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I guess I am confused. The Omnia is very usable, out of the box, imo. The ability to tweak is a love of mine, but not a requirement to use the device.
As for iContact, it became the system default for Contacts for me. However, you could always use something like Keyswop and remap your soft keys, one of them to iContact.
For example, this is my setup. Contacts (icontact) on the left, Calendar (thumbcal) on the right.
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Right out of the box, the Omnia is "usable" but not particularly "good". (I'm not the only one to say this, I have read reviews where it was stated as well) In order of importance, the things I will use most are the phone & contacts, camera, MP3 player, Email, Internet and navigation. I don't like the interfaces for the phone, MP3 player and Email nor do I like the way the menus are laid out in general or the tiny buttons. There are also a lot of what I consider very strange things I find frustrating as hell such as the difficulty in entering passwords or other data on websites when you often cannot see the box you are typing into. Perhaps many of these issues are "just the way it is" but if some can be fixed or improved I want to try. I'm just not experienced doing so.
What sold me on this phone was the number of things it does. Now that I know the GPS is indeed a real GPS and that Verizon may allow me to use it someday, I'm even more impressed with it's stash of capabilities. I also like the idea that this phone could be tweaked and customized. But I didn't know what can of worms I was opening when I decided that was a cool thing to do. I did not anticipate the problems associated with this being a new device which requires more expertise to customize it due to various bugs in the new apps. Nor did I anticipate the sheer volume of information I would have to learn very quickly....and part of my hurry was that my 30 days is about up and I need to make certain this phone is going to work for me.
Make sense?
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I know the iContacts is finger friendly. That is not the issue. The problem is that iContacts did not take over my system automatically the way Mobile Shell did. It still exists as an icon in the folder where I placed it. Running it starts it but when I close it, the only way I can restart is if I hunt down the icon in the folder again. I tried a soft restart with no sucess.
I do remember reading about someone else with this problem but can't locate the conversation anymore.
Until I can figure this out, I'm at a dead end for this app.
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NOTE:
I located another freeware registry editor (PHM from PPC.com) and it took all of about 30 seconds to download, transfer to the Omnia, open and install. It appears to work fine. I don't have any idea why the other didn't install properly, but it didn't.
So, now I have a working registry editor......god knows what Panodra's Box I'm about to open.......
