[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shar1r:
Nexus Regrets *SAD*

My initial experience with this phone was AMAZING coming from my previous WM Kaiser - which was a dinosaur in comparison. But after the awe wore off - I started experiencing A LOT of problems, which made the phone virtually impossible to use.

1) Reception. People can't even hear me when they talk to me. This isn't mere coincidence - because it's ALL the time. People tell me I fade in and out, and that I get cut off. I work with offices abroad - and important work conversations can barely be completed because of this issue.

2) Proximity Sensor. This was a SUPER IMPORTANT feature for me, coming from the Kaiser. With the Kaiser I had to remember to shut of the screen with every conversation, so that I wouldn't press random buttons on the screen. The Nexus' proximity sensor is faulty to say the least. Sometimes in a call when I get to a switchboard and need to choose the line - I pull away and see that the phone isn't even in the phone screen - that the phone has completely locked - and until I GET BACK to the phone screen - I've missed the entire menu. Other times - it DOESN'T EVEN WORK. I find that I accidentally press the mute button all the time - just like with the Kaiser. What a pain. (And when I come to undo the mute - the phone screen goes dark and live so that I can't even catch the button).

3) MAJOR TOUCH SCREEN/MULTI-TOUCH PROBLEMS. At first I couldn't quite pinpoint what the source of the issue is - now that I know - it doesn't quite help, I just know to expect it. There are serious problems with the multi-touch when browsing. 50% of the time - when I double-click to zoom in - my phone goes into a complete downward spiral where the phone starts to zoom in/out, scroll up/down and flash incessantly. At this point NONE of the touch buttons work AT ALL. The only buttons that work are the actual buttons - the power and trackball - I press on the power button to reboot and scroll with the trackball. The screen is completely unresponsive. Some of the time it completely goes to a black screen - and I have to pull out the battery to restart. What's more - this sometimes DOES NOT even solve the problem -and when I come back the same issues are there. If I accidentally short press on the power button - and the screen locks - I'm screwed and have to pull out the battery. (This was until the update with the trackball unlock).

4) No QWERTY. This ties into the touch screen issues. The touch screen does not register the touch correctly - and many times the wrong buttons press when composing an email/text. It's impossible to quickly compose anything at all - which is really inconvenient to say the least. It's lucky for google that the Text to Speech works very well - which is a good workaround - but a good phone shouldn't need a workaround for one of the most basic features. (The TTS doesn't work without data either - something I don't get at all).

I really enjoy the Android experience - which is why this really upsets me. I feel like with everything Google has been doing lately this phone had a lot of potential (like Wave and Buzz), but was half-baked when it was released.

I have updated to the right kernel and have the latest update. Still doesn't help. I even wiped and did a complete recovery (WM equivalent of a hard reset) - cleared the cache - and after restarting I was at the same place...just without any of my programs.

I am selling this phone today. :-( I feel like shelling out $580 for a phone - I should not have basic problems of this nature.

I can see now that I will definitely need a QWERTY - and am likely going to wait for the Motorola Shadow.