Sounds like you got lucky. Sometimes I even have trouble getting away from 3 stars depending where I am in the city. Sometimes with the way the roads are set up there's no way to avoid oncoming cops. I've gotten away from 5 stars but it took a lot of work. I haven't gotten to 6 stars yet.
Android is not the same. From the moment the Android is activated when you log on to a virgin phone for the very first time, you are already cloud synced. You simply don't need to explicitly start "Google Sync" an Android. Just login to your gmail account and enter password.
You don't need...
I noticed a big difference in battery life after I made sure it didn't scan for wireless networks. I add those I use in the destinations and that works great.
because if you do that, the only money you make is when you sell the device. after the device is sold, apps bought, services, etc. are all going into google's pockets, not the nokia/ovi pocket