I stayed with a few friends while in the Bay Area last week instead of getting a hotel (many thanks Eric, George and Shelby!) and managed to leave my Treo 600 USB charger in Oakland mid-week. The Treo lasted a day and a half or so, then I had to switch to the A900 - nice to have a backup.
Using the A900 as a phone was an interesting experience - I’m a pretty basic cell phone user (I don’t use the cameras, download ringtones, etc.), but getting to things that I consider top level data (call history for example) is several clicks and navigations away in the A9001. As well, there are numerous animations, graphics and other jazz that I just don’t need and actually made it harder for me to figure out how to do what I wanted to do.
It’s been a long time since I used a “normal cell phone”, and frankly using the A900 made me miss the simplicity of my old StarTac or Kyocera 2235.
Luckily, Scott dug a Treo car charger out of his car so I was able to get the Treo charged up and back in service after only a day or so.
However, when my flight was delayed and I spent an extra hour and a half at the San Jose airport today, I sure was glad to have the A900 with me to use as a modem. 
- I admit I’ve not read the book yet so ther emight be an easier way - but that doesn’t excuse the lack of usability. [back]
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matt adds this Comment:
I purchased a RAZR v3 over the weekend and am actually really enjoying it. It’s relatively simple, and its compact nature is nice as well. I’m really enjoying the bluetooth headset I found for it (plantronics discovery 640). Being able to charge the heads off a AAA battery if needed as well as it’s ability to use your phones charger (it comes with adapters) along with how lightweight it is and how snugly it fits on the ear … definitely nice.
Of course, I was on a Nokia 3120 before this, so I had been starved for a nice phone for a bit … (nothing against Nokia, I actually love their phones, the 3120 is just … low on the features for me).
January 15th, 2006 at 12:24 am
Edward adds this Comment:
Did you try clicking on the ‘call’ button from the main screen of your A900? If you don’t enter any numbers and hit the ‘call’ button, it should bring up a list of your most recent calls. I don’t know if that’ll work on your A900, but it has worked on the past 4-5 “normal” phones that I’ve used.
January 15th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Cool, that works.
January 15th, 2006 at 1:40 pm