I'm Going Back to BB...

Okay so after a more-than-fair 2 month evaluation of Android, using version 2.1 on the Samsung Captivate, I have to say that man do I ever miss my BlackBerry. I couldn't find any other perspectives like mine but I'm so sure of myself that I'll explain it here.
If you have a lot of things going on, and are constantly moving back and forth and talking to many people at once, and involved with many groups of people, Android can't hold a candle to the BlackBerry. On my BlackBerry Bold I'd be on BBM, playing Pandora through my car stereo, and using Google Maps to navigate, with nary a hitch. Email comes to you the second it's sent, and the entire device is centered around being, more or less, a 'super messenger'. Between 4 Email accounts, google chat, BBM, texts, and MMS, I was constantly a communications machine. Also, anyone who knows a lot of people can attest that at times you sort of become a gateway for people to reach other people. Even then, I was good to go.
The Captivate (Galaxy S) is a touchscreen only phone. Now, I gave touchscreens a go when I had an iPod Touch 2G a while ago and I didnt like it that much. 2 years later: nothing's changed. I will admit that Swype is pretty cool but it never picks the words I want to use.


BAD THINGS
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* Email, Email, Email. On this phone, sometimes Sync doesnt work, sometimes its iffy, sometimes it works. In any case, theres a lot of really stupid notifications that get top priority in the Notification bar, but all your email just gets one notification.

* When you save an email attachment it just says 'saved'. Doesn't tell you where, doesn't give you the option to choose. You have to save it and then go find it later and move it.

* Contacts prefix's are ignored. i.e. my Army buddies might be a SGT John Smith, and you save it as their prefix, but in the phone book it doesn't show it. You'd think there'd be a setting to toggle it on at least, but there sadly is not.

* Limited language configuration without tweaking. There's no Greek!!! I'm of Greek heritage, plus I'm in two fraternities, and I'm an engineering student (greek letters are heavy in upper level math). So to not have it as an input option is absurd.

* When I switch to the other caller in a Call Waiting scenario, a dialog box actually pops up asking me if i want to hold the first person or end the first person. Why would you STOP me from switching over to ask me that...i dont feel like stopping to pull the phone away from my face and press some stuff i just want to talk to the other person, as soon as humanly possible. So fucking annoying.

* The ringer is not even loud compared to the BlackBerry's i've owned...

* No direct control over the cellular radio (only bluetooth and wifi). On any BB, I could turn the cell radio on and off at the touch of a button without some extra widget, and could control 2g/3g operation (3g is faster but murders your battery)

* GPS ...at the time of release, it didnt work on my Captivate for a full month.

* battery life is downright pathetic. Always have to plug my phone in all the time...makes you look incompetent. Especially if you forgot the charger.

* if you have a new text, it wont let me scroll through a different text until you read the new one (keeps 'blinking' at the top and resending me to the top). Annoying if you already read the txt thru the 'preview'

* When i go to send a MMS it shows me ALL contacts (including the ones on my SIM card) even though I told the phone not to show SIM contacts. It only hides SIM contacts in the default view.

* When I want to use the phone as Removable Media on the PC, I have to manually pull down the notification bar, click the notification, and then click MOUNT for it to actually connect to the computer. Unnecessary extra step that makes zero sense.

* No built-in way to manage multiple apps running and close specific apps. That in and of itself requires another app. This should be intrinsic to any operating system.

* Going running with music? Forget it. Sweat (any amount at all) greatly confuses the touchscreen. That and shaking it makes it pick another song, and there's no way to turn that off.

* If the phone is remotely low on battery life, the camera application won't allow you to take a picture. It shows the camera working below a dialog box telling you the battery's low, then closes the app.

* Can't make 'folders' for app icons to organize the apps the way you want

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Good things about Android:

* TV/HDMI Out...really cool, actually.

* Tasker app is neat...u can make the phone do anything you set a condition for. Unprecedented levels of control. (i.e. from 9:58am to 9:59am shut off the screen and begin recording from the microphone and save it to folder x)

* The browser is amazing. Still no flash, but it's loads better than the BB5 browser (Opera Mini on BB helps alleviate the pain though)

* The AMOLED screen on the Captivate is to die for. The blacks/colors are really rich.

* The camera (although without flash) is really nice. Good for taking pictures of the board or of papers for class. Photo editing is amazing ON the phone.

* You can share multimedia content (like pictures, video, etc) through like 10 different ways

* Captivate can be soft-unlocked without any MSL code

* Scans media on the SD card extremely quickly compared to the blackberry

* The music player automatically saves the most recently added files, to any part of the filesystem (onboard or sd card) to a "Recently Added" playlist, so you can find the bluetooth received files, browser-downloaded files, or removable-media-copied files instantaneously

* Sexy formfactor...including usb port sliding door.

* A lot better for developing for than the BlackBerry
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All in all I'd say if you're a geek that loves to tinker and play and have a bunch of friends, then the Galaxy S/Captivate is great. But as you can see, all the pluses I listed aren't really important things...they're more like fun 'extras'. All the crucial basics of the device are the ones that irritate someone who needs things fast and efficient. (Notice I didn't even list the touchscreen as a minus...because I know thats my personal fat-fingered dilemma and not a de-facto negative feature)
If you run time critical applications all the time, like a full time college student with a job, a student organization, and 2 fraternities, I'd much more recommend a Blackberry any day of the week.