[ILUG] [OT] HTC Hero / Android

[Ciaran Johnston]

John P. Looney wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Gary Pigott <ilug at garypigott.net> wrote:
>
>> True, but the iPhone is an iPod, which is universally (amongst everyone
>> else anyway) the benchmark for media players. I read ebooks using
>> Stanza,
>> which is an imense reader application. You can buy ebooks or sync your
>> own
>> to it OTA. The camera is crap. I'll concede on that one, but everything
>> else
>> is either the standard to which everything else is compared or bloody
>> close.
>> Even the 3G signal reception is far better than anything Nokia or Sony
>> Ericsson are capable of. And the best of all is that it cost me nothing.
>> Mine is getting on to a year old at this stage and I still don't see
>> anything to replace it with except another one. I certainly can't
>> justify
>> spending €400 on a Nexus One when the iPhone 3GS is free.
>>
>
>  I never thought I'd hear an ILUG member describe an iPhone as 'free' in
> any
> sense of the word.

Gary is primarily a Windows user - at least according to his website :)

I personally think €400 is a good price for a device as described, if it
wasn't for a couple of issues:

* the need to travel to America to buy one at that price (expansys.ie have
them for €680 or so), and what happens if it breaks and I need to avail of
the warranty?
* the fact that I'll be paying to subsidise a device through my telco's
tariff anyway

Cheers,
Ciaran.