{"id":166,"date":"2011-11-16T15:13:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2011-11-16T15:13:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:13:27","slug":"motorola-admiral-review-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/motorola-admiral-review-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorola Admiral Review Follow-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote my initial <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/mini-review-motorola-admiral\/\" title=\"Motorola Admiral Mini-Review\">review of the Motorola Admiral<\/a> (my new phone) about three and a half days after getting my hands on it. I&#8217;ve been using the phone full-time for almost two weeks now, so wanted to follow up with a few other thoughts. You should definitely read the initial review above to put these additional notes into context.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s annoying I can&#8217;t turn off camera shutter sound; reportedly I might be able to accomplish this by rooting, but haven&#8217;t been brave enough to try that yet.<\/li>\n<li>The screen [in]sensitivity is still occasionally an issue \/ mild annoyance (confirmed by at least one other person on forums, too&#8211;without a screen protector). I still occasionally launch an app or click a link when trying to scroll. I <em>haven&#8217;t<\/em> removed the screen protector yet, but it&#8217;s sort of on my to-do list, based on comments from many people indicating it&#8217;s wholly unnecessary.<\/li>\n<li>The lack of a d-pad\/trackpad\/trackball\/arrow keys\/ok button is annoying in a couple regards: this makes life with ConnectBot (SSH) much more difficult, and while Android 2.3&#8217;s touch-based cursor navigation is an improvement over earlier versions, it&#8217;s still not nearly as easy\/accurate as arrow keys\/etc. (I do this quite frequently when I type my email address at the end of an email, since I prefer the first letter to be uncapitalized, even though I know it doesn&#8217;t really matter; I use the default setting of capitalizing the first letter of any sentence\/line, so have to type the letter twice, then go back and delete the first one that was capitalized. <q>That&#8217;s what email signatures are for,<\/q> you say? Nah, I don&#8217;t *always* want my address at the end, just for more formal things.)<\/li>\n<li>I saw one apparently spontaneous reboot. The phone was connected to USB (none), screen was off, and the phone was <q>just sitting there;<\/q> the screen spontaneously turned on with multi-colored <q>static<\/q> for a second, then rebooted. It was unsettling, but didn&#8217;t seem to hurt anything.<\/li>\n<li>I did uncover one actual problem using the <q>zoom to fit screen<\/q> display mode. In <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.jb.gosms\">Go SMS Pro<\/a>, there&#8217;s an option to draw a picture and send the image [as a link]. When using the &#8216;zoom&#8217; display mode, finger presses on the screen don&#8217;t correspond with where the drawing ends up on the screen, so it&#8217;s essentially impossible to make things line up correctly in a drawing. Using &#8216;full screen&#8217; mode for that app eliminates that problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall I still quite like the phone, and the battery has been lasting me two days off the charger with: ~5 web pages loaded over 1xrtt or 3g per day; 1-2 bars of signal most of the day; use WiFi at home, turned off otherwise; a handful of standard and Google Voice text messages; a couple phone calls; maybe one Youtube video; K9 IMAP IDLE (<q>push<\/q>) going all the time, and forced syncs every hour. The keyboard&#8217;s been quite good to me, and I&#8217;m getting much better at un-learning my muscle memory for the shift and alt keys being swapped from their location on the Treo, and different alt-key\/symbol locations; the number layout on the keyboard still pisses me off considerably, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using the Motorola Admiral for almost two weeks now, so have a few more thoughts to add to my original review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[20,22],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technical","tag-motorola-admiral","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}