regret getting nexus one?

The only reason I might regret getting it is because of the iPhone's far far superior apps and games, but I have hope for the App Market to get better. Other than that, I love the phone.

sooper_droid12 said:

There's no reasoning here bro. How do you explain fan-boy-ism? You can't. You can't explain the "I just gotta have it," mentality that prevents people from making truly reasonable and logical decisions/choices.

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Guilty as charged. Normally I'm VERY cautious - I usually research purchases to death, practically. But for some reason I bought the Nexus One on impulse. And even worse, I got it engraved.

Now I have an absolutely gorgeous phone with an amazing feature set that is practically worthless becuase of crappy T-Mobile service.

Where my Iphone friends get 3G coverage I barely get 1-2 bars of Edge, if that. And this "unlocked" but only really works with T-Mobile should be a deal killer. I'm thoroughly disgusted that I bought into the hype before doing proper due dilligence.

I live in Seattle, so if anyone thinks I just haven't properly configured my phone, or there is a way to improve reception, please let me know.

Will this version of the phone ever work on AT&T's 3G network???

Well, I have some regrets...mainly that the phone is not as good as I thought (and hoped) it would be.

The complete lack of a real support infrastructure (email only support is lame at best Google!), no Bluetooth handsfree dialing, no speed dials (contacts/direct dials on home page is a work-around, but not a substitute), power-switch only wake up, non-functioning light sensor/auto brightness, no exchange calendar support, very mediocre to poor speaker phone, and the worst battery life I have ever experienced in a phone have made this an extremely disappointing experience.

Mine goes back on Monday within the 14 day return period...this I have no regrets about. It is certainly a beautiful device (love the design and hardware), but for me, it needs to have the basics working before I'm willing to live with it day to day - or at least some assurances from the seller that they have a plan to fix the issues that exist. Google's lack of response and support makes it hard for me to feel good about this purchase, so back it goes.

ecb said:

Get a stock Android phone and keep up with the latest and greatest Android versions or get a phone with additional software layered on top and live with being a version behind for awhile !

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oh man......i love it when you say "greatest android versions".... is it not more like one version is less shabby than the previous one? your expression implies that android 1.6 was great, then came the greater version 2.0 and then came the greatest 2.1... i think the word "great" or any of its derivatives should not be used with android unless as an oxymoron.

Khonqh said:

The OS just needs a few more updates. ....people just need to give it some time. ...... pretty soon we're gonna be saying "theres an app for that !"

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i love seeing posts by people like you (new to android with N1 as the first android phone).....aaah the zeal of a convert; i felt that way too at some point. not to be offensive but if you have only been using android for a week or two, you practically dont know android. you also dont know the market. the "OS just needs a few updates".....lol dont worry, pretty soon you will be dealing with OS updates, hacks, cooked up ROMs and a daily dose of app updates.......have fun with that...

"pretty soon we're gonna be saying "theres an app for that !"....don't worry; the "market" has an app for everything you can think of; it's just that the app is ....well.....pretty useless.....be prepared to spend quite some time rummaging through the huge garbage can that the android market is, maybe you'll get lucky and find something that's actually useful .

anotherfandroid said:

i love seeing posts by people like you (new to android with N1 as the first android phone).....aaah the zeal of a convert; i felt that way too at some point. not to be offensive but if you have only been using android for a week or two, you practically dont know android. you also dont know the market. the "OS just needs a few updates".....lol dont worry, pretty soon you will be dealing with OS updates, hacks, cooked up ROMs and a daily dose of app updates.......have fun with that...

"pretty soon we're gonna be saying "theres an app for that !"....don't worry; the "market" has an app for everything you can think of; it's just that the app is ....well.....pretty useless.....be prepared to spend quite some time rummaging through the huge garbage can that the android market is, maybe you'll get lucky and find something that's actually useful .

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I would assume you make your forum name during that point of your life?

No regrets here. I arrived here from a jailbroken iphone 3g. I love the speed of this phone. I do like the multitasking. Something as simple as Pandora continuing to play music when I leave the app to do something else. Yes, there were workaround apps to keep apps running in the background on the iphone, but I was ready to move on.

I have no idea how this phone compares with other android phones. But I like it. I like how I don't 'have' to root the thing to install apps outside the android market.

I feel bad for those going through the 3g/2g switching. I experienced that crap when I got the iphone 3g. It was fixed, eventually. I'm not going through that problem, maybe because I live in a good tmobile 3g area, who knows, but I do know first hand that it sucks.

No regrets here. Enjoying this phone.

I prefer the Bravo but id rather have a N1 now than wait 3 months...

Jleagle said:

I prefer the Bravo but id rather have a N1 now than wait 3 months...

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Isn't Bravo just Nexus One on Sense?
After using Hero, I think I am done using Android with Skins. The wait to get the latest firmware and custom firmware was unbearable. Moreover, with 2.0.1 in DROID and 2.1 in Nexus one, vanilla Android has improved a lot!

I would like to see what Apple can provide with their iPhone 4 this July

illutionz said:

Isn't Bravo just Nexus One on Sense?
After using Hero, I think I am done using Android with Skins. The wait to get the latest firmware and custom firmware was unbearable. Moreover, with 2.0.1 in DROID and 2.1 in Nexus one, vanilla Android has improved a lot!

I would like to see what Apple can provide with their iPhone 4 this July

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I prefer it for the buttons at the bottom. Like you, i prefer not to have sense.

Jleagle said:

I prefer it for the buttons at the bottom. Like you, i prefer not to have sense.

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Ah, the buttons

ShotSkydiver said:

The only reason I might regret getting it is because of the iPhone's far far superior apps and games, but I have hope for the App Market to get better. Other than that, I love the phone.

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This is indeed the biggest drawback of the Android platform currently.... I hope it improves, it's not so much the quantity that bothers me or lack thereof, it the lack of quality apps, or even equivalents to its iPhone counterparts...

apps like Gas Buddy, all the good snow report apps like the North Face one, the CNBC app, Bloomberg App, NPR app that actually lets you stream the stations, CBC app (hey, i'm a canuck afterall, even if an expat... ), a true NYT app - not the knockoff crappy "readers"... etc....

mi_canuck said:

This is indeed the biggest drawback of the Android platform currently.... I hope it improves, it's not so much the quantity that bothers me or lack thereof, it the lack of quality apps, or even equivalents to its iPhone counterparts...

apps like Gas Buddy, all the good snow report apps like the North Face one, the CNBC app, Bloomberg App, NPR app that actually lets you stream the stations, CBC app (hey, i'm a canuck afterall, even if an expat... ), a true NYT app - not the knockoff crappy "readers"... etc....

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I miss a couple games from the iPhone, Wunder Radio (miss listening to UK and Taiwan radios), and Bloomberg app. Google finance is good for ticker but no news!!

DroidMassive said:

Ihad some trouble getting contacts from outlook to gmail - but aside from that i love this phone its a quantum leap on from my old HTC touch HD......

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DM, try CompanionLink for Google. It makes it a breeze to move your Outlook Contacts to any Google account. Then it goes to the Nexus, Droid or any android phone.

The trial is full featured for 14 days. You can use it free if you just need a one-time transfer. There is telephone and email technical support. Yes, we support the trial version. Some people will want to update their contacts in 3 or 6 months so for them it will be $39.95 to continue to synchronize any time they want. CompanionLink does Contacts, Calendar, Tasks (to Google Calendar) and Memos (to the Contacts list).

CompanionLink also offers direct USB sync if you don't want your data on Google, but DO want it on the phone.

Here's the info:

Google Android sync for Outlook, Palm Desktop, Lotus Notes and ACT!

Wayland Bruns, CTO
CompanionLink Software, Inc.
www.companionlink.com

BTW - I not only LOVE MY NEXUS but we have huge plans for making this platform really business friendly. Keep an eye out for HUGE UPDATES from CompanionLink in the next 90 days which add functionality to Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Memos, Messaging, Call Logging, Emailing and more. All this functionality will tie back through sync for specific PC apps like Microsoft Business Contact Manager, ACT! and Lotus Notes.

anotherfandroid said:

i love seeing posts by people like you (new to android with N1 as the first android phone).....aaah the zeal of a convert; i felt that way too at some point. not to be offensive but if you have only been using android for a week or two, you practically dont know android. you also dont know the market. the "OS just needs a few updates".....lol dont worry, pretty soon you will be dealing with OS updates, hacks, cooked up ROMs and a daily dose of app updates.......have fun with that...

"pretty soon we're gonna be saying "theres an app for that !"....don't worry; the "market" has an app for everything you can think of; it's just that the app is ....well.....pretty useless.....be prepared to spend quite some time rummaging through the huge garbage can that the android market is, maybe you'll get lucky and find something that's actually useful .

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ok

anotherfandroid said:

i love seeing posts by people like you (new to android with N1 as the first android phone).....aaah the zeal of a convert; i felt that way too at some point. not to be offensive but if you have only been using android for a week or two, you practically dont know android. you also dont know the market. the "OS just needs a few updates".....lol dont worry, pretty soon you will be dealing with OS updates, hacks, cooked up ROMs and a daily dose of app updates.......have fun with that...

"pretty soon we're gonna be saying "theres an app for that !"....don't worry; the "market" has an app for everything you can think of; it's just that the app is ....well.....pretty useless.....be prepared to spend quite some time rummaging through the huge garbage can that the android market is, maybe you'll get lucky and find something that's actually useful .

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Jerk

summerboy18 said:

Jerk

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I wouldn't call him a jerk... I think he is just a person who was way way too excited about his new gadget and operating system. Found out it's not what he expected Add that with some buyer's remorse spice, and we got this guy

He is one of many descendants of early iPhone adopters who b***h and moan about non-native apps, no copy paste, and no MMS. I can vividly remember those days I was lurking in ANY phone forums where half of the posts are in all caps asking about one of that three features.

good thread..im still trying to decide if im gonna order this phone next week or wait a little longer....

No regrets at all, the device exceeds my expecations! Fast (at least still , user friendly, great display, useful & cool apps.

acjei said:

good thread..im still trying to decide if im gonna order this phone next week or wait a little longer....

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I would go for it. As someone who has been developing for PDA's and now Phones for 25 years, I have some opinions on the phones. CompanionLink purchased Polaris Windows Link a decade ago. That company made the Casio BOSS to Windows sync in 1988 which was the first sync to PC ever. We were a founding Palm SDK partner in 1996. I was the primary developer of our products at that time. In the last 14 years, as PDAs turned into phones, so too did our business follow. Keep in mind that my role is fundamentally mercenary. I don't say "I like a phone" or "I don't like it". What matters to me is how many people are buying it, and whether I can make money selling synchronization for it.

Droid and Nexus are great phones. iPhone is a great phone. Astonishingly, these phones lack many features found in PalmPilot since 1996, and Casio BOSS in 1988. Native App functionality and native sync, cut and paste, things like that. It's as if the phones have leaped forward in sophistication, and backward in usability.

Is waiting going to allow time for change? I think not. iPhone has been out for 3.5 years and has yet to add Tasks to the phone, and Categories to the Outlook sync. Tasks were in BOSS, and Categories were on PalmPilot. If a company with resources the size of Apple can't add them in three years, there must be some other overriding factor.

We can debate what the factor is. Hubris? Their sales are fine? People in Sunnyvale don't use Tasks and Categories? Take your pick. I'm highly amused that Apple, Google and Palm all have corporate headquarters in the same strip in a tiny California city, and yet design handsets for people in many diverse areas of the country and world. A Palm Manager recently twittered that he scraped ice off his windshield for the first time in his life. It was yet another reminder that these people don't live like us.

Apps will go some distance in functionality. Companionlink will be part of that. It will cost money. But look, you are paying $100 per month for your basic Phone/Data account, $2400 for the contract life of your phone. It is absurd to complain about having to pay $2 or $5 or $40 for an App that makes the phone more productive, when you are already paying $100 per month just for the ability to Google or Twitter from your car.

Nothing is new about complaints. PalmPilot 1000 Calendar lacked Categories. Lots of people found it absurd that Contacts, Tasks and Memos had categories, but Calendar lacked it. How long does it take Palm to fix that? Nine long years. Nine years to make Calendar work consistently with the other PIM apps.

Palm's founder Donna hated developers, the developer program and the SDK. The SDK didn't even come out for a year. Donna blocked every move and every effort for developers to make apps for the early Palm. (They weren't called Apps back then). After there were a lot of developers, Donna changed her tune she started claiming credit for launching the developer program. Did she ever listen? Not in my opinion. The only thing she cared about was unit sales, and that was the wind that controlled the "sails" of the ship.

So it's not much different today. PalmPilot was launched 14 years ago. What will we be saying 14 years from now? Maybe we'll see 2010 as the Golden Era when phones did X, Y, Z without charge and without any addons. That's because in the future, things could be WORSE.

What I would love to see is consistency between phones, particularly for SDK functions. Android is AWFUL because some phones do some things, and other phones do other things, even on the same version. It totally stinks to spend time making a feature work for Android 1.5 and then find it won't work in Cliq, or Hero because of some UI thing that HTC or Motorola added to "help" their users. It's less than ideal the every Android developer has to aquire every single phone to insure full compatibility. It will drive App prices up, and cause fewer people to develop. That's my beef. Will Donna's equivalent at Google listen? I think no better than Donna did. They are concerned only with unit sales. If developers succeed will they get credit for doing all the heavy lifting? Not a chance. Google will stand up to say "We made all this possible".

Buy the phone. It's really good. Doesn't really matter which one. They are all really good. Android doesn't do some things old phones did. Android does do new things that will knock your socks off. App developers will fill in some pieces. It will all be out of date in 2 years and you'll get a new phone then. You need 2 years of challenge and happiness before you come back to check out the NEXT NEW THING.

That's my $0.02. It took the Nexus to finally get me to stop carrying my fourth BlackBerry. I can't wait to see what Jobs will do in June to convince me I made a mistake and need to switch to Apple. Maybe he'll release the SDK for the iPhone Calendar. Do you think? NOT!

Wayland Bruns, CTO
CompanionLink Software, Inc.
www.companionlink.com

anotherfandroid said:

oh man......i love it when you say "greatest android versions".... is it not more like one version is less shabby than the previous one? your expression implies that android 1.6 was great, then came the greater version 2.0 and then came the greatest 2.1... i think the word "great" or any of its derivatives should not be used with android unless as an oxymoron.

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I think most people have heard the expression "latest and greatest" and realize it means the most recent version. When you pull "greatest" out of that statement that would be called taking the statement out of context.

Though your not providing any constructive information by bashing anyone that's not critical of Android you are correct in that there is not a "great" version of Android.

I've been using Android since the G1 came out. From it's first version, it was (and still remains) the best mobile OS for anyone using Google Services. Each version since has been a progression of increased functionality and stability.

There is NO mobile OS that is great for everyone; they all have their pros and cons so you have to determine which one is best for you. If you've grown disillusioned with Android, then try out the iPhone or the Palm Pre or a Nokia phone or a Blackberry....maybe you'll find a mobile OS that suits your needs. Personally, I could care less if you do....I'm happy with Android, sorry that you're not

Clcto said:

I would go for it. As someone who has been developing for PDA's and now Phones for 25 years, I have some opinions on the phones...

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Thanks for your detailed and informed contribution.

1080p said:

x10 looks like great hardware... but it ships with Android 1.5. THAT is ******ed.

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I have read many reports over the last week or so and it appears as if everyone is saying that the SE X10 will get upgraded to 2.0 or 2.1 before it is released.

I don't like the look of the X10 at all. It reminds me of the first HTC Touch Diamond. Plus, apart from the quality of the camera, I've never liked the user experience on an SE phone. I've got an N1 and won't bat an eyelid when the X10 comes out.

1080p said:

x10 looks like great hardware... but it ships with Android 1.5. THAT is ******ed.

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I spent some time with the X10 at CES and would never recommend the phone to anyone. Screen was nice but OS was not user friendly.

I have a droid now and love it.