iPhone & HTC Touch Diamond

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by Mark

If I can find a store that has all of them. That's part of my problem. I've seen the Touch Diamond and the iPhone in stores, though not played with either myself. Finding the others is proving rather challenging.

The HD is new, so that might be a toughy to track down, but *I THINK* the upcoming T-mobile Vario 4 is a rebranded Diamond Touch Pro, so you should be able to check that out sometime v.soon.

[Mark]

Yeah, it is. I just hope they get it out the factory.

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by Mark

Yeah, it is. I just hope they get it out the factory.

I know what you mean. Talk about dragging their heels.....

[Desmo]

Any of you guys want BBC iPlayer on your HTC?

Run Opera
In the address bar enter opera:config (no http://)
Scroll down to User Prefs and click
Scroll down to Custom User-Agent and at the end of the pre-filled text add sgh-i900
Scroll down some more and press Save. You will get a prompt which suggests you may need to reset the phone, but for this you don’t.

Now point your browser to http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer/ and enjoy. The video opens in HTC Streaming Player on HTC smartphones.

[Mark]

http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile...Development/p1

If they can get the weight right. That might well make my day. Seriously. The question is how long I'd have to stick with my TyTN while waiting for that.

In other news, there's rumours that the Vario IV might finally make an appearance within a week or so. Apparently the Touch Pro is cheaper on Vodafone, but even though I live in their home town, I'm not sure I want to go there (a comment from a sales guy in a CPW store was rather telling, and approximated to we don't do smartphones with them because they're crap).

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by Mark

http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile...Development/p1

If they can get the weight right. That might well make my day. Seriously. The question is how long I'd have to stick with my TyTN while waiting for that.

In other news, there's rumours that the Vario IV might finally make an appearance within a week or so. Apparently the Touch Pro is cheaper on Vodafone, but even though I live in their home town, I'm not sure I want to go there (a comment from a sales guy in a CPW store was rather telling, and approximated to we don't do smartphones with them because they're crap).

CPW???
Avoid avoid avoid.
Have a problem, and you're dealing with them and not your network provider.

I have another 12 months until my next upgrade, so

[Mark]

Didn't say I'd go with them - I was just browsing. However, I had no trouble last time I was with them a few years back.

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by Mark

Didn't say I'd go with them - I was just browsing. However, I had no trouble last time I was with them a few years back.

And hopefully you'll never have any problems, mate. But, when problems do arise then IME CPW are less effective to deal with than with the network operators themselves.

[Mark]

Oh, I had a look at the iPhone onscreen keyboard while I was there. I could at least read all the letters which would be a good start. I'll fetch an Apple store guy and have a proper play when I'm in the vicinity of a store next weekend.

[phykell]

I'll probably go with a Vario 4 when it comes out. The 3 has been fine but the battery life is atrocious and it's extremely irritating that an incoming call dims the display - I can't believe HTC didn't release a fix for it. There are a few other problems but nothing like as bad as those two. Having said all that, I think I'll wait for a while before moving to the 4 - I don't want another buggy phone.