Sunday, January 23, 2011

Quick Thoughts on Nexus S, Swype, T-Mobile and leaving iPhone/AT&T

Battery Life
As a Nexus S owner coming from an iPhone 3Gs on AT&T, my biggest disappointment with the Nexus S has been battery life. I could list a 100 things that irritate me about how Apple controls use of the iPhone but the one thing they impress me with more than anything else is how they seem to defy the laws of physics with amazing battery management.

Swype: Input Interface Innovation
I have heard people complain about the stock virtual keyboard in Android but I've never used it for any length of time except to do what it takes to get Swype installed. Swype is the most innovative touch screen interface I've ever seen and I've tried them all (as far back as Palm OS on Handspring.)

If it weren't for Swype, I could easily go back to iPhone. The only other better input method I can imagine on a touch screen is a direct telepathic interface with one's brain.

The Flex Pay Ghetto of T-Mobile
My T-Mobile 3G experience has been as good as my AT&T 3G experience. I am not happy with how T-Mobile seems to be railroading customers into the "Flex Pay" ghetto. Flex Pay accounts comes with restrictions that essentially break the Google Voice app as a voice mail app. I have a credit score of nearly 800 and I am not eligible for what they are calling a "Post-paid" account.


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