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[dakegra]

looking at upgrading my mobile phone. The Blackberry is ok, but clunky and with terrible reception.

On offer is the HTC Tattoo - the HTC Hero's cheaper cousin. I'd love the Hero, but it would cost me £150 on top of the contract, whereas the Tattoo is free. Both run Google's Android OS, which looks like fun.

I had considered the iPhone too, but again, cost was a serious factor. Orange offer a free iPhone with contracts of £30/month or more, but not the 3GS model


Anyone out there got an HTC phone?

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[mazzie.livejournal.com]

I have the G1. HTC and android OS.

[mazzie.livejournal.com]

The OS is a little glitchy. I am not sure it was fully baked before it was released. It has good intent, but processes all too often are stalled or forced close because they hang. Sometimes the touch screen just doesn't respond, and I don't know what to do with that. Oh, and one (apparently known) bug I encountered was the phone automatically reboots sometimes when you dial 911 (emergency). The open-source platform is also good intent, but applications that don't go through some oversight/scrutiny can be really buggy. Then again, there are wicked cool aps that have little practical use, like wikitude and barcode scanner and goggles. I mean, they are good for what they are meant for, but not usually every day tasks.