I’ve had my Android phone for about two months now, and it is good in many ways, but it’s also pretty crappy in several ways. Here’s a list of the issues I have with the Huawei U8100:

1. The keyboard sucks. I’ve tried some other keyboard replacements, but the stock Android keyboard is the best – although it is still difficult to use. Maybe it’s my general preference for a tactile keyboard, or the touch screen just isn’t that great.
2. The camera sucks. It’s a fixed focus lens with no flash, and seems to be a slow lens so half the pictures I try to take are blurry. I can’t even get the barcode app to work consistently with the camera.
3. It’s a bit laggy. That’s probably a function of the CPU and RAM, and it’s something I can live with, but I’d appreciate it if was a bit more snappy.
4. The headphone sound driver is very poor. The sound coming from the headphone jack sounds like it has been downsampled. It’s worse than listening to the radio.
5. Some apps aren’t visible on the Android market. I’m not sure whether this is the app developer’s fault (they set filters), the low end hardware on the phone (RAM, resolution) or Google’s fault for not entering the correct hardware configuration. In any case, there are many apps that can’t be found on the Android market.

Even with these complaints, it was still cheap so I’ll live with it!

Update: Apparently it turns out that the headphone jack on the U8100 supports mic as well, so if you connect a normal headphone (i.e., one from your ipod) then the third loop for the mic causes some sort of interference. So to solve this, you could either get a headphone/mic combo connector, or you can start the music first and then connect the headphone.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: android, cellphones, complaining