11/18

That's the day I'm eligible for a device upgrade at Verizon. On that day, I'm going to buy my new phone. I hope I chose right, and if I have any problems in the first couple of days/weeks I'm sending it back.

Just a couple of problems I have with my Droid 2 Global, the worst phone I ever had:

• Connect to PC only works in USB Mass Storage mode. Otherwise windows can't install the drivers even though I have the Motorola applications installed on my PC. Other connections only worked once. I'm not gonna reinstall my PC just for this.
• Because of this I can only sync music to it via Winamp. The other software only work in media sync mode, which doesn't work on the phone.
• And because I want to reset it, but want to back it up, I need to copy the SD card over WiFi. My corporate mail requires me to encrypt the SD card, and guess what, in USB Mass Storage mode if you copy things over they will be copied in decrypted state... Just as you were putting the card in a card reader... Finally found a program that doesn't close the connection while copying files to a NAS over WiFi as the built in file manager does during transfer. I think it gets tired around 40MB for a reason. A software that can get tired that could be a Nobel Prize worthy invention!
• UI freezes up on a regular basis.
• The screen switch button about 50% of the time doesn't work. The phone is too busy being idle to respond to your request that you want to do something with it. Imagine if you need to call 911 for a really good reason!
• Reaction to user interaction is pathetic. A couple of days ago I waited about 30secs between clicking the dial button next a contact and the phone actually start dialing.
• During navigation it usually reboots every now and then, and we know how safe and legal it is to juggle with your phone while driving.
• In general freakishly slow reactions.
• Poor battery life even with the extended batteries. I was moved to another cube to get away from the ping pong noise, and there I only have 2 bars. By 2pm I have to hook it up to give it some juice.
• Screen keyboard is almost impossible to use without auto-correct. The buttons are too close or/and the logic is terrible that tries to figure out which key you wanted to press.
• My slide to unlock screen disappeared this week. When I press the button on the top it shows up for a one second or less, and than the screen is unlocked automatically without me doing anything. Me sliding to unlock can only happen if my security timeout has passed and have to key in my PIN code. After googling it solution seems to be a factory reset.
• The phone I have is a replacement phone already. After 5 months the original one I had to send back as it was rebooting on its own 2-3 times a day! Just lying on my desk doing nothing, probably bored, so it restarted itself... On a regular basis.

Sometimes I would really just like to throw this phone and stomp on it. Maybe I'll do it after I got my new phone and it proved itself. Like the guys in Office Space with the HP Printer :) Or maybe I'll go to a shooting range, rent a colt and buy ammo enough for 4-5 rounds and I hang it on the target clip and shoot at it until there's nothing left. If I need to I'll buy another round of ammo. And another.

I don't think I can be so mean to sell this phone to anybody on eBay. Humanity must be saved from this disaster!

And the one to blame for all this is myself! After my v50 and v600 I swore never to buy a Motorola phone again, and yet I did it. I'll go with the Samsung Nexus. Please if someone has it and hates it let me know immediately! If that's shitty, too, than it must be a general Android problem, and I might choose a Windows phone in the end.

iPhone? No way. My solid conviction is that Apple is the meanest company in the world.