Dear Android

I love you. You are an amazing operating system for cell phones. You actually let me do anything I want, unlike stupid iOS. There's a bajillion reasons why iOS sucks, but that's a topic for another time. Android is great. The notification bar works brilliantly, and makes it easy to get at any notification while you're doing something else without any difficulty, but also keeps them out of the way until you're ready to look at them. Widgets are great, letting you have actual functional things on your homescreens instead of just links to apps. Displaying my calendar, the weather, a nice button to turn on and off wifi... tons of great things widgets can do.

The only thing I didn't like was that at the bottom of the home screens is a section reserved for a "dialer" button, a "contacts" button, and an "app drawer" button. (the app drawer is a list of every program installed on the device, in alphabetical order, so if all else fails there's always a way to get to any program, even if you haven't put links or widgets or anything on your homescreens)

Of course, since this is Android, by Google, and they want to let you do what you want, I was actually able to download a whole new "launcher", which basically re-did the entire UI of the home screens. This added many cool things, including the ability to customize the dock at the bottom. (I ended up downloading Go Launcher EX, in case you were wondering)

So basically I just love that they actually let you do whatever you want. And it works great. I love my phone (a Droid R2D2, which is just a star wars themed Droid 2)

Android, and everything else by Google, you rule.
-SF