Android smartphone advice please.

[scissorhands]

I am in the process of trying to obtain a Acer Betouch e130, it is only usable on 2 degrees or vodafone.

has anyone had any experiences with this phone?

I had an early Betouch...running windows 6 (i think) was slow(operating system), heavy and clunky, quite thick body and unattractive boxy design.

Best part was the free GPS via satellite rather than pay to use A-GPS. It appears Acer got their hand slapped for releasing a model with free GPS, not what the companies want!

I once had a Philips home stereo with CD writer, clunky but still great for burning tracks from radio.

Again, Philips got a hand slap for releasing to market this feature, not what music companies want!

[DMNTD:Me]

Jebus! Can you actually phone anyone with these 'phones'?

[Gibbo89]

Jebus! Can you actually phone anyone with these 'phones'?

I think that you will find that when James Deuce crashed his bike, someone helped him and tried to ring 111 on his qwerty phone, or a touch screen maybe, the person that was trying to help him didn't know how to dial it...

So in regards to your question; maybe not!

[Gibbo89]

I had an early Betouch...running windows 6 (i think) was slow(operating system), heavy and clunky, quite thick body and unattractive boxy design.

Best part was the free GPS via satellite rather than pay to use A-GPS. It appears Acer got their hand slapped for releasing a model with free GPS, not what the companies want!

It would be pretty sweet if the one I want is going to have free GPS.

the one I want is not that fancy, just a qwerty/touch screen phone that is running on the older 1.6 system.

This is going to be a pretty thin phone, not too clunky.

Thanks for your thoughts.

[BMWST?]

We've got HTC Desires - built in GPS.
I like the feature where you can take a photo and the GPS will give you the coordinates - very handy sometimes......

esp if the pic is for a tag game and you want to know where it is!

[avgas]

Best part was the free GPS via satellite rather than pay to use A-GPS. It appears Acer got their hand slapped for releasing a model with free GPS, not what the companies want!=

Sold. Will go looking for one now - and drop that whole Vodafone 845 dream

[Gremlin]

Jebus! Can you actually phone anyone with these 'phones'?

Gets better... with the top Blackberries, you don't even need a sim card or a connection to Telecom/Vodafone/2Degrees. Its able to work completely inhouse for things like large warehouses...

[phiretrojan]

HTC desire HD , sitting in front of me , seems ok , why would they be bad??

Stephen

Limited application storage if you are application junkie i am, The screen is less visible under the direct sunlight ...HTC Sense widget auto-refresh time can drain battery, Video playback could be better, Battery only lasts for a day with active use No DIVX decoder, HTC Should upgrade this as soon as possible because Samsung Galaxy S I9000 already comes with DIVX Decoder (depends on the user), Usability for camera could be better in UI and Image Stabilization is not present, you really need a steady hand .. i think that's all =) but then again each do their own.... but it did get a 4/5 and was a selling phone...

[-df-]

I picked up a Galaxy S a while ago, will never go back to iPhone now...awesome phones

[SPman]

HTC have at least come along a little way from the days of the Imates... *shudder*

Still, I believe the Desire doesn't sync tasks from an exchange mailbox... along with the usual notes, over the carriers network.

Mine does. The Desires currently get top spot in the smart phone stakes over here - ahead of the IP 4, even.....We've had no probs with ours.

[phiretrojan]

Mine does. The Desires currently get top spot in the smart phone stakes over here - ahead of the IP 4, even.....We've had no probs with ours.

Lucky few

[Brian d marge]

Limited application storage if you are application junkie i am, The screen is less visible under the direct sunlight ...HTC Sense widget auto-refresh time can drain battery, Video playback could be better, Battery only lasts for a day with active use No DIVX decoder, HTC Should upgrade this as soon as possible because Samsung Galaxy S I9000 already comes with DIVX Decoder (depends on the user), Usability for camera could be better in UI and Image Stabilization is not present, you really need a steady hand .. i think that's all =) but then again each do their own.... but it did get a 4/5 and was a selling phone...

I have 8 gig of sd card and even with movies its not full!

yes it is a little hard to see in direct sunlight but then so was my Iphone 3g

the battery , I can get 2 days out of it , BUT that is with everything switched off , , heavy browsing , and bye bye battery

I agree with image stabilization , esp if the subject is moving ! , hard to get a nice shot , but when it does ,, 8 meg ,, is a nice shot

My biggest complaint is my carrier over here , 3g!!!! .. two bits of string and a paper cup !

Stephen

I also will never buy another apple product because of Iphone !

[phiretrojan]

I have 8 gig of sd card and even with movies its not full!

yes it is a little hard to see in direct sunlight but then so was my Iphone 3g

the battery , I can get 2 days out of it , BUT that is with everything switched off , , heavy browsing , and bye bye battery

I agree with image stabilization , esp if the subject is moving ! , hard to get a nice shot , but when it does ,, 8 meg ,, is a nice shot

My biggest complaint is my carrier over here , 3g!!!! .. two bits of string and a paper cup !

Stephen

I also will never buy another apple product because of Iphone !

yip, i'm with you, my error on the Limited application storage i should of said "Limited application internal storage" Samsung is 8gig 16gig internal with the memory card option as well..... HTC Desire has 512MB ROM and almost 80% of it is used or reserved for the Android OS. l 120MB left for your apps and games

[Brian d marge]

yip, i'm with you, my error on the Limited application storage i should of said "Limited application internal storage" Samsung is 8gig 16gig internal with the memory card option as well..... HTC Desire has 512MB ROM and almost 80% of it is used or reserved for the Android OS. l 120MB left for your apps and games

mines the Desire HD ,

Internal phone storage: 1.5 GB
RAM: 768 MB

but on checking the specs I found this ....
3G:

• Up to 14.4 Mbps download speed
• Up to 5.76 Mbps upload speed

I measured mine and got .......


drum roll .

0.012 Mbps .......... I thank F%%&&67 i used lube I didn't realise I was getting reamed that bad !
Not just telecom

Stephen

[Matt Bleck]

I got a Galaxy S last week, it's farkin awesome!!! Iphone can suck my balls!!!