An Update to My Impressions of the Motorola XT701
I have been using my new Android phone for a couple of weeks and I am generally happy with it. From my perspective, the pros are: There is a large amount of software available, it seems to be of generally good quality and it is easy to install. The phone feels very responsive to my newbish fingerings, even though my phone does not seem to have a processor that is fast by current standards. The cons are: The battery life is easily the largest complaint that I have with the phone. Even with background sync disabled, GPS and WiFi and Bluetooth turned off, the screen backlight turned down to zero and curtailed web browsing, I can about 1 day of life out of the battery. (I do leave the HSDPA turned on, rather than falling back to just 2G. There no quick way to toggle the 3G on and off, like there is for the WiFi, GPS and background sync, and surfing on 2G is painful.) I can easily run the battery down with an hour or two of web browsing. I easily could get several days of battery life...