5th Ave VZW store in Flatiron refused to sell me at full retail until I played a few cards. Inventory is slim and it was clear they wanted to bet on a contract vs losing one to me. Ended up getting what I wanted, but it never ceases to amaze me that people with money get turned away at the door.
All the core productivity clients - People, Gmail, Calendar and Corporate mail are all "skinned". Gmail and Calendar are fortunately replaced easily by downloadable versions from the Play Store, although I had to disable the built-in calendar. People is more or less as close to stock as you can get. For a company like Motorola that clearly uses Exchange for their corporate mail infrastructure, it's clear they didn't eat their own dog food when it came to testing their skinned mail client.
The MAXX has the same frustrating bug that I had with other non-AOSP Exchange clients. If you read a message, and then immediately move it to a folder afterwards, the message read state doesn't always carry over and so an unread email shows up in the folder you just put the email in. If you're a 150-200 email a day person, this becomes a serious problem as I curate my inbox throughout the day. Having to go back to a desktop to reset things to be read is dumb. I can't believe this problem still exists.
Does not have me hopeful for the Moto X being any different.
The active notifications are OK... but if you have multiple notifications, I can't figure out how to access the other notifications -- it only lets you access the most recent one from what I can tell. Also frustrated to see that the active notifications go away after a while. This needs to be configurable. I lived by the perpetual blinking light from the Blackberry days to my SGS3 with CM10.2. Having to pick up my phone to see if there's new stuff is just as much of a wasted motion as just turning on the phone and looking for notifications. Somebody should fix this.
Otherwise, a lot to like. Was at around 65% after about 7 hours, but with about 3.5 hrs of screen time as things were getting set up and heavy heavy use of data as things were getting downloaded all over again. Tomorrow will be my first run-down. Screen is gorgeous... light years better than the SGS3, and very usable in varied lighting. Form factor compared to my SGS3 with the Qi battery door is identical in dimensions.
Root will fix some of the issues I'm sure. Don't have a particular need to flash ROMs otherwise, so the locked bootloader is sad but acceptable since Motorola largely left things alone. Just wish they left everything alone.
All the core productivity clients - People, Gmail, Calendar and Corporate mail are all "skinned". Gmail and Calendar are fortunately replaced easily by downloadable versions from the Play Store, although I had to disable the built-in calendar. People is more or less as close to stock as you can get. For a company like Motorola that clearly uses Exchange for their corporate mail infrastructure, it's clear they didn't eat their own dog food when it came to testing their skinned mail client.
The MAXX has the same frustrating bug that I had with other non-AOSP Exchange clients. If you read a message, and then immediately move it to a folder afterwards, the message read state doesn't always carry over and so an unread email shows up in the folder you just put the email in. If you're a 150-200 email a day person, this becomes a serious problem as I curate my inbox throughout the day. Having to go back to a desktop to reset things to be read is dumb. I can't believe this problem still exists.
Does not have me hopeful for the Moto X being any different.
The active notifications are OK... but if you have multiple notifications, I can't figure out how to access the other notifications -- it only lets you access the most recent one from what I can tell. Also frustrated to see that the active notifications go away after a while. This needs to be configurable. I lived by the perpetual blinking light from the Blackberry days to my SGS3 with CM10.2. Having to pick up my phone to see if there's new stuff is just as much of a wasted motion as just turning on the phone and looking for notifications. Somebody should fix this.
Otherwise, a lot to like. Was at around 65% after about 7 hours, but with about 3.5 hrs of screen time as things were getting set up and heavy heavy use of data as things were getting downloaded all over again. Tomorrow will be my first run-down. Screen is gorgeous... light years better than the SGS3, and very usable in varied lighting. Form factor compared to my SGS3 with the Qi battery door is identical in dimensions.
Root will fix some of the issues I'm sure. Don't have a particular need to flash ROMs otherwise, so the locked bootloader is sad but acceptable since Motorola largely left things alone. Just wish they left everything alone.
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