Going into High Alert

Well I’ve always wanted to get something light and easy to carry around to surf the net when there is a wifi spot available. For example like ur favourite mamak has wifi, well practically a lot of these places in the city have wifi nowadays. No idea how that popular and so on.

So whether it may be at the airport or a starbucks or somewhere with just a wifi hotspot you can just download your e-mail, check the latest updates like the weather, check your news or even yes the stock market if you do like to follow the trends or if you have some money invested in there. Now a laptop would be handy as it comes with all the required processing power and applications that you can use while viewing what you need online. The only issue is that the battery life isn’t that great unless u get Acer’s new one which so call “boasts” of 8 hours when we all know that windows sucks the life out of any living pc on the market. Hence a phone with the similar capabilities and longer batt life would be the best choice.

Now the only issue is that a phone has a small screen. Not that we all like small screens where we can hardly see a thing. So we have a few models of which I narrowed down the few that I went out to seek. Blackberry was out of the question for me as after watching the videos I wasn’t at all impressed by what they had to offer in the youtube videos hence i had to seek alternatives. Two brands came to mind, of which one was HTC and the other Apple. The iphone is a good choice for a lot of people, nice and easy to use, not much of a fuss on it since OSX does make it easier for people to load the applications they want and so on. Not to mention the games and over all the function is good for a lot of people to the new age of PDA smart phones.

Well the short fall was the lack of bluetooth at that time compared to now and also a lot of people wanted to have the secondary camera for video calls. I know that well cause a lot of hearing disability people were looking at the phone also. I had to entertain around 4 or more potential customers who were all signers. Now without the video function they weren’t too happy but the Assisted-GPS did prove to be much better since it would have been easier to get them to meet up with one another at a set point. Battery life, dies in a day due to heavy usage, had complains from one business man about how he had to re-charge it 3 times a day. It’s to be expected when you have a high performance phone that is on the way to being a pc or trying to replace it.

Now moving on the other was the HTC HD 2 that supports winmo 6.5. I was highly interested in the winmo system as it replicates windows and that would mean more general extensions for the phone and web pages. The interface is much more complicated to use compared to the iphone’s apps on the spot loading with the pages. It has the same touch technology, so no using a stylus or a pen to move about in it. Need to warm up my fingers more as a finger nail doesn’t work either. So I do like the screen as it’s wider, a 4.3 inch screen with lots of room to go round and see. Well facebook loads nicely just that not all of the scripts work that well for the apps I run on the normal lappy though. It’s got wifi, harder to install applications like games so I dont’ mind that, not a fan of games on the phone, the music player has windows media player so I can sync and yes not forgetting outlook also for my contacts. It’s a bit crazy but it acts as a wifi router also for other systems.

Pitfall is yet again the battery life, runs out fast and the bluetooth is a bit tedius, u need to like pair it with the other device first before you can receive anything from the other person and so on.

Bottomline. I’m a proud owner a HTC HD 2 and loving it.