Cause to Pause

One of our A/C package units has corrosion on the bottom inside. Originally our Building and Maintenance Committee thought it could be sealed from inside the unit. Turns out the unit will have to be raised off the roof, a sheetmetal pan made, the curbing the unit sits on will need to be extended and then the whole thing will need to be plumbed and rewired back in. I sent the $1,800 quote from our A/C contractor to our volunteer Building and Maintenance Committee and received the following:
“Let’s take a look at it, figure out how many hours it may take us, double that figure, then decide if we want to do it ourselves.”
Hilarious.

Couldn’t wait any longer so I manually updated my G-1 from firmware version 1.1 to ver. 1.5(Cupcake). In case you were wondering, there was nothing in between.
I could have done it a week ago and even thought about it. Chickened out as I was afraid to brick my phone before the ACS Convention (more updates on this later). That would have been embarrassing. At any rate, I couldn’t wait for the OTA update. Now that I have it, I wish I had done it earlier. Here’s why:

1. Video Record. The new firmware adds video record with super simple upload to youtube. Since it is a G-1 and you are REQUIRED to have GMAIL, once you set up a youtube account, they link so there is no sign in process. You are already signed in. You do get a handy little icon to tell you when the upload is done. This would have come in very handy last week.
2. On-screen keyboard in both portrait and landscape. I know you iphoners are thinking “What’s the big deal?”. The big deal is now I have onscreen PLUS slide out. My initial reaction is the G-1 onscreen is a lot easier than the iPones I have tried. A LOT easier.
3. Battery life seems to be much better. Will know by the end of the week, but initial reaction is that it is.
4. The compass app works better. Previously it seemed to hang-up.
5. GPS fix is faster.
6. All of the user interfaces are much nicer. Especially the GMAIL. This one is a major improvement.

You can find the whole list of new features here. Those above are just the ones that applied to me.  
The camera still needs work. Loads faster and has a very handy upload to Picasa with ability to choose which folder the picture ends up in-but the picture quality is still not great. It’s a 3mp lens, so maybe the next software update will help it out. 
Now, if they could only make it render flash…

Tags: ACS, g-1, iphone, t-mobile

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