decoration decoration
Stories

GROKLAW
When you want to know more...
decoration
For layout only
Home
Archives
Site Map
Search
About Groklaw
Awards
Legal Research
Timelines
ApplevSamsung
ApplevSamsung p.2
ArchiveExplorer
Autozone
Bilski
Cases
Cast: Lawyers
Comes v. MS
Contracts/Documents
Courts
DRM
Gordon v MS
GPL
Grokdoc
HTML How To
IPI v RH
IV v. Google
Legal Docs
Lodsys
MS Litigations
MSvB&N
News Picks
Novell v. MS
Novell-MS Deal
ODF/OOXML
OOXML Appeals
OraclevGoogle
Patents
ProjectMonterey
Psystar
Quote Database
Red Hat v SCO
Salus Book
SCEA v Hotz
SCO Appeals
SCO Bankruptcy
SCO Financials
SCO Overview
SCO v IBM
SCO v Novell
SCO:Soup2Nuts
SCOsource
Sean Daly
Software Patents
Switch to Linux
Transcripts
Unix Books

Gear

Groklaw Gear

Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.


You won't find me on Facebook


Donate

Donate Paypal


No Legal Advice

The information on Groklaw is not intended to constitute legal advice. While Mark is a lawyer and he has asked other lawyers and law students to contribute articles, all of these articles are offered to help educate, not to provide specific legal advice. They are not your lawyers.

Here's Groklaw's comments policy.


What's New

STORIES
No new stories

COMMENTS last 48 hrs
No new comments


Sponsors

Hosting:
hosted by ibiblio

On servers donated to ibiblio by AMD.

Webmaster
It has been steadily improving | 225 comments | Create New Account
Comments belong to whoever posts them. Please notify us of inappropriate comments.
It has been steadily improving
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 10 2012 @ 04:16 PM EDT
I have been using android since 1.5, and it has had a share
of problems over the years (though functionality has always
been top-end compared to other platforms.)

With Android 4 (ICS), I think they have finally got
something that is mainstream ready (and a genuinely
excellent UI). It's a shame that it has been so slow to
rollout in the real world (as a software geek I've been
running it for months on an old handset, but that's not
everyone's experience.) I hope they address this update
timing problem, though I haven't seen signs that they
consider it to be a problem.

There are still a few things that could be smoothed out here
and there, but it's finally in a state of being reasonably
polished as well as functional.


[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

I aimed low to start
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 10 2012 @ 04:50 PM EDT
I held off, watching, then got a Huawei. Biggest grizzle, it requires
a Google acct during the setup procedure. Second biggest grizzle,
it requires rebooting between once a week to once a month
because Android cruft starts to drag the battery down, and it takes
75 seconds to boot. I got it to use as a bilingual device, it's good at that.
I'm not a hard core GPS tracker, nor do I buy loads of stuff thru it.
The camera is naff, and so is video playback at QVGA 10fps.
But it does its phone and text functions pretty slick, and for $120
it's a good value smartphone.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

I have tried, I really have
Authored by: rcsteiner on Thursday, May 10 2012 @ 05:47 PM EDT
I like my iPhone 4, and I like iOS for the most part, but some of the bundled
applications are doubleplusungood.

The "Messages" app is the primary problem in my book ... no way to
delete multiple message at once, length limits enforced on subject lines that
none of my previous non-smartphones enforced, presentation of messages in a
proportional font inside little bubbles destroys any semblance of formatting,
etc.

The e-mail app keeps crashing on me. It's not bad when it actually works.

I actually do like Safari.

---
-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

I have tried, I really have
Authored by: N_au on Thursday, May 10 2012 @ 09:32 PM EDT
I bought a Huawei outright. It is not an expensive phone, no great hardware bits
but I don't have any of the problems you have. Maybe its all the providers junk
that is doing it! There are apps there that I can't get rid of tho as you say
but I am not running out of memory so not worried about it.
My son has a Galaxy SII and loves it. Only thing as he uses it a lot playing
games etc, he has to charge it every day.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

I have tried, I really have
Authored by: Tufty on Thursday, May 10 2012 @ 11:44 PM EDT
Well, I am thinking of moving to a Samsung Galaxy Ace. My Nokia C1-01 has
numerous little foibles but the killer was the camera, clear in the centre and
totally blurred in the corners as in frosted glass blurred. Went into the
attention centre and was told it was working perfectly and what could I expect
because it was a cheap phone. I pointed out that my 5 years older, cheaper,
Nokia took far better pictures that were sharp to the corner. The response was
'Well, that is a different phone' then stare at the ceiling. Oh, in the process
they TOTALLY wiped the phone. Nokia is dead for me. So, is Samsung really that
bad or does each phone just have its foibles?

---
Linux powered squirrel.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Groklaw © Copyright 2003-2013 Pamela Jones.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Comments are owned by the individual posters.

PJ's articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ( Details )