This isn’t a list of apps that I am missing, or a piece that tries to show pros and cons. Let me state up-front that I love this phone and it is 100% what I expected since I did my research. Also, there may be solutions that I have not yet found to some of the issues I am facing, suggestions are welcome. This is a list of things, that in my 1st 24 hours with the phone, I have missed. Things that I think would make the phone better for anyone.
- I don’t like that Gmail has its own email app that works better than the one included with sense. I do not like seeing my Gmail separate, with a separate UI, but I know it is push while the sense app is polling for email. I understand that I can add Gmail to the sense app, but then I am downloading it twice, and not really pushing (even with Activesync). I also understand that I can route all of my email through Gmail, but I do not want to send my company email through Gmail. My corporate emails are IMAP, not Exchange Activesync, so no easy way to get push that I know of.
- I miss my “Take it out of the holster and it is right there for you” way that the blackberry has. Now I pick it up, press a button swipe and open notifications. The inverse is true. I likes being able to put the phone in the case and know it was in the right mode. Now I see it change screens as I touch it randomly making me pull it out again and lock it first. I don’t think I used the lock button on my storm more that once or twice in over 2 years.
- Settings are everywhere. The menu button is context sensitive, so I never know where to look for setting. Time will make me an expert, but I have done a lot of poking around. Also confusing that sometimes the menu button does nothing. It should say cancel at a minimum so you know you have pressed it.
- I work next to my pc for much of the day. When I get an email on the PC I am used to my blackberry pinging me right before or right after. When I got the blackberry I thought a good app would be one that silenced it on my desk (WiFi range or Bluetooth, etc.) but over the years I have been conditioned to expect it almost simultaneously (push email). I probably don’t need to know within milliseconds, but I drool when the bell goes off, and it is hard to break that habit.
- The battery icon has so little information that it just makes you afraid so I end up going into about phone and checking it which wastes more power – Percent remaining would be good! I understand that there is an app for that.
- Google voice. Who would have thought that a Google phone would not have a superior implementation? I may be missing something but, on my blackberry I would pick a contact and could choose how to contact them “call” or “call using Google Voice.” The implementation here seems to be use Google voice all of the time, Ask or never. When you choose ask you get the extra step of needing to select Google voice or other after you have selected a contact. This is annoying enough that I will turn it off. Same for SMS.
- Lots of Apps that do the same thing, and lots of integration, but none of it working together. Initially I used the HTC apps to load up Twitter and Facebook, then I went to the native apps to test them out. I now have double entries in my contacts as if my users have two facebook pages. Maybe blackberry didn’t give you as many integrated choices, so I chose the official application and lived with it. I also found that I needed to link more contacts to the various services here than on my blackberry (Facebook primarily). Though it did a great job of linking my facebook list with my facebook for HTC sense list. This should really be a facebook contact, and pick the client you want to launch.
- The LED is not a bright red blinking laser beam that I can see across the room alerting me that I immediately need to satisfy my craving for communication. I love the LED in the grille, but it hasn’t really told me much more than you are charging and you are charged. It is a more subtle approach.
- I would like to integrate SMS and IM into my universal inbox. I was wary of this when I first got my bbery, but I grew to like the approach of one place to look.
- Battery life – a work in progress. I think in part it comes down to “You have all of these new things you can do that will drain your battery that you couldn’t do before, now don’t do them!”
- One more, Vibrate then ring. I used to set my phone to vibrate first so i could take it out of the holster and silence it. They it would ring so if i want wearing it i would hear it. Another thread prompted me on this on http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc...-led-vibrate-notifiy-miss-berrybuz-swype.html
Now off to play angry birds! I love this phone. Anyone else with an immediate first blush reaction out there?- I miss my “Take it out of the holster and it is right there for you” way that the blackberry has. Now I pick it up, press a button swipe and open notifications. The inverse is true. I likes being able to put the phone in the case and know it was in the right mode. Now I see it change screens as I touch it randomly making me pull it out again and lock it first. I don’t think I used the lock button on my storm more that once or twice in over 2 years.
- Settings are everywhere. The menu button is context sensitive, so I never know where to look for setting. Time will make me an expert, but I have done a lot of poking around. Also confusing that sometimes the menu button does nothing. It should say cancel at a minimum so you know you have pressed it.
- I work next to my pc for much of the day. When I get an email on the PC I am used to my blackberry pinging me right before or right after. When I got the blackberry I thought a good app would be one that silenced it on my desk (WiFi range or Bluetooth, etc.) but over the years I have been conditioned to expect it almost simultaneously (push email). I probably don’t need to know within milliseconds, but I drool when the bell goes off, and it is hard to break that habit.
- The battery icon has so little information that it just makes you afraid so I end up going into about phone and checking it which wastes more power – Percent remaining would be good! I understand that there is an app for that.
- Google voice. Who would have thought that a Google phone would not have a superior implementation? I may be missing something but, on my blackberry I would pick a contact and could choose how to contact them “call” or “call using Google Voice.” The implementation here seems to be use Google voice all of the time, Ask or never. When you choose ask you get the extra step of needing to select Google voice or other after you have selected a contact. This is annoying enough that I will turn it off. Same for SMS.
- Lots of Apps that do the same thing, and lots of integration, but none of it working together. Initially I used the HTC apps to load up Twitter and Facebook, then I went to the native apps to test them out. I now have double entries in my contacts as if my users have two facebook pages. Maybe blackberry didn’t give you as many integrated choices, so I chose the official application and lived with it. I also found that I needed to link more contacts to the various services here than on my blackberry (Facebook primarily). Though it did a great job of linking my facebook list with my facebook for HTC sense list. This should really be a facebook contact, and pick the client you want to launch.
- The LED is not a bright red blinking laser beam that I can see across the room alerting me that I immediately need to satisfy my craving for communication. I love the LED in the grille, but it hasn’t really told me much more than you are charging and you are charged. It is a more subtle approach.
- I would like to integrate SMS and IM into my universal inbox. I was wary of this when I first got my bbery, but I grew to like the approach of one place to look.
- Battery life – a work in progress. I think in part it comes down to “You have all of these new things you can do that will drain your battery that you couldn’t do before, now don’t do them!”
- One more, Vibrate then ring. I used to set my phone to vibrate first so i could take it out of the holster and silence it. They it would ring so if i want wearing it i would hear it. Another thread prompted me on this on http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc...-led-vibrate-notifiy-miss-berrybuz-swype.html
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