[ILUG] [OT] HTC Hero / Android

[stephen mulcahy]

Conor Wynne wrote:
> That'll be a fail then, just like the iphone.Why can manufacturers not
> understand battery life is KEY for a portable device, especially for a
> mobile.
> Am I the only one that feel this way? Surely not?

+1 on this

battery life is a priority for me too - it kinda goes with the "mobile" 
part of the mobile phone in my book.

> I could'nt believe my "smartphone" ran out of juice after less than a
> day with all options on. I needed to make a call and couldn't.
> So I dumped it and went back to my _physically_ broken old nokia - the
> screen is held on with celotape, but at it lasts 4+ days

I'm currently using a (dreadfully boring and uncool) Nokia e51 and my 
ideal phone would really be the e51 with a bigger screen, an 
updated/faster browser and a better camera (bonus points for a built in 
gps device). I've been using the thing as a modem (with windows OR 
linux) for a yonks, it lets me surf the web, it runs the new skype for 
mobiles, it has wifi, its very small and it cost be bugger all as an 
upgrade. Vodafone want about €400 for an N900 as an upgrade (wtf?). 
Anyone know of a suitable upgrade for my e51? :)

I'm leaning towards a HTC phone next for a play around but not if it 
costs me a few hundred euro (in my mind a phone is a throwaway device 
anyways so it seems nuts to spend the price of a laptop on it).

-stephen

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