[ILUG] [OT] HTC Hero / Android

[Shane Tuohy]

On 17 March 2010 23:58, Gary Boland <gary.boland at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 on the nexus, its a great every day phone and indeed mp3 player (32gb
> micro sd cards now available)
>
> How's the battery life Gary?

It can be the worst thing, you have this phone that can do everything, but
the battery is shite and runs out every 12 hours...

How do you find the battery life on the nexus one in real life tests?

Shane


>  On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:34 PM, John P. Looney <valen at tuatha.org> wrote:
>
> >  I missed this one...
> >
> >  The Hero is OK, but it's very old hardware. Seriously. Don't. It's
> similar
> > to the G1, with a little more ram & flash. When I got my Nexus One, it
> felt
> > like "Aaaah, *thats* what a phone is supposed to feel like".
> >
> >  It's kinda sick to have 512MB of RAM and a 1Ghz processor with a large
> > cache, but ... yeah. It works really well for a java-based OS. Android
> 2.1
> > is *nearly* ready - the betas I'm playing with are pretty stable now.
> That
> > likely means a bunch of companies are going to start releasing new phones
> > as
> > soon as it's done.
> >
> >  It's also worth mentioning that the Hero isn't an open phone - you can't
> > flash your own OS to it. You can with a G1Dev and a NexusOne, and some
> > Droid
> > phones.
> >
> > John
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