HTC have released a ROM update for the HD2 that has been plagued by a few problems.
ROM Upgrade for HTC HD2
Release Date: 2010-01-25
An updated ROM is now available for HTC HD2 users to download. As always, HTC is committed to providing customers with the best possible mobile experience. Installation Instructions:
ROM Version:
Norway:1.66.409.1, Spain :1.66.412.1, Denmark:1.66.403.1, France :1.66.406.1,
Improved Functions: Keeping in touch has always been very important, and this update delivers fast and reliable SMS messaging.
Before you proceed, please confirm that this software upgrade is a newer version than what is currently installed on your device. If it is the same version and your device is operating normally, there is no need to reinstall the software.
Question: my mom is gonna buy me a cellphone soon and i want both the palm pre&the htc hero but which one? the pre has flash but no video and the hero has video recorder bit no flash but its android and ugh!!!!
Answer: The Hero will have full flash support within a couple of months, as soon as Android 2.1 is released for it.
The Pre is not doing well in sales, and I doubt Palm will be around in 3 or 4 years to be honest.
The Pre also feels "cheaply made" compared to the Hero.
If you own an Android phone, particularly the HTC Hero, you’ve probably dealt with less than stellar battery life. Initially mine was so short it was almost a deal breaker. So instead of griping at Sprint or HTC, I went to the net and “googled” it. Turns out I wasnt alone LOL After perusing several different solutions, this is what I did:
replaced the stock sms app with a 3rd party app. I chose Handcent SMS but I’m told ChompSMS is just as good.
disable notifications in the stock sms app.
Appaprently the problem is that the stock SMS app isnt allowing the phone to “sleep” causing excessive battery drain. I did the fix, and so far my battery life has increased drastically. Still not up to where it should be IMO, but much better than it was out of the box. The rumor is that the 2.1 update will address the issue.
If you have further questions, check out this thread http://androidforums.com/sprint-htc-hero/11699-spint-hero-battery-issues-known-fix-fix-charges-faster-lasts-longer.html at androidforums.com.
HTC is one of the best known mobile phone companies. It has made its place because of its highly desirable phones. Here we are going to discuss about its HTC Snap and HTC Tattoo. The former one is a non-touchscreen handset but comes equipped with full QWERTY keyboard while the latter one is a touchscreen device devised with stunning features.
Similarities & Dissimilarities:-
HTC Snap
(i) The bar shaped casing of HTC Snap has 116.5 x 61.5 x 12 mm dimensions and weighs 120 grams whereas HTC Tattoo’ casing measurements are 106 x 55.2 x 14 mm and overall weight is 113 grams. (ii) The former one features 2.4 inches TFT LCD screen with LED Back Light that shows 65K colors at 320 x 240 Pixels resolution. There is a QWERTY keyboard & Trackball navigation as well. While the latter one sports 2.8 inches TFT LCD touchscreen display with Sense UI & Accelerometer sensor to auto-rotate the screen. It is capable of viewing 65K colors at 240 x 320 Pixels resolution. (iii) The Snap is windows mobile phone and having a Pocket Office software that allows maintaining documents in many formats but Tattoo’s operating system is Android OS, v1.6 OS and it has ignored Pocket Office feature. (iv) Both of these are compatible for data sharing and connectivity to other devices due to inclusion of 3G HSDPA, HSUPA, WLAN Wi-Fi, GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth & USB technologies. (v) The former device allows web access through WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (PocketIE) browsing options and its camera is 2 megapixel. While on latter one you will get HTML browser for Internet access and 3.15 megapixel camera. (vi) The audio & video player of HTC Snap supports MP3, WMA, MIDI, WAV, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, QCP & AWB music and WMV, ASF, MP4, 3GP, AVI, 3G2 & M4V video files. Whereas MP3, WMA, WAV & eAAC+ music and MPEG4, H263, H264 & Windows Media® 9 are playable on HTC Tattoo. (vii) GPS feature with A-GPS support works commonly in both of the siblings but in former device Google Maps is supporting it while latter one gets assistance through Digital compass.
HTC Tattoo
The internal 192MB RAM, 256MB ROM of the first one can be upgraded up to 16GB. And the latter one integrates 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM and here also users can enhance memory through card slot.
The HTC Tattoo mobile phone is available on network : HTC Tattoo O2.
Question: I am very confused about mobile phones, there are so many I wish I could customize them.
my options are
Nokia N900
Iphone
Sony ericsson satio
Sony ericsson aino
HTC HD2
I know I might get more confused after your answers ! Before anybody asks, I dont care about money I spend, All I care about the music, touchscreen and videos + the features. (Iphone has it all but does not have a good camera which i dont like about it )
Answer: Modern times are looking at the software features and contents more than a phone's physical abilities.
Here is my take on the phone models you've listed:-
1. Sony Ericsson (great camera output & music abilities)
2. HTC (intelligent design, feel; linux driven - major plus)
3. Nokia (user friendly, cheaper alternative to Apple)
4. Iphone (large plethora of downloadable applications)
Source(s):
Software Developer for Mobile Market.
I have heard it said, “If you can’t compete, sue.” Of course, I’m sure that’s not the case with Nokia’s recent complaint against Apple. Sure, it could have started litigation back in 2007 when the iPhone was first launched, but I guess the almost-three-year-delay was just how long it took getting its lawyers to agree on the wording. Or the letterhead. Or something.
Amazon, on the other hand, is doing the exact opposite and choosing to Compete with a capital C. This week it has floated a boat-load of announcements around its Kindle e-book reader device and platform. Now, stop being cynical, I’m sure the timing has nothing to do with the imminent unveiling of Apple’s mythical Tablet.
In January alone Amazon has introduced the Kindle DX to over one hundred countries with Global Wireless, expanded the Kindle Digital Text Platform to both publishers and individuals (allowing independent authors to publish and sell their work without a contract with a publishing house), amended its revenue sharing policy (effectively enabling authors to earn higher royalties) and, yesterday, announced a Kindle Development Kit which will allow developers to build “active content” for the Kindle.
This last announcement means that apps from developers like Handmark (a restaurant reviews guide), Sonic Boom and EA Mobile (games) will one day be available on the Kindle in all their digital ink glory. The Kindle’s slow refresh rate and low-resolution, greyscale e-ink display suggests sudoku-style or word puzzle games will be the most likely apps for that platform. Canabalt fans should look elsewhere.
Love Your Kindle, or Your Money Back
Not since Victor Kiam fell in love with his Remington electric razor has a company dared to offer complete refunds based on a customer’s sense of satisfaction. But that’s exactly what Amazon is doing.
Related GigaOM Pro Research: Evolution of the e-Book Market
Amazon’s Kindle-marketing-blitz continues. According to TechCrunch, customers buying an obscenely huge number of books from Amazon on a regular basis have started receiving a remarkable email invitation; if they buy a Kindle before January 26 and don’t experience Victor Kiam levels of satisfaction, they get their money back. Every penny of it. Oh yeah — and they can keep the Kindle, too.
Going on the Offensive
Expanding into new markets, lowering prices, producing developer kits & app stores and offering free Kindles to unsatisfied (or just mildly-indifferent) customers speaks volumes about how threatened Amazon feels by Apple’s tablet.
It is remarkable that a device we still don’t know actually exists is having such a measurable effect in the technology world. The media are falling all over themselves to fill column inches (virtual and dead-tree varieties) with breathless speculation and debate over screen sizes or front-facing cameras. Meanwhile, every tech company on the planet seems to have launched their very own tablet at this year’s CES. Even Microsoft couldn’t resist the temptation to jump up and down shouting “Me, too!” as Ballmer showed off HP’s lackluster prototype during his keynote.
Now Amazon is doing marketing and promotion somersaults to get their Kindle message heard over the din.
The sad thing, of course, is that no matter how hard Amazon tries, their efforts will be in vain. Assuming, of course, the rumors are accurate and Apple’s tablet will revolutionize e-book/magazine reading, nothing the Kindle does at this stage can make the tiniest bit of difference. The world is waiting for the Tablet because, despite so many conflicting rumours over the last few months, the general consensus seems to be that Apple’s Tablet will crush all the competition.
In due course, we’ll find ourselves where we are today with the iPhone; in the same way every new smartphone is compared less-than-favorably with the iPhone, so it will be with tablet devices. Predictable phrases like “Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s Tablet” or fanboy-baiting headlines like “HTC Launches THE Tablet Killer” will appear in popular publications and generate the usual Comment Flame Wars in the leading tech blogs. And in the meantime, everyone will forget the Amazon Kindle with its author-friendly royalty rates and digital-ink word games.
How Will Apple Do It?
The Kindle might have fared better had Amazon not delayed its rollout so markedly. In its early years the Kindle was available in only a select few markets (for a long time North America only) and even since its recent expansion to over a hundred countries, content availability has proven somewhat patchy. That’s not Amazon’s fault, but the precarious distribution rights of major publishing houses across different territories. If Amazon had released the Kindle sooner, and in more markets, rather than setting sights on North America only, it’s possible some of the more chewy worldwide licensing issues faced by publishers might have been worked out earlier in the game, thus cementing public perception of the Kindle as the e-book reader of choice. But they didn’t.
This thorny issue of content rights plagues all publishers and distributors everywhere, so it will be deeply interesting to see how Apple tackles these problems if (when) it starts selling books and magazines in the iTunes store.
And so here we are today, on the eve of Apple’s bound-to-be-historic tablet launch, witness to Amazon’s last desperate thrashing attempts to remind the world that they have this Kindle thingy. Only, I don’t think the world can hear them.
So i finally replaces my old cellphone, and threw myself on the global touch trend! But no, i didnt get an iPhone, partly because i’m not much of an apple fan, but mostly because Android and open software sounded perfect!
So the phone of choice was the HTC Hero, and i’m beyond pleased with it. Its like an awesome little computer, with thousands of free apps available! I guess i’ll be writing posts from this in the future..
The Week. #3. This week’s “The Graphics” is a quoted text from Signalnoise.com for Haiti earthquake. Updates every Saturday (Click image to read full post, works like that every week).
The graphics
Signalnosie for Haiti – Graphics for a cause.
The republic of Haiti was hit with a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Tuesday, January 12th. Most of the necessities of life, such as food, shelter and water have been reduced to near nothing and the poor country is now struggling with rescue efforts and the dispersal of much-needed supplies and aid. They have very little to work with.
For the next week, artists like Chuck Anderson are donating all money they make from selling their wares to the disaster relief fund to help Haiti, and Signalnoise will be doing the same. 100% of sales from the Signalnoise Store for the next week will be donated directly in support of Haiti. Please note, all posters will be shipped out early to mid next week.
Big thanks to the following for their orders and support:
Ramon Thompson , Andreas Ellwanger , Emilio Bellu , Brandy Byrd , Franz Jeitz , The Remakers , Luke Desroches , Allison McCarthy
It’s easy to feel separated from things like this based on geography, but it doesn’t mean we’re not all in this together. Every bit counts. My heart goes out to you, Haiti. Link -> http://blog.signalnoise.com/2010/01/14/signalnoise-for-haiti/ From Signalnoise – James White
The technology
Poken
Poken is an “online identity card”. Identities like Facebook account, Instant messaging accounts and your other identities of the numerous social networks you belong to can be stored in the Poken. Simply “high five” your Poken with another to transfer this data, a green light shows after a successful transfer. The appearance is available in many many variations, from Frankensteins to the limited edition Obama. Go get yours today. But.. there is one catch. The Poken is not that famous worldwide yet so it might not be as useful in the coming months. Link -> http://www.findapoken.com/
The fashion
Reebok PUMP
It’s the 20th anniversary for the Reebok PUMP technology. Started in 1989/90, the Pump was a pair of basketball shoes. It was phenomenal just by the fact that it allows users to inflate the tongue of the shoe, enabling a tighter and more customized fit. Later on becoming a pair shoes for tennis, and general exercise. In 1994, Reebok launched the Instapump fury, for running purpose. A pair of lace-less shoes using purely the inflatable tongue to keep the athletes’ foot inlace. There are now a vast range of the PUMP to choose from, from size to usage to appearance. Link -> http://www.pump20.com/
One amazing movie. From Hong Kong Director Johnnie To, screenplay by Wai Ka-Fai. A French and Hong Kong co-production. French actor Johnny Hallyday , Hong Kong actors Simon Yam , Anthony Wong and other actors, all famous for crime/action movies. Beautiful cinematography and editing. An amazing yet simple idea for the script brings out the idea of vengeance and a series of questions.. is revenge necessary, why hatred.. “Vengeance competed for the prestigious Palme D’Or award at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival” Definitely a must to watch!! Link -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vengeance_%282009_film%29
The tube of the week
Head Shot Lay Off : Original Short
The last week
Nexus one
Tons of rumors about the “Google Phone”. Finally released earlier in the week, named Nexus One. Runs on Android. Weights around 130 grams, 59.8 mm think and 119 mm tall. Clean design, by HTC. 3.7 inch display, 800 x 480 px (for those of you who are thinking of wallpapers, already..). 5 megapixels camera WITH flash AND video function(, Apple..), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (More specs, click link below). Sleek and simple design to the appearance of the phone, hides the clickable buttons and ports really well, yet fitting all product semiotics. A Telfon coated back, not sure why.. but it is sure in my “next phone i’m gonna buy” list. Link -> http://www.google.com/phone
Question: and i already tried all the options in photo resolution, and for somereason none of them would make any difference. someone please help me with this.
Answer: i actually have this phone! there is no way of changing this, i have been into many stores before and asked many employees they all tell me that you can't change it! sorry :(
Question: ok i recently switched from tmobile to at&t. i bought the new htc tilt 2 on monday n started a contract wit them that same day. ive been having nothin but phone troubles, the phone keeps freezing and i have to keep takin the battery out for it to work again. im jus wondering since its been 3 days since ive been wit them can i cancel the contract n pay no fee? itll be rediculous if i have to pay a $200 fee for crappy phone serive
Answer: 15 days to exit contract without penalty
Source(s):
worked in cell phone business
Question: I just bought an HTC Droid Eris today and am trying to download apps. Right now I've been trying to download the facebook for a couple hours but it just says "starting download". Is this normal or is there something else I should be doing?
Answer: mine only took a few seconds for every app i've downloaded so far,
Since the leaked Android 2.1 ROM gave us a clue on the upcoming devices from HTC, we cannot stop thinking about all those new HTC smartphones coming down the pike. It appears we are not the only ones, the good folks over at ai.rs blog got a hold of this image below; the HTC Legend.
The image above gives you a better idea on how this new Android phone will look like. Many people believe the HTC Legend will be the successor to the popular HTC Hero, this is in part to the Legend’s screen size and resolution, which matches that of the Hero; 3.2-inches and HVGA but in the case of the Legend, it has a beautiful AMOLED display instead.
The processor on the Legend will have only 600Mhz, which is a little disappointing for speed junkies, but enough for mainstream users. Now, the hard thing is to decide which Android phone to get next year. Will you prefer this smartphone, or the HTC Bravo ?
Google reportedly hopes to strengthen its presence in the world of mobile telephony with plans to introduce its own high-tech phone sometime in 2010, according to press reports.
Reports by the Wall Street Journal and other outlets cite sources close to Google stating that the company, known primarily for its online search functions, is expected to release a phone dubbed Nexus One that runs Google’s Android operating system.
However, the company hopes to sell the phone directly to consumers, skipping mobile service providers, which often package their services with hardware from other companies. That means customers will either have to use their existing mobile phone contract with the Nexus or arrange for a new one.
The new phones will reportedly be manufactured by Taiwanese phone maker HTC, reported TechCrunch, a technology blog. HTC already produces several phones that use Android.
With Google in the lead, the two companies developed Android, which relies primarily on Google’s online services for mobile internet functions. However, until now, Google has always relied on other companies, like HTC, Samsung or Motorola, to provide network support and hardware.
Google recently reported in a blog entry that it was letting some of its employees test a new mobile device, but provided no further details. The company is seen by many to be one of the up-and-coming players in the mobile phone market. Google believes it can leverage its strong position in online advertising to similar strengths within the mobile market.
