Hi there... currently going through an indecisive phase about which device to settle for. I am currently running an N900 with 32GB iPhone (locked to AT&T so using it as a 32GB iPod). I don't want a two device solution!
I am after the following as important features:
Big screen
Smooth video playback - with the ability to play without conversion ideally
Large mass memory for music playback - 32gb ideally
Good messaging with easy to use text entry
Podcasting/RSS - with video podcasting
Tight Facebook/Twitter integration - maybe with notifications
Half decent camera
I was thinking of the following:
HD2 with CorePlayer
Touch Pro 2
X10
Any thoughts would be great. I was considering a Palm Pre for a phone and keeping the iPod solution.... just a thought!
Related
Hi,
I'm trying to decide between purchasing an HTC Touch Pro or Samsung Omnia. I'm wondering if anyone has any comments regarding the build quality of the Touch Pro, is it improved when compared to the diamond? I've also read the threads regarding the poor 3G reception on t-mobile. Has anyone has similar problems on O2 or Vodafone. Any other comments regarding the two devices are also welcome.
Personally, I don't think there's any competition.
The Touch Pro is a great device and feature rich. Yes I have experienced some reception issues but nothing major. The build quality is good but I can't compare to a Diamond. I had a slight issue regarding the sensitivity (lack of) of the buttons on the face but I think it's just a case of gettng used it and finding the optimum place to press.
The user interfaces is great. I really hope HTC continue down this path even when WinMo 7 comes out. By this I mean their skinning/rewriting of things is a good thing. I just wish they had done this a more/to more apps such as the inbox/messaging application, calculator, all system messages/dialogues, possibly even the PIM apps like tasks, calendar etc.
But this is a great device and I really like it. Best device (both WinMo and in general) experience I've had out of the box by miles I think.
I'd agree with Syphon filter on the out-of the box experiance is the best of any Pocket PC yet. (Since the Psion Series 3 if you're old enough to remember!!!)
The HTC interface is great, but not flawless. The music inteface only seems to show individual tracks and not albums (Thereby allowing you to select an album and then select a track within.) The main home screen only shows one calander appointment even though there is room for more when using the 'small clock' view.
On the upside, the screen is magnificent and the keyboard brillent - the 5th row of keys is the killer feature for me. General speed is great.
I wouldn't consider the Omnia now I have the Touch Pro in my hand!!!
touch pro?
does anyone know if the touch pro will work on verizon CDMA?
Can't see how you can compare the Touch Pro (slider) to the Diamond (candybar)?
The buttons are all identical...!? Apart from that they're both very solid. (Slide excepted!)
The Lazy Slug said:
The music inteface only seems to show individual tracks and not albums (Thereby allowing you to select an album and then select a track within.)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Go to the music tab on touch flo, then tap "library" (above where the left soft key would be if the touch pro had one lol). You can then slide the touch flo tab across from "Now Playing", to Artists, Albums, Genres etc and even create your own playlists!
Happy to help!
Can anyone comment on the audio quality it's capable of producing through a pair of decent headphones. How does it compare to an iPod for example?
Unfortunately you can't connect a "decent" pair of headphones to it without buying an adaptor, the supplied earphones have a usb plug on the end, not a 3.5mm jack. The sound quality is pretty good though, even with the supplied earphones.
Better that the Vario II? I always remember being able to hear a quite hiss in the background of mine.
Yes, the Vario II does have quite a hiss doesn't it! I never really noticed it until now - just tried it again to see. The good news is there's no such hiss on the Touch Pro.
I used the same earphones and the same mp3 file to compare, so it must be the output of the Vario II that causes the hiss, you can even hear it when you mute the volume!
Bluetooth Quality
What is the bluetooth quality like for handsfree? I have the Kaiser and the bluetooth sounds terrible through all of my handsfree devices.
I was also wondering if it has the Internet sharing program on it?
Thanks
Hi
I went out and bought a cheap tab for $100. It seems pretty new on the market and I have been searching high and low for the tablet on this site. It is called Hip Street Nova. I am not sure if this can be rooted these are the specs:
The Hip Street NOVA has arrived! This 7" Deluxe Wi-Fi HD Touch Screen Multimedia Tablet allows users to surf the web wirelessly or experience media on these sleek and stylish devices. The Nova comes complete with a high resolution, full colour, deluxe capacitive TFT LCD screen. Its built-in WIFI allows you to seamlessly access email and the internet. Listen to your music as you surf the web with the NOVA's audio player. Watch movies and videos in glorious high definition with the NOVA's HD capabilities. Get ebooks from KOBO as the NOVA is also an E-book reader. Take pictures or capture videos of your favorite moments and store them away for future viewing.
Complete with an Android 2.2 operating system, The Nova tablet by Hip Street does it all!
4GB capacity - expandable to 32 GB with Micro SD card2GB MicroSD Card is included.
1.00 GHZ processor with 512 MB DDR2 RAM
Rechargable lithium polymer battery built-in
High speed direct mini USB 2.0 interface (x2) plus HDMI
Built in speakers
2 MP Camera
802.11 b/g/n built-in Wi-Fi
Multiple language format[/I]
Please Help Thank You in Advanced
is good
seems to be good , runs smooth when i tried it at the store. i just want to be able to root it. i charged it last night and didn't get to play around with it yet.
a friend of mine has that one too and hes quite confident
I really want to know how to root it.
I rooted mine with universalandroot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747598
version 1.6.2-beta5
I did it this way
Run the application, choose "Do Not Install SuperUser" from the drop-down menu and click Root.
I had to run it twice but the second time it said I was rooted, I then was able to explore everywhere, with ES File explorer.
Of course I never checked before I rooted it but I assume everything wasn't visable.
Alot of good information here:
http://www.slatedroid.com/wiki/index...-180_7inch_FAQ
but this tablet might be closer to the V2
http://www.slatedroid.com/wiki/index...i:ZT-180v2_FAQ
Got the real market 2.2.7 installed as well, from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877330
edit. installed but nothing downloads from the market. :-(
I got version 3.0.26 of market installed and it works much better.
Still not full access but at least it works.
I also found that touching the screen while turning on the tablet will get you to the
"Press the required keys if you wish to perform a factory reset"
Screen.
I didn't try any thing after that point though.
I always wanna get the Galaxy Tab, but too bad I already spent my money the iPad 2
Woohoo thanks for this info I just bought one for 50 bucks from an iOS friend!!! Been searching for this info lol
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA
Now just need to figure out if i can flash something on this
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA
I am a noob too,
don't worry, be happy ;d
I've been thinking about using WP7 again, for a longer peroid of time this time, but my gripe is the lack of a microsd card or larger storage sizes of the phones. I don't mind tearing it apart and manually installing a microsd card, but would prefer to not have to do anything extra, and risk killing a 32gb card in the process.
What would your guys best solution be for me, is there a really good streaming service that I can stream my 5000+ songs to it? I really like the lumina 800, i would prefer to stick to something smaller than the titan as well, probably smaller than the hd7 too.
davebu said:
I've been thinking about using WP7 again, for a longer peroid of time this time, but my gripe is the lack of a microsd card or larger storage sizes of the phones. I don't mind tearing it apart and manually installing a microsd card, but would prefer to not have to do anything extra, and risk killing a 32gb card in the process.
What would your guys best solution be for me, is there a really good streaming service that I can stream my 5000+ songs to it? I really like the lumina 800, i would prefer to stick to something smaller than the titan as well, probably smaller than the hd7 too.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
well theres skydrive ut that prob wont handle 5000+ songs.......honestly if you want that many songs you should prob go for an ipod or a zune.....a dedicated MP3 player...the wp7 has the capability to play music but its not an mp3 player its a phone.
best of luck!
I know you want to play your collection but is subscribing to Zune Pass out of the question? Since you are already streaming it seems like the way to go unless you don't want to spend the $10 a month.
There is zune pass which has a lot of songs and is directly integrated into the windows phone os. If that's not enough, there are many music streaming services that provide you with a wide variety of songs.
The only drawback is that they will cost you for their service.
5000 songs OMG
you can listen for a years ^^
My Zune pass and Last.FM app along with Google Music give me access to all the music I could ever want. Third party Pandora apps in marketplace too. Music is one of the top reasons I waited for WP7 to launch last year.
I've already purchases my TF Infinity. I've got some die-hard Apple fan family members, and they've asked to see what this Infinity is all about.
As far as I can tell, the two devices are nearly identical as computing and media devices, differentiated by what the user wants to do with them. They're not tinkerers, so cyanogenmod would mean nothing to them.
So what can I show off to impress them? What stands out about high end android devices?
Send them an mp3 via email, and ask them to play it...
Dysoncube said:
I've already purchases my TF Infinity. I've got some die-hard Apple fan family members, and they've asked to see what this Infinity is all about.
As far as I can tell, the two devices are nearly identical as computing and media devices, differentiated by what the user wants to do with them. They're not tinkerers, so cyanogenmod would mean nothing to them.
So what can I show off to impress them? What stands out about high end android devices?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Reasons for buying TF700 over Ipad:
**Keyboard dock(laptop replacement)=physical keyboard, additional battery capacity(6-8hrs more), usb ports, micro sd card on dock and micro sd card on tablet (upto 128gb additional storage)
**Wifi direct, GPS
**Plug and play - connect game controllers, external hard drives, digital camaras
**HDMI port, *additional $40 adaptor required for Ipad)
**Home screen winner - dedicated digital buttons, advance search bar, quick access to settings, wifi, screen brightness, access removable storage
(copy/move files between internal and external storage, advance notification system,
extensive customization - custom theme/icon and widget customizaton for many apps, like face unlock features, turn the pad into a picture frame)
**True Multitasaking
**Open System - More freedoom- Use 3rd Party apps; Browsers, Keyboards, custom rom/kernel, use pad as a regular phone VOIP for free,
messagging, Music/Video players,Drag & Drop, Run "Unknown" apps ect.
**More free apps and support Adobe Flash
**ips+ super brightness for out door viewing.
**More sharing options - share via: bluetooth,facebook,gmail,gochat, google voice ect..
**Quadcore cpu and 12 core gpu vs dual core for ipad
**Better camera and 2MP front and 8meg rear camera with flash for tf700, stereo speakers and Gorilla glass 2
**Bigger and better screen with 16:10 - better wide screen movie viewing, full screen on tf700 (you will see 2 big black bars on ipad when viewing 16:9 movies) :good:
My wife has an iPad 3. For her uses it is perfect. She also has an android phone - htc sensation
The only gripes I have heard or where she has had infinity envy are :
1. How come these websites don't work like your pad or laptop (flash! )
2. How hard is it to copy music and videos to the iPad? Grrrr.... :laugh:
3. Everything costs money in the app store.
4. How do I print to our wireless printer? (You can't love, you can from your phone though)
Other than that it is a very slick experience.
I recently subscribed to GMusic all access, and I'm liking the service very much. I work out 4-5x week for 2h, and I need music. I've been using my Nexus 4 but it's too big and bulky and gets in the way. An armband helps, but I'd like to have a dedicated music playing device. It doesn't help that I've already smashed the screen on my N4 once while running with it (something I don't do anymore, and I don't run all that often, but it'd be nice to have something I can run with and won't fall/isn't worth $400). I found an old iPod Nano (6th gen I think) that would work great but there's no way to reverse sync it with GMusic (I manage my playlists, etc. on GMusic, not iTunes) and it won't get me any of my All Access content.
My conclusion is sell the iPod for whatever I can get (it's like new, so I don't think $60-80 is unreasonable) and get a cheap android phone to use as a dedicated GMusic streaming device. I'm thinking requirements are:
ICS+ (to be able to run current and future GMusic apps)
<4" screen. Shouldn't be too hard seeing as that keeping price low is a priority
WiFi (to stream)
Headphone out and half decent sound quality (i.e. not garbage sound, I'm no audiophile)
Custom ROMs would be nice, but not a requirement at all
I'm open to suggestions, including china phones and used phones (going off average market price)