In full disclosure, I had installed 2.1 about 3 weeks ago from one of the leaked ROMs, so the "shiny new-ness" that some of you are probably experiencing after flashing 2.1 is long gone for me. I lived with some of the bugs because it was a broken, non-official build, but after 3/4 of a day with the official build, I'm not overly impressed.
Here's what I've seen with DE03 so far, coming from dd03:
DISAPPOINTMENTS
*NO live wallpapers
*Old gallery
*turned phone on at 6:30, at 10:23 I'm at 30% with light use, running only beautiful widgets small home, so battery life is still an issue. UPDATE at 11:47 I'm still at 30%, so maybe it's just a battery curve issue.
*NO multi-touch
*NO Nexus One style launcher
UNRESOLVED
*Still can't connect facebook account under accounts after installing the official facebook app, but can connect twitter.
*Google Search widget still "sticks" to the top of the screen, but you long touch on the bottom to delete it & reinstall
NEW ISSUES
*EV lockups, airplane mode doesn't resolve them and you have to reboot to get out of airplane mode
*put phone on charger last night, woke up (late because I use my phone as my alarm) to a phone in complete shutoff and as hot as hades. I will monitor this and post further on it.
*Had a strange DL from www6.sprint.com that failed last night
*Market errors- I keep getting "A problem has occurred, hit ok to go back to the last screen" (a total paraphrase, can't reproduce right now)
*will not connect to my unprotected wireless router, can't rule out the crapbox router though.
All in all I think sprint got it wrong. When the Nexus one came out, and it was announced that the Moment would be going to 2.1, I think that all of us thought "Oh wow, we're gonna get that cool new gallery" and "Sweet, that launcher is awesome" and on and on with live wallpapers, multi-touch and more. I feel like this upgrade / band-aid version of 2.1 is a big let down because all of the cool parts of 2.1 aren't part of it. I would have preferred to see something roll out that was more complete, and if it wasn't complete, I would have liked to been able to read a developer's blog that chronicled "live wallpapers just take more horsepower than the Moment is capable of, we tried our asses off but just couldn't get it done." Luckily, there's a place for us to turn, if you're somewhat savvy and willing to root your phone, the development community at sdx-developers.com have a ROM with all of the stuff that should be in there. I'll be rooting shortly and letting you know what 2.1 on the Moment really should be.
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