jeffpaulsen

just like an iPhone, battery life is pretty cruddy compared to what we're used do. as a pure PHONE it's probably good for a couple days. The more you use the smartphone features of it, the less life you'll have. Expect to have it on the charger every time you are in your car, at your desk, or going to sleep. Not sure how much replacement batteries cost.

There are some odd things missing that could make the phone so much better -- ie, an easy way to get directions to somebody.

Joining duplicate contacts together doesn't work for me.

when you get a new email or other notification, a little icon appears in the top status bar. to expand this, you kinda dwell your finger on the top edge for a couple seconds, then drag it down the face of the phone to sort of "unroll" the notification window. This is the MOST COMMON THING to do with your phone. It should have a much simpler action to get in there.

you can't really tell what apps are running and which ones aren't.
corrollary: you can't easily restart an app that's being wierd

some really common things are buried in settings menus (turning wifi on/off, turning GPS on/off -- both of which you would do to save battery)

there should be a "night mode", where only phone calls and the alarm get to make any noise.

Ula and I went down to the Verizon store and upgraded both of our phones to shiny new Motorola Droids. The one day brain dump review:

Keyboard is fine. The keys are smallish but I'm not making many mistakes with them.
Build quality is excellent, like the Motorola 3000 "brick" phone from the late 80s. Very solid.
The sound. This is the cleanest sounding phone I have ever used, and I include desk instruments in that.

display is bright and clear. touchscreen works fine. it's capacitive, so it works with your fingertip, not your fingernail.

camera - about half shit, but it works after a fashion. The tiny sensor they have demands quite a bit of light. The couple of pics I took of people had a huge red-eye problem when using the flash.

facebook contacts integration - this is pretty slick, especially if your FB friends have put their phone numbers and physical addresses in their FB profile. It does lead to having 250 people in your contact list, half of whom you will never call. This needs more work from me.

if you associate a pic with a contact, it lets you crop the image, which my last phone didn't.

as a MP3 player - sound is great through headphones, and better than expected through the on-board speaker

mail - your gmail accounts are accessed through one app, and other mail through another. This isn't too big of a deal. The UI is very slightly different between the two.

messaging / talk - it's hard to tell at first when I'm sending a text, and when I'm just going into g-Chat. anticipating this, we got unlimited texting.

web browser - more than fine. there may be some pages it doesn't work great with, but it's so much better than the BlackBerry experience.

apps / widgets - the widgets are useful enough that I wish I had more than three screens of real estate