Noah Vail
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join:2004-12-10
Lorton, VA
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| reply to pcdebb
HTC != Feces
I'm not sure to which phones you are referring.
I carry the AT&T tilt aka TytnII aka Kaiser aka 8925 aka whatever.
It's a great phone. The call clarity is superb, the reception is a bit better than average and I have customized the snot out of it. I love the qwerty keyboard.
It's one of the few offerings from anyone that has full GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth OBEX transfer and true 3G. There's a ton of apps written for the WM6 platform that'll let me use it as a
WiFi sniffer
HSUPA router
Cell analyzer
GPS test unit
Skype phone
and about a dozen other geeky things. That's without the business and other apps.
Out of the box it has 3MP camera with 6MP panorama view. It snaps GPS stamped photos. It's got a VPN client. My desktop has an updated weather radar scrolling across it. The Remote Desktop client was missing but easily restored. I turned the PTT button into a voice recorder that stops and saves when the button is released. On and on it goes.
The downsides are that if I run GPS, WiFi, HUSPA, Bluetooth and other stuff simultaneously, the battery goes in 3 hours. So I manage my devices with an applet that turns what I need on and off on a schedule. I can last up to 2 days. I need a bigger battery.
Other downsides are a wimpy processor and a miserly RAM allocation. What was the point in that? My Dell Axiom from 6 years ago has a faster cpu. What's sad is that most PDA phones have similar processors. Doesn't Moore's law apply in the handheld world?
To make up for the ram I keep a MicroSD card in and save/install to that. That seems to work fine.
So far I haven't met anyone who didn't really like their HTC phone. I read the HTC forums with regularity and have found very little genuine dissatisfaction.
I'm sorry your universe isn't as kind to you.
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