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abortrephraseI've been using the HTC Desire for about six months now. It's not too bad.
But. While the spec claims 360 hours standby (on 3G) and 6.5 hours talk, the reality is that the battery is getting close to drained after a day of not-particularly-heavy use. One can only assume that the 360 hour standby is based on having no polling of anything and the phone left completely untouched.
It's also a bit unreliable. The official HTC ROM has crashed on me a few times. The Exchange support has been a bit wobbly: it gets particularly confused by multiple-time-zone appointments and timezone changes, to the point where it was necessary to nuke a recurring appointment and recreate it once the AU and US daylight saving changes were all done, because it insisted that a 9AM Friday AEDT appointment was actually at 9AM Thursday AEDT -- I think because it was originally set up to be at 6PM Thursday US EDT and all the changes got things horribly confused.
Unfortunately, while iOS is better about the Exchange stuff at least, experience with the iPhone makes it pretty clear that the shinies kill the battery on that just as effectively. While the platform has some neato-keen accessibility stuff you don't find anywhere else -- I particularly love the screen-inverse on triple-home-tap and the screen magnifier -- it's all a bit too locked-down and battery-killing if you actually use the device.
And so I find myself contemplating the merits of a simpler phone that has decent battery life and knows how to be a phone really well. I'm required to have Exchange email on-the-go for work, so it can't be too simple, but I do recall the Nokia E71 doing pretty well on the battery-life thing. I am very curious about the later Symbian phones and am about to go into crazy-research-mode: I know they're not as shiny as Android or iOS, that Symbian itself is pretty much a dead platform, but Nokia did do a really good job of the Exchange support and they know how to build good hardware.
But. While the spec claims 360 hours standby (on 3G) and 6.5 hours talk, the reality is that the battery is getting close to drained after a day of not-particularly-heavy use. One can only assume that the 360 hour standby is based on having no polling of anything and the phone left completely untouched.
It's also a bit unreliable. The official HTC ROM has crashed on me a few times. The Exchange support has been a bit wobbly: it gets particularly confused by multiple-time-zone appointments and timezone changes, to the point where it was necessary to nuke a recurring appointment and recreate it once the AU and US daylight saving changes were all done, because it insisted that a 9AM Friday AEDT appointment was actually at 9AM Thursday AEDT -- I think because it was originally set up to be at 6PM Thursday US EDT and all the changes got things horribly confused.
Unfortunately, while iOS is better about the Exchange stuff at least, experience with the iPhone makes it pretty clear that the shinies kill the battery on that just as effectively. While the platform has some neato-keen accessibility stuff you don't find anywhere else -- I particularly love the screen-inverse on triple-home-tap and the screen magnifier -- it's all a bit too locked-down and battery-killing if you actually use the device.
And so I find myself contemplating the merits of a simpler phone that has decent battery life and knows how to be a phone really well. I'm required to have Exchange email on-the-go for work, so it can't be too simple, but I do recall the Nokia E71 doing pretty well on the battery-life thing. I am very curious about the later Symbian phones and am about to go into crazy-research-mode: I know they're not as shiny as Android or iOS, that Symbian itself is pretty much a dead platform, but Nokia did do a really good job of the Exchange support and they know how to build good hardware.
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Date: 2010-11-20 05:32 am (UTC)Resistive touchscreen is not hugely appealing. Comes with Mail for Exchange. But support for multiple mail/calendar/contact account sync looks iffy -- MfE won't do it, RoadSync won't do it. A combination of MfE and futzing around with SyncML to Google might do it.