Nexus One After Thoughts
I published my review of the Nexus One here on JAMM a few days ago. While this is an awesome phone, I've noticed a couple of quirks that I think everyone should be made aware of.
The Phone forgets the Car Dock
There's something screwy with the phone, the Bluetooth profile and the phone's meta data. Every now and again, the phone will forget how to connect and/or use the speaker system on the car dock. It happens without warning and the only way that I've been able to fix it is to do a hard reset on the phone.
The above shot is with the Nexus One in the Car dock and the call ringing. Notice the blue background? When the phone pumps a call through any Bluetooth device, the background turns blue (regular calls are green, and the background turns red when a call terminates). Sometimes, even though the Bluetooth radio is on and the phone is paired with the Car Dock, the call will NOT pump through the dock's speaker or mic. When this happens, the only thing you can do is hard reset the device.
I've had to do this 3 times so far with the device in just under 2 months with the phone. Its very annoying, and rather frustrating, especially when you have the device set just the way you want it. Which brings me to my other point...
Backup Your Settings to your Google Account
This is the no-brainer of the year; and works best if you have everything synced to your Google Account – mail, contacts, calendar, etc. If you ever have to hard reset your device, for ANY reason, having all of your device settings backed up to your Google account will bring just about everything back, including all of your installed apps, with a single sync. Very convenient for a very inconveniencing activity. The only thing that doesn't come back is the contents of all of your home pages, which has its good and bad points.
Its good if a widget crapped the device out and set it into some sort of reboot loop. Pulling the battery and then following the hard reset procedure can get you back to square one without all the endless reboot loop. Its bad because then you have to set up 5 home screens all over again.
Like I said before, the Nexus One is a decent device, and its much more mature for a 1.0 revved device than any of my WinMo devices could ever hope to be. Its definitely a keeper; but I will be very interested in seeing what Google has up its sleeves for FroYo and beyond. I can hardly wait for May 19th!
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