Completely unimpressed with the Android day to day
For a few short weeks I have been using the HTC Desire as my main phone, swapping my O2 SIM from my aging iPhone 3G to the Desire while waiting for the iPhone 4 to arrive on the scene.
To be honest so far, with light usage using a PAYG t-Mobile SIM I’ve had no problems with the Desire at all. But since moving over to it full time I’ve seen a gradual but constant decrease in performance or the device. Even to the point where somebody is calling me and I can’t for the life of me click the “answer” button and get a response.
I’m really sure this has something to do with the multi-account linking aspect of the phone. This initially was one of the greatest WOW factors of the phone, within seconds of unboxing I had all my contacts and linked to facebook/twitter everybody had pictures, birthdays and even telephone numbers I didn’t previously have.
This was all tickety-boo until I tried to use the phone in anger properly. Curtain contacts were being given the wrong “primary mobile number” (with a missing 0 at the start) meaning I couldn’t call them directly from the contacts list and not obvious way of changing this primary number. I had to rely on the incoming numbers to call people back with the right number. Then I started to get the dreaded “arrowed circle in the top toolbar menu”… When this bugger turns up, the phone grinds to a halt and you can barely swipe screens and couldn’t make a call even if your life depended on it. With this sync icon the phone would also get EXTREMELY hot, hotter that the outer layer of the sun I do believe.
So I’ve done the old “standard: everything I could thing of” process. Clean out the apps, delete anything non-essential, wipe out all the widgets… but with no joy, so the next move is a complete rebuild.
So…. is Android the answer to everything bad about the iPhone? in a lot of ways yes, but certainly this release isn’t and I’ll bet a tenner the next one isn’t that better.
Roll on v3 in November [make believe from today’s news sources], until then a factory reset and wait for 2.2 to reach the Desire
