Got rid of this giant turd well within the return period. Some ways loved it dearly; but in other ways despised it beyond all comprehension. I was an Android dude for all of 3 days.
Here's what I wrote on Facebook today:
Before anyone starts in - I'm not nearly knowledgeable/advanced enough, NOR do I have the time, to start rooting.
Would switch to Sprint, but evidently the Epic 4 has the same type of bloatware crap on it...... At least the undeletable stuff on Iphone is free & useful. I'll stick with them for now, thanks.
Someday the Android phones and carriers will have enough competition, and be de-bugged enough, to force a no-bloatware situation, and thus make them far superior to Iphone (unless Apple seriously starts innovating at a faster rate) - but it ain't be gonna be THIS year.
I had TONS of basic phone and text malfunctions that would NEVER repeat when standing inside the AT&T store. It was ridiculous how many times basic functions would fail in the first 3 days, and then 1 hour later, it worked fine, etc.
YMMV.
Hey, maybe the Dell Streak won't have undeletable bloatware! One can dream, right!!
Here's what I wrote on Facebook today:
Switched back to Iphone (Iphone 4 upgraded) from the Samsung Captivate/Galaxy. The Samsung/Android system was pretty danged neat, but too buggy (not quite ready for prime time), and came with un-deletable bloatware from AT&T on it - that alone was a deal-breaker for me, since the bloatware was recurring-monthly-fee-use-basis only, AND un-deletable.
Let's see here .... Useless pay-for apps (not just "pay-for", but "pay-EVERY-month-for", over and over), which duplicate several free ones per bloatware app, and you can't get them off your phone to save your life - BAD combination.... "Hey AT&T: 1999 desktops called, and they want their proprietary bloatware that made everyone hate Compaq and HP back!"
Before anyone starts in - I'm not nearly knowledgeable/advanced enough, NOR do I have the time, to start rooting.
Would switch to Sprint, but evidently the Epic 4 has the same type of bloatware crap on it...... At least the undeletable stuff on Iphone is free & useful. I'll stick with them for now, thanks.
Someday the Android phones and carriers will have enough competition, and be de-bugged enough, to force a no-bloatware situation, and thus make them far superior to Iphone (unless Apple seriously starts innovating at a faster rate) - but it ain't be gonna be THIS year.
I had TONS of basic phone and text malfunctions that would NEVER repeat when standing inside the AT&T store. It was ridiculous how many times basic functions would fail in the first 3 days, and then 1 hour later, it worked fine, etc.
YMMV.
Hey, maybe the Dell Streak won't have undeletable bloatware! One can dream, right!!