After a week with Android on my Samsung Moment, I have to recant some of the complaints in my earlier post. Android is a very customizable operating system that I have been able to customize through apps to do what I want/need the phone for.
I had an issue with the Moment not having a notification light to alert of text messages and emails. A program called FlashNotify solved this by flashing the screen every ten seconds. Another issue was battery life. When I first got the phone it would barely go 6 or seven hours with minimal use between battery charges. I download Task Manager by Apollo and today after 9 hours some texting and a little talking, the battery is at about 70%.
The keyboard took some getting used to but I am starting to like the size of it and the fact that it has dedicated number keys. On the topic of text entry, let me just say - Swype is amazing. I was able to get the beta package and I love this invention. I never use the built in software keyboard because the hardware keyboard and Swype are so much superior. I am glad I got the Moment for my first Android phone because I was seriously considering getting the HTC Evo as my next phone but now I am going to wait till the Samsung Galaxy S Pro comes out and see how it reviews.
ADW.Launcher allowed me to customize the home screen and app launcher drawer to my liking. The default home screen would not switch to landscape mode after updating to Android 2.1. ADW.Launcher allows portrait or landscape viewing of the home screen and app drawer. The other thing I like is that you can make the app drawer have multiple swipe screens like the iPhone. I wasn't a fan of scrolling vertically on one big screen.
One thing I don't like about slider phones is that they are hard to protect with cases. Snap on cases have tabs that hold them on which break if you have to take them off more than a couple of times. I have a silicone case on order that is supposed to be great but we'll see once it comes in.
I never thought I would go for a slider phone over a candybar phone but if the Galaxy Pro has video out, I will probably be sold. Please release it soon Sprint.
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