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Great review from one of our customers; the HTC Touch HD2

Liam — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:37:57 +0000

http://www.peterskitchen.net/01/30/unboxing-the-htc-hd2/

If you’ve been reading earlier in the week, you would have seen that I was pretty peeved with a certain local phone network, and their pricing policies. Thinking that the HD2 had been upped to a price that was beyond my means, I went to local PDA supplier Organiser World. They were sold out, but expecting more the following day, and the price was right. The service was great, I much prefer buying devices from other geeky Windows Phone enthusiasts. Rather than corporate drones.

The HD2 is probably the most anticipated windows phone of all time, and I certainly didn’t expect to get my hands on one this quickly. Just a quick refresh on the specs

Windows Mobile 6.5 professional
120.5 x 67 x 11mm
HSPA/WCDMA 850/2100Mhz
4.3 inch TFT/LCD capacitive touch screen
1 Ghz snapdragon processor
448 Mb Ram
3.5mm audio jack
5 megapixel camera with dual led flash
GPS
Micro SD expansion up to 32 Gb

Please visit the site for the rest of the review!

Assessment of HTC Hero

Liam — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:36:38 +0000

Points of interest:
Great battery life (42 hours with 3G and wifi on)
Responsive screen with great contrast (as good as the iPhone)
Decent social interaction (facebook & myspace)
Easy to use and navigate
Built in compatibility with Exchange.

Minor Notes:
Exchange mail not able to display images if embedded
Facebook application sub-par, 3rd party developer currently.
Optus SIM card will not allow access to Google Android Marketplace, although this is an Optus “innovation”, not HTC.

Conclusion: This device will replace my iPhone very shortly.
4.5/5

Smartphone Manufacturers

Liam — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:56:22 +0000

Nokia E series – Great business smartphones, excellent phones, great compatibility with Exchange email and calendar, good battery life, well built hardware.
Nokia N series – Great multimedia devices, excellent phones, good compatibility with Exchange email and calendar, decent battery life, good hardware

HTC WM - Best all round smartphones on the market, often the leaders in mobile technology, make a lot of devices for other companies, best converged devices, works well with Microsoft due to the operating system compatibility. Excellent PDA functions. Built in Word, Excel, Powerpoint software.
HTC Android – High end Android devices, similar specs to WM HTCs, limited root access when bought through a carrier (eg. HTC Magic – Vodafone).

Samsung – Great specifications for the price, high tech LED screens, good multimedia compatibility, fantastic camera firmware, decent phones, decent battery life, have been known to overheat in a small number of cases, works best with the Symbian operating system.

Blackberry – Unmatched in email functionality, security and data compression. Can be expensive to run if your work place doesn’t have the proper software on their mail servers (BB support through carriers can cost up to $50 per month). Will not syncronise emails via cable, only calendar and contacts.

iPhone – Unmatched in browser capability and multimedia. Limited calendar and contacts functionality. Limited Outlook compatibility. Limited business use. Ordinary battery life. Can have issues with phone functionality. Very high end, compacitive screen.

Difference between an HTC 11-pin MiniUSB cable and a standard 8-pin MiniUSB cable

Liam — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:35:07 +0000

A lot of people are confused by the unusual shape of the HTC Mini USB connections. The difference being one straight edge, and one jaggered edge, as below:

This configuration is to encompass the extra 3 pins required to provide headset compatibility (left headphone, right headphone, mic)

To sync or charge an HTC device, you only require 8-pins, as below.

Shopping for Accessories by Phone?

Liam — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:51:15 +0000

Our new “Browse accessories by phone” section is the perfect way to accessorise and compliment your phone.

http://www.ow.com.au/shop/Shop-by-Phone

Please leave comments regarding feedback or suggestions!
Thanks.

HTC’s new Android Lineup – Tattoo .vs. Hero

Liam — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:09:16 +0000

Common specifications:
GSM 850/900/1800/1900
HSDPA 900/2100
Screen TFT 65K Colours
512Mb of internation storage (ROM)
MicroSD compatible
Video Compatibility: MP4, H.263, H.264, WMV
3.5mm headphone jack

Differences:
Tattoo: 2.8″ 320×240 screen
Hero: 3.2″ 320×480 screen

Tattoo: 1100mAh battery
Hero: 1350mAh battery

Tattoo: 3.2Mp camera
Hero: 5.0Mp camera

Hero has: Voice record, Dialling, Speaker. Gravity sensor. Proper GPS receiver.
Tattoo has: Radio. Handwriting recognition.