Comments on: 13 Android Irritations By MobileCrunch

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:42:15 +0000

I’m an iPhone user but I’m not loyal to anything. I checked out the android 2.0 for an hour or so. It’s pretty darn good. Here’s what I like: multitasking, turn by turn directions, slightly bigger screen, and camera has flash. Here’s what needs fixing: turning the phone side ways does not always rotate the screen (must pull out the keyboard to unconfuse it), synchronizing with outlook is way better on the iPhone (I’d buy the activesync app), placing cursor is easier on the iPhone, phone app places contacts/favs stuff at top which slightly harder to get to with your thumb, iPhone has support for yahoo mail and has better support for multiple email accounts, need a good tv guide app for US customers like iTV, it’s a little easier to zoom in web pages on an iPhone with multi touch.

I may buy an android in the future but not right now. If I was forced to use an android right now I probably would be reasonably happy which says a lot about how good the phone is.
FYI: I’m not close to a novice user and would not give an android to my mom.

By: texduc

texduc — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:15:42 +0000

When I Clear Notifications I don’t want it to reappear when I launch messaging.
And I want control over keyboard illumination timeout. That’s it.

By: DEEZ NUTZ

DEEZ NUTZ — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:38:25 +0000

uhh…. APPS 2 SD they have already…. you gotta root and do all this other stuff, but its been done… go to XDA website and educate yourself…

now if your saying ” i shouldn’t have to do that”
your right, you shouldn’t.. but this isn’t a perfect world and if you want it you’ll do it….

By: anakin78z

anakin78z — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:55:03 +0000

@Mike I have voice dial and voice search on my phone… came by default. I got my G1 from T-Mobile in the US.

By: anakin78z

anakin78z — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:51:42 +0000

My gripe is lack of support for wpa2-enterprise wifi (is this in cupcake?), especially since it seems to just be a lack of interface support (people have gotten this to work on rooted phones by editing a text file).

@Bradicus I agree about the browser reloading every time you switch back to it is an annoyance.
I agree about the incoming call screen being too slow. In fact, it’s happened to me twice that the screen took 10 seconds or more to show up, and during that time I could do NOTHING to stop it from ringing. I couldn’t even pick up or shut it off.

By: Bradicus

Bradicus — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:38:14 +0000

Okay, so it’s not the “most frustrating thing,” but it’s an annoyance and it *just* happened to me, thus the overreaction ;-)

Also, I’ve noticed that when I receive phone calls, sometimes it takes ~2-3 seconds for the screen to show up… often after one or two rings. Again, this is a bit of an annoyance, as I’d prefer if I didn’t have to stare at a ringing black screen for a few seconds before knowing who is calling. Has anybody else noticed this?

By: Bradicus

Bradicus — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:24:04 +0000

Easily the most frustrating thing about Android is the fact that the web browser automatically reloads open pages when you flip back to the browser. It’s an infuriating waste of time. I might have a wikipedia entry, news story, or any other static content open – I flip away, wait some time or launch another app or two, and when I come back, the browser starts reloading immediately and if I hit “stop,” it just empties the page contents and sits there with a blank screen.

If nothing else, just let it be a configurable option!

By: fisherman

fisherman — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:24:41 +0000

two additional issues:
-Proxy Support for the Browser
-AD-HOC-WLAN support and tethering out-of-the-box

By: solid

solid — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:05:04 +0000

here’s my beef (as if you care):
1. there needs to be a way to lock the screen while you are in a call.
2. keyboard needs a ctrl and tab button. I know that there are key combos that produce those scancodes but not all apps recognize them and I can never remember what the key combos are.
3. k9mail does a good job of picking up where the default email client sucks but email clients need gpg/pgp support.
4. needs a better unlock mechanism like the iphone has. Lock2.0 is a nice 3rd party app for it but it is not integrated with the os and is not configurable enuff.

other than that, i just got the standard gripes.
3g, multitouch, battery life, A2dp

By: mikeeeee

mikeeeee — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:09:26 +0000

UMA calling.

ability to interface with a bluetooth keyboard.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:39:54 +0000

Here is my list of gripes;

1. No voice dial or voice search (as shown on android site)
2. Can only have one gmail account.
3. Even on the one gmail account you can’t select a different sender. So if you receive emails to different addresses, you can can’t reply as correct sender to some.
4. Standard email client (not gmail) shows attachments but you can’t open ANY (doc/xls) as with the gmail one.
5. Calendar; can’t edit all calendars as shown in you web account area. Some which are editable on the web are not on device, so you can add to them.

Basically, if you have it simple; 1 email, 1 calendar and so…. then it’s probably fine. However, if you have a few addresses & calendars and really use the google services it is meant to work with to the full, then it has problems.

By: Woyteck

Woyteck — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:23:50 +0000

1. Sometimes but rarely
2. erm, what?
3. Wasn’t that working before? I could exit apps in 1.0 definitely by pressing back button for few seconds… In 1.5 I can’t! This definitely need fixing.
4. These are organized alphabetically. If you want more, then use folders on the desktop.
5. Agreed.
6. Really? It is supposed to be intuitive…
7. I like it plain and simple – EASIER to use.
8. Agreed, it’s a pain in a bum to use pop3 mail client, it can’t remember that I read the message, therefore I have one thousand new messages. Also Mark All As Read button would be nice.
9. Useful but app devs must tell users that long touch does something :) I can’t use a thing I am unaware of!
10. Ring volume button makes me crazy! I work in loud environment and NEED it to be set to max volume, but whenever I hold it, I reduce it! This volume rocker must be only for media volume or voice volume during calls. Runger MUST be set up in the menu.
11. My black G1 is fine, the white one is shit with ilumination thou
12. Changelog yes. App branches – yes! (also between all Free and Paid enabled market)
13. It does it most of the time ;)

By: macke

macke — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:01:30 +0000

@#17: what do you mean, most mobilephones on the market today has Flash support. But yes, it’s a Adobe problem.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:13:27 +0000

11. Key illumination
A white light on white keys with a white background is the most ridiculous thing ever invented. Unbelievable that there’s no way to turn it off. There was a way before 1.5, but not any more.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:37:32 +0000

to add to the list of irritations…desperatly need an delete all button for emails!!!!!!