On Friday 06 November 2009 11:02:21 pm sanga collins wrote: > Verizon came out with 2 android 2 devices today. One is > the Moto-Droid of the now infamous "droid does, and > iphone doesnt" commercials, and the other is the HTC eris > which has been flying under the radar and was released > with little to no fanfare. I have the oppourtunity to get > either of these devices for free so i decided to ask the > lugs if anyone has any droid experience and what they can > tell me about their personal trials and tribulations.
I've sampled the HTC Hero here in KL. It has a slightly modified version of pre-2.0 Android, but it looks really cool, the Sense UI is smooth (not yet as good as the iPhone, though), and is really interesting all around - perhaps the most interesting phone, for me, in the last couple of years: http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/overview.html The issue with the Hero is that the Sense UI is a little sluggish, despite the rather quick Qualcomm 528MHz processor, especially if you're running some applications with others in the background. Folks are chalking it down to an unoptimized Android, that could be fixed in later code (considering the iPhone 3G has a 412MHz ARM11 processor). There's simply too much stuff happening in the background even when you aren't doing anything. If HTC can clean that code, the Hero will be even cooler than it is now. Definitely a phone I think I'll be taking. One issue with Android outside the States (well, in Malaysia, anyway) is that with Market, some applications (including the free ones) are not available. Market checks whether your phone is registered to a U.S. wireless provider. If not, you only get a handful of "international" applications, none of the paid ones, and a measly offering of many of the free ones. But, as always, there's a fix. One can flash their phone with code that allows them to install another application which enables the masquerading of a wireless service provider, i.e., you can tell Market, through this application, that my phone is actually registered to Sprint, for instance :-). Cheers, Mark.
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