It's no surprise that HTC is working very hard on increasing its brand awareness, preferring to market phones as being HTC devices instead of carrier-branded ones that do not carry any HTC branding at all. This strategy is paying off, and today must've been very nice for them: they held an Apple-style product announcement in London, attended by media from all over the world. The news: two new phones, and an improved Sense experience which includes a web presence where you can remotely manage your HTC devices.
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2006-12-22
I remember from the buzz that HTC Hero has and the promise that it's software will be updated to 1.6 initially, then 2.1 and this update fails to get there. In this way you remain with some annoying bugs that will get with the products (like for original Hero it's extra sensibility controls and no way to upgrade without jailbreak).
Hope will get it well anyway as are really nice products!
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Member since:2006-01-18
The Hero as much as I hate to say it was old news when I got it. It's got another 12 months in it at least but Android 2.1 is the limit for Hero hardware.
Actually the Hero already got a 2.2 hack rom crossported from the cyanogen side. The ram is enough to run 2.2 decently, I personally think the real end of life will be with 3.0 when lots of graphical stuff is moved into 3d. The hero simply has lousy 3d.
There definitely was no technical reason not to give the Hero Froyo (unlike the G1)
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2006-11-02
That sounds as a major security issue. If you can do that yourself, someone else could. Imagine someone tracking you without your knowledge, or forwarding calls to their own phone (not to mention wiping all data). I'd rather not have these features, thank you.
Member since:2006-02-15
That sounds as a major security issue. If you can do that yourself, someone else could. Imagine someone tracking you without your knowledge, or forwarding calls to their own phone (not to mention wiping all data). I'd rather not have these features, thank you.
I can bet my ass there will be people trying to do exactly that. Hell, it'd be really lucrative for the criminals to forward all your calls and whatnot through an expensive number, keeping all the money but leaving you with a huge bill. Or spy on your calls if you happen to work for some largeish company and wait for you to say something they can use to their benefit, like f.ex. planned acquisitions which could affect stocks.
I really do hope they've made it very secure.
Member since:2010-03-08
Well, I'd rather not have the HTML5 geolocation API because of the potential consequences of vulnerabilities in geolocation-enabled web browsers, but I think we'll all get it anyway...
And another stupid feature : did you know that a bluetooth device paired with your phone can do basically anything it wants with it ? Including making calls, sending SMSs, reading yours... Discovered that some years ago, had some fun with that, it's quite frightening.
Edited 2010-09-17 21:23 UTC
Member since:
2008-12-09
you don't need to have these "features" for the phone to be able to do that.. just download a install a rogue APK (android application..) and boom, on any android.
Or get your phone hacked by whichever security hole there could be.
(doesnt make other phones better btw, you can just see the iphone4 jailbreak from a link on the web.. that's complete phone compromise without user knowledge if you will, just include a self loading url in some page the dude will load - ofc it's fixed now)
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http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/google-flips-remote-kill-swi...
http://www.dailytech.com/Google+Uses+Its+Remote+Kill+Android+App+Re...
Unboom.
Edited 2010-09-16 12:58 UTC
Member since:
2007-03-26
You have the listed the phones in the wrong order in your opening paragraphs
A slight typo here too (looks as if you accidently hit the button next to C).
Sorry to be a pain - normally I can't pick fault with your language, but this time round you really threw me.
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2007-08-17
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2009-09-14
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2005-08-28
The HTC Desire HD is not quite the Sprint Evo 4G:
* No front-facing camera
* No 4G
* 768 MB memory, rather than the 512 MB in the Evo
* 1 GHz Qualcomm Scorpion (or Snapdragon 2?) rather than 1 GHz Snapdragon
The HTC Desire Z is coming to the United States as the HTC Vision/T-Mobile G2 ("successor" to the HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1) without HTC Sense. That probably means we Americans will be able to load HTC Sense roms on it, while Europeans can load stock Android if they want...
Actually, the G2 is one of only two devices I can think of that came with stock Android, that Google wasn't publicly involved in creating (the other being the HTC Hero/T-Mobile Mytouch 3G/"the European HTC G2")
I'm quite looking forward to it, the Moto Droid 2 didn't impress me for whatever reason.
Edited 2010-09-17 02:51 UTC
Member since:2008-08-09