[Review] Mlais M52 Red Note running review

[WuddaWaste]

Up front, I have two significant complaints about the phone. As typical when these things happen, I'm hoping the future Lollipop software release will fix these bugs.

Complaint 1: Although the screen *seems* super responsive and snappy, I'm having a hell of a time writing messages. I am a rapid typist and I send literally hundreds of text messages per day. I'm not sure what it is, but my error rate has exploded since I got this phone. It's either the software not predicting the right stuff, some of my keystrokes not registering, or perhaps a combination of the two. I've used SwiftKey in all of my phones and I was under the impression that my profile followed me from device to device. Perhaps it's that my fingers are used to a 6" form factor as opposed to this 5.5" factor, perhaps it's a difference in sensitivity. Whatever it is, it's driving me nuts. I had to disable SwiftKey Flow and that helped a little. Pressing a touch harder on the screen seems to help a bit too. In any case, if there's one bug that's going to lead me to abandon this phone and revert to my previous one, this would be that bug.

Complaint 2: My version of Waze seems to be kind of messed up. GPS fix works beautifully. However, Waze itself doesn't load the dynamic characters on the screen, and sometimes the fonts look a little hosed. I'm going to try to take this up with the dudes over at Waze (perhaps now Google), but it's something I feel others should be aware of. I'll attach a screenshot so you guys can see what I'm talking about.