You folks have read my posts - you know that I'm pretty happy with my Eris; but I will say that I mostly agree with the OP.
But I probably would also try to lose any "friends" that sent me more than 100 texts a month, too - no matter how cute they are. (That's one of the few privileges of age.)
My old dumb phone (I'm too embarrassed to admit what it was) had three boxes for texts: Inbox, Sentbox, and Drafts. I couldn't sort any of them (they were ordered by chronology), nor organize any of them into "conversations", or search them by contact name. And when the time came for deletion, I had three choices:
- individually,
- a whole box at a time,
- Delete Everything.
Dang, I miss that "Delete Everything" button - even though it would take a minute or so, and occasionally nuke an incoming text that I hadn't seen yet.
I have a feeling I know why deleting stuff is so slow and painful on the Eris: the data is being stored in database where different fields are indexed to allow all those clever ways to view the data (sorted by user, by "conversation", etc)... and is probably transactionally safe, too (to avoid that problem of nuking an incoming message, and other similar hazards).
I'm not sure if the problem is a generic Android problem, or something specific to Cupcake (Android 1.5) - but really, if we are only talking about SMS data - then 1000 texts at 160 characters each is only 160K of data. DFA1's expectations are pretty reasonable, all things considered.
Can anyone using a different Android 1.5 ("Cupcake") phone, or someone who is using both an Eris and a Android 1.6 or 2.x phone make some comments - do we have reason to believe that it will be better for Eris users in 60 days or less?
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