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Originally Posted by nebula
I have been playing around with my Hero for a few hours now, a little laggy definitely. But there are so many pros to it 1 con is easily overlooked.
Looking forward to making this my phone of choice for a while. I am also eagerly waiting for the "Donut (1.6)" OTA update. HTC/Sprint need to hurry up already. "Cupcake" is almost outdated!
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Couldn't have said it better! I am still adapting to the switch to Android after years of WinMo. It feels awkward at first but what I am finding is I am conditioned to do things using very complicated methods like on Winmo and Android is so much more simple. The lag I am running into i am pretty sure is in part due to all of the crap I am doing, especially with all of the contacts I was updating simultaneously. Once I got most of that done it seemed faster. I think I am really going to like this phone and may actually be able to ride it out for 2 years (unless I give into my tech junkie tendencys). The Pros thus far greatly out weigh the cons. The keyboard is excently and will only improve with use as it learns your words. I love that you dont have to exactly type what you want and the software handles correcting it. Again, it may be a little off intially but investing time early in your phones dictionary will pay off big in the long run. And this is coming from a guy who swore he'd never go to a phone without a hard keyboard, I don't miss it at all! The predicitve text also makes it easy to text while driving or one handed (though i guess you shouldnt be doing that anyway lol).
The Camera is great, sound quality is excellent on speaker, earpiece, and with headphones or audio system. The default twitter App Peep is a little slow but not only are there many other apps for twitter I am also not that concerned with it and it is otherwise a very solid twitter app.
I love the non intrusive but very informative notifications system. The phone handles multi tasking pretty well it could be a little more smooth (like the Pre). But I wouldnt be surprised if there is an app for that. *edit* Just figured out that holding the home key down brings up a menu with all active apps, which really speeds up the process of switching between apps. So add smooth multi-tasking to the list of pros. *edit*
I will defintiely need a screen protector (HTC usually includes those not sure what happened
) and probably a case as well though I reall don't want to cover up the phone I love how it looks!
There are SOOOO many features and setting that you can customize not to mention Android market Apps! It will take me a day or so before I really have it up and running to my taste to fully review. I plan to get it set up and tweak things this weekend to give it a real test during the week to see how it performs during regular usage. Definitely glad that I didn't get the TP2. Nothing against it I know it is a great device and very powerful, but in the end android is a much better experience than Winmo regardless of how updated the touchflo 3D is. Sense UI far > than Touch Flo 3D.
Oh and yes I had to switch to an everything plan unfortuantely after many years on SERO. I switched to the EPRP 500 joint. Still not a bad deal! Honestly, Sprint's regular plans can't really be matched by any carrier. Especially with that Any Mobile offer they have now.
I think I may be a long term android fan. The future looks good Android will only be getting better. This thing with a next gen processor would be a MONSTER!!!!
* Facebook and Flikr upload slows the phone down horribly and takes forever to complete. It seems like it is slowing down my web significantly while it is uploading also.