Tudor Bosman

Great! Significantly faster than the G1. Better screen. The keyboard will take a bit of getting used to. The default notification sound is a robotic voice saying "DROOOoooooID", thankfully easily changed. - Tudor Bosman

What, why would you change that ? :D - Mo Kargas

*spock eyebrow* LOL - Derrick

The screen is absolutely beautiful. YouTube videos over wifi (bandwidth detection?) are sharp and clear. - Bill Strathearn

Also, it's the first phone I had that does email right; it can easily handle multiple email accounts (two Gmail accounts, both using the Android Gmail client; one IMAP account, and one Exchange account). It seamlessly merges the contacts from the different accounts (and also my Facebook friends) and allows me to configure different notifications for the different accounts. - Tudor Bosman from Android

What about the keyboard - heard it was kinda janky. Though my number one concern is Twitter (need to demo Twittdroid) then UX of 1. mail and 2. SMS - Mona Nomura

The keyboard isn't great. It's not bad, but I think the one on my old G1 was *slightly* better. It's no Blackberry, it's no Sidekick (the Sidekick had the best keyboard, but it was also huge and clunky). There are two different email clients -- one for Gmail (which is awesome, and supports all Gmail features in a very Gmail-y way), and one for other accounts (IMAP/POP, Exchange) which I... more... - Tudor Bosman

I'm actually excited to play with one tomorrow - it sounds a lot more promising than the Pre. - Mona Nomura

Contact integration is really great. You get an address book (which is automatically synced with your Gmail, Facebook, Exchange accounts), and, once you select a contact, you get a list of options (based on where the contact was imported from) -- call / SMS the phone numbers on the account, send an email, chat with them in Google Talk (it shows the Google Talk status right there in the... more... - Tudor Bosman

I didn't even know there was a ban. - Mark Trapp

Mark: as part of the immigration process, you need to have blood and urine tests to check for certain communicable diseases (such as syphilis). All other diseases on the blacklist can be cured, so you get treated, retake the blood test, and you're good to go. Except HIV - if your HIV test comes back positive, you are barred for life from entering the US, and if you are in the US at the time, you get deported. - Tudor Bosman from Android

There's the story of a woman jumping down the street, head looking up at the sky, shouting "SIX! SIX! SIX!" with each jump forward. A man walks by and stops, watching. He asks her what she's doing. "Try it. It's fantastic. Here, stand next to me, look up to the heavens and jump along with me, yelling with each jump." She's cute and clearly having a good time, so he agrees. They both... more... - Kevin Fox

Love Kevin's story in this context! :-) - Jason Wehmhoener

I wouldn't mind seeing this adapted into a PC and Mac commercial, with John Hodgeman as the girl. - Kevin Fox

Mac OS 7! - Louis Gray

Windows Me on my laptop upgraded last week ! yea!!! - L Stephen Cleary

So far, it looks shiny and works well, except for download speeds which went down to 4Mbps from 16Mbps. I'm now downloading (slowly) a few updates (including an update for my network card driver) and will play around with various TCP settings. - Tudor Bosman

So it turns out that the networking problem had nothing to do with Windows 7. It had everything to do with our two piece of sh*t switches (both Netgear GS605 v2; stay away from them -- and from now on, I'll avoid all Netgear products). It turns out that my network card ran at 100Mbps under XP and 1Gbps under W7, and the switches slow down to a crawl if 3 or more of their ports are at 1Gbps. - Tudor Bosman

I couldn't believe it so I reproduced it in different configurations, using either the two switches in turn or together (daisy-chained), and using XP, Windows 7, and Snow Leopard. The transfer rate is fine if two of the ports run at 1Gbps (and the others at 100Mbps); once the third port goes 1Gbps, the point-to-point transfer rate goes down by a factor of 6. - Tudor Bosman

Wait, now you need two? :) - Cristo

You're going to switch to VZW? - EricaJoy

I guess, I don't feel that strongly about which network I'm on. GSM is nice, but too expensive to use for anything meaningful when abroad, so meh. - Tudor Bosman

Tudor, it's only expensive if you use your native SIM. The advantage is being able to use your phone with a local SIM. - Cristo

Yeah, what Cristo said. - Andrew C

*waves hand across Tudor's face* "These aren't the Droids you're looking for..." - Dan Hsiao from iPhone

Talk to Luke...I hear he just purchased some new droids for his farm. - Alex Scoble

There's a red one with a bad motivator, don't get that one. - Matthew DeVries

har har, Dan you geek - Christopher Chung

@Cristo What do you mean by native SIM? - Antony Jepson

Antony, I mean one from the country where you (and your cellphone) reside. - Cristo

Silly me, I didn't link your comment and the abroad comment. Thanks for the clarification. - Antony Jepson

See if single quotes break it. - Andrew C

Nice. So they reduced their password strength from a maximum count of 1.4*10^23 down to 3.6*10^21. - Otto

gah. - D0r0th34

Could be worse. Right after I left the last place I worked went with "min 15 chars, 2 upper 2 lower & 2special char. *shudder* - Liana Shanes

Here I have to change passwords every 90 days and it won't let me reuse any of the last 12 of them. I think it also forces 8 chars, with at least 2 digits. Which is bloody stupid, of course, but hey. The funny thing is that I intentionally got all the different passwords I have to know synced up on schedule, so I can change them all at once (to the same thing, because hell, the whole... more... - Otto

Love. :) That's why Roboform's, 1password's or GRC password generator come in handy. #a7RiXv*y3A842L57! - Dr. Apps from twhirl

There shouldn't really be a limit on character length right? I always thought it's more secure the longer it is and I hate when websites tell me my password is too long. - Andrew Trinh from iPhone

This has reminded me to reinstall 1Password. - Spidra Webster

I've never thought to trust an app with all my passwords, what if I'm at another computer and rely too much on this app to remember my passwords or lose the app completely? - Andrew Trinh from iPhone

What we really need is a system like SecureID, but free for both users and developers. Something that runs on the iPhone. - Otto

Agree, Tudor. Really annoying, and that you have to change them every 3 weeks (corporate logins anyway). - Kol Tregaskes