It squeaks, which is okay, but kind of annoying. Also, like any OS, it gets somewhat sluggish after continually trying new apps. Hopefully "cupcake" will revive some energy back into it. The battery is actually fine for me - as long as the wifi is left off, it lasts for 2 days.
Overall, I love it, but it would be nice if it played Doom. =P
I agree. My battery door is creaky when I type which gives it a cheap feeling, and the back lighting on the keyboard washes out making buttons really difficult to see in certain conditions. Other than that, the software is fantastic and I'm more than happy with T-Mobile's 3g service in San Francisco.
-absolutely positively needs outlook support -the backlit silver keyboard on the brown version is rendered unreadable if you're in a bright place -no notifications for new non-gmail emails -if you enable the pattern unlock and lose your phone, there is no way for a person who finds it to call one of your contacts - the pattern unlock screen should display a number that can be called if the phone is lost -no way to close apps - the os will run several apps at once that you aren't using anymore and this slows things down -limited to no ability to manage sd card without a computer -no headphone jack -I find the magnifying glass function in the browser pretty much useless -the default music player won't show my album covers because it doesn't support the file type -camera performance is poor
"-no way to close apps - the os will run several apps at once that you aren't using anymore and this slows things down"
This is by design, the OS stops and starts apps automatically as needed to manage its resources. If you read up on the developer docs, its actually pretty ruthless about it when necessary. That being said, they clearly have a little work to do balancing out that algorithm, but this is in fact central to the way the framework was designed. In fact, if you did have a task manager and you force killed apps, you would be slowing down your experience in most cases as one of the things the os does is "freeze" apps that are no longer in use, but as soon as you fire that app up again, its already totally resident in memory and ready to go.
"-limited to no ability to manage sd card without a computer"
there are several very good file managers in the Market that let you manage the SD card to your hearts content.
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It squeaks, which is okay, but kind of annoying. Also, like any OS, it gets somewhat sluggish after continually trying new apps. Hopefully "cupcake" will revive some energy back into it. The battery is actually fine for me - as long as the wifi is left off, it lasts for 2 days.
Overall, I love it, but it would be nice if it played Doom. =P
I agree. My battery door is creaky when I type which gives it a cheap feeling, and the back lighting on the keyboard washes out making buttons really difficult to see in certain conditions. Other than that, the software is fantastic and I'm more than happy with T-Mobile's 3g service in San Francisco.
-absolutely positively needs outlook support
-the backlit silver keyboard on the brown version is rendered unreadable if you're in a bright place
-no notifications for new non-gmail emails
-if you enable the pattern unlock and lose your phone, there is no way for a person who finds it to call one of your contacts - the pattern unlock screen should display a number that can be called if the phone is lost
-no way to close apps - the os will run several apps at once that you aren't using anymore and this slows things down
-limited to no ability to manage sd card without a computer
-no headphone jack
-I find the magnifying glass function in the browser pretty much useless
-the default music player won't show my album covers because it doesn't support the file type
-camera performance is poor
"-no way to close apps - the os will run several apps at once that you aren't using anymore and this slows things down"
This is by design, the OS stops and starts apps automatically as needed to manage its resources. If you read up on the developer docs, its actually pretty ruthless about it when necessary. That being said, they clearly have a little work to do balancing out that algorithm, but this is in fact central to the way the framework was designed. In fact, if you did have a task manager and you force killed apps, you would be slowing down your experience in most cases as one of the things the os does is "freeze" apps that are no longer in use, but as soon as you fire that app up again, its already totally resident in memory and ready to go.
"-limited to no ability to manage sd card without a computer"
there are several very good file managers in the Market that let you manage the SD card to your hearts content.