{"id":1777,"date":"2009-12-10T18:51:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T22:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2009-12-10T18:51:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T22:51:36","slug":"t-mobile-mytouch-3g-with-android-fou-months-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-with-android-fou-months-later\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile MyTouch 3G with Android&#8230; Four months later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I already wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-first-impressions\/\">T-Mobile MyTouch 3G First Impressions<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/a-month-with-the-mytouch-3g-and-android\/\">A month with the MyTouch 3G and Android<\/a>, but someone requested I write yet another follow-up post after having used the phone for a while. <\/p>\n<p> Well, it&#8217;s been almost four months, and I have to say that my general impression hasn&#8217;t changed much. I can sum it up as generally positive with a few annoying glitches. If you are a part of the Apple ecosystem already, the iPhone is a better choice. But if you are a Linux user or already caught up in the Google ecosystem, an Android phone is a much better choice. A lot of other Android phones have had more hype (Hero, Droid). The MyTouch is a good phone, though. If I actually liked Sprint, I would have waited for the Hero. And if I actually wanted a boxy-looking phone with a &#8220;real&#8221; keyboard, I&#8217;d have waited for the Droid. <\/p>\n<p> Here are the annoying glitches that have bugged me the most: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every web browser for Android has a serious flaw. Ultimately, I&#8217;m willing to settle for the flaws in Browser over the flaws in the other ones (Steel, Dolphin, Opera, etc.).\n<li>The Facebook app is basically good, but when you click on a picture thumbnail, it doesn&#8217;t enlarge the picture within the Facebook app. Instead, it launches the Browser app to view the picture. Lame.\n<li>After the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/why-im-not-a-fan-of-googles-cease-and-desist-letter-to-cyanogen\/\">cease-and-desist fiasco<\/a>, I wanted to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyanogenmod.com\/\">Cyanogen<\/a> for making a Google-compliant fully legal rooted (i.e., jailbroken) ROM, so I&#8217;ve been using Cyanogen recently. Unfortunately, the performance has been spotty. Sometimes it&#8217;s super-speedy, and sometimes it&#8217;s super-laggy. I may end up giving <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?s=d9c747851a3455695eee03c5c8953e0b&#038;t=566676\">DWang&#8217;s ROM<\/a> a go again, even though it&#8217;s not technically legal (it&#8217;s in the spirit of the law but not the letter&mdash;apparently Google cares very much about the letter, though).\n<li>Google Voice is a great service. The Google Voice Android app, however, is buggy as all hell. Sometimes it crashes. Sometimes it&#8217;ll randomly duplicate SMS messages if I write the message in landscape (instead of portrait) mode.\n<li>This doesn&#8217;t really bother me any more. If you are thinking of getting a MyTouch, though, you should know this: the touchscreen interface takes getting used to. Unlike the iPhone, light swipes are not recognized. You need to press your finger on the screen when you swipe.\n<li>With the latest versions of Android, there is no way to disable the camera sound (which is extremely loud). I had to install an app called <i>Sound Manager<\/i> in order to silence it.<\/ul>\n<p> That&#8217;s about it. <\/p>\n<p> What has been the good stuff? <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opening links in background windows (except the Google recently changed its Google News website so that you cannot open links in background windows&mdash;other sites work fine with it, though).\n<li>Good Google Voice integration.\n<li>Ability to turn any song into a ringtone without special software is great. Right now the Noisettes&#8217; &#8220;Wild Young Hearts&#8221; is my ringtone.\n<li>Ability to send unwanted calls straight to voicemail through the phone and to just block them altogether with Google Voice is invaluable.\n<li>USB tethering is even better than Wifi tethering. You just plug it in and Ubuntu automatically starts using the connection. No need to select anything or change a setting.<\/ul>\n<p> In the end, though, a phone is a phone. It makes calls. It receives calls. I can check my email and look up something quick on the web. There are subtle nuances that will differentiate Symbian from WebOS and Windows Mobile from the iPhone OS X and all that from Android. SmartPhones all pretty much do the same thing, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I already wrote T-Mobile MyTouch 3G First Impressions and A month with the MyTouch 3G and Android, but someone requested I write yet another follow-up post after having used the phone for a while. Well, it&#8217;s been almost four months, and I have to say that my general impression hasn&#8217;t changed much. I can sum&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-with-android-fou-months-later\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">T-Mobile MyTouch 3G with Android&#8230; Four months later<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[641,146,911,644],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-android","tag-google","tag-linux","tag-mytouch-3g","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}