A month with Android

I’ve switched since CES to my new Android ADP1 phone (developer’s version of T-Mobile’s G1). Overall I’m really happy with the functionalities built-in, it’s all about productivity and I’ve never been so well connected. The keyboard is a dream and lets you type long emails easily and the notifications and background applications are updating you on a regular basis on your digital updates letting you keep in touch just as conveniently as if you were behind your notebook.
Yet the phone has a lot of defects,
first of all the UI is really crap – once you have tasted at the iPhone splendid and homogeneous UI, you can’t really enjoy Android’s which is totally heterogeneous, with both input mechanisms and look’n'feel varying from one menu to another… not mentioning that application developers are really doing it their own way with no real guidelines to follow…
Seconds come the battery life which is a real issue here, when I turn off all notification and network access, that I give a call or two (below 20 mins), I get far less then 24hrs uptime. And when I fire up notifications and network access I just get a couple of hours of uptime, this is TRAGIC!

Don’t know if it’s the software itself that is so young or the fact that I have a developer phone, but this is really a pain, hopefully I’ve got a 1m-long USB cable but that’s not gonna last.
Last but not least : when I install an app it goes in the main phone memory – unfortunately there is little place left there (opposed to the sd-card which has about 1Go of free memory)… still haven’t found a way to move applications to that memory and get rid of the “low memory” notification…. Actually I found a hack explaining how to reformat and hack the OS to have this done, why should I have to bother doing that ?
Update : After updating to firmware 1.1 battery lifespan seems back to something normal for a smartphone (It lasts throughout the full day) – YAY!

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