Along with patches, it is quite smooth indeed. Of course, the argument can and should be made that it should have shipped this way.
It is possible to set up Google Apps and personal Gmail on the same phone. Simply select GMail and enter email addresses with full domain i.e. you@work.com and you@gmail.com
I've done this (GMail setup). Didn't work for me. It appears to be a common problem.
I also installed a number of patches from Preware, but nothing to my knowledge really addresses any of these concerns.
The "laggy" effects are software, not CPU. Even another 50% CPU isn't going to help a 3-second pause every time you send an SMS. It isn't going to prevent clearly software related bugs in the Mail app. It's also not going to make the buggy software decide to start triggering events on buttons it's clearly already registering (due to the droplet indicator on taps).
It's not going to make copy/paste as smooth as a double-tap, drag a point to highlight selection, tap "Copy" and done. Honestly I never did figure out the way to highlight the selection I wanted consistently. I'm pretty sure text-selections are not an OS-wide feature.
Even if in the past 30 days community patches came out to address all these issues (I seriously doubt it), who wants to depend on the grace of others for a product you just paid $250 for a couple months ago when the company that sold you the product is more interested in releasing and patching/updating a tablet?
Add to that no Pre3, the 2.1, 2.2, 3.0 fragmentation, and it was clear that without some major, visible effort on HP's part the Veer was already dead.
Plus the damn phone doesn't provide an option to keep the screen off on the Touchstone charger without a community patch. That issue has been around since my old Pre Minus! Seriously WebOS? 9 out of 10 smartphone owners I know use their phone as their alarm clock. I don't want a damn flashlight to turn on 12" from my head on my nightstand at 3AM because I got an automated email. If it's not a SMS or Phone Call, turn off and stay off when I push the Lock button.
The one redeeming application on the app-store was the Remix music player. First non-iPhone music player I could get behind (I used to own a Nexus S, never found anything on Android that seemed to focus on the simple act of browsing your music library quickly and just playing). HP should've bought the app and replaced their ugly WinAmp3/Win95 era junk with it. :-) Too late now...
Yep they are very suspect, and just so happen to be right on the verge of HP publishing their revenue figures, so may be some market shenanigans at play.
I wouldn't report it because I try not to be an utter prat, on the internet or IRL. But it is a telling instance of Google's hypocrisy on the issue of pseudonymity.
Exactly, I am at a loss to explain why so many people continue to fanboy this blowhard.
He has expressed on multiple occasions his dissatisfaction but fail to disclose his conflict of interest as well as the fact that if he really really hates the service so much he can take it elsewhere or try to start his own (oh wait, that didnt work out).
Be careful not to accidentally commit a Circumstantial Ad Hominem. His so-called conflict of interest has no bearing on whether his argument is cogent.
His site could have failed for a number reasons, such as lack of funding, lack of viral growth (if it was social), or whatever. I think you should be careful not to pick on someone because their startup/project failed. Especially here on HN, where we're supposed to embrace failure.
It's not the fact that he tried and failed (although it is more the fact that he hitched his horse to Kristopher Tate and Zooomr which ended up going nowhere) but more the fact that he so actively disparages (repeatedly) a supposed competitor.
Putting that aside, he's also done this repeatedly to no avail so it is disappointing to say the least to see people pick up and repeat his deeply flawed message.
You might also want to take a look at the following for some perspective on the man behind the persona.
