HTC HD2 vs. MyTouch 3G Slide (WinMo vs. Android)

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tina1995

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Here's a little background about my cell phone history:
Started off with Sprint Sanyo 8100. Used it for driving directions and hilarious ringtones.
Broke it into pieces and got the Helio Ocean when it came out.
Stuck around with Helio til they were bought out by Virgin. Then I picked up the Helio Ocean 2. As of May 25, 2010 they have shut down my service.
I picked up a tracfone and realized how much I miss my sexy Helio Ocean 2. What do I miss about it?
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Features I Like:
-Instant Email Notification (yahoo, gmail, windows email account right there, no need to go online and read it, was able to send/receive/draft/outbox etc.)
-Google Maps (Didnt buy the turn by turn navigation @ $10/mo. but it did its job of telling me where in the world I am and how to get out, it refreshed the position every 1 mins.) Wish it worked more like a real gps!
-Opera Mini 4.2 (mainly facebook, forum website like chicagoriders.com, weather)
-Keyboard (Look I can type without looking!) but trying to ween myself of texting
-Music Player (simple and easy to use, 2gb of storage , got replaced by ipod touch 3g 32gb)
-Vibrate/Ring Switch (iphone like)
-Calendar hovering over wallpaper, i always forget what date it is

What I hate about it:
-What's multitasking? This was just a problem when i used to listen to music and browse the web and or text messaging. Let's say, I would listen to some album, browse the web, and I want to skip a track. I would need to shut down the browser, go into the music, and skip track or pick w.e., then i would need to reopen the browser and start from fresh, refind the article, etc. If I was to receive a txt, I would need to exit the browser and go to the ULTIMATE MAILBOX and read/reply and lose the web page i was on.
-Lack of customization of sounds. I could not use custom ones for text msgs/emails/confirmations/sliding/ power up/power down/etc, i could only use the presets. The only thing I could customize was the ringtone for each user. But to use custom tones, i needed to rename from .mp3 to .mmf, email them to myself, use phone, download the ringtone and then it would work, sometimes. I think this was the reason, i stopped using AIM and Y! messenger because it had that annoying send/receive msg sound. grrr.
-Needed to wait for email/text to be sent before sliding close the phone. A friggin v3m razr could be closed shut and the msg would be sent out. Also, receiving or making a call was out of the question, cuz it would cancel sending out the message.
-No flash on ocean 2, but they had one on the first. Whats up with that?
-Bluetooth only worked for Headsets... could not link phones, computers, or anything else
-Lack of APPS. There were like only 30 Apps which were a joke. People tried to convert some other games. JAR files but they barely worked right nor did they download right so yeah.
-Pics/videos were hard to transfer. They had to be moved from internal memory to external (SD) and then I had to hunt them now in the file explorer. Also the video files were recorded as .3g2 which was some weird file format.
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My girl has the Cliq, but its sluggish and Im not finding any fun apps like my ipod.
Convince/inform me why I should go with Android over WinMo. the android on the slide feels like a disney fone. idk

Also, Im not familiar with WinMo anything fun there?
 
Unless you have a collection of WinMo apps you already own and you're already familiar with the platform, its the platform to avoid. The app support is quickly drying up there.

Android doesn't have as much apps but the iPod Touch but when it comes to apps, its still second in the market, which means strongly ahead of everyone else, WinMo, Symbian, Blackberry. It also has a tremendously large library of free apps.

On Android, you get instant push notification with GMail and it has the best mobile implementation of such. Of course, GMail is Google's too. Since you also use Google Maps, Android has this covered too, since this is the native platform for it.

The Cliq sucks as an Android phone. I do think the Sense UI on the T-Mobile Slide is a bit over dressed though, like a fashion socialite trying too hard. But even when heavy on the lipstick, its better than the Sense UI on the HD2 which is like tons of layered makeup over an old prune.

Think Paris Hilton (MyTouch Slide) vs. Elizabeth Taylor (HTC HD2).
 
Thanks for the input drillbit!
I dont want to turn down either OS til I know what they can truly do.


I also loved the part that I was able to sync my contacts (phone numbers, email addresses) to their server
 
With Android, your Contacts, GMail and Calendar is synced wirelessly to your browser Google GMail. If you were to make any changes on your Calendar or Contacts via your browser on your GMail account, the changes will be reflected on your phone after a few minutes. No need to sync your phone via USB cable to your PC. Likewise, any changes you made on your phone, you will see it on your browser opened to your GMail, without USB sync.

Assuming you lost your Android phone, and you picked up a new one, all you need to do is login to your GMail account on your new Android phone, and in a few minutes, all your contacts and calendar will be restored to the new phone.

I don't think you can do this with any other mobile OS but you can do this on Android. Assign individual ringtones per contact. Assign a different ringtone for Twitter, Facebook, SMS, to each individual email account. Assign a different ringtone for each different Twitter app, or mentions on each different Twitter account. Assign different ringtones to each different IM app, and to each IM contact.

Flash is coming for Android, especially on Android 2.2. If not, you can watch Flash video on the Skyfire browser.

Pics and videos are automatically stored on the SD card. The file system can be made visible if you connect the phone to the PC and browse there. Ironically and strangely I got more issues with PC USB connectivity with Windows Mobile HTC phones than with Android HTC phones.

Opera Mini 5 is available for Android, but you may not need it. The default Android browser are as good as they come but if you like something better, there is the Dolphin Browser HD and the Skyfire for Android.

Pretty competent official Facebook and Twitter app, with onscreen widgets.

If you want to share pics, all you need to be is in the Gallery, click on the picture, click the Menu, click Share, and you got the options to send the pic directly to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and so on, so long their apps are installed.
 
Drillbit you are very informing. thats the stuff i want to hear about! Do you have any idea what the picture and/or video resolution is like on the slide and/or hd2?
 
HD2 if you're a geek.

MyTouch 3G Slide if you want something that "just works."


The HD2 has a much better screen than the MT3GS in terms of both resolution and size. Videos and YouTube look like crap on the MT3GS when compared to the brilliant quality on the HD2. The screen on the HD2 is almost 1" bigger than that of the MT3GS, but manages to pack four times as many pixels.

WM takes a lot more work. HTC's Sense UI for WinMo sucks (I recommend Titanium, the 6.5 default by Windows, instead) in terms of stability and speed. WinMo Marketplace sucks so it's a hassle to get apps on the fly.
 
I love my HD2 but I am a geek I love the big screen the camera with a double led flash The HTC sense works great Movies and browsing web looks great as well its pretty snappy and very hackable.The other thing you can make your HD2 into a WiFI router. What I dont like the battery power it last me maybe half a day with medium to heavy usage. reception its not all that great on the HD2 also sending messages are a bit hard but this is my first touch screen phone. I can go on with pros and cons but i think if you go to the store and play with both in a 10 minute time you will find out what you want atlongest you dont go for looks because holding the HD2 in your hands you just want to take it. So go with whats most comfortable in your hand.
 
I played with my cousins HD2 and I just couldnt find the right things for me.
-Tried Omarket to find some nice apps.... no luck
-The icons namebar thingy is black, can i make it invisible? Change font, font size, color?
-The little pc nerd inside of me can't really connect with it. Can someone tell me what else I can do with it?
 
Do you have any idea what the picture and/or video resolution is like on the slide and/or hd2? FPS on recorded video?

Im more sold on the HD2, how easy is it to put WinMo 6.5? If i dont like 6.5, can i go back to the factory sense?
 
If you don't like the resolution of the Slide or the lack of apps on the HD2, just wait longer for the Samsung Galaxy S to hit T-Mo. 4" size AMOLED screen, 800x480 resolution with a GPU that is at least 2X or 3X faster than the HD2's, and you get Android 2.1 to boot.
 
Super AMOLED even. That screen kicks the bejesus out of the sorry AMOLEDs HTC has been making of late.

HD2 actually has plenty of apps, it's just a lot harder to find them since the WM Marketplace sucks and Omarket also leaves a lot to be desired. Android's Market beats it silly.

Only downside of the Galaxy S is that it only has 256MB of RAM, and it's a Samsung (poor post-purchase support and very short product life cycles). I also believe it will have a proprietary Samsung interface (TouchWiz sucks) and thus you'll have to wait a long time for what few Android updates it'll get. Knowing Samsung, it'll probably only get one update to Froyo by the time 2.5+ is already released (see: Samsung Galaxy). That aside, I believe it's a good phone for the OP since I don't think these issues will be particularly important to you.
 
The Samsungs have an ace though --- even the Galaxy came with a gig of internal memory. That means you got plenty of space to go apping.

As for Touchwiz, V3.0 needs a fresh relook. I'm studying the one for the Bada OS, and it is rather cool. The odd thing about TouchWiz 3.0, is that its rather heavily Android inspired, which is evident when you see Bada, so it should be right at home on the OS UI where its inspired from.

Samsung intro'ed the Galaxy S in Singapore on the weekend. It's now sold out. Samsung sponsored a concert with the Korean boy group Super Junior, then gave the SJ guys a free Galaxy S whom they quickly used to tweet to their girl fans. Yes, Twitter is hot in Korea now.

I heard T-Mobile may make its Samsung Galaxy S announcement this month. Our first poster is into hot hardware, and this definitely is it. The CPU of the Samsung Galaxy S, same with the Samsung Bada Wave, appears to be the same core as Apple's A4, which is being used on the iPad and highly probably on the iPhone 4. That means relentless 3D and video capture performance.
 
I love my HD2.and poppro, you can customize the start bar just about any way you want. People say the reception id bad but it's not. It just doesn'tover exaggerate the signal like some phones. It might not show as many bars, but it works in all the fringe areas just as good as any other phone I've had.
 
The one gig is internal memory. This is the memory which you can install apps. I believe it should come with a separate SD card. Having 1 gig instead of 512mb of internal memory gives the Galaxy S an edge when it comes to installing apps from the Market. You can just install lots more.

Touchwiz itself should not be unfamiliar with any Android user. It has the same basics as Android, a drag and drop widget interface. If you see Touchwiz 3.0 on the Bada OS on the Samsung Wave, it even has a notification bar on top of the screen, and the wallpaper is wide screen panoramic, and as you move the screen, the icons move on a different rate of velocity than the screen background, creating an illusion that the icons is on an invisible 3D overlay over the background. Just like Android. If you put this interface on a real Android phone it would feel right at home.

By the way, if people think Bada is inspired from Symbian and Windows Mobile, that's all wet. The homescreen (TouchWiz 3.0) is strongly Android inspired, with the features I mentioned on top and the application screen is pulled from the bottom. Once you're in the application screen, the navigation and organization is definitely iPhone inspired, like the swipe screens to the left and right and the dots on the bottom.
 
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