Hi everyone,
I bought an HDC Z710 on ebay last week (from a UK seller, to avoid having to wait long and pay duties in Belgium) and wanted to share my experiences:
Specs:
www.etotalk.com/hdc-z710-android-dual-3g-wcdma-43-wvga_p2640.html
In short, it's a great phone, fast, came with Cynogenmod ROM installed, decent battery life (on standby)... everything you'd want except:
The camera kind of sucks (bad autofocus and most pics are overexposed)
AND... it didn't come with 512MB of RAM as advertised but only about 256MB.
In reality that leaves about 70MB of RAM for apps to run and once I started running stuff like LauncherPRO and WidgetLocker, all my ram got used up quite quickly, making the phone deadslow.
Conclusion: I'll be sending it back (luckily UK law gives me a 7-day refund period)
Now I'm of course looking for a replacement phone and I'm seeing all sorts of reports in this thread, but I keep wondering how about the memory?
Would you all be so kind to post the amount of available memory please? (Maybe a good addition to the WIKI page too)
A good way to check is using a nice free app called "Android System Info" (search for ASI in the market).
On the Z710 it have me 159MB of RAM and 50MB available just after boot.
Comparing that to my (also chinese) tablet which DOES have 512MB RAM, the difference is huge (see
www.vanderborght.eu/memory.jpg).
I'm particularly interested in reading your experiences with phones like the G12, HD HOT, etc.
(3G, 800x480, Qualcomm processor)
Thanks for reporting back!
Regards,
Peter