[Epic 4G Android Development] m5james:
So maybe I'm just one of the few, but I didn't like this on my phone for a few reasons. Sure, maybe parts of it will be different once the formal OTA comes out from Sprint, so in the meantime I've flashed back to a complete stock (missing Syndicate ROM/Xtreme kernal already :() and will be waiting on Sprint.

What I didn't like:

- Plugging in the USB gives me the same initial mounting options, but then I've got to click it a 2nd time w/ that new Android logo. Once connected, it gives the same red triangle that is shown from being in Debugging Mode. I don't see the point of the redundancy and putting an icon in the Notifications Bar.

- The media player still isn't compatible w/ certain movie files that I've been using Wuzhenhua to play. At least on 2.1, Wuz worked for those other video files, but now w/ the 2.2 media player working, it overrides Wuz and won't even let Wuz play ANY videos. It's cool in that it searches for all videos now and lets me hit the FWD button to play the next video, but if it can't play them the first time, it'd be nice if it removed them from the list for the next loop around. Whenever I tried to play a video it didn't like, it'd vibrate once and then twice, then move onto the next video.

- TV.com wasn't available on the Market. I realize there are threads on how on how to fix protected apps from the Market, but I didn't keep 2.2 long enough to see if the app would appear again.

- Vibrating randomly when shutting down.

- HULU needs a patch to make it work.

- Sketchy (still) GPS from what I've read. I never used it, but why can't Samsung get this right already?! I thought I'd be past this problem when I got rid of the Moment.

What I did like:

- Gallery (which I already had the Froyo version installed on 2.1) loaded pics WAY faster...looking like someone was throwing them down on a table vs gently dropping them, if that makes sense

- The media player finds all videos on the phone and allows me to go directly to the next one hitting FWD, similar to letting WMP search for all video/audio files on your PC. It should allow lists though, as I've got a TON of different audio/video clips all over my SD card, from game sounds to video clips within the games themselves....now it plays ALL of them. If I wanted to watch a few Top Gear videos, it was easy since I knew what folder they were in...now w/ this new player, I might have to skip 40 videogame clips to see the next Top Gear video. Same for music. I like 2.1 in that I can use the stock player for certain videos, then another player for videos I don't want others to see...yes, porn ;)

- HULU app finally worked...sort of. I never got the patch fixed from the thread listed here, but at least it's said to have fixed it. In the meantime, I've been using Skyfire 3.0 for certain sites like that and have had good luck w/ it.

- 5 button drop-down notification settings. I don't hit Silent that much, but it was cool to see that space used better.

- Colored menu options icons. I already had this while using Syndicate/Xtreme, but I'm glad to see Google finally got off it's ass and did something simple like adding some color.

Neutral:

- I don't see the point of being able to rotate the phone in landscape, but 180* from the normal way of using it. I guess it'll help for using car mounts.

- Tons of different options settings, but since I didn't play around w/ them, I can't say if they're good or bad yet.

- Notifications bar was pretty colorless compared to the stock 2.1, ie 3G logo flashing up/down arrows, etc.

- Still no audio out via the media dock, but maybe that is just because this isn't the official version that will come via OTA. I just want TV-Out already! ;)

- New OS, new boot logo...c'mon Sprint. I was honestly hoping to see some cool new booting screen for this long awaited upgrade, only to see the same ol' same ol'.

K, this is all I can think of at the moment. Either way, I didn't see any huge improvements as I had expected. I was hoping to be blown away, have it feel like it suddenly did things lighting fast (kind of like the loading of pics in gallery), but in a whole, it didn't seem much different...if anything, what I've lost (SD card video playback of certain videos) overshadowed what I've gained (so-so working Flash for HULU). So now I wait...