Motorola Droid Wish List
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 10:10:48 AMThe Motorola Droid really is everything I could want it in a phone, and in terms of speed it blows the Storm away. There are, however, a few areas that I'm just left scratching my head as to why they can't be done or were specifically excluded from the phone.
1. Landscape home screen
I use my phone in Landscape mode a good majority of the time, and prefer to use the virtual keyboard rather than the slide out physical one. The problem with this is that the Droid does not rotate the home screen of the phone to landscape mode unless the physical keyboard is out. Motorola has publicly announced that this was done by design and is not a bug or flaw, but they have failed to tell anyone why they did this.
2. Lack of "Reply-To" Setting In Email
I have my email setup on my phone to check a secondary account that gets a copy of all my regular email. This works great for me, however, without being able to change my "Reply-To" header, I can't make emails that I send from the Droid have my real email address on them, but rather they contain just my secondary forwarder account. This is a very basic email function and one I'm surprised to see left out of the phone.
3. Lack of partial select, cut, copy, paste
With the Droid you can highlight any field and choose to copy or cut all of the data within that field. I've learned to live with this and just