Time with my Hero coming to an end

phillevy · Jan 23, 2011

After 18 months I am finally due for an upgrade and will be sadly moving on from my Hero - definately the best phone I've ever had and has opened up a whole new world of Android, rooting and custom ROM's. Thanks to some great people in our community I have had great fun learning the ins and outs of what can be done with this phone and enabled me to be fairly up to date right till the end running Froyo. Sure there have been bugs and niggles along the way, but solving these has added to the fun!
My next phone? I'm definately sticking with Android -my wife and daughter have iPhone 4's, but nothing in them has tempted me to defect. Logic would dictate that I should go for the Nexus S, but I've decided to hold out until March when hopefully the LG Optimus 2x lands and make a decision then. What exciting times ahead!

Haiz · Jan 24, 2011

phillevy said:
After 18 months I am finally due for an upgrade and will be sadly moving on from my Hero - definately the best phone I've ever had and has opened up a whole new world of Android, rooting and custom ROM's. Thanks to some great people in our community I have had great fun learning the ins and outs of what can be done with this phone and enabled me to be fairly up to date right till the end running Froyo. Sure there have been bugs and niggles along the way, but solving these has added to the fun!
My next phone? I'm definately sticking with Android -my wife and daughter have iPhone 4's, but nothing in them has tempted me to defect. Logic would dictate that I should go for the Nexus S, but I've decided to hold out until March when hopefully the LG Optimus 2x lands and make a decision then. What exciting times ahead!

I am in the same boat, not sure what to go for, was looking at the dell streak and DHD.

dan330 · Jan 26, 2011

i gave my hero (great phone) to my little daughter to use as a gamer and music player.

I loved the dev community on my hero..and helped my enjoy my time with it. That is why i got the EVO.. that phone has a huge and active dev community too.

mikebellamy2k · Feb 7, 2011

Looking into getting the DHD too, with the save to sd for many apps will partly solve the gripe i had with the memory problem with Hero. Its a bit large but not much more than the ifone

. Hopefully by march the t mobile price plan will be lower and will get a good deal, they don't seem to know, then again they don't seem to know a whole much about anything these days!!!

daveybaby · Feb 8, 2011

Still got 6 months to wait (2 year contract) but i'm already worried that there wont be anything out there that i will like as much as the hero. The DHD is a really nice piece of kit, but it doesnt feel like a usable phone any more to me, too big, too battery hungry.

Really, really like the motorola defy's hardware. Small, rugged, fast enough, good battery life, outdoor readable screen (well, compared to AMOLED anyway), looks good. What's not to like?

Oh, apart from the software. Android 2.1, crappy slow battery draining motoblur, and due to motorolas now legendary lack of support for phones once theyre out the door, unlikely to see 2.2, never mind 2.3+. And not forgetting it's got a locked down bootloader making it very difficult to produce custom roms for it (there still arent any 100% working 2.2 roms out yet AFAICT). Gah!

Nice work motorola, i'm sitting here drooling over your phone, but youre stopping me from buying it with your crappy software policies. Cretins.

Wow, that was a bit of a rant wasnt it?

Slug · Feb 8, 2011

daveybaby said:
Still got 6 months to wait

The Nexus S will soon be available on Vodafone, and you won't have any complaints about a lack of updates or locked bootloaders with that!

daveybaby · Feb 8, 2011

Slug said:
The Nexus S will soon be available on Vodafone, and you won't have any complaints about a lack of updates or locked bootloaders with that!

True, but unfortunately i'm not really feeling the Nexus S.

* Cant stand samsung's industrial design: all of their phones look the same, bland blobs of plasticy plastic.

* Samsung shoddy build quality.

* Too big. Waaaay too big. I want a phone, not a PMP.

* AMOLED. What is everybodys obsession with this? Yes, the colours are great and the blacks are really dark, but with the 'minor' sacrifice that i can no longer use my phone outdoors. Again: PMP functionality is compromising its functionality as a phone.

* Does anyone else feel like its not really that big an advance over the nexus one?

It seems i am in a grumpy mood today

Personally i'm hoping that some progress gets made with Defy custom roms over the next 6 months... maybe pick up a cheap one second hand...

walkinhotdog · Feb 8, 2011

Im on the same boat as you daveybaby. I also want a small phone, preferably a <4 inch screen and dual core. Nexus S is definitely not much of a upgrade from Nexus One, plus it has no LED, no dual core, etc. The motorola atrix looks insane, but you said that all motorola's phones are hard to get custom roms? I also read that motorola sucks at updates. I really prefer to get a htc phone, since they look great, get updates, and have tons of custom roms. So either the atrix or wait...

Actually if the htc desire 2 prelim specs are correct, that just might be my next phone

phillevy · Feb 9, 2011

I can now upgrade any time however after seeing the initial Optimus 2X reviews i'm thinking that I've got a longer wait than I first anticipated

Lefthand · Feb 10, 2011

I'm in the same boat, contract's coming up for renewal and facing the upgrade dilemma, which phone to choose, but I know this, I'm definitely sticking with Android.
It is a dilemma as I agree with most people views on this topic, the Galaxy S and Nexus are too plasticky and bland, LG Optimus 2x has not had great reviews (and having owned an LG phone in the past it doesn't surprise me) would definitely have gone For Desire HD if I wasn't put off by its size and poor battery life.
So I almost settled for the (original) Desire as it IS such a great phone, the only concern being its already a year old, then I saw this:

HTC Desire 2 sneaks out ahead of MWC | News | TechRadar UK

It could be the answer to all our prayers!

walkinhotdog · Feb 12, 2011

Leaked slides show HTC Desire HD2, Desire 2 and Wildfire 2 - GSMArena.com news

Did you guys see this? Personally i think the specs are wrong. Otherwise those are a bunch of disappointing phones. The moto atrix beats all of them. Im most interested in the desire 2. It doesnt make sense to make such a weak upgrade for a phone that was such a success. Im sure htc isnt stupid enough to make a phone that wont live up to its name

maddog497 · Feb 13, 2011

I'm ready to leave my Hero behind (it has been a great phone and community experience) and have decided on the DHD.

The newest build for Telus has been getting some pretty decent battery reviews. So far it appears with average use, getting a day out of it isn't a problem. HOFO has has several posts confirming way better battery than the original Desire.

croc9968 · Feb 14, 2011

Has to be Samsung Galaxy S 2 or LG Optimus 3D.....these look terrific phones and fairly future proof for a while (12 months anyway)

walkinhotdog · Feb 15, 2011

Well the htc desire s specs r out on the htc site.

HTC - Products - HTC Desire S - Specification

I have to say its quite disappointing. No dual core. Pretty much same thing as original desire with more memory/updated cpu and a few extra features minus trackpad. Gonna hold out for another htc device with <4 inch screen + dual core

Motorola Atrix still looks like the most powerful android phone out

dan330 · Feb 15, 2011

^^^ looks like a Nexus one body...

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