Apple iPhone; Pretty dumb for a “Smartphone”

ZOMG! He’s got an iPhone! Lets all worship him and give him salutes every time he passes by! This the mentality of many people have with iPhones, but the point is, when you come to think of it, the iPhone isn’t THAT much of an engineering marvel, just an overhyped slice of Apple pie. Your opinion may be different, but here’s the lowdown;

1. Performance; 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 application processor, PowerVR HW Graphics Acceleration and 256 MB of RAM. Definitely nothing exciting like nVidia Tegra or Creative Zii here. Now, the Sony Ericson Satio and Samsung i8910HD both have pretty much the same hardware specs as the 3GS, but no-ones hyping about that are they? Sure, these two phones aren’t as responsive as the iPhone, but I’ll tell you exactly why.
2. Cutting Corners; How does the iPhone achieve such a smooth user experience using the same old (or new technically) hardware as many other phones? Cutting corners of course! Why is photo browsing so smooth? Because iTunes converts them before they’re transferred onto the phone. Why does the iPhone have such a low resolution display? So that the processor doesn’t have to work its ass off redrawing screen elements.Why can’t you multi-task? Because it would make scrolling a crawl (just try downloading a podcast and browsing a list, you’ll see what I mean)
3. Wheres the Flash?; Ok, when I say “flash”, I really do mean both of them, the Camera and more importantly, the browser. Ever wondered why the browser on the iPhone is so fast? Well, the absence of flash pretty much sums it up.
4. More apps make the iPhone “better”, but not necessarily smarter; If you want to E-mail someone’s Facebook, then you’d have to download the Facebook app, if you want to check the weather, you have to load the weather app and and if you want to check your Twitter, well there’s an app for that as well. This definitely doesn’t follow the general trend that people want information faster, as something like the Nokia N97 would display all this information quickly on the home screen, Palm Pre would merge your contacts seamlessly together, but with the iPhone, you just get a bland grid of icons. Sure its minimalist, but definitely not up to date.
5. Music and Video, what music and video? From what I can see, the iPhone obviously strikes out as a multimedia phone with its iPod based music player and large display, however, just because it does a lot of things, it doesn’t exactly mean it does them well. Frequency response might be brilliant and flat, but music sounds exactly that, flat with no life, and as for video playback, you could look elsewhere as contrast ratios on the LCD are unbelievably bad. That’s just comparing it to the HTC Diamond 2 (which doesn’t have the best display in the world), but comparing it to the Samsung i8910HD’s AMOLED display just makes it look pathetic.
6. “Sorry, I think the receptions bad, can you repeat that?” This phrase is used so often when I make calls on my iPhone, I might as well just tape record it and play it when necessary. For a phone, call quality and reception is terrible, and this is totally not expected coming from a high end phone is it?

So you see, the iPhone isn’t that revolutionary when you come to think of it. Sure it’s iconic and somewhat useful with the thousands of (mainly useless) apps, but when you compare it directly with some of the other phones in its class, it really doesn’t give the same impression as it once did.

I must dash though; I’d better upload this before I lose my 3G signal.

What verizon phone should i get.?

Question:
HTC Imagio
The Blackberry Storm 2
Samsung Rogue
Motorola Droid
I know the droid isnt out yet but look at the video reviews on youtube. i seen some good ones and it looks very cool. thanks
Answer:
There's so much talk about the "Motorola Droid" the best phone verizon has ever had, or at least in a while. I've also seen pictures and it looks quite nice, running the android os, the expectations are really high on that phone. We wouldn't know until it comes out.

As for the HTC Imagio it looks nice, supports Verizon TV. Other than that I personally don't see anything special about the phone, great size screen though. I would defentely prefer the HTC Touch Pro 2 over the Imagio.

Blackberry storm 2. I guess its just the somewhat upgrade to the original storm, looks the same nothing changed in the hardware besides the screen.

Samsung Rogue is just a feature phone with touch screen and full qwerty keyboard. Nice in its own way but I don't think it can be compared to the Imagio, or BB storm 2.

Overall i think that it depends most of all on what necessarily you're looking for. Out of all those phones you listed I would probably wait for the Motorola Droid is not long till it comes out. Perhaps a few weeks. But defentely consider the HTC Touch Pro 2 as well. good luck.

My phone tells the weather. Literally.

Currently, the weather is a very popular app and necessity that people like to find out. It is practically on every phone available from the iPhone to the HTC Hero. The HTC Hero’s interface is beautiful, but the Window Phone has gone to the next level. Rain droplets appear if its raining and the screen fogs up if its snowy. Another cool feature is when you blow on the phone, it brings up a handwriting recognition software and you can write letters, numbers and symbols by writing in the mist.

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A Review: HTC Hero

I bought a HTC Hero last friday. Comes in a very small white hard box, so small you might thought it’s a budget, no frill phone.
First impression when I took it out of the box: Robust, heavy, feels good in the hand.
Power up the phone and I waited for maybe more than a minute to be able to start using the phone.

The optical ball seems like a good idea, but i seldom used it once I get used to poking the screen. The only time I used it is for the camera. You have to press the ball to capture an image, not good for self portrait. Second thing not good: no flash! So night shot is dark. Third thing not good: slow to take a picture. So, not really a camera replacement. Only good, u can pin point where you want the camera to focus by touching the screen.

The design is the update of the once-upon-a-time Nokia banana phone. That is not good as it does not work on a standard phone holder in the car, I dropped it thrice due to its shape. Now I placed it horizontal, since the screen can tilt anyway (it has accelerometer) but still not as secure.

Now all the good parts. The phone can be charged using your laptop via USB. Charging takes about the same time as most power hungry phone.

Touchscreen buttons are always not as good as a physical keypad but I managed to survive by used the virtual keypad, after a while, I can be equally as fast. As an after thought, it took me just as much time as any other phone to learn it, there after it’s fun all the way. I am still learning it now since I am still exploring, but it’s great dicovery.

Like most interactive user interface that is not an apple or microsoft, you can customise your ”desktop” with the applications that you will use most of the time. The widgets are great. One thing that surprizes me (might not be new to others) is the clock that updates itself without any setting up. Actually, the phone did not need much of a setting up. It is up and running within a minute. It even telling me the weather of the exact location, not the country or city but the town! WiFi is auto, and no set up for the internet as well.

SMS is like a chat platform. Contact search is the same just that it doesn’t go back to the top when you have gone to the bottom, so that’s a boring part but the contact itself is now linked to facebook and twitter, and that is very neat! You can read about your contacts’ everyday living just like the facebook lite and, you can scroll through their recent updated photos just the same way as you would in your photo gallery, meaning, it’s fast and efficient. Viewing the photo, I have to add, is like photoshop.com. 

Its Android so it is everything google. Gmail is already there for you. Google map is great as a simple GPS, signal is good. Internet upload is fast. As is most latest touchscreen, you can pinch to enlarge or reduce and move through a full webpage, so I don’t need to view lite versions any more and the bookmark is like google chrome, I like! I tried the Youtube last night, streaming is fast, or maybe it’s already loaded somewhere. So far, all the applications I have used, there is no lagging!

Call wise, it’s loud and clear although sometimes it’s broken reception. Could be the service provider and not the phone’s fault though, I do not know for sure.

Synchronising with the PC takes a bit of setting up but after that its working the same way as most phones.

Power consumption is bad the last few days. I had to charge everyday, but what do you expect, I am exploring and using all the functions extensively… so not a good benchmark.

I am still happy as of today, it’s a definite major upgrade from my Nokia E71. Good phone!

Extract from HTC

HTC HD2 casi confirmado para el 11 de Noviembre

El último teléfono móvil que la compañía Taiwanesa HTC Corporation anunció que llegará al mercado con el sistema operativo Windows Mobile 6.5 es e HTC HD2. Llevando consigo un procesador Qualcomm Snapdragon, el cual corre a 1GHz, se espera que el dispositivo se convierta en el teléfono  con Windows Mobile más potente al momento de ser lanzado.

Sin embargo, aunque su fabricante dijo que el dispositivo estaría disponible a la venta en Octubre, no han dicho la fecha exacta, y algunos de los últimos rumores en Internet sugieren que Noviembre 11 será el día de suerte para los usuarios de Inglaterra y que en los Estados Unidos estaría planeado que se lanzara en los primeros tres meses del próximo año.

Conforme pasen los días les mantendré actualizados.

Owner of the htc touch...?

Question:
what are some likes and dislikes?
Answer:
dislike the size, htc touch pro2 is not bad, its slimmer.

T-Mobile to Get Multi-Touch HTC HD2 (Leo)

Sexy is as Sexy does and the HTC HD2 (formally codenamed Leo) is doing Sexy very well. Seems that a leaked slide of the handset has revealed that T-Mobile will the be the carrier of choice for release of this beauty. With the confirmation of Project Dark earlier today, we know the combination of the HTC HD2, new Blackberry Bold and other new Android handsets, in conjunction with the announcement of a 21 Mbps network coming to a town near you sometime soon, the future is looking very bright over at T-Mobile USA.

Features of the HTC HD2:

1. 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor
2. Win 6.5 (wish it were Win7)
3. 4.3 inch screen
4. 3G
5. 448MB of RAM
6. Wi-Fi
7. 1,230 mAh battery
8. Stereo Bluetooth
9. GPS
10. 5-megapixel camera with autofocus
11. MicroSD slot
12. 3.5 mm headset jack
13. Also, the handset can be used as a Wi-Fi router