I'm sitting the the dentist waiting room, you know--waiting.  I says to my self, I says, "Self, you could use this time productiverally by just taking the new smarts phone and running it through its paces."  So's I tries to log on the the MAK board.  Productive! What a joke.  Anyways the site won't let me log on.  Says I don't know my own password!  I mean, it's my password, I'm the only one that's supposed to know it-- right?  To continuate, when I gets home, I goes to the laptop and signs on just like nothing had ever happened.  So what gives here.  Why is my smart phone to dumb to get on this bleepin site?

[Just Dallas]

Lin, it works for me.
Sent from my Android phone!

[bwze]

Do you happen to have any numbers in your password? If so, on my Android phone, you have to either to select the "num pad" by pressing the button with 123 or hold down the corresponding button on the top row with number you'd like to select until it pops up....

[Dreamscape]

Just sent this from my Droid X.

[buswarrior]

mistake you made is trying to access the MAK board.

This is the BCM board.

hahahahahahahahahahaha

roflmao

happy coaching!
buswarrior

[Lin]

I have been able to login but the system seems to randomly drop me out. I do not know why. I guess I'll keep playing with it. Thanks

[smokedetector]

It works great on mine.i have a problem with the chat room though.

[Mex-Busnut]

Since there are a million experts on here, a question:

It has come time to renew our cell phones. The company is offering choice between Blackberry Storm and Samsung Galaxy i9000 Android. Which would be better? My wife and I already have Blackberries. I hate mine. She loves hers.

P.S. I am a Linux nut, so open-source Galaxy is attractive to me.

Thanks in advance!

[Lin]

I've never had a Blackberry.  In the past, it was certainly the choice of large businesses.  I personally have always liked Palm, but switched this time because the current Palm smart phones are sort of orphans, and Android seems to be developing faster than anything else.  HP, which now owns Palm, is promising some major upgrades on its next set of phones though.  It may be worth taking a look at them also.

[Sean]

... The company is offering choice between Blackberry Storm and Samsung Galaxy i9000 Android. ...

I just did this, going from a Blackberry to an Android, which also happens to be a Samsung Galaxy S.  So far, I love it, but it does take some getting used to.  Also, it is a bit annoying that Samsung has not yet rolled out FroYo on the Galaxy in the U.S.; we're still stuck back on Eclair while some folks are already going to Gingerbread.  I am hoping we'll get FroYo within the next month.

There are some key differences between the two platforms.  Most visible is "push email."  If you use your 'berry mostly for email, have multiple email accounts, and depend on the push capability, you might not be as happy with Android.  The only email that is pushed to a 'droid is Gmail, so you'd need to have any other email either forwarded to or picked up by your Gmail account in order to get something similar to the Blackberry push system.  There is a regular POP/IMAP/Exchange client on the Android (and several other options available in the Market) so traditional "pull" email is available.

If you use Blackberry Messenger, you will lose that when you move off Blackberry.  There are plenty of other messenging options, of course, including several SMS clients and the usual trove of Yahoo/AIM/Google/IRC clients.  But only BBM can communicate to other Blackberries using RIM's own "PIN messaging" system.  If that's important to you, you should stick with the 'berry.  For example, my colleagues in the Red Cross all have company-issued Blackberries.  Since the Red Cross plan does not include SMS (text messaging) or Internet data, the only way I could send them a text message was through BBM, and I've lost that now.  I understand, however, that RIM is working on a BBM client for Android, ironically, so I am hoping to have that back at some point.  Lack of BBM was not a deal-breaker for me.

All that said, the 'droid has a much wider selection of apps available, and the Internet apps are sexier.  Plus the Galaxy's enormous 4" AMOLED screen is fabulous, except in bright sunlight where it does wash out more than a traditional LCD screen.  I also really like the Swype keyboard, although that, too, takes some practice.  I now type faster on Swype than I do on the physical keyboard attached to the phone (the Epic 4G I have is the only Galaxy with a slide-out keyboard).

Overall I am very happy with my choice and would not go back to Blackberry.  Last week Android surpassed RIM as the number one smartphone operating system in the world -- there's a reason.

HTH,

-Sean
http://OurOdyssey.BlogSpot.com

[John316]

Mex,

Go with the Galaxy. So much better...

I have a friend who loves his.

FWIW

God bless,

John

[Mex-Busnut]

Thanks for the comments, my friends! The phones are supposed to arrive next week.

The Blackberry I have will let me READ this list, but not post to it. Weird.

Be blessed!

Steve

[Dreamscape]

Yesterday I posted that I was able to access BCM with no problem using my DroidX. Today was different. BCM didn't recognize me or my password...How dare they!

Anyway. We both have used BB's and really like them, but this new DroidX is something else. It just takes a while to learn the ropes. I'm still learning!

[Lin]

Dreamscape,

I tried to log on a couple of times on the Droid today.  It did not work.  I had a similar thing with Fedex.  I guess that there is something different between the phone and computer signal.  I was even using the same wireless network.  Maybe the system does not allow you to be logged on on more than one device at a time, but I was yesterday for a bit.

[MikeH]

Just to muddy up the waters a little here, but I use an iPhone. I have had no problem with logging on, reading or posting to the BCM board. I have not tried the MAK board  (good one BW). Only problem I had on our recent road trip was lack of coverage in a few western states, which is thanks to Big Orange, and not to the phone or board.

Mike