Coming from the palm pre and got the samsung focus and it does have alot of little quirks (agree with half of your list). As many little flaws as it has there are as many things it does far better than any other phone. Those easily outweigh the flaws to me but I do expect the issues to be resolved over time.
Still loving the phone. No way to network with a homegroup that I could find. Some issues I'm finding:
1). Slow loading times - true for games and programs like Facebook. Not a big deal but annoying.
2). Missing multitasking more than I thought I would...it sucks having to re-open apps.
3). Wish I could use the volume rocker as music controls, like I can on a Blackberry. Instead, I need to turn on the screen and press a volume button to bring up playback controls.
4). Wish I could sync with iTunes and not Zune...all my music shows up in the Zune software, but not my iTunes playlists.
5). NO NOTIFICATION LED (Samsung Focus). This is the big one and is making me reconsider my purchase. Everything else is manageable, this drives me crazy. I can't tell if I got a new mail/message without turning on the screen. My BB was set up to flash green for text, red for e-mail, blue for BBM, and white for missed calls. Can't get more convinenent then that.
6). No control over vibrate - the text vibrate is far too short. Doesn't vibrate or give any sort of notification for a new e-mail, other than the little icon on the lockscreen.
7). No controls in the browser in landscape mode...wtf? Can't even type in a URL, press stop/refresh, etc.
8). For that matter, landscape mode is rarely available. Only programs I can think of is IE (see #7), messaging, and games. Weak.
9). Marketplace is still in its infancy, but this is to be expected.
Those are my biggest gripes so far. I realize the bigger ones like multitasking are obvious, and will likely get fixed soon. I do love the phone and the new platform overall, and can't wait for my little gripes to get fixed.
I've used every platform from iOS to BB6 to Android 2.2 to WM6.5, and this is by far the most refreshing. A year from now, this is going to be a killer system.
1. Haven't had an issue with load times on anything other than the initial load.
2. Agreed.... not having multitasking is a pretty big deal but I expect this to be at the top of the list for updates.
3. Not sure what you are describing but the volume rocker works w/o screen input on the focus. Now if you want it to put up the bar when you press the volume rocker so you can go to the next track then I agree that would be nice (and I expect that to happen)
4. Never going back to itunes..... itunes on windows makes real player back in the day look good. They do need to make a real zune client for osx and linux though.
5. I do miss this from my pre.... will take some getting used to.
6. This doesn't bother me too much. It vibrates so it works well enough for me (don't need or want more control over it than that)
7. Doesn't bother me. Its not a huge chore to switch back to landscape. I only read webpages in landscape mode then swap back to portrait. (and the back button does work which is all I really need)
8. It is an issue but I would rather they make portrait really good and smooth and add landscape with updates (which I expect them to do).
9. I actually think the marketplace is pretty good already even if it is young.... wp7 generally has some of the best versions for the "basics".
some of my annoyances:
1. The keyboard is different depending on which section you are in (the auto suggest does not work in some places).
2. No smart DJ in the zune app
3. The app listing (when you swipe right) should have the easy alphabet sorting thing elsewhere in the phone.
4. The marketplace UI on the phone is not very good at helping you find what you are looking for. I usually have to search to find what app I am looking for. Also not real easy to find the most popular/downloaded apps like it is in the software.
5. Office should have skydrive integration (like a sharepoint server)