Some Droid notes.

- The built-in email application isn't quite good enough. Replacing it with K9mail is a good move if your mail server speaks IMAP. It's even better if your mail server knows the IMAP IDLE command set to do push email. I have K9mail never doing a pull (except at startup time) and getting everything via push.

- I get a lot of email, even when it's only my main inbox and my work alerts. None of the provided notification sounds are both subtle enough to be allowed to go off repeatedly, yet noticeable enough to let me know that it did go off. Tone Picker can set most sound formats as notifications (or ring tones, or bring up Sound Recorder, or you name it). I recorded my tongue clicking twice as the sound for inbox mail, and myself saying "bleep bleep" as the alert mail sound.

- The built in browser is pretty good -- but not as good as Dolphin. Like K9mail, Dolphin starts with the generic Android 2.0 app and builds on it. In this case, the improvements are in tab support (thumbnails of open windows), gesture recognition, multitouch actions, and bookmarking (the "start page" integrates a search box, sensible default sites, the bookmark list, history...) and options of many sorts.

- Locale can change system preferences according to what time it is, what day it is, where you are... nice interface, too.

Some Droid notes.

- The built-in email application isn't quite good enough. Replacing it with K9mail is a good move if your mail server speaks IMAP. It's even better if your mail server knows the IMAP IDLE command set to do push email. I have K9mail never doing a pull (except at startup time) and getting everything via push.

- I get a lot of email, even when it's only my main inbox and my work alerts. None of the provided notification sounds are both subtle enough to be allowed to go off repeatedly, yet noticeable enough to let me know that it did go off. Tone Picker can set most sound formats as notifications (or ring tones, or bring up Sound Recorder, or you name it). I recorded my tongue clicking twice as the sound for inbox mail, and myself saying "bleep bleep" as the alert mail sound.

- The built in browser is pretty good -- but not as good as Dolphin. Like K9mail, Dolphin starts with the generic Android 2.0 app and builds on it. In this case, the improvements are in tab support (thumbnails of open windows), gesture recognition, multitouch actions, and bookmarking (the "start page" integrates a search box, sensible default sites, the bookmark list, history...) and options of many sorts.

- Locale can change system preferences according to what time it is, what day it is, where you are... nice interface, too.