Playing devils advocate just a little here, but these are real things I have run into before with any device that tries to be "the one" device.
Date/Time in the bar is something I do use all the time. I think I notice it most when I am reading a book on the device and need to keep an eye on the time (e.g. lunchtime). A quick tap brings up the title bar and there it is, another to keep reading. Sure, it's a small thing, but why can't it be a small thing that's there rather than a small thing that isn't :-). Android really should enable multi-touch, the hardware can do it, and Google should quit being pushed around by Apple. While multi-touch is not a must have feature, it sure is nice on occasion, particularly for typing (which people have reported as being harder on the android soft- keyboards because of the lack of multi-touch - I haven't ever tried an Android phone without a hardware keyboard, but for a software keyboard phone this would seem to be a "must have"). Finally, the lack of syncing with a local machine. There is an easy use case for where this would be a problem. Everything's fine as long as you have a signal for cloud integration, but when I am travelling to somewhere I often don't - for example going to Devoxx... Not being able to transfer podcasts during this time would get problematic in a hurry, and even things like getting documents to/from the device should be possible when the phone is not a full phone. I think these are all valid points - there are many that can be leveled against the iPhone too, but just accepting the limitations doesn't do anyone any favors, let's push for Android devices to be the best they can possibly be... The screen does look good though, as does the hardware in general - I think the Nexus is the first really slick Android phone. Cheers Dick On Jan 20, 4:15 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Phone/phone book integration is a little less than wonderful > > How so? It will pull down contacts from gmail, facebook etc. What > exactly is "less than wonderful"? > > > no date in the bar at the top of the phone by the clock > > Wow... are you serious? > > > and adding widgets can be ugly. > > Again, could you qualify this a little? You long-press, selects > "Widgets", choose your widget and you're done. > > > how to sync with my laptop but then I've not tried hard yet. > > This is a cloud phone, you don't sync with your local computer. > > > In terms of screen quality, I'm very satisfied with the quality. I > > rivals my iTouch and some have commented that they believe > > it to be better. > > Again you kidding? It has 2.5 times more pixels and a contrast of > 100.000:1 (same as plasma TV's).
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