Countdown, 24 Days: First Sunday
Sunday, like Saturday, proved a good day for the phone. The weekend, my first G1 weekend, meant less intensive usage in more varied circumstances, which led to lowered battery-related anxiety and more of a sense of the device’s intrinsic utility.
Checking email while out and about, getting text alerts from friends en route, locating individuals in the contact list, checking voicemail, searching businesses — everything was smooth and fluid, as if I’d had the phone already for months.
One thing about searching for businesses: Flash is an essential thing to be added to the G1 and the iPhone. (Supposedly it’s on its way for both.) This has nothing to do with Flash being a source of dynamic web-based media, and everything to do with the countless websites (I’m mostly thinking of businesses, in particular restaurants) that are Flash-based even though they needn’t be. Nothing like tracking down the website you need, and seeing the sad little tiled pattern signifying that you can’t visit it.
Speaking of the iPhone, last night some Apple-oriented friends grabbed ahold of the phone, and marveled at the keyboard, and at various aspects of the user interface, and were particularly intrigued about Android’s ability to run multiple programs simultaneously.
