Definitely considering a HTC hero - Page 7

Toby · 24-09-2009, 20:08

The bluetooth issues do worry me tbh. Whatever phone I get simply has to work in the car, end of, as I do a lot of phoning from there. Call dropping just isn't acceptable.

Would the Hero and Magic's BT implementations be the same (as I can test with a colleauge's Magic) or will the HTC stuff have changed/affected it so the comparison wouldn't be valid?

Daz · 24-09-2009, 20:34

They will be the same I should imagine - HTC have made tweaks to the kernel to support some of the UI stuff and tethering (which you wouldn't get on the Magic) but they've not touched the BT afaik.

mejinks · 30-09-2009, 03:28

Righteo. From Zero to Hero

My old phone decided to stop working completely, so CPW have replaced it for me. The thing is that the phone I have now works brilliantly. It doesn't disconnect from my car bluetooth and you can dial from the sim card (rSim I believe its called), if someone sends you a number in a sms, you can click on it and save it as well as just dial it and best of all, it just works bar a few hiccups every now and then complaining about acore closing, although clickong on ok does nothing and it doesn't seem to affect the phone at all

There are tons of apps in the market place and generally, the only game that slows it down sometimes is Midnight pool 2. Other than that, its a complete joy to use.

One brilliant app I use at the moment is called shop savvy, which lets you scan a barcode of a product and compare it online. I tested this the other day on some braun cleaning fluid for my razor and found it 4 quid cheaper online. There are other apps that do this too, which have more UK brands and I found myself scanning everything in the kitchen

A handy trick I learned the other day is that if you hold down the call drop button, the bottom option turns off data useage via 2g/3g I nearly went over my usage by leaving this on (it was checking e-mails every 5 minutes as well as facebook/twitter etc)

There are so many features of the phone that I haven't learned yet, but I have a phone I like now

Daz · 30-09-2009, 09:47

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Originally Posted by mejinks

One brilliant app I use at the moment is called shop savvy, which lets you scan a barcode of a product and compare it online.

I use that too

The barcode scanning API is great, someone wrote a script to scan an ISBN barcode and take you to the book on Amazon

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Originally Posted by mejinks

A handy trick I learned the other day is that if you hold down the call drop button, the bottom option turns off data useage via 2g/3g

I have 'unlimited' data so dont worry about that, however when we go abroad it will be great to avoid roaming data - as you say, it's a noisy phone data wise (which is fine, but not when it's a million quid per meg

)

mejinks · 30-09-2009, 13:48

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Originally Posted by Daz

I use that too

The barcode scanning API is great, someone wrote a script to scan an ISBN barcode and take you to the book on Amazon

That sounds interesting, I shall look for that now.

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Originally Posted by Daz

I have 'unlimited' data so dont worry about that, however when we go abroad it will be great to avoid roaming data - as you say, it's a noisy phone data wise (which is fine, but not when it's a million quid per meg

)

Be careful about that because Orange told me I had unlimited data too. Theeir definition of unlimited is 500mb per month though.

Mark · 30-09-2009, 13:58

Correct. Orange have an inclusive limit of 500MB on the latest packages. I was on the previous generation which was 250MB, and before that it was about 10MB.

If you've got wi-fi at home or access to free wi-fi while out and about, use that whenever possible - at least for the big downloads. It'll help a lot and it's usually faster too.

Daz · 30-09-2009, 14:07

I did quote the 'unlimited'

I dont do anything that heavy, 2+ years on tmobile and I've had push email 24/7, twitter, app downloads and regular web browsing, and I've never been contacted about my usage. Capped it may be, but for my usage it certainly feels unlimited, which is good enough.

Del Lardo · 02-10-2009, 09:05

Out for delivery 02/10/09 08:28 CAMBRIDGE SERVICE CENTRE

I hate waiting for toys to be delivered

mejinks · 11-10-2009, 00:15

Did I jinks myself? It appears to like switching itself off

24-09-2009, 20:08	#61
Toby Absinthe Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,023	The bluetooth issues do worry me tbh. Whatever phone I get simply has to work in the car, end of, as I do a lot of phoning from there. Call dropping just isn't acceptable. Would the Hero and Magic's BT implementations be the same (as I can test with a colleauge's Magic) or will the HTC stuff have changed/affected it so the comparison wouldn't be valid? __________________

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Daz The Stig Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Swad! Posts: 10,713	They will be the same I should imagine - HTC have made tweaks to the kernel to support some of the UI stuff and tethering (which you wouldn't get on the Magic) but they've not touched the BT afaik. __________________ apt-get moo

30-09-2009, 14:07	#67
Daz The Stig Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Swad! Posts: 10,713	I did quote the 'unlimited' I dont do anything that heavy, 2+ years on tmobile and I've had push email 24/7, twitter, app downloads and regular web browsing, and I've never been contacted about my usage. Capped it may be, but for my usage it certainly feels unlimited, which is good enough. __________________ apt-get moo

30-09-2009, 13:58	#66
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Correct. Orange have an inclusive limit of 500MB on the latest packages. I was on the previous generation which was 250MB, and before that it was about 10MB. If you've got wi-fi at home or access to free wi-fi while out and about, use that whenever possible - at least for the big downloads. It'll help a lot and it's usually faster too.

02-10-2009, 09:05	#68
Del Lardo Absinthe Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cambridge Posts: 2,539	Out for delivery 02/10/09 08:28 CAMBRIDGE SERVICE CENTRE I hate waiting for toys to be delivered