At 12/5/11 05:14 PM, Malachy wrote:
It came preloaded with Opera mobile browser with native flash support.
It's funny that Flash worked on Opera (albeit limited by the obsolete version) during 2008 while it seems that it no longer supports it on an operating system that has Flash support integrated in the stock browser.
Gestures and the slide left/right for add-ons/bookmarks is a little gimmicky
The gestures I would definitely agree with being very gimmicky. After the initial 'ooh' factor wore off I realised that although in some cases it saves a few seconds, primarily when typing in addresses, however by simply clicking on a bookmark you get there even quicker. Additionally, there's the fact that especially if you have a lot of different gestures loaded on it often ends up misdetecting and either doing nothing or wasting even more time doing another action. After a bit of time the whole thing's just not so impressive and over the past few months I've never even opened it up intentionally, occasionally whilst I'm scrolling I end up catching it.
Yikes! considering my bill is $130 for 700 minutes, unlimited data, 250 texts for 2 androids even with a corporate discount rate I don't want to open that bill you get down the line!
Hopefully I will not be getting it... hopefully. If that bill ends up coming through then to put it lightly I shall be in quite the spot of bother.
At least AT&T just shuts off your service if you haven't paid by the first week of the month and doesn't charge you late fees.
The bill is supposedly meant to be automatically taken out, and as it has been almost a year now I'm sure they would have decided to jump out and give the gargantuan bill by now. Of course, that twelve months mark is looming and that would certainly be a good time for them to land it. Seeing as I barely used mobile internet whatsoever until August or so it shouldn't be too high.
Even if they do decide to hand out a large bill I should be able to cover it personally considering I've traditionally stashed away any money that ends up falling onto my lap running from when I was about eight or so until when I got a social life (keeping yourself fed and hydrated whilst out every day comes to a surprisingly high amount of money), meaning I have a good personal reserve. Of course, having to fork all of that away would be pretty terrible for any wishes I eventually gain for that money.
The background stays for me unless I use my virtual keyboard in landscape mode, which isn't often.
I usually am in landscape mode using my physical keyboard, however no matter how I use it it always disappears. It doesn't bother me too much at all, but it feels slightly like the developers' art is being wasted somewhat.
My only complaint is the text selection process or moving the cursor around.
I get you. When I drag usually it's fine but whereas on most input boxes I can simply press somewhere and it'll swap on Newgrounds wherever I click the focus will switch to the very end of the textbox, so I end up having to hold it down and move the selection. It may not be the same on non-HTCs.
I use voice recognition to search in Navigation every time. Sometimes I use it to dictate short things like texts/tweets. It's not really something I'm overly excited about.
I can see it being useful, however it's just not my cup of tea.
I was really impressed with my windows mobile phone when i first got it. My wife had had a Palm Treo and then upgraded to a samsung saga (a blue blackberry-like winmo6.1 device).
I've never actually used a WP device, although I recall a while ago a slightly... simple... girl that I knew trying to use a WP6 phone and getting seriously confused with it. My first experience with a smartphone was a friend of mine's Palm Pre, and I rather like PalmOS still, despite its recent failures. His phone had a strange ability to instantly get into any secured wireless network without prompting for any information, which was pretty impressive.
The closest were 5" off-brand tablets. I nearly settled on an Archos tablet.
Heh, I remember someone else I knew coming in with a mini-tablet with the Archos label. For whatever reason, he brought it onto school the day after having bought it and apparently on the way home while he was crossing a road it fell out of his pocket and smashed on impact with the ground before a car added insult to injury for it - admittedly, I found this hilarious.
before VZW gave me an early upgrade and I jumped on the Droid 3 at launch (something I never do, but damnit, I wanted it!)
I don't believe we have that phone here, actually. We tend to have a far smaller range. I think I recall another member mentioning having it - maybe Spiffy, not particularly sure.
I'm still confused about how Ice Cream Sandwich is so groundbreaking - until gingerbread/honeycomb all tablets and phones ran on froyo and earlier.
It just seems a bit like fan pride and press talk to me, although admittedly I don't know too much about the situation. I haven't been following the development of Android particularly closely recently.
if they had a 2.3.4 motoblur emulator where I got more home screens but the same little 3D bullshit and my quick-contacts widget worked then I'd be all about it.
I recall there being a replacement home screen app which mirrors the UI and such of different proprietary replacements, although I cannot remember the name of it for the life of me. Motoblur was certainly one of the options, and I recall it having the option to add or remove home screens. It felt a bit bloated and on the slow side definitely, though, and didn't feel particularly complete. This was a good six months or so ago, though, so it's likely improved somewhat since.
What I hate is bloatware! Holy shit, there were 30 some odd apps preloaded on my phone that are unremovable.
With HTC, Sense UI is always whirring away in the background, even if it's not set as your default launcher, which a lot of people complain about but it uses very little resources when in the background and the improved topbar is noticeable and I rather like that. I originally swapped back to Sense after swapping to Go/that far more popular launcher with an A in its acronym as I loved the inbuilt widgets that ceased to work if you used any other launcher, however I eventually found good enough widgets. I'd recommend Make Look Good, one of their two free themes is absolutely beautiful and fits in with my dark transparency motif very well. I've forgotten its name now and cannot check as my phone is in a box ready to be sent back off to HTC right this minute. :3
Or their proprietary "IM Presence" that uses text messages to send IMs...wtf
I can imagine that helping me, actually, as I have no mobile internet data for free and unlimited texts. Mind you, despite being supposedly 'unlimited' there is actually a secret limit which I have come close to several times and once exceeded (very slightly, luckily). Nonetheless, being unremovable is just a silly move for them.
if you end the task they come back
I know this feeling well. I'm constantly attempting to kill as many applications as possible in order to conserve my limited battery supply, but there are at least eight or nine which always return within just a few seconds despite me rarely ever using them.
I can even play games on newgrounds that use WASD movement!
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work on my phone with the physical keyboard. I press it and even if my most recent tap is on the Flash it goes into address entry mode - although I don't believe I've tried it on another browser, perhaps I could take inspiration from Lizz and try it out on different ones when I have my phone back.
It seems most manufacturers aren't putting as much effort into their keyboarded models.
I can vouch for this as an owner of a manufacturer-neglected phone. :3
I think I can jump the keyboard ship next upgrade.
I'm considering it myself - I think having the physical keys was perfect for transitioning, but not too necessary now I'm used to it - although it's still a big positive in my opinion.