Yep, if US Cellular wants a three year contract, that's not a deal at all.
However, their website says two years. (?)
Five seconds to rotate? You're right, obviously something was very wrong, because that's nowhere near normal behavior. Did you reboot or swap the unit?
If this happens to you a lot, I wonder if you're (begging Jobs' pardon) holding these devices wrong. Perhaps have a finger on the menu key at the same time or something!
Smoothness is in the eye of the beholder, IMO. For instance, Android usually fills in lists on the fly, which can cause stuttering, but is quicker to start and rarely shows blanks. iOS tends to show a checkerboard and fill in the entire list, which ends up smoother later, but also unfortunately can mean lacking the ability to fill in a large list at all sometimes, due to memory constraints.
Six of one, half dozen of the other, as they say
You might have missed my comment earlier in the thread--we had to reboot this thing 3 times the first day they had it just due to apps locking up. We gave the tablet a good long while to recover from the crash and it never did, so we had to reboot. This would also happen when we weren't running any applications at all, so it was definitely a problem. The screen orientation thing was really annoying because my mom kept thinking it didn't register her turning it, and she would try to do it again........RIGHT before it decided to respond. We finally figured out that you just had to sit there and wait and it would eventually decide to rotate the screen.
After about a week, my parents got fed up and returned it. They are going to try this new one out and see if it's any better, but they found Android really annoying and hard to use. From my own perspective, I'd rather use the silky smooth iOS over this laggy tablet any day. Though I do concede that the hardware itself was really really nice and solid with a beautiful display.
