Got my eyes on the HTC Salsa
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-Salsa-phone-p_4288.html
and the HTC Trophy
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-Trophy-phone-p_4285.html
Apparently the Salsa is Android and the Trophy is Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional, although one source said it was Android too, I'm sure that's not accurate.
The Trophy looks nicer, but the deciding factor will be whether I want to stay with Android or not. Android is just so young and has so many little niggles that are annoying, but I see a lot for it in the future. I should really just go Windows, but I know it's not going to be my long term plan. Hummm... decisions decisions...
Showing posts with label phones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phones. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Motorola Milestone Experiences
Received the 2.0.1 update to the Motorola Milestones Android OS on Saturday evening. It took all night to download, but I expect that it was due to all phones requesting the update at the same time.
The update itself seems good, the camera recovers from taking photos a lot quicker, it's pretty much usable now. The most noticeable and welcomed update (in my experience so far) is the large clock with date on the unlock screen. But sadly now the unlock screen times-out after 2 seconds rather than whatever you set the screen timeout to be. It's my opinion that if these sorts of things are changed, they should be configurable options and not forced changes. This particular one is probably wise as it's good for power saving, but the option to set the timeout would be nice. The other one that is nice, but forced instead of configurable is the answer method, it's just a little UI* change, but same again guys!
Not sure if the "Directions & Navigation" (Google's own) was there before. It's a Beta and only accessible through adding a shortcut to the home screen. It's also not been able to compile any directions for me yet, but that's probably due to me trying to compose routes within Australia when the phone's not been released here yet. It's a nice touch, but I would settle for an update to google maps that allows it to auto follow keeping you centered on the map as you move, obviously I'd want this to be an option that can be toggled on and off!
The phone still randomly crashes probably about once a day, but at least it does it silently, so I don't always know. It just reboots itself and doesn't request my sim PIN when doing so, suppose it minimizes the down time as I may be missing calls if I didn't notice.
I nice little bug I found earlier was that in the call logs, calls are labelled as having been made yesterday when they were made over 24hrs ago rather than before the last midnight. It doesn't really matter, just a little attention to detail thing really.
Must admit, I'm just an amateur with this phone, but as soon as a viable replacement is released, I shall be moving onto something else.
*User Interface - This refers to the look and feel of a feature rather than the actual functionality of the feature.
The update itself seems good, the camera recovers from taking photos a lot quicker, it's pretty much usable now. The most noticeable and welcomed update (in my experience so far) is the large clock with date on the unlock screen. But sadly now the unlock screen times-out after 2 seconds rather than whatever you set the screen timeout to be. It's my opinion that if these sorts of things are changed, they should be configurable options and not forced changes. This particular one is probably wise as it's good for power saving, but the option to set the timeout would be nice. The other one that is nice, but forced instead of configurable is the answer method, it's just a little UI* change, but same again guys!
Not sure if the "Directions & Navigation" (Google's own) was there before. It's a Beta and only accessible through adding a shortcut to the home screen. It's also not been able to compile any directions for me yet, but that's probably due to me trying to compose routes within Australia when the phone's not been released here yet. It's a nice touch, but I would settle for an update to google maps that allows it to auto follow keeping you centered on the map as you move, obviously I'd want this to be an option that can be toggled on and off!
The phone still randomly crashes probably about once a day, but at least it does it silently, so I don't always know. It just reboots itself and doesn't request my sim PIN when doing so, suppose it minimizes the down time as I may be missing calls if I didn't notice.
I nice little bug I found earlier was that in the call logs, calls are labelled as having been made yesterday when they were made over 24hrs ago rather than before the last midnight. It doesn't really matter, just a little attention to detail thing really.
Must admit, I'm just an amateur with this phone, but as soon as a viable replacement is released, I shall be moving onto something else.
*User Interface - This refers to the look and feel of a feature rather than the actual functionality of the feature.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
What do I want out of a phone?
For years, yes years, I've been messing around trying to find a decent mobile phone that does everything that I want and does it well.
Last August I bought an HTC Hero which has uses the Android OS. It was quite good, it did what it said on the box. It was just a bit to slow to manage. Hanging up from a call could take up to 10 seconds, in fact getting any sort of response from the phone could take up to that amount of time or more. I did like that it had some hard buttons... you know, the buttons that are actually buttons rather than pressing the screen! Anyway that got stolen!
Recently, about 6 weeks ago I bought a Motorola Milestone (Droid). It's faster, but it doesn't do what it says on the box. It crashes and it's almost as though the Android OS has taken a step backwards. I'm not going to go into any more detail as there is too much...
I wanted an Android phone so I could start to develop some applications for it. Finding the time for this hasn't been successful yet, but as soon as I get though some of the other on the side projects that I'm doing, I will get round to this. It's always on my mind!
So what do I want out of a phone for me. Hard keys and lots of them, a scroll wheel BlackBerry style on the side. It's really nice to be able to navigate the phone with only one hand, this is lost with any touch screen phones. You iPhone users, how many of you regularly use both hands to type letters... nope, it's much easier to hold the iPhone in one hand and type with one finger as you can't feel your way around the keyboard, same with all dedicated touch screens.
Otherwise I just really would an intelligent address book and Gmail access so everything syncs automatically and I don't lose everything if I lose the phone. If only I had an exchange server...
I saw an Ad (I hate to say I was influenced by an Ad) for the new Omnia's. I've not looked yet, but one had a proper BlackBerry style qwerty keyboard. They are a Windows OS, but maybe, just maybe they won't be prone to crashing and slow as an old dog.
Last August I bought an HTC Hero which has uses the Android OS. It was quite good, it did what it said on the box. It was just a bit to slow to manage. Hanging up from a call could take up to 10 seconds, in fact getting any sort of response from the phone could take up to that amount of time or more. I did like that it had some hard buttons... you know, the buttons that are actually buttons rather than pressing the screen! Anyway that got stolen!
Recently, about 6 weeks ago I bought a Motorola Milestone (Droid). It's faster, but it doesn't do what it says on the box. It crashes and it's almost as though the Android OS has taken a step backwards. I'm not going to go into any more detail as there is too much...
I wanted an Android phone so I could start to develop some applications for it. Finding the time for this hasn't been successful yet, but as soon as I get though some of the other on the side projects that I'm doing, I will get round to this. It's always on my mind!
So what do I want out of a phone for me. Hard keys and lots of them, a scroll wheel BlackBerry style on the side. It's really nice to be able to navigate the phone with only one hand, this is lost with any touch screen phones. You iPhone users, how many of you regularly use both hands to type letters... nope, it's much easier to hold the iPhone in one hand and type with one finger as you can't feel your way around the keyboard, same with all dedicated touch screens.
Otherwise I just really would an intelligent address book and Gmail access so everything syncs automatically and I don't lose everything if I lose the phone. If only I had an exchange server...
I saw an Ad (I hate to say I was influenced by an Ad) for the new Omnia's. I've not looked yet, but one had a proper BlackBerry style qwerty keyboard. They are a Windows OS, but maybe, just maybe they won't be prone to crashing and slow as an old dog.
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