G1: I spend more time on the toilet because I read twitter on my G1. I used to read it on my blackberry, but the G1’s twidroid app is a far better user experience than the blackberry’s browser. And I can reply to tweets.
I wish the touch screen wasn’t so goddamn slow. Sometimes I have to hold my finger down on a button to ensure it gets pushed. I also wish you could see the numbers you punched when you’re on a call.
Twitter: I love twitter because they limit their messages to 140 characters so I’m constantly up to date (who wouldn’t be if they went to the toilet as much as I did?). But seriously, because the posts are short, you can skim past the ones that aren’t that interesting, stay on top of the lives of other people, and see what the current internet buzz is about.
I wish it would thread messages and replies — it’s awkward to see @ replies that have no context to them. It looks like when you @ reply to a particular message they pass the message id so maybe they plan to add this in the future?
Google Reader: I wish the UI was a little nicer, but now that I’ve been using it for a little while, it’s hard to give up because of the social networking part of it. I like sharing news items with other people and I like reading other peoples’ shared news items. In fact, I probably read more shared items than I do feeds I’m actually subscribed to.
One downside is that I have so many feeds, it’s literally impossible for me to stay on top of all of them. I skim a lot of news — if it doesn’t catch my interest immediately, I scan the headline and move on. I suppose that’s always been true, but now I just have a lot more stuff I’m not reading but feel like I should.
The UI problems are mostly about the terrible scrolling. It’s jumpy and unevenly slow then fast so sometimes I have no idea how many news items it’s scrolled past and have to constantly scroll back up.
Kindle: Got a Kindle for my birthday/xmas (but with the back orders, it only arrived recently). Such a beautiful, slim little device! I love that I can carry around multiple books with this little thing.
But why the hell doesn’t it have a back light?! It’s an electronic book for god’s sake. I had been looking forward to reading in the dark. And, at least with PDFs, it destroys the page layout — not having more visual chapter/story separation is weird. And I feel like I should be allowed to upload my own files to the damn thing without having Amazon charge me for each attachment I have to send myself to get data to the device. Lame.