Work supplied me with HTC Trophy which runs Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) as it’s core operating system. I have been using this phone for a few weeks now as my main mobile and I would like to go through my thoughts on how it pans out as an all-in-one smartphone. The phone has no form of memory card slot and comes supplied with 8GIG Storage, you cannot increase this in any form (rather like the iPhone) but it does come with Microsoft Skydrive which allows an extra 25GIG worth of stuff ‘in the cloud’.
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HTC Trophy review
Smartphone Smackdown
The three main smartphone’s out there at the moment are Android, Apple and Windows Phone 7, of course there is a lot of makers of these phones (apart from the iPhone, only Apple make them). It just so happens that I have to hand three phones to compare, this been the HTC Hero (Running Android 2.1), a slow and small phone by today’s standards but it does give me a chance to compare. The wife has the iPhone 4S and I got a new work phone, the HTC Trophy, A Windows 7.5 phone. Is there a clear winner here? Will the iPhone wipe the floor with the rest? Onward to battle.
PayPal Hacked maybe?
Before I jump into the story, let me tell you a bit of background. I only have a paypal account as I sold some items on eBay many years ago and recently I used this method I think to buy something from eBay. As a general rule I do not log into my PayPal account, I have no funds on there and I honestly thought it was safe. Yet more background – my passwords are so hard (Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers – no real words, longer than 12 characters in length) that I have to write them in a book which is secure. I would like to say that maybe Chrome saves my passwords but in the case of Paypal and the fact I had not logged into it for so long, it was not stored on this computer.
So what is the Hack you may ask? Well let me go through a sequence of events which all took place today and I am glad I carry a phone that shows my emails as they come in.
Blast from the past–NEC e808
Before the iPhone was even thought of, there was a phone that was doing video conferencing way back in 2003. The phone in Question was the NEC e808 as pictured above and I was part of the trail to see how the phone worked out as well as video conferencing. At the timne given the size of the thing, many people thought the phone was in fact a PDA and I remember getting some very strange looks at the train station when talking to people video video as well as voice.
HTC HD Mini Review
At work I got a replacement phone, the current model they hand out now is the HTC HD Mini which runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 and has a sense UI bolted on front to give it a Android type look. What HTC did was take the HTC HD2 and shrink it down to a more manageable size – of course going down in size means they had to cut back on some items such as screen size and processor speed.
Palm Treo Pro
This is by no means a ‘new’ phone and in fact I am sure you would be hard pushed to buy one today but it was a phone I got given to use at work and I thought it would be fun to write a review of this today age of touch screen phones running Android and such. I want to add that for a work phone, there is a few things I need this to do – given that I already carry about a HTC Hero Android phone running V2.1 – of course if I was offered one of the latest Android phones or the iPhone 4, I would not turn them down by any means. You can read more about the Palm Treo Pro on the Wiki Page for the technical specifications
Firefox 4 goes Mobile
If your a Fan of Firefox and own a Android or a Nokia N900 Phone – then your in Luck, there is a Beta version for you to try today. You can find out more HERE as well as download the latest nightly build. I shall be trying this and giving a much fuller report later but for now – you can check out the app yourself and report back your findings.
Format Factory – Convert Movie files
Ever needed to convert a movie file from one format to another, which includes FLV and you are sick to death of installing what they say is free but in fact is a demo? Well Look no further – Format Factory is a 100% Free Utility that will do the job you need.
4 Ways Smartphone Vendors Can Retain Customers
The smartphone war is well and truly underway, the big players including Apple, HTC, RIM, Samsung and Nokia are all vying for position in an already saturated mobile handset market.
Smartphone vendors are releasing handsets like never before but is it the best way to increase the all-important revenue stream that keeps these companies in business?
To me, there are some fundamental mistakes that smartphone vendors are making when bringing their products to market and I believe they can be amended. All is explained after the jump.
