What I love most about the phone, and about Android/ICS, is that almost every single day I find out something new and generally very cool.
I don't know about you but when I got the phone, I was coming from Blackberry and had only played with the wife's iPod a little, to see what that was about.
I didn't read any manuals or FAQs or quick start guides. I just started using the phone.
It was great fun to just try things and learn by playing. For the first few days, I didn't realize you could avoid the default lock screen to get to notifications by swiping down. But if you're adventurous you eventually figure more and more out, and the thing just gets more useful as you do.
And then the world of apps! It's like the newness/coolness never ends!
Yesterday I learned that there are apps that will find your phone if you lose it. As of now I can TXT my phone a certain passphrase, and it will TXT back its lat/long, a link to Gmaps showing where it is, and what it believes is the nearest address.
Today, two months into having the phone, I set up Face Unlock. It works great!
Every day a new tech marvel. The phone is worth the money, just in the number of grins I've had. Wow, my mobile podcatcher works better than my desktop podcatcher? Grin! Wow, Chrome Beta syncs my Chrome desktop bookmarks? Grin! Wow, Google Wallet? Huge grin!
So this is in reply to all the complaint threads on the forum. Someone else pointed out that forums will attract complaint threads, because people with complaints are the ones most likely to start a thread. Well here's a thread that says, wow, I love this thing more every day.
I don't know about you but when I got the phone, I was coming from Blackberry and had only played with the wife's iPod a little, to see what that was about.
I didn't read any manuals or FAQs or quick start guides. I just started using the phone.
It was great fun to just try things and learn by playing. For the first few days, I didn't realize you could avoid the default lock screen to get to notifications by swiping down. But if you're adventurous you eventually figure more and more out, and the thing just gets more useful as you do.
And then the world of apps! It's like the newness/coolness never ends!
Yesterday I learned that there are apps that will find your phone if you lose it. As of now I can TXT my phone a certain passphrase, and it will TXT back its lat/long, a link to Gmaps showing where it is, and what it believes is the nearest address.
Today, two months into having the phone, I set up Face Unlock. It works great!
Every day a new tech marvel. The phone is worth the money, just in the number of grins I've had. Wow, my mobile podcatcher works better than my desktop podcatcher? Grin! Wow, Chrome Beta syncs my Chrome desktop bookmarks? Grin! Wow, Google Wallet? Huge grin!
So this is in reply to all the complaint threads on the forum. Someone else pointed out that forums will attract complaint threads, because people with complaints are the ones most likely to start a thread. Well here's a thread that says, wow, I love this thing more every day.
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