Let me start off by saying that I love my Nexus One. After the death of my WinMo iPaq 6915, I spent 13 months without any smartphone at all. (I refuse to buy an iPhone for philosophical reasons, but I won’t go into detail on that right now.) There simply wasn’t anything on the market that appealed to me. Nothing was as good as the iPhone, and boy was I tempted…
Then along came the Nexus One. It had everything I wanted, with the added benefit of being philosophically on the same page. It was unlocked from any carrier and used an open source operating system with an open market of application. It was love at first spec review.
NewsRob is a decent Google Reader Android application, but I am sure Google could do better.
I have had my Nexus One for just about a month now, and while I love almost everything about it, there are a few quibbles I have with it. So let’s pick some nits!
- Where are the Google designed, Google developed apps for the rest of the Google online applications? Gmail and Calendar work great…but why don’t Google Reader and Google Documents have solid Google Android apps?
- The fingerprints on the screen really get to me at times. I suppose this will happen to any device that is designed for finger touch manipulation, but coming from a stylus based PDA/smartphone world, the smudges really get under my skin.
- The Android Market is a mess. You would think that Google, kings of all things search related, would have developed some decent search and filter features for the market…but they haven’t. Spam applications are mixed in with decent ones, and there is no way to sort or filter on rating or number of downloads.
- A mass marketing push. I want people to know how cool my phone is…but Google seems to be keeping the beauty of this thing on the down-low.
Like I said, these are fairly minor quibbles, and, with the exception of the fingerprint thing, pretty easy to fix. I am pretty confident that Google will sort this out.
So what bugs you about your Nexus One?
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A good way to handle multi-tasking. Holding the home button to see the apps recently used is unintuitive as hell.
Thanks codethief. I didn’t know about that shortcut, very handy.