Gadgetory

this is adam lane with pocket now calm and we're going to put the t-mobile g1 android form through our usability speed tests now the first test is from the standby position opening the email contacts and calendar applications as quickly as possible now this has you can customize shortcut keys so fastest would be using those all right right here we go this calendar you know context okay good next test is from home screen opening a third-party application buried within the interface such as Google Maps I don't have a home screen that would be cheating so here we go where you go actually Vince faster way to do that let me try that again from the home screen there you go much better android does support searching through programs with that program drawer open so that was pretty quick now so the third test is opening a favorite from the home screen now you can put favorites on the home screen directly so that's possible to speed up this test but we're going to do it through the browser because you may have tons and tons of favorites so ready go menu bookmarks with a can sweep there it is so the bookmarking listing does not support searching with keyboard the fourth test is playing music by a specific artist so from our home screen ready go no all right start over where you go music and artists now the weird thing is you can't play everything from that artist when you search for them you have to go and select an album let's show that so you say I want to play all of his songs that's not an option here next we're going to add a new contact contact number say there we go and next is how quickly can we send an email to that content so when I want to do it through gmail there you go it didn't recognize that there is contact there turns out our last test is a little more difficult because android doesn't want to search for john doe's last name and either the email or gmail application so we're going to have to type by the first name and delete all the other ones so that you don't have any John email addresses for you all right here we go gmail ok and take their butt you see work and no kind of text prediction for the keyboard there so that about as long as it would normally take on a regular keyboard and we had to use these little buttons but that's it for the usability speed test