My wife and I have had ours for exactly 30 days. Just when I started cutting it some slack after a couple of weeks of making the jump from BlackBerry For all the 'cool' features, I really hate this thing and I'm not impressed with it, sad to say. Android is not ready for prime time... yet. And neither is the MyTouch4G. Yes, it has some shining attributes, but when it comes to pure functionality, and my ability to depend on it for a stable, modern communication device, I give it a D- overall. In fact I should just give it an F because that is what it deserves. 9 calls out of 10 being inaccessible is unacceptable.
The other features that it brings to the table, and the hardware are eclipsed by a still immature OS and instability.
Oh, btw, I only downloaded a few apps on mine:
Advanced Task Killer
Word Feud
Lookout (which has since been uninstalled)
Lock Bypass App (" ")
I'm spoiled with BlackBerry's spell-check (MT4G just sucks at this and swaps other words entirely for the ones I type...); I don't like the fact that the touch screen is ultra-sensitive to the point of placing calls and doing other things I don't ask it to... but the worst problem is this:
when my screen is blacked-out and I get an incoming call, I cannot unlock the screen about 9 calls out of ten. I then miss the call entirely, and have to call them back. This is extremely frustrating. I had that neat little free lock bypass app on for a few weeks, but when this phenomenon started I uninstalled it. Still no change.
I hesitate to do a hard (factory) reboot, because quite frankly I have better things to do than to dote over this phone and set it up again. Never had this problem with 3 BB's in 4 years (did have one trackball malfunction though) and the stability and overall dependability were great.
Honestly- the problems I'm having reminds me of the myriad of hassles with a windows PC... (and I'm now a Mac user 6 yrs plus now, so that should speak). There is so much promise here, it's sad.
I have yet to find any other posted solutions on how to cure this "screen lockup upon incoming calls" problem anywhere.
Right now I'd like nothing better than to use it for a wheel chock. But I can't afford to. I will ultimately be going to iPhone4 (or 5), flash or no flash. Give me a smart phone that WORKS.
Oh and no, I'm way too old to be called a fanboy.