Trying out Yahoo! Go
I didn’t have any time to fool around with it yesterday, so I just installed the Yahoo! Go app I posted about the other day. It’s a huge install (1.8 meg .sis file) so I wasn’t sure how it would fare on the 6680, but it worked out okay. I currently have it setup to sync everything: mail, address book, calendar, tasks, and photos.
The mail, address book, calendar, and tasks items seem to work out. The address book and calendar in particular I think I’m going to be really happy to have. I’m going to have to spend some time playing with it long term to see how the syncing works out. One of the common problems with apps like Go is that waking up the phone every now and then to make a data request tends to drain the battery quickly. And the phone becomes sluggish and unresponsive when the background task is running, and there’s no good way to make the user aware that something else is going on.
The photo part is really a problem though. With the app installed I can no longer take pictures with the 1.3 megapixel camera in my 6680 consistently. Even with all the interface components of the app closed I get an out of memory when I snap a pic sometimes. I can use the VGA resolution camera as far as I can tell. But the camera I actually use, the 1.3 megapixel one, is even more unreliable than it was before. I keep changing the settings to see if I have problems after turning off photo sync, but apparently the app is doing something and not paying attention to me when I change settings. Not sure what it’s doing. Hope it’s something important though, cause I don’t like it when my phone ignores me.
I’m gonna try out the calendar, tasks, and address book for a while and see how they work out long term. And I have some other testy type stuff I would like to try out on this thing. Hopefully I’ll have some time this weekend to try some of it out.
January 11th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
How is the mail piece? You did not mention anything about the email.
January 11th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Sure I did, I said it works well but I’ll have to see how the syncing works out longer term. It creates a new mailbox for the the Yahoo messages, which I actually like quite a bit. And adds a new option to the send menu when creating a message. Both very nice.
Unfortunately, my 6680 has some real memory issues and I have to turn off syncing if I want to use the camera in my phone. Which I do want to use. So I haven’t had much of a chance to see how leaving the sync up and running in the background impacts use of the phone as a whole. And how well the sync itself works.
January 17th, 2006 at 10:12 am
[...] I’ve had Yahoo! Go on my phone for a while now, trying it out for syncing my address book and calendar in particular. But I’ve been having a bunch of trouble with it. Today it’s refusing to sync a calendar entry that I added earlier this morning. The entry is on my calendar online, but it’s not appearing on my phone. So maybe I’ll use the app every once in a while to push my calendar and contacts online, but it’s not working for syncing. Here’s the breakdown, for anyone at Yahoo who might be interested in a list of gripes: [...]
December 18th, 2006 at 8:17 am
I can’t get any email to sync. It just keeps telling me that the Synchronization is still in progress and to try again later. This has been going on for days. Any suggestions or fixes?