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.
T-Mobile loose half a million customers in the USA
I read on the various blogs out there that T-Mobile have lost 471,000 people since the last quarter and too be honest if they operate anything like the UK side of the business, this is not a shocker at all to me. IN the UK we have a choice of T-Mobile, Orange (these two are now one of the same company), Vodafone and finally 3 plus we have places such as Carphone warehouse who deal with all the suppliers and just sell you a phone. Personally I hated Orange as a company as they had (at he time) limited coverage, more expensive phones / deals and generally bad staff. I use Vodafone at work and again, they operate like any faceless company. This left me with 3 and T-Mobile – the problem though? Smartphones have added an extra burden they cannot seem to cope with, once they sell you a deal, they are happy to forget about you. It’s about time the phone companies tried to find out what the customer want or you will end off as expected – running out of customers.
ASUS AiGuru SV1 Skype Phone
You can get Skype on your computer and you can even get Skype on your mobile phone plus there is various telephone looking methods but this device looks more like a conventional desk phone. It was introduced back in 2009 and I must be honest and say that I had not seen this device anywhere during this time. The price for this unit seems to be about £200 ($275) but this might be the touch screen version (this one I am reviewing is not touch screen).
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
Not All Androids are equal
I own in case you do not know the HTC Hero G2 Touch, not to be confused with the HD2 Touch which is a Windows Mobile device running android on top.
I kept hearing reports, mainly from the live streams (USA Bound) that these Android do not support multi touch and a whole raft of issues but here I was sitting with a phone that does multi-touch as good as the iphone. The Windows Mobile with Android bolted on had facebook but the application looked different from the one sitting on my phone (mine was better).
The HD2 Touch was a lot bigger, not as glossy as HTC Hero and had a camera that stuck out – it was a better camera then mine (same Megapixel) but at the expense of design. So basically – not all Android phones or devices are the same and do not assume reviewing one device makes them the same as the next.
