More on the Droid

I should have just put all my findings in one blog.  I wasn’t thinking about how separating the different complaints would look.  Sorry about that. 

I have the car dock.  This makes the phone answering and speaker thing even more annoying because the phone knows it’s in a car dock, but still wants me to swipe to answer, and it wants to send the conversation to the regular phone instead of the speaker.  I think that Motorola makes Bluetooth kits which would explain this problem.  The other problem that I have in the car dock it that the voice dial does not work.  A co-worker also has the droid.  On his phone the voice dial works.  When you press the search button you can say “Call” and the phone part comes up to ask you who to call.  On mine doing the same thing results in a Google search for the word “call”. 

Yet, periodically it gives me this message to mock me.

I told my Verizon rep that this does not work.  I think it's been three weeks now, and I haven't heard anything from him.  Apparently he doesn't work either.  I'm not the only one with the problem.  You might notice my post on the Motorola site.  If you are about to buy a Droid make sure that you test this before you walk out the door since some of the phones work and others don't.

I have posted a lot of complaints about the Droid, and if you will bear with me I should be able to finish up (unless I find something else).

I like the combined inbox.  I have more than one email account, and it's easier to check them all in one place.  They tried to combine the contacts some as well and messed it up a bit for me.  My father's nickname is Mike.  His name is Roy, but everyone has always called him Mike.  My father's father and his father before him were named Roy.  My grandmother started calling my father Mike to lessen the confusion.  The nickname stuck and it is my actual name.  Thus like my father I can be called Mike, but I don't have the jr after my name.  Instead of calling me Roy to really confuse people I have always been Michael and my father is Mike.

"Neat story, but what does it have to do with your phone" you say?  Well, since I assumed you said that I'll tell you.  When the phone imported my contacts from the Exchange server it saw Mike and Michael with the same last name and assumed that they were the same person.  This wouldn't be a big deal except that there is no setting that I can find to tell the phone to treat the two as different.

Another thing I noticed is with the lattitude part of the maps.  It seems to almost work.  By that I mean that someone who I have shared my location with can get my last updated location, but the updates seem to be sporadic, and I can't find any setting that will allow me to change how often this update get's sent.

This leads in to the feeling that I have gotten throughout dealing with the phone that there are settings beyond my reach.  I don't really want to have to adjust everything on the phone, but I do want to be able to.  I feel like I could fix some of these things on my own if there was a setting to change.