Saturday night I was pumped to see that Verizon wanted to push an update through my phone. I have the Droid Eris and from the beginning, they have been talking about this update with many new and improved features. They delivered on them, but also a bit of a headache as well.
Immediately after the update I noticed all my settings were gone. Not only that, all of my contacts too. For the past five or so years, I have had smart phones and compiled lots of info on each contact of mine. I had business contacts, clients, friends and, of course, family. All gone. Thankfully, I was able to retrieve all my family and friends rather quickly through the Facebook linking option and some business associates and clients through the Gmail link. Grrr!
Thankfully, all my pictures are still intact. As a father of an infant, I would have choke-slammed someone if those were harmed. Ok, enough of the bad:
First off, the redesign of the icons is very stylish and appealing. The home button now will tile each of the seven screens onto one page. I can quickly navigate to all of my different apps in no time at all. That is huge for me.
There are many new Android and HTC widgets that you can add and customize. There are also more shortcuts. For instance, I can jump right to the camcorder now instead of bringing up my camera and then switching over there. If that was an option before, it alluded me.
A huge plus is the navigation program now. Finally, the Eris can take advantage of the GPS and give turn by turn directions to any locale. I used it to get from a store to my house earlier today. It was pretty accurate to the foot and each new point loaded quickly. I was rather impressed with how it switched to Google Street View when I turned onto my road.
Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any improved efficiency or faster loading of programs and the battery still drains very quickly. All in all, not bad.
