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c/p sa gsmarene

Had the Pulse for a month. Here are the good and bad things about it.

I am comparing it to the market leader (the Iphone, the 2008 3G version, since I have access to it.)

BAD POINTS:
1) Still buggy, update difficult to download.
2) Street view in google maps poor quality.
3) Alarm clock will not sound, when phone is off!
4) Push/Pop email does not distinguish between unread and read emails (my email was Yahoo). It keeps notifying me of new e-mail, when all I have in my inbox is old read mail.
5) Sometimes will not change between the 3 keyboards and sometimes gets stuck in T+ or ABC mode. Solved this by going to landscape mode, then portrait etc.
6) No Haptic feedback.
7) Android applications of questionable quality.

GOOD POINTS
1) Viewing angle of the screen better than Iphone.
2) Web pages load faster than the Iphone(3G version).
3) COST. On PAYG I got it for £137
Cheapest Iphone is £342.