I picked up the Revo pretty much on impulse Friday, and it wasn't a good weekend. I traded it in on a Thunderbolt this afternoon.
The battery life and the GPS were great, and it rooted really easily (you're welcome!), but the sensitivity on the touchscreen was awful, and the phone froze on me several times. I wasn't sure if it hadn't registered my gesture, or if it was just locked up. In any case, it would just freeze for 10 or 12 seconds at a time, which didn't really work for me. I also didn't think Bing was a big deal until the reality set in that the Revo will most likely be running the stock ROM for the foreseeable future, and that means hacky workarounds to get Google to show up all the time.
I carry a smartphone because I like smartphones and i think they're fun, but this one really wasn't a good time. The lack of excitement from the development community and the BS way that LG has locked up the recovery were enough to push me over the edge. This is a serious disappointment to me.
So far the only real disadvantage I see to the T-Bolt is the battery life issue, which is surely frustrating. All in all, though, I think I'd much rather have a phone that I like that I have to charge than a phone I don't care for that will last all day.
This is, of course, all my own deal, and I SINCERELY hope that my experience is not the norm. I carried an LG G2X on T-mobile for almost a week, and so I believe LG has the smartphone chops to pull off something great, but for me, this isn't it.
It's really saddening, as I had some really high hopes, and I wish you all the absolute best!
Best of luck to everyone, I hope you do better than I did!
-Z
The battery life and the GPS were great, and it rooted really easily (you're welcome!), but the sensitivity on the touchscreen was awful, and the phone froze on me several times. I wasn't sure if it hadn't registered my gesture, or if it was just locked up. In any case, it would just freeze for 10 or 12 seconds at a time, which didn't really work for me. I also didn't think Bing was a big deal until the reality set in that the Revo will most likely be running the stock ROM for the foreseeable future, and that means hacky workarounds to get Google to show up all the time.
I carry a smartphone because I like smartphones and i think they're fun, but this one really wasn't a good time. The lack of excitement from the development community and the BS way that LG has locked up the recovery were enough to push me over the edge. This is a serious disappointment to me.
So far the only real disadvantage I see to the T-Bolt is the battery life issue, which is surely frustrating. All in all, though, I think I'd much rather have a phone that I like that I have to charge than a phone I don't care for that will last all day.
This is, of course, all my own deal, and I SINCERELY hope that my experience is not the norm. I carried an LG G2X on T-mobile for almost a week, and so I believe LG has the smartphone chops to pull off something great, but for me, this isn't it.
It's really saddening, as I had some really high hopes, and I wish you all the absolute best!
Best of luck to everyone, I hope you do better than I did!
-Z