Hey.
I finally decided to switch to the new SHR-T after using the old SHR-U because 
I was afraid of breakage and not having time to fix stuff on my own.
As I expected, most of the bugs are ironed out now, but some remain.

The most annoying thing is that sometimes, multipart SMS I send are cut off. 
This happens only when my SIM card is full (I remember sending SMS via ogsmd 
required copying it to SIM and then sending). I guess that could be solved by 
copying messages from the SIM and always keeping some space on the card. Or at 
least presenting the user with a message along the lines of "You have to clean 
up your SIM card".

The second most annoying thing was a bug in the new screen dimming feature. In 
some cases, using the phone irregularly causes the screen to get stuck in the 
half-lit mode. After a while, it dims again, but doesn't light up fully until 
restart.

One more thing is Unicode support in SMS. I daresay it's actually unwelcome in 
many cases. Most mobile phones and SMS sending services convert Unicode to 
plain ASCII, because UCS-2 encoded messages are heavy and costly.
Someone will say: "don't use Unicode signs". Well, that would be fine if the 
only input was a dumb keyboard, but our keyboards support dictionaries that do 
contain Unicode letters.
My proposition is to mgive users choice to convert Unicode letters to their 
ASCII approximations. I would have done that myself, but I couldn't find my way 
through the C code responsible for that. I would happily extend the settings 
app though.

Having said that, I have to admit that current SHR-t is the most comfortable 
image I've ever used! Being able to store all messages I receive is something 
I've been waiting for so long. The alarms app - it literally feels like someone 
was reading my mind!
Last but not least, I'm happy to finally have a notes application. I used to 
write my notes down in text files, and that required running terminal and then 
the all-keyboard vi... BTW, there's a need for a finger-friendly text editor, 
too.

Cheers!
rhn
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