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Intro'ing myself here... just joined last week. I'm a long-time smartphone user (12+ years), had the first smartphone with a mono screen when it first came out eons ago (Kyocera QCP 6035). But since 2004 I've been a happy Treo user and was a member of a great community, mytreo.net.
I have had my Samsung Galaxy Epic 4G for about 8 months. I call it my "stupidphone" b/c it is completely hopeless when used as a phone. It's a great handheld computer, but a truly lousy phone/pda. The battery life SUCKS like nothing I've ever seen before. I have to keep it plugged in all day to be able to use it at night. I use it for everything and I still miss my trusty Treo.
I have to reboot to hear anything. The phone has to be rebooted whenever I need to hear a voice-mail or watch a video or listen to music or want to use a ringtone that didn't come w the phone. Often the sound on games - and I play alot of games - will just go out completely during a game. I find I have to reboot the phone a few times daily for it to actually work right when I need it. Sometimes it just crashes and turns itself off for no reason at all. Sometimes it just crashes and freezes the screen so I have to wait until the battery drains before I can reboot - which isn't that much of an issue considering how lousy the battery life is.
When I upgraded my OS on Nov 17 to GB I lost access to automatically updating gmail, and I have about 10+ gmail addys I read on my phone. I had to uninstall a few apps & then upgrade the gmail app to finally have it working right again. I haven't tried every app since the upgrade that I've got installed b/c there's a ton of them. So it's possible I have other apps not working as well since the OS upgrade.
Don't get me wrong, the phone looks smart and I love how the games look, but when used as a phone, for business, for contacts, notes, memos, etc, it really sucks bigtime. I downloaded a great free program called Evernote to deal with those lacks. I loathe that it doesn't allow me to set my own ringtones for different types of calls (unknown caller, specific people ringtones, etc), or allow me to view all my apps in list mode instead of the default icon-only mode that takes up so much more space. This phone is clearly a work in progress that shouldn't have been released until they ironed all the kinks out of it.
I really have a love/hate relationship with the thing. I'm so tired of that, I loved my trusty Treo and would love to be using an updated version of that instead.
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