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marvingreenberg — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:10:34 -0500

January 26, 2009 at 10:10 am

"I'm more hopeful. Certain things have improved - there is now an application to stream audio from ordinary internet radio streams (StreamFurious). And there are rumors of a soon to be released Android update ("Cupcake") which will fix some glaring omissions (on screen keyboard, autorotate display) plus add some sort of application monitor. I am hopeful that over time Google will drive this to be as polished as intuitive as many of their "real" web applications. You still can't search your calendar, or add a contact from an email, and the calendar UI is only OK. But with the promise of a new OS update after only 3 or 4 months, it is suggestive that the whole platform will continuously improve. This is where open-source is nice. If some Chinese handset mfgr wants an on-screen keyboard and develops it, we get it too (probably, ... unless the mfgr or google or tmobile has some reason to prevent it...)"

marvingreenberg commented on T-Mobile G1

marvingreenberg — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:26:52 -0500

November 6, 2008 at 3:26 pm

"I have the phone, and like the idea of the phone, and am even forgiving that it isn't the iPhone. Apple is Apple and they get usability RIGHT (although iPhone 1 had some issues). My attraction to Android was that it was more open, and I hoped that Google (a software company) and the Android platform would have enough influence to get many of the usability issues right. My biggest annoyance is that I use the web browser, browse to a streaming media link (real time feed of a radio station, m3u,pls) and it doesn't play. This phone has all the codecs, streaming media is no different. This may be a deliberate limitation by T-mobile (some problem in their network with a long-lived connection?) but probably not since there are other applications that stream music. So its probably just a stupid oversight. Then there are tons of usability problems. You can filter you contact list by the groups in your google contacts. But as of Nov 6, 2008, the Contact application doesn;t let you create or manage or show groups -- you have to do that online at Google Gmail. Further, GMail makes three special groups (Friends,Family, Co-workers) and these DON"T EVEN show up. Probably a bug in google's Contact API. And to use the groups from Contacts, you have to do: button: Menu, touch screen: 'More', touch screen:Show by Group, touch screen: , touch screen: 'OK'. And then it shows only the contacts in that group, but with no indication it is filtered. Why not just a filter pull down or popup menu on the contacts tab or something. Calendar similar requires 4 or 5 button presses to change the displayed calendars. Anyways, I knew I wouldn't get an iPhone user-experience on this first Android phone. I was hoping for better, but luckily its all software and can (and should) get fixed in time (even if I have to write a Contacts replacement... :-) )"

marvingreenberg updated T-Mobile G1

marvingreenberg — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:13:01 -0500

November 6, 2008 at 1:13 pm

new pro/con: Web server does not support streaming media
new pro/con: Inconsistent user interface - physical buttons, on screen menus, popup menus
tapped as "have it"
edited the description

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marvingreenberg — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:44:59 -0500

November 6, 2008 at 12:44 pm