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HTC hero 'Android' vs iPhone 3G S
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I have read the same. Looking at the stats, there shouldn't be a reason for it to run slowly. I read that the firmware has a bit of a problem with slowdowns for read/write functions on the SD. Class 6 is the best bet for now I suppose, but hopefully they do something to fix the issue all together.
work fine for me .. no bugs so far no problem at all.. depends what kind of SD card is used in HTC hero....
My hero arrived this morning and I've been playing with it all day and I'm in fact typing this on it. It's pretty much as the reviewers said. It's by far the best Android phone out there and is a very valiant effort by HTC
However it needs some polishing and better hardware. The device is buggy and the weak/old CPU doesn't help matters. It struggles with multimedia (no hardware acceleration) and as a result can't stand next to the iPhone at all in that regard
Hardware wise (case) its solidly built and is superior to the iphone. I'm still on the fence on whether to keep it, as it stands, it, along with the pre are the best iPhone alternatives out there but I've been spoilt by the speed of the 3GS
However it needs some polishing and better hardware. The device is buggy and the weak/old CPU doesn't help matters. It struggles with multimedia (no hardware acceleration) and as a result can't stand next to the iPhone at all in that regard
Hardware wise (case) its solidly built and is superior to the iphone. I'm still on the fence on whether to keep it, as it stands, it, along with the pre are the best iPhone alternatives out there but I've been spoilt by the speed of the 3GS
WOW your late!
no i ain't...
check this out.. my post ..
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/752780/
check part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iicXw5MoQfM&feature=channel
iPhone is great looking but now i am so much bored honestly now i have put on for sale iphone 3gs just bunch of icons on the home screen and u close one to to open another app no multi tasking very very bored .. if you use HTC hero android u dont want to go back to iphone.
FUll flash support in the website wicked!
great software, awful hardware
the touch screen looked like it was horrible when it came to responsiveness
Future Android devices will surely get it right, but there's no point having a snazzy UI, if the hardware can't run it fluidly.Steve Jobs said:
I guess if you're a type of phone user with ADHD, and would rather have flashy graphics over usability, this is the perfect phone for you. The interface looks different, but is incredibly cluttered. Great if you want to show off awesome graphics, but unlike the commentary, it doesn't look intuitive to me at all.
It's also stutters like crazy.
Unrelated, but that back cover looks incredibly cheap and flimsy.
Yeah, a full 1 frame every 2 seconds. Wonderful...
I think Android could potentially be great if a vendor other than HTC made the hardware. They just aren't good at it. And Adobe really needs to do something about the CPU-intensive nature of Flash if they truly expect to be a mobile-ready platform. Even on an iMac with a 2.3GHz core duo processor, the CPU chugs when trying to play flash videos. That's just poor programming on Adobe's part, yet they refuse to understand why phone makers don't put Flash in their handsets.
...and this isn't
So did the iPhone 3G when it launched its first build 2.0 OS
Finicky to put on and off yes but not flimsy as to break/crack easily compared to a certain...other phone
No arguments here, Flash on a mobile phone is currently a waste of time
Agreed about Adobe/Flash but HTC do make good hardware they just seem to want to exhaust their Qualcomm CPU supply at the moment. *Shrug*
based on the multitasking, the HTC is way better. It is true, the Iphone is just for kids. Not fully online. Playing games and stuff.. Not for business . Staying online 24/7. HTC deliveres the most.
at business point of view you have to have i tunes at ur work server or laptops ..
well its matter of choice...
again iPhone is bad A**S but the amount of restriction apple have applied its just not right... the OS is great..
one thing is i dont understand what took America so long to bring all the missing features now when in Europe we already have for the last 10 years?
at business point of view you have to have i tunes at ur work server or laptops ..
well its matter of choice...
again iPhone is bad A**S but the amount of restriction apple have applied its just not right... the OS is great..
one thing is i dont understand what took America so long to bring all the missing features now when in Europe we already have for the last 10 years?
What are you talking about? All the missing features on one phone (iphone) or missing features from all US phones?
Edit: Give me an example of phone coming out of Europe I wouldn't mind keeping for two years with the same form factor as the iphone. I want to do a comparison and don't know of anything from Europe Remember, the phone can't be a brick.
Well, that could be because it is. That's just my guess though. Don't take my word for it. That wasn't funny, was it?
Anyway, I can't stand the dead, dull, dark, and depressing home screen of the iPhone/iPod Touch. Can Apple really do that bad? Mac OS is the exact opposite, with bright colors and backgrounds and stuff. Considering the home screen is one of the, if not the, most used screen in the whole OS, Apple just destroyed the whole OS, IMO, with that horrendous pile of icons.There are so many companies going to the iPhone. I have 2 friends who's company now switched to the iPhone for business use. I can use my iPhone for work if I want too and when I have it works 100 times better than the crap work phone that I have. To say the iPhone is for kids, well IMO you're trying to act like you're better than everyone just because you got something new.
Samsung is not a brand I care about for cell phones, but Android does look nice. Time will tell how it holds up.
I think Google is coming in with a vengeance and they are taking names. I think they will be good competition for Apple.
I am glad to here that there are compaines that are using iphone for business, but for large corps, the iphone is out, its not ready for prime time. Keyword - Security.
Well, that could be because it is. That's just my guess though. Don't take my word for it. That wasn't funny, was it?
The best part about your post is your signature. I wish your post was out right now.
These are big corporations and one of them is Level 3 Communications. HSBC is another company that started to use iPhones, and you also have a lot of doctors using them.