Well, it's been over a month now. The battery only lasted 3/4 of a day at first. After a few cycles it would last about a day and a half. The battery was my only complaint. After the 2.2 update I can say I've been on the phone about 2 hrs today, gps ran ALL day with the screen on during navigation for at least 3 hrs and I still have 3 out of 4 bars of battery left. (It's now 7:20 pm)
JUST AWESOME!
Today I found that the phone automatically syncs with my private google places. We were doing sales calls on PM's today and all I had to do was pull up the Las Vegas map, click on my PM file and they all show up as dots on the map. I simply punch on the closest one, click on Navigate and head that way. The navigation is cool because when you get to your destination it automatically displays the google street view of your destination so you know you're at the right address.
Once there you can click on "share" and then email the name and address of the company to yourself along with any notes from that sales call for filing later at home. You can also save the customer as a contact right there on the spot and put in the names of the decision makers.
Using GMAIL you can automatically schedule a followup sales call. That gives us a permanent record with redundant backup because we can
a) search the calendar for the company and find out when we went there and what happened
b) search the gmail for the customer and pull up all emails sorted by date.
c) use our scribbled notes as a third backup.
I can't believe what this phone can do.
So far I'm only disappointed that I cant use the HDMI cable to show Powerpoint presentations (I hear that's coming with an update later)
and I'm disappointed that the google maps gps won't "optimize" trips. I'm sure someone will fix that too.
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