The first few days with the Motorola i1
So the day I returned from Gen Con, I stopped at the Nextel store here in town and picked up the Motorola i1. As Nextel's first (and only?) real touch-screen smart phone.
It runs Droid 1.5 with no word yet on if there will be an update anytime soon.
The sound quality is pretty darn good, and applications run pretty decently. I wish there was a way of turning off applications without a second-party application to do it, but it's not a deal-breaker.
The touch-screen seems to have a life of its own at times--where somehow I've accidentaly touched the screen and it's called someone, or opened an application or the likes. I'm sure I'll get more swift with touching the button on the top that turns off the screen so that these things don't happen though.
My only real concern right now is that since I'm on the IDEN network, my maximum download speed seems to be around 26k. That means that even though I can run Pandora, I can't actually stream without it chopping up with 10 second delays after 5 seconds of play.
I'm not sure yet if that's a deal breaker, but it certainly is something I'm somewhat concerned about. I have a suspicion that the IDEN network's limitation is limited to very slow speeds (less than 30 kbps). *sigh* Anyways, I've got another 20 days or so to see if it's going to work for me, so we'll see how it goes.