If number 5 is real - then you are required to stop using your Android phone NOW!
Hmm, looking at #5...
Linux is only for developers and computer “experts” (aka Linux distributions are too hard to use)
It looks like you're right. I used to be an Android fan and recommended it (in hindsight, dangerously) to everyone. Then Verizon got the iPhone and I haven't looked back. I feel sorry for recommending it to my coworker who, every time I'm in town and visit him, has figured out how to put 3 shortcuts to his contact list on the tray, delete his Phone shortcut, and have 4 weather widgets on his homescreen for Mountain View, CA. Not to mention about 30 new voicemails with no idea how to check them. Someday, I tell him, he'll have an upgrade and can get a smartphone designed for ordinary users.
—If number 5 is real - then you are required to stop using your Android phone NOW!—
I’m an ex-T-mobile employee. When they pushed the new operating system to my Fender mytouch it killed my phone. I went to the store and did everything I could. They did everything they could. I called tech support and they did everything they could.
But since it was out of warranty (barely) I was stuck.
BTW, what it did was slow the phone down to be unusable. It was like using Vista on a pentium 1, literally, even when just trying to answer the phone.
It did the same thing to my wife’s fender but to a lesser degree. I now use both as “iPods” but even after stripping everything off mine I could, it’s almost not even useful for that. But I’m a cheapskate.
BTW, when I moved to KY where I have no internet access, I was going to use my new Galaxy S as a wifi hotspot in my home. It worked great the first month. I actually used uTorrent to download a nice 600 mb “book on tape”. Then it stopped working.
After five months and countless phone calls to support I gave up and went satellite. I was using the tower near a highway and they cut me off because the tower was really not there for people like me (way too few people actually live here). To this day I can’t send text messages with pictures from home. I have to be somewhere else. They’ve cut us off from that tower.
If I had my way, my wife and I would use nothing but old flip phones. But she needs texting for the kids and grandkids. And the way the plans are set up, there is not much difference in the price of the plans.