Brian
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1. Keyboard so difficult to use as to be useless. I really wanted a QWERTY Android phone and had great hopes, but the keys are too flat and too closely spaced together, and the space bar too hard to get at. It’s a tradeoff between KB and thickness and if I’m not getting a usable keyboard I might as well have a thinner phone.

Also, KB or not cut and paste is very awkward.

2. Lack of a hard hang-up button. The hangup button is on the touch screen, but the touch screen blanks out when the phone is at your ear and mine did not come on for quite a while after it was taken down. Sometimes you do want to cut off a call right away.

3. Flaky email performance with non-enterprise non-Gmail providers–i.e., Yahoo. Sometimes it wouldn’t send or xmit at all, other times it took days for messages to get through.

3. Verizon. For a $70/month 450 minute plan I should be getting unlimited SMS. I wasn’t.

4. Not GSM. So not universal (except for Japan).

I did like:
The GPS and all the apps that use it
The Android 2.0 interface
The feel of the phone in general, although more rounded corners would have been easier on my pocket.

Now free of both Verizon and my TMO contract I have the luxury of waiting for the not-yet announced GSM Android 2.0+ phone with 1GHz processor that’s sure to come in the next year or so.

Jeff

I don’t think android is good with out sense ui.

I am surprised!

This just about guarantee’s the gPhone for early next year….

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/fcc-starts-up-white-spaces-database-devices-now-inevitable/

Depending how dependable it ends up being… Say goodbye to all the carriers… But hello to constant GPS tracking by Google and the Feds… But don’t they already do that to us that have ever had a flu shot…lol