It's a great phone, especially coming from the D1. Can't wait to root and maybe run SetCPU because the over/underclock should do wonders for both battery and performance. Only had 1 charge - did seem like the battery drained fairly quickly (off about half a charge from the store) but that was pretty intensive use for a few hours installing all my apps, screen constantly on, etc. Hopefully this thing will do better than 8 hours on a charge.
My two biggest complaints are fairly subtle. The rest I'd expect to be address with software/apps, or perhaps a custom rom if it comes to that.
1) I'm having a heck of a time hitting the incapacitated buttons consistently, or whatever you call them lol.
2) The other thing is the google search (along with the voice search button) is on top of every home screen and you can't get rid of it. BUT when I loaded my replacement launcher it's not there - except there's no voice search button and no shortcut or app for it that I've seen.
3) Only got like 5-6mbps down on LTE (2 bars, go figure my 3G flies at close to 2mbps here).
4) I've got 5-10 apps (out of 120+) that are broken or missing from the market.
5) Looks like Exchange mail requires you use the security features now (assume this is an ICS development). Another nuisance.
6) The new settings shortcut/button/icon is wicked ugly. I don't much care for the stock ringtones/notification sounds.
ICS has some really nice attributes:
1) Resizeable widgets is awesome (though some apps won't resize, assume the developer has to add the capability).
2) Scrollable widgets is awesome (I know a few launchers have had that)
3) Flipping thru the YouTube highlighted videos with the widget is pretty cool. The sort of thing IPhone users would drool over, if the IPhone had widgets.
4) The screen is big, but only on the edge of too big. As a PDA, it's nearly a perfect size, however maybe just a little bigger than ideal for swiping. There are some launchers out there that can really take advantage of the real estate, as well, overriding the 4x4 layout into 5 or 6 rows and columns. Nice combination with resizeable widgets.
My two biggest complaints are fairly subtle. The rest I'd expect to be address with software/apps, or perhaps a custom rom if it comes to that.
1) I'm having a heck of a time hitting the incapacitated buttons consistently, or whatever you call them lol.
2) The other thing is the google search (along with the voice search button) is on top of every home screen and you can't get rid of it. BUT when I loaded my replacement launcher it's not there - except there's no voice search button and no shortcut or app for it that I've seen.
3) Only got like 5-6mbps down on LTE (2 bars, go figure my 3G flies at close to 2mbps here).
4) I've got 5-10 apps (out of 120+) that are broken or missing from the market.
5) Looks like Exchange mail requires you use the security features now (assume this is an ICS development). Another nuisance.
6) The new settings shortcut/button/icon is wicked ugly. I don't much care for the stock ringtones/notification sounds.
ICS has some really nice attributes:
1) Resizeable widgets is awesome (though some apps won't resize, assume the developer has to add the capability).
2) Scrollable widgets is awesome (I know a few launchers have had that)
3) Flipping thru the YouTube highlighted videos with the widget is pretty cool. The sort of thing IPhone users would drool over, if the IPhone had widgets.
4) The screen is big, but only on the edge of too big. As a PDA, it's nearly a perfect size, however maybe just a little bigger than ideal for swiping. There are some launchers out there that can really take advantage of the real estate, as well, overriding the 4x4 layout into 5 or 6 rows and columns. Nice combination with resizeable widgets.
