[General] My HTC Hero - Android experience

[Majed B.]

6) Where are SMS messages saved? Phone or external memory? Do you have
the option to change the location?

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Majed B.<majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's great!!!
>
> 1) How was the typing experience on the virtual/onscreen keyboard? Was
> the screen laggy or had issues with recognizing your input?
>
> 2) Since you used it for 4 hours and consumed 40%, so the battery
> life-time with constant wifi & calls here and there, the battery's max
> is 10 hours.
>
> 3) Youtube videos: Have you tried playing ones with fast motion? Like
> action-movie trailers.
>
> 4) Have you explored the possibility of using another mail client, if
> any is available?
>
> 5) How much internal memory do you have?
>
> P.S.: The UI is a custom-made one by HTC (Called Sense) and I guess
> you could override it if you don't like it or some features annoy you
> (At the cost of losing other UI features).
>
> You've restored my faith in HTC Hero!!
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
>>
>> Salam,
>>
>> My hero has just arrived today, and I'm so excited to have in my hands.
>>
>> This is a brief of every part of the device:
>>
>> Social experience
>> I've started with linking my google, flickr, facebook, and twitter
>> accounts, and the device pulled in the contacts from google contacts, I
>> can easily assign contacts to friends from facebook. and get live
>> updated tweets from twitter in the home screen. as well as sending
>> update to twitter and facebook. albums were also synced with flickr and
>> facebook, I can see my albums or my friends albums.
>>
>> Mail
>> It was easy to configure my mail accounts, and I'm getting email
>> notifications for new mails. I really like the email application as it
>> is extremely easy to use.
>>
>> Browsing
>> What can I say more? its based on webkit engine, so websites are
>> rendered the same way they are in the desktop screens, webkit is used by
>> Safari and Google Chrome browsers. the browsing experience is amazing
>> specially with the tapping to zoom in and using two fingers to zoom out
>> and one finger to navigate.
>>
>> SMS
>> Text messaging is similar to chat conversation which is cool, it lacks
>> the ability to forward a message (I really dont use forwarding much as
>> I'm not a spammer)
>>
>> Calendar
>> The calendar looks neat, I haven't used it yet. But I see it possible to
>> link other calendars, possibly google calendar and outlook.
>>
>> Music
>> There is a music player, sound quality is very good, haven't played much
>> with it.
>>
>> Video
>> The device is shipped with Youtube client, videos played were smooth and
>> clear.
>>
>> UI
>> The most amazing part of HTC Hero, it is really exciting to play with
>> the phone with this UI, sometimes the response is a bit slow, but its
>> not something that prevent people from buying the phone as they
>> mentioned in previous review in engaged.
>>
>> Android Market
>> The market is full of apps, I haven't got the chance to download many
>> applications, I've just downloaded nimbuzz, ssh client, and a poker game :)
>>
>> Weather
>> Built in application and widget to pull weather updates, useful for our
>> unstable weather :)
>>
>> Notifications
>> One of the best features of the device is the notification framework. I
>> get all of the notifications aggregated in one place, missed calls, text
>> messages, emails, tweets, downloads. An icon will appear at the top and
>> I can slide the notification window down to see the details.
>>
>> GPS and Google Maps/Latitude
>> The device is GPS enabled and ships with Google Maps/Latitude. Cant say
>> more.
>>
>> IM
>> The default chat client is GTalk, but there are many clients that
>> supports different networks and protocols available in android market.
>>
>> Stock Exchange
>> Hero ships with widgets to get updates on stock market prices with charts.
>>
>> Battery
>> The phone was up for 4 hours with wifi connection enabled, pulling email
>> and twitter updates frequently and using it every few minutes to
>> download apps and test the features and make regular calls. So far 60%
>> of the battery left.
>>
>> Over all experience
>> I'm really excited, and happy with the device as I've always wanted a
>> device that is rich of usable and stable internet applications and all
>> of that is in my Hero!
>>
>> P.S: I will never go back to use symbian enabled devices. and I
>> encourage everyone to switch to android.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
>>
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