Countdown, 23 Days: kila-user 1.1 PLAT-RC33 126986
That inhuman spew above is info buried deep in the G1’s Settings, in the last entry in the last section of that series of nested submenus.
What the “33” in “kila-user 1.1 PLAT-RC33 126986” means is that when little icons appeared on my phone’s screen late yesterday morning, a software upgrade was being installed. There’s a lot of info on the web about the “RC33” build, including what it contains (voice search, geocoded social network features, improved app-market tools) and what it does not (onscreen keyboard). I like to think of Google as “the good IT person.” The bad IT person is the one who upgrades your computer and doesn’t tell you what was done; the good IT person is the one who informs you about what has occurred. This sort of upgrade falls into the “bad IT” category. I don’t see why it couldn’t be accompanied by an alert or other means of informing the user as to what has just occurred.
Anyhow, otherwise a good day. A lot of use throughout, including many phone calls and email, and by the end of the day, I still had some juice in it.
The thing did freeze up at one point, for a moment, a black screen as I tried to navigate from email to the home page. But everything was fine. Just a pause, not a crash.
Despite the RC33 upgrade, which is supposed to include improved email support, I had one “connection” pause in my email, and got one “null” email from a friend (ironically, from a Gmail account). A “null” email is one where I can see the From and the Subject but the body is empty save for “null.” When I viewed the mail on my computer later, the body was present.
