I was away from home this week, and needed to look up an upcoming appointment on my Nexus One Google phone. Well would you believe that simply isn’t possible? I was able to search anything on my Palm Treo phones for the past decade since day one of the Palm devices and get almost instant results.
I can’t believe it took me this long to figure it out, but the Search Giant Google has not built a search feature into Android for the calendars to search for appointments. I’m shocked! This is absurd. Google’s claim to fame is being good at search, and they obviously can’t have left this out by mistake. No one could be that stupid when designing a mobile Operating System. They obvioiuusly want us to use the web based calendar for some selfish motive.
I’ve liked a lot of things about my Nexus One and Android, and hated some just as much or more. But this could be what pushes me over the edge to moving to another mobile device. There is no excuse in this day and age to leave out such a feature. It’s bad enough that every new mobile device and Operating System on the market can’t seem to impliment Cut & Paste propertly (something else Palm devices had from day one) but to leave out calendar search is inexcuseable. If it’s not in the next Android update, I’ll be moving on if I can’t find a replacement for the calendar app.
Maybe I need to take a hard look at Windows Phone 7. Welcome back to the table Microsoft!