Re: HTC Hero on its way to Sprint! Confirmed!
So picked mine up yesterday from the wife's job (corporate store in Reston), had actually stopped in just to play with it but they were letting them go and also MINUS the MIR!! =P So walked out the door with it for $179 plus tax bill to our account.
Was messing with it all night before going to the movies. I gotta say it's a big difference moving up from the Mogul!! I still haven't really customized it yet and have just been testing out all the settings, features and all. Got back from the movies last night past 2am and stayed up reading the manual and messing with it till almost 5am!
So one of the issues i'm having right now is that at the store I had the sales guy transfer my contacts from my mogul onto the phone instead of just doing the google sync which created a ton of duplicates once I sync'd up with google when I got home. So I went through all of my contacts and tried deleting them but getting an error stating that I have exceeded the amount of deletes for my gmail account. For some reason it's stating that i'm trying to delete 250 contacts when I know it's not that much. I need to check gmail online to see if I can just delete them from there.
I really have to get use to the senstive screen and the keyboard of this phone. I'm SO use to touchpal and could type pretty fast on it. This thing is so touchy and reminds me of my brothers Diamond, I could never type right on it when I would briefly mess with his phone. Need to see if there is a way to turn down the sensitivity or something. Or I guess I just have to re learn how to type.
And the last thing is how do I close apps? I was so use to the task manager in WM. It seems as though android keeps some apps open running in the background and others it closes? Like I opened up googlemaps and it turned on the GPS but I can't figure out how to close it. It seems like it continues to run in the background and I can see the GPS still running on the top bar. The only way I got it to turn off is by turning off GPS fom settings. Anyone know if Android has a task manager or something like it?
Aside from that I'm loving the way the contacts are integrated with FB as well as how you can see all emails/texts/FB statuses all in one place for your contacts. I did notice some delay though as I was matching up some of my FB friends to my contacts. Their picture wasn't being updated at first but I woke up this morning and noticed that they were there.
So far i'm liking the phone compared to my RAM deprived Mogul. It's nice to finally have a phone that doesn't crash when you run too many things and be able to use the camera at the same time and not having to shut it off for more RAM like the mogul.
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