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This is my take on the GB update 4 days on, for what its worth:-
UK sim free phone, update was very smooth with no problems.
1) Screen is brighter and more vibrant and auto brightness seems to be smoother.
2) Speaker, media playback does seem to be a little louder but dont get too excited.
3) Process smoother and faster, noticeable on deleting a batch of messages from various senders.
4) Video playback (embedded video on the BBC news page) smoother.
5) I like the little extras like the improved notifications, sound effects on the weather widget and the scrolling changes on the app screen.
6) If set, the phone always switched to mobile data from WiFi and back again if the signal dropped. This does now seem to be a bit too sensitive and if the WiFi drops to one bar it will change to mobile data and then back again very quickly which can cause connection problems. I would not say this is a big issue for me but there are corners of my kitchen for example where it keeps going backwards and forwards and I therefore loose my connection.
7) Cut and paste improved.
8) No problems loosing any apps etc but for some reason did loose some of my album art in the music player. Fortunately I have one of the album art apps that was able to replace it.
9) Jury is still out on the battery life. I am average user with live wallpaper and sync one a day. (Using the Pulse news reader from the Market by the way which I think is the best yet). I am averaging about 16 hours which in practice means it goes on charge every night when I go to bed. Thats seems ok to me for a smart phone of this level. People at work with Iphones bring their chargers with them, I have never had to do that.
Hope this is of use, will be good to compare the experience of other updates.
UK sim free phone, update was very smooth with no problems.
1) Screen is brighter and more vibrant and auto brightness seems to be smoother.
2) Speaker, media playback does seem to be a little louder but dont get too excited.
3) Process smoother and faster, noticeable on deleting a batch of messages from various senders.
4) Video playback (embedded video on the BBC news page) smoother.
5) I like the little extras like the improved notifications, sound effects on the weather widget and the scrolling changes on the app screen.
6) If set, the phone always switched to mobile data from WiFi and back again if the signal dropped. This does now seem to be a bit too sensitive and if the WiFi drops to one bar it will change to mobile data and then back again very quickly which can cause connection problems. I would not say this is a big issue for me but there are corners of my kitchen for example where it keeps going backwards and forwards and I therefore loose my connection.
7) Cut and paste improved.
8) No problems loosing any apps etc but for some reason did loose some of my album art in the music player. Fortunately I have one of the album art apps that was able to replace it.
9) Jury is still out on the battery life. I am average user with live wallpaper and sync one a day. (Using the Pulse news reader from the Market by the way which I think is the best yet). I am averaging about 16 hours which in practice means it goes on charge every night when I go to bed. Thats seems ok to me for a smart phone of this level. People at work with Iphones bring their chargers with them, I have never had to do that.
Hope this is of use, will be good to compare the experience of other updates.
