Ok so this wont make me flavour of the month with those members on here that think the sun shines out of Androids USB port - or with anyone or anything that developed a partly working PHONE for mass market distribution, but those who cannot take criticism should not be in any form of business anyway.
Primarily, the whole of the platform is a phone. In Android's case, this is defined as a lump of plastic that may or may not make or receive calls or text messages depending on how it feels. The general solution in here is to 'download an app', which is all well and good, but akin to buying a car and being told to go and get some tyres before you can drive it. If an app needs to be downloaded to make the phone work, to apply message tones, or if you need to delve into a (downloaded app) file manager to install another downloaded fix in order that you can then download the latest version of an unready app, then there is obviously something seriously wrong with anyone that thinks that this is acceptable - whether it be a manufacturer or a customer.
And so onto web browsing - another Android issue.
Its well documented in all the usual Android blurb that my phone (HTC Hero) has a fully working web browser complete with flash which will make browsing websites a 'near pc-like' experience. I have yet to see it come anywhere near even a bog-standard Samsung that streams from a website - the HTC will stream if it feels like it provided that this is before the browser crashes and also if the full page downloads to the browser anyway.
As I see it, Android are good at one thing - Lying about their products.
Virtually nothing works out of the box, which is a basic requirement even for a ten quid Asda phone.
Hey, I'm not complaining about the phone as its a good phone, except for all of the above, the shockingly rubbish battery life, and no doubt a few more things that will surface. In fact its quite absorbing wondering what will go wrong with the phone today and trying to find an app to fix it.
I will say one thing though - the HTC is the least used phone (by me) that I have ever owned as I'm fed up of it going wrong, crashing, rebooting itself, the battery running out et al and my best app is my old Nokia that ensures I never miss a call now that I swapped the simcard over.
There, rant over (for now)
Primarily, the whole of the platform is a phone. In Android's case, this is defined as a lump of plastic that may or may not make or receive calls or text messages depending on how it feels. The general solution in here is to 'download an app', which is all well and good, but akin to buying a car and being told to go and get some tyres before you can drive it. If an app needs to be downloaded to make the phone work, to apply message tones, or if you need to delve into a (downloaded app) file manager to install another downloaded fix in order that you can then download the latest version of an unready app, then there is obviously something seriously wrong with anyone that thinks that this is acceptable - whether it be a manufacturer or a customer.
And so onto web browsing - another Android issue.
Its well documented in all the usual Android blurb that my phone (HTC Hero) has a fully working web browser complete with flash which will make browsing websites a 'near pc-like' experience. I have yet to see it come anywhere near even a bog-standard Samsung that streams from a website - the HTC will stream if it feels like it provided that this is before the browser crashes and also if the full page downloads to the browser anyway.
As I see it, Android are good at one thing - Lying about their products.
Virtually nothing works out of the box, which is a basic requirement even for a ten quid Asda phone.
Hey, I'm not complaining about the phone as its a good phone, except for all of the above, the shockingly rubbish battery life, and no doubt a few more things that will surface. In fact its quite absorbing wondering what will go wrong with the phone today and trying to find an app to fix it.
I will say one thing though - the HTC is the least used phone (by me) that I have ever owned as I'm fed up of it going wrong, crashing, rebooting itself, the battery running out et al and my best app is my old Nokia that ensures I never miss a call now that I swapped the simcard over.
There, rant over (for now)