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I mostly agree with his conclusions. Android is a very manic experience. Half a dozen icons I don't understand in the notification bar, beeps and bloops that ma
by jsz0 15y ago
I mostly agree with his conclusions. Android is a very manic experience. Half a dozen icons I don't understand in the notification bar, beeps and bloops that make no sense to me, settings hidden under layers of menus, totally inconsistent UIs between apps including Google's first party apps, micro-management required for some of the most basic things (like getting acceptable battery life) and probably worst of all ads everywhere and you often have no choice of a premium ad-free version of the app. That may work for some people but it drives me a little insane. I'm hoping ICS will be the release that cleans up some of this mess. (if my phone ever gets the update, probably not)
- coin 15y agoI couldn't agree more with this. On my Droid X battery life is horrible if the GPS receiver is enabled. The GPS receiver is supposed to turn on/off only when an app requests the phone's location. This works 95% of the time. The other 5% the GPS never shuts off and drains the battery completely. I asked other Android users how they deal with this, turns out they shut the GPS receiver off completely. They then manually turn it on before opening Google Maps. Also, there is no easy way disable all sounds. I thought I disabled sounds using the master volume. But it still says "Droid!" on power-up and beeps on power-off. After trolling the forums, the "Droid!" sound is controlled the by the "SD card read" settings. What's up with that? When browsing, clicking on a PDF link downloads the PDF. I then have to go to the download notification and manually open it. I just want to view it. I could go on and on. The whole Android experience is full of frustrations.