[Nexus One General] DarkDvr:
Hey guys =)

Amongst all the complaining, here's a positive story for ya.

Yesterday we were celebrating my step dad's birthday, and we rented a Duffy boat (tiny covered party boat). I was taking all the pictures with my N1, since everyone somehow forgot their cameras. The first great thing I noticed is how camera app in FroYo (stock frf91) has the exposure control. I was shooting people inside the boat in front of a much lighter background with no problems, pictures turned out to be pretty good. Two girls who were with us had TouchPro2 and a Dream (I think). They both complained that they take ****ty pics in the backlight, and asked me to do the photo/video. Which I gladly did. As I took series of pictures, I was sending them right from the phone through my gmail to everyone present. And since gmail is so awesome, and there's no need to delete anything there, it found the email of a girl who last emailed me several years ago. She was amazed that I found her email so fast.

As we were cruising at a blasting speed of 3 mph by the "parked" boats along the shore, some dumbass on a pretty large 2-story boat decided to "unpark" without even looking for other boats already traveling across the channel.

He hit us on the back rear corner, bending the canopy frame and cracking the plastic "window" on the back. He started yelling at us "Don't run!!" and "Stay where you are!!" like it was our fault. He had a bunch of people with him, and I guess they told him that he is the one to blame, so right after telling us not to run, he ran away himself, never to be seen. I was taking pictures as he was running away.

After talking to the duffy boat rental people we went to file a case with harbor patrol (so that we don't have to pay for damages) that's where N1 started to rule the day. I open maps, do a "Harbor Patrol" voice search, and get directions. As we're driving, my stepdad (who's driving), doesn't even use his built-in GPS, I just show him my phone's gps tracking his car. He couldn't enter address into GPS while driving anyway, it locks out.

At harbor patrol, as sheriff was asking for information, I had a bunch of proof. I showed him the photos of that boat swimming away from the accident, along with clearly visible name of the boat, and its front which had no damage whatsoever (he tried to claim some damage done to his boat). I checked photo details and told him the exact time of the accident (time when pictures was taken). Then they asked me where approximately did this happen. I told him that I can tell him exactly where - I tap more - show on map.. boom - exact location of the accident along with the address. I tap satellite view - boom, he sees which part of harbor it is, and we can explain on the map where he was pulling from and where we were at the time.

Needless to say, even sheriff was all over my N1 and the cool things it can do. He probably never expected a phone could be so useful.

So now, my mom made me promise that we'll go to Sprint next week to get the Evo 4G, hehe... :D

I guess my point is, Android is truly amazing when you get a good reason to use the features it can offer. It didn't fail - it didn't freeze, it didn't throw errors or force-closes, everything just worked fast and reliably. I was very happy that I can truly rely on it.

I gotta say, on similar situations my WM phones (I was a long time WM user) were failing miserably. They would freeze, slow down as hell, I'd have to clear RAM, reboot... it was miserable. So glad that's over.