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A couple different home replacement programs enable rotate on the home screen.
I think Home++, GDE does, not sure about Open Home and dxTop...simple fix if you want it.
contacts >view your contact>edit your contact Patty. There is an option to separate. Do that and it will separate all 3 contacts into their own list.I love this phone...only two complaints...one major, one minor...
Minor: It stores my contacts screwy...I have a contact "Pat" a contact "Patricia" and a contact "Patty". It stores them all under "Patty", and when I get a call from any of them, the caller ID shows "Patty". No biggy, but I can't find a way to correct it.
Otherwise, I'm a happy camper!
1. Microsoft Exchange security support sucks. Why leave out the pin and the remote wipe!?!?!? My company kicked me off the email server because they say the droid is a security threat.
2. Glitchy pop email. Sometimes my email works, sometimes it doesnt. Yahoo stopped working after hacking it to work.
3. No Bluetooth voice dialing.
4. No short cut to the combined email box.
5. No Send or End buttons.
6. Phone app defaults to the dial pad. I'd prefer it to default to the call log. Better yet, display both.
7. Browser not as good as the iphone or palm pre.
8. Notification management sucks compared to the blackberry.
With that all said, I like the droid. The corporate email may be the show stopper though.
Only one complaint
can't mass text or group text on the native messaging client.
Open up a new message and start typing names into the 'to' box, it automatically separates them with commas. The replies come in as separate messages but I've never had a problem with that.
You could always root it. But this really isnt a problem. Most apps are 0-3MB so your talking 150+ apps before you start running out of room.
I dont think I even have 150 installed apps on my desktop gaming rig. Actually I just checked, 172.
So, yeah, don't worry about it.
Goggles is miss-or-phail most of the time. When they get it working, it'll definitely be something to lord over iPhone users with (though Google will probably release it for the iPhone eventually anyway).
If I could make or receive calls on my Droid at home, that'd be awesome.
Free turn-by-turn directions, though, == Win.
Googlers Goggles reads business cards, read about 9 out of the 10 ones I tried perfectly!
I think a steady hand and good lighting is the trick, my droid can pick up business cards easiest. What it has a problem with is barcodes, I've only gotten around 1 in 10 to scan, and it takes multiple tries.Out of maybe 100 tries, I have yet had Goggles to read one business card right. I clean the lens, focus right, good lighting, simple card... I can get a good sharp picture, but the character scanning throws the characters all over the fields randomly it seems. It's never got the street address read from any card. For some reason, half the time the street address goes where the person's name should be (never in the "address" box).
Once when I got everything perfect on a simple card, and it scaned all three phone numbers (celll, work, fax) correctly in the right fields, only one of the numbers actually transfers over to my Contacts!!!!
What's your magic trick? Anyone else have success?
You may not think this is a good workaround because of the $$, but Verizon's "Network Extender" (available on Verizon's website for $250 less 20% or $200 with promo code ACC20) actually solves that problem beautifully. I have two Droids (one of them is my wife's, actually) so it added $100 to the cost for each.
It is actually a "femtocell" (google it) and works basically by putting a mini cell tower in your home. You need a broadband internet connection and a router for it to work, because it backhauls the conversations as VoIP calls, so you Droids are nearly like land based devices. You can only have 3 phones in use at a time, but for most homes that works fine.
My house was a dead zone for Verizon. But my VZW femtocell has made it lively.
Currently, my biggest complaint is that dust is getting underneath the glass...as in dust between the glass and the f*$#ing lcd display. 1st phone I've ever owned that has allowed dust to get underneath the glass. Really Motorola? Makes the display look like sh*t in sunlight. I've been thinking about trying to get a replacement because of this, but I'm guessing that the next one will probably have the same problem.
They are out there, there's a jacket out right now for a few hundred bucks with device specific pockets, it's waterproof, etc. kinda neat but very expensive.Finally got to play with one (I went to verizon to buy it) and was sorta shocked by the physical keyboard... so some of you really like it after a while? The keys are really as flat and tiny as everyone has been saying. Some sort of haptic feedback would help. Such a large area for a keyboard and still, the cramped space on a BB Bold still provides an easier to use keyboard. I left the store after about an hour, empty handed.
Referencing Gunner and UnsureSherlock above, but sort of straying off-topic -- how much longer till the fashion industry starts making cell-phone friendly clothing where it's just a given that there will be special cellphone pockets?? Anyone wanna invest?
Easy there tiger. You obviously don't understand.
The playlist feature I don't use much actually. For me I'd like to see some type of album flip. I'd also like to see the shuffle back button actually go back, and when turning shuffle on it not immediately skip out of the song I was playing. I want it to shuffle when I'm done with the current song, get it? I would also like it to look like the interface was not designed by a color blind monkey from the 1980's.
My only complaint is kind of minor, I do not hear sounds/non mp3's attatched to pictures sent from my friends while they are heard perfectly on my kids dare. I'd also like to be able to send a picture mesage with a sound attatched. Other than that no complaints.
They are out there, there's a jacket out right now for a few hundred bucks with device specific pockets, it's waterproof, etc. kinda neat but very expensive.
And on the keyboard topic, it really sucked at first, and still isn't the best experience, but overall I've gotten used to it, I'm still not super accurate but I'm pretty fast at this point.
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