Something that’s really great about the Pre is that it comes with a slipcase that doubles as a screen wipe.\u00a0 I was considering getting a nice leather case or a belt clip thing, but they can’t be used as screen wipes.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Totally great.<\/p>\n
So one thing that really sucks I’ve discovered is that there is no 3G in Lubbock on Sprint.\u00a0 So I’m relegated to just wifi, which is somewhat fine but the University wifi is awful.\u00a0 It connects and disconnects constantly which is a huge drain so it’s not even worth using.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Using the Pre on non EV-DO or wifi is not recommended.\u00a0 Hopefully one day I’ll get it between now and 2 years from now or I just move to a place that will.\u00a0 San Antonio fortunately does have 3G coverage so I’m good when I visit the family.<\/p>\n
Speaking of wifi, I wish there was a hardware switch for on\/off.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Ah well.<\/p>\n
The battery made it today with a bit over 60%.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I noted that I got a call from my apt. complex and it was unknown.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Ah well.<\/p>\n
So far my main concern is battery life.\u00a0 I’m mostly adjusted to how to work the phone quickly and pretty efficiently as well.\u00a0 It feels totally great.\u00a0 I’ve dropped my old cell phones many times.\u00a0 They get pretty dinged up.\u00a0 If I had an iPhone I’d be very very concerned about this, but the Pre kind of feels like it can handle it.\u00a0 I wonder how much force it would take to do serious damage.\u00a0 I hope I never find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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