Android Phone – Great Phone With Some Flaws!

Android Phone User Review…

By: B52doc

Ok this is not going to be an in depth review of the phone or its features because there are already a lot of those on here. These are my observations about some things I noticed and not everyone is mentioning.

The build calibre of the phone is questionable. Its entirely plastic and is very very light weight. Even with the battery I feel like I am holding a toy. Comparing this to my Android Phone, I feel like I could snap the Astounding in half like a stick. A good hard case could solve this problem.

You practically have to tear your phone apart to place in a micro SD card. Kinda scary lol.

The back cover is really thards, you might snap it.

The battery life is really difficult to judge because everyone uses their phone differently. That being stated I found the battery life to be just about average. My experience with everything on (minus live wallpaper) some web browsing and music, you will just make it to the end of the day. With heavy usage I could definitely see this needing a charge later in the day. While the HTC widgets are AMAZING, they don’t help battery life. It will take some time to get that perfect equilibrise of what to turn on and off but still keep it functional.

Signal strength is also hard to judge because it varies individually. When I have my Motorola Android Phone side by side, I get 3-4 bars on my droid and 1-2 bars on the Astounding Android Phone. I haven’t seen equal signal strength yet. This is true each where I take the phone.

Despite all this, its a great phone. Its blazing fast with an astonishing screen and HTC sense really makes it intuitive and nice to look at. I ended up returning it because of the things I talked about and keepin my droid. Would still advocate this phone but recommend people go into a store and try it out first.

***UPDATE***
Did some research on the net and found that the signal strength bars on phones is software setup by the manufacturer. People with a Motorola Droid and HTC have noticed that the actual signal strength in dBM is about the same if you go to “settings -> about phone -> network”.

 

www.droid-life.com – We flashed our phone with the Android 2.1 update 1 last night which is essentially the OTA update everyone is anticipating for their Motorola DROID. This is not a custom or ported version of 2.1.
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