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So I’m enjoying the new phone. It works well, get’s good coverage, and isn’t too terribly slow. But no device is ever without it’s quirks. I’m usually able to find them pretty quick for whatever reason. (Technology knows to fear me.) Here’s what I found out about this phone.

• While Minimo (portable Firefox) works, it’s sometimes slow – and if you push it too hard, the whole thing locks up. That’s always fun. Think I might have to cough up the $30 for Opera Mobile, at least until Minimo is more mature.
• The touch screen likes to get out of whack (technical term). I haven’t figured out why, but I have noticed that the handwriting recognition sometimes goes berserk and the stylus draws lines all over the screen. I think it happens when too much is running in the background. It’s annoying to have it think you tapped in one place when you really tapped in another. Recalibrating helps, but it’s still annoying.
• My phone can officially make nearby speakers buzz. I thought it was a bad input line in my computer, or a loose connection, but when it happened on the Bose Wave radio at work, I’m convinced the phone is spitting out tons of electromagnetic stuff. Makes me feel great that I’m absorbing some of that.
• Calendar reminders happen without any indication at all – vibration, sound, etc. Every other kind of reminder tells me something somehow, but not for calendar events. Weird. Haven’t yet invested much time figuring that one out.

None of those are deal-breakers. I still like my phone. I can learn to minimize my dependence on the touch screen, especially with a smarter web browser. I can keep it away from speakers, and I’m sure calendar events can buzz or ring, but the option is probably in a stupid place. Sorta like the Outlook/Exchange settings. You’d think that email settings for an Exchange server would be accessible from the mail program, along with the other types of mail connections, but noooo.. It’s in ActiveSync, a separate syncing program. Makes sense to me now, but to not be able to enter Exchange information in the Email Accounts page is perplexing. I can’t call it a gremlin, but I can call it bad design. Oh well. I can live with it. Update: The wonky-touch-screen problem was in fact caused by the Write-Right screen protector I put on it.  Guess those things are Write-Wrong on this type of screen.  That’s disappointing, but I guess I’ll just clean the screen often and minimize the non-stylus touching.

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