You can customize that by installing another launcher, e.g. Nova Launcher.
My experiences:
Shipping / Packaging
- The package arrived before I got the shipping confirmation e-mail. A pleasant surprise.
- The packaging looks nice.
Looks / Hardware
- The phone looks better than I feared. The transparent back cover is great.
- It’s a bit big for my taste, but I guess I’ll adapt to it.
- I like that the USB port is now on the bottom of the phone. Previously you could not charge your phone and plug in an adudio cable at the same time if both connectors were a bit bulky.
- I love the connector pins on the back, looking forward to hardware mods.
- The cover is actually quite hard to get onto the phone. Takes a while until everything fits.
OS
- The OS is fine, everything seems to react quickly to user input. In the beginning I had some problem with screen flickering / touchscreen problems, but that went away after the setup dialog.
- Firefox scroll speed is really slow / laggy.
- Even though I’m a software engineer and I love root and custom ROMs, I think it makes sense (especially from a security perspective) that the phone came unrooted. Many people don’t know the implications of rooting it. But there should be an official rooting guide soon.
- The camera is really bad, at least in low light. It’s probably fine in sunlight.
- The second SIM card symbol is annoying. I’ll try to put in a (unused) SIM card into the slot tonight, maybe I can then disable the symbol.
- Unfortunately gesture typing is broken in the AOSP keyboard
- I moved data from the FP1 to the FP2 using ES File Explorer and its “send to LAN” feature. Went really well.
- I had no problems with the OS otherwise.