Day 1: Unboxing the Motorola Milestone

So after work I headed down to Stereolounge at Pan Pacific Hotel. Had to ask the service staff on duty at the counter where is Stereolounge. Apparently, it's a club located at the perimeter of the hotel. I think it is near the taxi stand. Never knew there was such a cool place. What better way to launch a trial of a cool phone at a cool place.

My initial reaction when I unbox the phone was like "Oh my gosh, such a cool phone". Then when I tried to insert my SIM card, I experienced some problem opening the back cover. But well, of course I manage to learn how to open it.

Tar da~

The phone was switched on and to my amazement, it is already preloaded with the Android 2.1 platform! That means no troublesome software update for the user!

Remember I mentioned it was a really cool phone? Then I realised it's actually a really hot phone. It seems to get heated up quite easily.

The Motorola lady told us that when we open a program and then open another one again, the programs are all running behind the screen unlike iPhone which can't multi-task. So I asked her how do I close the program if I don't want it anymore. She replied that Android will automatically close by itself through its intelligence. Sounds cool to me. I bought what she said simply because the Google people are such smart people who come out with good algorithms for their search. I trust they did something similar to Android too.

You know what? The moment I laid my hands on it, I never really took it off. Started trying many things like downloading apps from Google Marketplace. Heard from my friend that Meebo is battery efficient for iPhone, hence I downloaded it just in case it may have the same effect for an Android.

And of course I watched a bit of soccer on Starhub Mobile TV. Cool yeah although there's limited channels. Wished there was AXN or HBO. Bloomberg was there, but I was prompted to subscribe. Gee, I thought it was free.

Have a look at this video which I found from YouTube. The commentator's accent don't seem very English-speaking-nation-liked. Whatever.