Something that’s really great about the Pre is that it comes with a slipcase that doubles as a screen wipe.  I was considering getting a nice leather case or a belt clip thing, but they can’t be used as screen wipes.  This thing is a total magnet for greasy fingers which sucks but is made all better because it is nearly autocleaned when put in and pulled out of said case.  Totally great.

So one thing that really sucks I’ve discovered is that there is no 3G in Lubbock on Sprint.  So I’m relegated to just wifi, which is somewhat fine but the University wifi is awful.  It connects and disconnects constantly which is a huge drain so it’s not even worth using.  Twitter/Email worked ok on just the towers, but Pandora was really slow loading up (fine once a song started playing) and something else also was dreadfully slow.  Using the Pre on non EV-DO or wifi is not recommended.  Hopefully one day I’ll get it between now and 2 years from now or I just move to a place that will.  San Antonio fortunately does have 3G coverage so I’m good when I visit the family.

Speaking of wifi, I wish there was a hardware switch for on/off.  It is cumbersome to flip to the wifi setup page just to turn it off, which is what I have to do now when I leave my apt.  Ah well.

The battery made it today with a bit over 60%.  Took a few calls, sent a generous amount of texts, read some emails, played Pandora on the way to work and some mp3s on the way home.  I noted that I got a call from my apt. complex and it was unknown.  I added it as a contact and when I went back to look at my call history it didn’t retroactively change that number to my contact.  Ah well.

So far my main concern is battery life.  I’m mostly adjusted to how to work the phone quickly and pretty efficiently as well.  It feels totally great.  I’ve dropped my old cell phones many times.  They get pretty dinged up.  If I had an iPhone I’d be very very concerned about this, but the Pre kind of feels like it can handle it.  I wonder how much force it would take to do serious damage.  I hope I never find out.