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Hi, Can I have some help please guys, if you don't mind?
It's my birthday end of this month, and I can have a new mobile handset if I wish, I'm currently with Tmobile and a crappy Nokia 5800. I can't upgrade, so obviously the handset will be brought without sim...
I'd like something like a HTC touch 2 phone, maybe like Tmobile Pulse. Idk what to get. I just want it to be Android for sure. I use photos, texting and interent a lot.
Help? Please?
As you've since discovered, the HTC Hero is renamed by T-Mobile, as the G2. Its an excellent phone, but one of your requirements is quality of texting, and it may not be as good as you wish at this.
The T-Mobile G1 has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, as does Winston's Motorola Dext (Orange network only I believe), and for texts, it would suit you. However, even thoough the G2 is a better phone, it utilises a virtual keyboard, a la the iBlown. Virtual keyboards still are nowhere near as accurate as physical keyboards.
The G2 is better then the G1 in every respect except the keyboard. But as I said in the first post of this thread, the amount of memory available for apps is so puny, as to be almost be beyond belief. Though you can still have loads of apps, its 256MB is nothing compared to the minimum 8GB (32 times the size of the G1) of the iMoan, and the 2GB of the G2 (8 times the size of the G1).
Fonehouse are still selling the T-Mobile G1, but T-Mobile themselves have sold all their stock, and moved on to later models.
Your choices on the T-Mobile contract are:
T-Mobile G1 - best keyboard, least memory for apps
T-Mobile G2 - camera with flash, most memory for apps, virtual keyboard
T-Mobile Pulse - no camera flash, biggest screen, virtual keyboard, best lookingI'd plump for the G2 or Pulse, but your need to text alot means that these may be really shit and annoying. Either wait till the Motorola Droid hits the shops, or get the G1. The physical keyboard will probably be the most important feature difference for you.
EDIT: matt (baddesigner) says [in the following post] the G2 virtual keyboard is fine, so I think I'd trust that recommendation
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the G2/hero's keyboard is great, imho. its predictive ideas and understanding of typos is awesome, so your accuracy can be appalling and it knows exactly what you wanted to type. granted, holding the phone portrait makes it fiddly, but most things type with the phone landscape so its all good. best phone i have ever had. vic hates it cos i'm always fiddling with apps and shit. ha! buts its just so handy! googling on the fly, maps, gps, etc etc.
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but guys. i still need help with torrent droid. help me. now. :D
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I friggin hate the G1 though. My ex Dan had it, was well annoying to use!
I'm used to holding phone portrait and typing that way as LG Viewty and Nokia xpress 5800 have had that (and I use it by default.) I think it's most likely Im going to go with the G2, I'm not hugely bothered on appearance, just need the most functional one for me ;)
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but guys. i still need help with torrent droid. help me. now. :D
matt - seems like the wiki linked below is relatively complete. I've not had a chance to play with it so bear with me -
looks like you need to set up your home computer as the server - your handset will connect to this server which in turn will download the torrent. so the torrent will not go directly to your hero, it'll be downloading when you return home. as for the logistics on how to do it - shouldn't be too hard. the wiki is not complete for vuze but utorrent info is here...
http://torrentdroid.wikidot.com/utorrenthttp://zerofate.com/how-use-server-editor
let us know how you get on ...
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ah! right. gotcha.
will give it a stab, but it sounds waaay to complicated for me. har har! -
Hahaha!
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the tags make me feel like a nerd.
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got me an hero coming monday....
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Android 2.0 http://www.android.com/
Motorola Droid already running it: http://phones.verizonwireless.com/motorola/droid/#/homeHow long until someone releases a custom Galaxy ROM with this version I wonder?
Anyone speak Italian? Google ANDROID - comunità Italiana - HDblog - Forum -
Someone has fixed OpenGL 3D on the Galaxy. Once again, no thanks to Samsung.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/14611-opengl-working-galaxy-ii5.html -
A bit of unconfirmed bad news, regarding the Motorola Milestone (Droid).
It appears that o2 and T-Mobile have both declined to offer the handset, in the UK.
That leaves only 3, Orange and Vodafone, that may offer it, or........maybe just buy it sim-free.
Why the UK, one of the world's most important mobile markets is being backward about the Milestone, and
even Brazil will be rolling it out, is a matter of conjecture.In T-Mobile's case, I feel that they did not anticipate the public wanting a Motorola much here, as the brand,
though well-respected in the USA, means very little in Europe. Also, T-Mobile already have the G2, Pulse, and
have only just begun phasing out the G1, so maybe the Milestone was one Android phone too many. I suppose
they still have to balance their line-up, with phones with other OS's from Symbian, Blackberry, and WindowsMobile.Still, they may retract their standpoint and reconsider, if consumer demand drives them.
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A bit of unconfirmed bad news, regarding the Motorola Milestone (Droid).
It appears that o2 and T-Mobile have both declined to offer the handset, in the UK.
That leaves only 3, Orange and Vodafone, that may offer it, or........maybe just buy it sim-free.
Why the UK, one of the world's most important mobile markets is being backward about the Milestone, and
even Brazil will be rolling it out, is a matter bof conjecture.In T-Mobile's case, I feel that they did not anticipate the public wanting a Motorola much here, as the brand,
though well-respected in the USA, means very little in Europe. Also, T-Mobile already have the G2, Pulse, and
have only just begun phasing out the G1, so maybe the Milestone was one Android phone too many. I suppose
they still have to balance their line-up, with phones with other OS's from Symbian, Blackberry, and WindowsMobile.Still, they may retract their standpoint and reconsider, if consumer demand drives them.
Motorola announced last year that they were going to focus on the North American market in an attempt to return to profitability. They cancelled a large number of handset projects, made lots of people redundant and closed most of their European offices.
They've almost certainly changed their mind now, that is, after all, Motorola's core competence, but many of the operators are suspicious of them and their ability to provide products on time to the right level of quality.
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