The other thing I hate about Android: I can’t send mail, and it won’t tell me why. I haven’t sent a single email with my phone since I got it last Christmas. (Another way this fancy Galaxy Nexus is actually worse at being a communication device than the old, supposedly obsolete Blackberry it replaced.) I don’t remember the exact error message, but it was two words, along the lines of “connection failed”, containing zero useful information. After discovering FOTAKill earlier today – resulting in hour after hour of beautiful, calm, serene not-being-pesteredness – I thought I might take another crack at the email thing.

Yeah. I poked around until I found where “outgoing settings” lived, set all the switches and turned all the knobs, then sent a test email. No error message. Yay, I thought, it’s finally working! That wasn’t so bad.

Twenty minutes later I got a little concerned. That’s a long time for email to spend in transit. I sent another message. An hour later, still nothing had come through. I sent a couple more messages, to various different email addresses.

Yeah, no. They’re all sitting in the outbox, not going anywhere. No error message, no nothing, they’re just not sending, and the Android system either can’t or won’t tell me why. There’s a little spinny widget thing in the bottom bar that looks like it might be trying to tell me that the phone is working on something or other, but nothing happens when I click it, and it never stops spinning.

Oh, well. Progress, eh? Does Google even test this app, or do they just assume everyone is going to use gmail?