Me too - there was a lot to love in webOS. The UI was beautifully designed and easy to get stuck into it, and although there were a few flaws, these weren't insurmountable by any means.WillPS wrote:I'm still gutted that HP ballsed up WebOS as much as they did - it was pretty nice.
After a bit of thought, I will have a go - once I've bought a new USB-to-micro-USB cable for the charger. If the phone were in a better condition, it would sell quite well, but it's been quite battered. I got the phone free"refurbished" (i.e. a return) from Virgin Mobile for £20 a month instead of £40, so I've made a saving in that sense already.BBC LDN wrote:Oh my, the Galaxy Europa. Absolutely dreadful phone - I have one for low-end app testing, and I hate every second that I use it. I think it says a lot that a high-end BlackBerry would leave someone pining for such a hateful device as the Europa, but symptomatic of the problems that RIM face in the consumer market.bilky asko wrote:I have only heard negative comments about BlackBerry phones in the past few months - phones breaking for no reason, the tendency for them to slow down to a crawl, and general lagging behind the competition.
A comment from a friend summed it up for me - "I miss Android". This was coming from a person who upgraded from a Samsung Galaxy Europa to a Blackberry Torch 9810 - a much more highly specified phone. He missed the range of apps, the better layout, the more extensive customisation options, and the reliability of the OS (rather than the hardware). From my limited experience of his phone, not only is the hardware poorer than expected (the camera is shite, and the screen backlight has an awful flicker) but the OS is a pile of steaming horse manure.
Speaking of a crap OS, I am in two minds as to whether I should wipe my HTC HD2 and eradicate the awful Windows Mobile 6.5, and replace it with Android or Windows Phone 7. It should make it run much better, but I have got used to the quirks of the OS. My contract is nearly up anyway, and the charging wire has started to split as well; the screen is scratched to buggery, and the back falls off every time a mouse farts. I don't know.
There are a couple of things that BlackBerrys are great for - namely email, BBM and generally good hardware build quality - but the package as a whole is terribly lacking compared with devices that have been designed primarily with the consumer experience in mind, and which are now making in-roads into the business space (the iPhone being the obvious, though by no means the only, example).
I'd say that installing an alternative ROM on your HD2 is a great idea. From what I've seen the Windows Phone ports to the HD2 have been pretty decent, and now properly support services (such as Live) along with Marketplace access to acquire additional apps. I almost took the plunge myself, but ended up selling my HD2 for £250 on eBay instead. That was a few months back - not sure what they're going for these days, but if you're not going to get much for it, installing a Windows Phone or Android is much better than just chucking it in a drawer.
It's a very interesting phone. In another world, the One S would be the flagship phone, yet it's midrange. The X is lovely, too, but I think I screen is slightly too big - a 4.3 inch device seems big!Ebeneezer Scrooge wrote:I think it's probably a good choice - I got the One X a few weeks ago and I'm very pleased with it. The One S will have the advantage that it shouldn't eat through it's battery as quickly.
I was torn between the Samsung S3 and HTC One X. After playing on my wife's S2, I came to the conclusion that I personally prefer the HTC interface as it seems a bit cleaner to me. That was all I could put between the two!
Ah, I see. I'll be coming from a phone with a pitiful 2GB SD card, so as I'm not used to the extra space, I doubt I'll fill it up quickly. I can see the app memory filling up quickly, as I'll end up tempted by most apps that I see, no doubt.Ebeneezer Scrooge wrote:The internal storage is more than enough for me, but then I've never stretched the SD storage on my phones in the past because up to this phone, the audio performance was never good enough for it to take over as my main music device. I find that I generally have access to wifi whenever I want to watch video, so I stream that from my home machine - currently, my phone is mostly empty. I'm sure this will change, but I think the internal storage is plenty for the music I'll be listening to at any one time.
