{"id":227626,"date":"2010-01-25T08:55:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5456246"},"modified":"2010-01-25T08:55:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:55:36","slug":"t-mobile-actually-yes-android-does-need-a-syncing-app-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227626","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile: Actually, Yes, Android Does Need a Syncing App [Android]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Google’s desktop syncing strategy for Android has always been clear: there is no desktop syncing strategy. Just drag, drop and be content<\/em>, people! Now, T-Mobile’s giving their customers what Google won’t, bundling DoubleTwist<\/a> with new Android phones.<\/p>\n

As bundled, DoubleTwist apparently lacks Amazon MP3 store integration, but includes all the rest of the features of the (still) downloadable default version, including multi-device support, library management and photos and movies. As part of the deal, T-Mobile will be hanging DoubleTwist banners in retail stores, and pushing the download on their website. And yeah, DVD Jon’s getting paid, apparently well.<\/p>\n

As minor an issue as it sounds, sync—or lack of sync—is actually a serious feature for a smartphone. The iPhone thrived with it, taking a population acclimated to the iTunes sync model and sneakily tricking them into two-year cell contracts, while Windows Mobile and BlackBerry have made it a banner feature for their handsets. Palm listed iTunes syncing prominently on the Pre’s spec sheet, at least until their hacks were thwarted, and Android…well, Android, despite being the most media-savvy smartphone platform behind iPhone OS, had no syncing provision whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Dragging and dropping isn’t a big deal by any means, but it can be irritating to manage a large, fluid music and podcast collection one by one. People appreciate syncing.<\/em> This should be a boon for T-Mobile, but it’d be nice if Google, no stranger to late-stage course-correction, could take a hint here. [TechCrunch<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Google’s desktop syncing strategy for Android has always been clear: there is no desktop syncing strategy. Just drag, drop and be content, people! Now, T-Mobile’s giving their customers what Google won’t, bundling DoubleTwist with new Android phones. As bundled, DoubleTwist apparently lacks Amazon MP3 store integration, but includes all the rest of the features of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}