[horde] iPhone 4 replacement

[Louis-Philippe Allard]

On 2011-11-19, at 10:45 AM, Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org> wrote:

> 
> Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:
> 
>> On 19 November 2011 10:01, Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>>> 
>>>> Quoting Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Quoting Marc Fellman <marc.fellman at gmail.com>:   > Hi,
>>>>>>    2011/11/17 Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com>:  > Hi horde
>>>>>> users!    > ...
>>>>>>    --
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Any Horde devs can comment on my question?
>>>> 
>>>>  I will assume your question relates to syncing, since web-access to Horde
>>>> should be failry consistent across all of these devices. To that extent, I
>>>> can comment on ActiveSync support:
>>>> 
>>>>  I am still using the original Motorola Droid as my day-to-day phone. I
>>>> plan to change to the [Galaxy|Prime|Droid] Nexus when it is finally
>>>> released. Obviously, I have no idea if there are any issues with the
>>>> ActiveSync implementation as it relates to Horde as I have not yet used the
>>>> new device.
>>>> 
>>>>  The only other devices that I, personally, have used with Horde are
>>>> various iOS devices (iPod,iPhone,iPad). A friend of mine uses the Droid 3(?)
>>>> and has reported no problems to me.
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://wiki.horde.org/ActiveSync [1] seems to mention that the Motorola
>>>>> Droid
>>>>>   does not play well with horde... Am I wrong?
>>>> 
>>>>  What problems are you referring to? I use it on a daily basis and do not
>>>> normally run into any problems.
>>>> 
>>>>  The major drawback to the earlier, native, Droid implementations is that
>>>> they do not support provisioning (so no enforced security policies and no
>>>> remote-wipe ability). From what I understand this is now supported, though I
>>>> have not tried it myself.
>>>> 
>>>>  Of course there is always the chance that there will be some issues
>>>> regardless of the device you pick. From my work with this, one thing that I
>>>> have noticed is that just about every vendor does *something* that is not
>>>> part of the published specification...and we try our best to work around
>>>> these issues as they occur.
>>>> 
>>>>  --
>>>>  mike
>>> 
>>> Thanks Mike for replying.  I may have been confusedby the different names
>>> the phone has in other countries.  Here in Canada, the Motorola Droid Razr
>>> (one of the models I am interested in) is simply called Motorola Razr.  I
>>> thought the "Motorola Droid" that is on the
>>> http://wiki.horde.org/ActiveSync[1]was referring to the Motorola Droid
>>> Razr... Is it?
>> 
>> That's been there since the original Motorola Droid - and I believe
>> that's the device it refers to.
>> 
>>> As for this phone, it ships from the provider (Rogers Canada) with Android
>>> 2.3
>>> (http://www.rogers.com/web/link/wirelessBuyFlow?forwardTo=PhoneThenPlan&productType=normal&productId_Detailed=XT910BLKR&N=52+11#)
>> 
>> Then don't get it.  2.3 is OLD.  Get the Samsung Galaxy Prime with 4.0
> 
> It's not as old as the version numbers would suggest. 3.0 (Honeycomb) was *only* for tablets. With 4.0, the tablet OS is merged with the traditional OS. Ice Cream Sandwich (4.x) was originally slated to be released as 2.4, IIRC...
> 
> It's also very likely that the phone will receive the 4.x update - once the vendor is done porting MotoBlur|HTCSense etc... Another reason to get a "pure" Android device.
> 
> -- 
> mike

According to Wikipedia, the droid Razr or simply Razr in Canada won't be equipped with Motoblur, and is upgradable to ice cream sandwich 4.0...

I wonder I it's worthwhile to spend the additional $60 for LTE with the galaxy 2 S ?  If not then my choice will be simple:  the Razr.  

Anybody on the mail list uses the Razr with horde?  If so, hows the sync?