Chilled Out Bearded Man

The firmware upgrade today on the new G1 seems to have taken the phone from cool to slick. It still does not feel as smooth as the iPhone, but lots of things are better.

The desktop widgets have nicer smooth shiny gray borders.

The screen seems to come out of standby faster than before.

When programs/apps load, they fade in and out more smoothly and quickly.

The buttons on the built-in gmail app are much prettier and not clunky like the old ones.

Also, there are now checkboxes on the gmail list of emails, so that you can apply an action (such as archive) to multiple emails. This is familiar from the traditional gmail.

And there just seems to be nice font, border and background improvements throughout.

One issue that I encountered was that on the first restart after the firmware update, all of the icons on the desktop were missing. This resolved itself when I restarted, again.

What else did people notice?

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