My wife had been toying with getting her first smart phone (mainly for email). Having gone through the pain of a BlackBerry Storm, I steered her to the Droid and she finally picked one up a couple of weeks ago. And, she pretty much hates it. She is not a techie in any way, shape or form and leaves it up to me to figure things out and show her. The basic phone is pretty simple and she picked that up pretty quick. But two things are absolutely driving her crazy to the point of, ugh, thinking seriously about returning it and getting a Storm 2, even over my strong objection.
The first thing that is driving her crazy is the erratic email delivery. After she first told me about it, I browsed around and saw a ton of people struggling with POP3 email issues, which unfortunately, she uses. The night before last I set up her Verizon email to forward everything to her Gmail account since this reportedly fixed things for a lot of people. She still had troubles yesterday with it, though I understand Gmail itself was having problems. I can't fathom how in this day and age they can't make POP3 email more reliable. The one and only thing that my Storm does better than the Android is email, but if that's her primary use, it's kind of hard to argue against it. I'm not sure where the problem is and if 2.1 will fix things, but she only has 2 weeks left to return it so she will have to make a decision before then.
The second thing that is driving her crazy is somehow either the phone or her clusmy fingers are somehow switching notifications off randomly. She'll set up the phone to vibrate or make the rattlesnake alert sound when an email or text come in and somehow the notification is getting turned off and she is missing them. I don't know the phone well enough to know if she is accidently toggling it somehow or not, but it could very well be.
I'm not sure what she is going to do, but she is pretty unhappy with her first smart phone. Of course, she didn't suffer through the Storm's early days like I did, so she has no idea what smart phone hell is like!
The first thing that is driving her crazy is the erratic email delivery. After she first told me about it, I browsed around and saw a ton of people struggling with POP3 email issues, which unfortunately, she uses. The night before last I set up her Verizon email to forward everything to her Gmail account since this reportedly fixed things for a lot of people. She still had troubles yesterday with it, though I understand Gmail itself was having problems. I can't fathom how in this day and age they can't make POP3 email more reliable. The one and only thing that my Storm does better than the Android is email, but if that's her primary use, it's kind of hard to argue against it. I'm not sure where the problem is and if 2.1 will fix things, but she only has 2 weeks left to return it so she will have to make a decision before then.
The second thing that is driving her crazy is somehow either the phone or her clusmy fingers are somehow switching notifications off randomly. She'll set up the phone to vibrate or make the rattlesnake alert sound when an email or text come in and somehow the notification is getting turned off and she is missing them. I don't know the phone well enough to know if she is accidently toggling it somehow or not, but it could very well be.
I'm not sure what she is going to do, but she is pretty unhappy with her first smart phone. Of course, she didn't suffer through the Storm's early days like I did, so she has no idea what smart phone hell is like!
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