23 Jan 11 After a couple of days

Nearly a week has gone by since I have bought my Defy. All in all it has made a good impression. I must say that the philosophical difference between iOS and Android got visible very quickly. The user has got a lot of freedom with the latter but this is bought with the increased chance to break something and sometimes difficulty to make something work.
Two examples: I am running my own mail server with an SSL/TLS certificate which is not signed by a well-known root CA. Bad luck with installing either the cert or the CA to Android so it will not spit certificate warnings all the time. I have found some solutions to this but these include either “rooting” the phone or messing with the Android SDK and neither is what I want just to accept my certificate.
The other issue is my WiFi. I have associated the device with a couple of access points successfully, among them LinkSys and SnapGear but I have failed to do so with my own Belkin one. My research so far has led to incompatibilities with the 802.11n standard but the Belkin does not even allow to deactivate it. Sigh.
Hence, a lot remains to do. To me, it seems that Android is an OS for tech-savvy people, rather not for the average user but maybe my use case is a special one. We’ll see.