Wow cool, thank you!!!.... lucky bastard! Haha, kidding, kudos for taking requests
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Play around with that fingerprint scanning tech that unlocks your phone. I'm curious to know:
a. is it useless.
b. if used, is it slow to unlock.
Thanks!!
I second this - I always have a pretty intense password on my phone because, once on my phone, you have access to soooo much of my personal data. The fingerprint scanner is a very big selling point for me.
See if you can go through the process of setting your fingerprint "password" and try locking / unlocking - is you can really dig deep, see if using that feature's corresponding service or app uses very much RAM... although I guess with 818mb available to the user, I guess it won't matter much! Still, it would be very cool if the fingerprint scanner utility is baked into the firmware and doesn't effect the amount of available RAM regardless.
*If they don't let you, would you mind asking a rep to demonstrate unlocking, and watch if it unlocks and it ready to go nearly immediately or like five seconds later. I've used finger print scanners before on computers, but never on a cell phone (obviously), so I don't know how much horsepower is needed to analyze the fingerprint.
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Battery life - this may be difficult to do, considering I'm sure you will have limited time to just play with the phone.
Do something that you can replicate on your personal device to try to gauge what the battery life might be like. For example, after boot up, check the battery info in settings, launch, say, a long youtube video (like ten minutes would be cool, but I doubt possible), with brightness comparable to the max brightness on your own device, and play the sound through the external speakers at max, and then immediately check battery life info again in the settings menu. How do the extra pixels, tegra 2, etc stack up perform with that huge 1920 mAh battery?
*Faling that, just try to note the battery life at the start and end of your hands-on time, and try to subjectively guess how well it seemed to stack up compared to your device
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OK this is REALLY unlikely but if it has market access and they let (or don't notice) you download apps, get some benchmarks, as many as you can. I know some people did this at CES but I was under the impression that the software wasn't totally final, so I'm wondering if it still does as well, or even better, than what was seen then.
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I often need to use speakerphone - if you can make a call and try to note the volume, that would be terrific.
*Failing that, play any audio file you can find (ringtones, whatever) with the volume cranked... I have a feeling that with all the amazing goodness packed into such a small, somewhat light phone, they may have had to make some speaker sacrifices.
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This may already be known - but try to figure out exactly what version of motoblur it's running, and if it's newer than what's running on, say, the Defy.
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Assuming they train you on the laptop dock, throw it through a stress test... can it play music / watch 720p video (I actually don't care really about 1080 but others might prefer 1080), play flash games, etc, simultaneously? How long until it begins to get crazy laggy?
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Still on the webtop mode, sign into gmail on firefox, and write yourself an email. Does the system then shoot notifications and beep and all that once you receive the message?
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Just take it all in, inspect every centimeter, and give us your first-hand impressions! How does the display stack up to iPhone's, or SAMOLED, etc? How does it feel? How do the capacitive buttons feels? When you turn it off, how quickly does it boot? Can it scroll through all the screens with relative smoothness if you load it up with apps galore? Any new motoblur apps?
THANKS DUDE! Just to clarify, I of course don't expect you to get all that, but if there is anything in that list you might have time for, I would really appreciate it! The volume / quality of the external speakers are my biggest concern/question, so please try for that especially, if possible!
Oh and one more thing - if history is indicative of future events, does your feb 2nd training at all fit with the rumored 2/13 release?
Thanks again man
