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Hello guys. New to the forum here. I currently have been using an unlocked jailbroken iphone for the last 2 years. I have a contract with TMobile USA and will not be changing carriers. I pretty much get the sweetest deal possible (unlimited calling $49 per month).
Tmobile will be getting the Magic as a mytouch 3g in another month. However, once i saw the UI for the Hero i became a huge fan of that device. I am trying to decide between keeping iphone, getting mytouch 3g, or buying an unlocked Hero from Europe. Here are my thought on each and i want to see others opinions.
1. Keeping Iphone- I am so bored with this phone. I have unlocked it and did everything that can be done to try to keep it interesting but i think it may be time to get rid of it. I do use it for an ipod everyday and its great for this. Has a weak camera but has 3.5mm headphone jack. Can only get Edge signal with tmobile in the usa.
2. Mytouch 3g- has android. But not the slick UI of the hero. Has a weaker camera than hero and no headphone jack without adapter. However, would have 3g speeds.
3. Hero- would cost the most by far. Price about 600-700 usd vs 199 for mytouch due to carrier subsidy. Would not get 3g signal on tmobile usa. But that android combined with Rosie UI is very appealing. Plus it has a 5 megapixel camera.
I would think of waiting for the hero to come to america but everything points to it not coming to tmobile. So it wouldnt be any better to me if it came to at&t or sprint.
What i am trying to convince myself of is the ability to install the Rosie Rom on the Mytouch 3g. How practical is this? Is the process the same for the tmobile branded magic as it is for the European magics that people have done this to? Has the Rom been perfected enough at this point to use it in this fashion? I can follow directions as this is how i have been able to keep unlocking and jailbraking my iphone over the last 2 years. But it seems like this process that i have looked at so far for this phone rom is much more complicating than the iphone jailbrake.
So what would you guys do? I appreciate all opinions.
Here is my issue. I'm stuck on AT&T. I am contemplating buying the slide, rooting it and using it on AT&T (in b4: at&t sucks), and well... I am just stuck between getting the touch pro 2 and the 3g slide. I am a long time user of HTC (kaiser, wizard), and I love the way the phones run, but they just don't seem to get any faster. And android is more conducive to getting good apps. WinMo just doesn't have the development like android does. So my issue is.. Is the slide worth getting? I have also heard that the slide won't run on AT&T's 3G network... Any hotfixes for that? That's kind of an important issue I suppose.. Anyways, any slide users from AT&T have any feedback / anyone compared the touchpro 2 to the slide? I've been scouring google looking for comparisons but nothing insightful has come up. Thank you.
alphamancer said:
Here is my issue. I'm stuck on AT&T. I am contemplating buying the slide, rooting it and using it on AT&T (in b4: at&t sucks), and well... I am just stuck between getting the touch pro 2 and the 3g slide. I am a long time user of HTC (kaiser, wizard), and I love the way the phones run, but they just don't seem to get any faster. And android is more conducive to getting good apps. WinMo just doesn't have the development like android does. So my issue is.. Is the slide worth getting? I have also heard that the slide won't run on AT&T's 3G network... Any hotfixes for that? That's kind of an important issue I suppose.. Anyways, any slide users from AT&T have any feedback / anyone compared the touchpro 2 to the slide? I've been scouring google looking for comparisons but nothing insightful has come up. Thank you.
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Can't help you on comparing phones, but the slide will not do 3G on AT&T's network. The radio operates at different frequencies for 3G than what AT&T uses, there is nothing you can do to make it work.
Android phones on at&t
Why don't you just go with the aria.my wife has the mt3g slide and I have the aria. Theres not much of a difference between the two except size and a keyboard. The aria is a beast. Don't let the size fool ya.also they have the new samsung galaxy and I think a dell streak that's supposed to be pretty good too.
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beazie0885 said:
Why don't you just go with the aria.my wife has the mt3g slide and I have the aria. Theres not much of a difference between the two except size and a keyboard. The aria is a beast. Don't let the size fool ya.also they have the new samsung galaxy and I think a dell streak that's supposed to be pretty good too.
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I had the aria, and it's not condusive to texting. I went and sold it for $350 on ebay and was going to buy the slide until I realized it doesn't support AT&T's 3g network.
alphamancer said:
I had the aria, and it's not condusive to texting. I went and sold it for $350 on ebay and was going to buy the slide until I realized it doesn't support AT&T's 3g network.
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Look into the Galaxy. I had the joy of playing around with one, and am seriously debating on if I want to sell my Slide and grab one. Wonderful hardware, amazing battery life for the hardware in it, and I have never seen a display that made things look so nice.
My only gripe is the lack of a physical keyboard, but Swype does a damn fine job of handling most of my texting needs, only hassle is dealing with terminal and typing in commands.
Yea, did you try swype? It makes typing a breeze on the smaller screen. But by all means go check your att store for the galaxy or the dell streak. They are very high end devices. But also no keyboard
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Ok here's the low down u rlly can't compare winmo to android but in most ocassions android if u new mess around with it. Ok so tp2 is resistive screen big no no unless u a stylus freek imo get the mytouch slide 2g ain't so bad but use wifi when downloading apps it helps. Battery life varys on the mts from ok to amazing. And plus alota apps lol hope this hlps . Oh the tp2 has an awsome keyboard I used to have one
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How do guys think it will be? I think it has to be a super phone since it looks like it has a front facing camera, and because it looks like t-mobile's first HSPA+ phone, and I read online that the first HSPA+ phone will have a 1ghz processor of the 3rd generation. I know this phone might not be real, but if it is, and has killer specs would you get it? I think I'll get it if it dosen't have a physical keyboard, and i woukd get it in white.Any opinions on it?
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For thos who haven't seen it, here's a pik, and I'll post the other one up in a few.
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/07/mytouch3g-hd-coming-to-t-mobile/
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http://www.tmonews.com/2010/07/mytouch3g-hd-rendering-appears-again-this-time-shows-off-the-back/
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Right now I feel a little pissed about it cause I just bought this slide @ full price but its the way technology. *sigh* >
I got with a contract,actually my dad did, but I'm working right now, and saving up,plus I have a cousin that works in tmo to hook me up.
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I got mine free on fathers day with no contract ... before that I was on at&t. Hope the hd has some great specs though.... looks good imo
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I know, and I hope it's real lol, main reason why I want the mytouch phones is because its tmobile's flagship phone, and you can make them 100 % you lol. Plus I want a super smart phone with no keyboard I got the slide, until a better mytouch without a keyboard and with killer specs comes out, plus makes sense it might be tmos first HSPA+ phone it is their flagship device
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It's weird.. I bought the slide because it had a KB. I like a phone with a hardware keyboard. If the MTHD doesn't have one I'll have to find a new device .....
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I think it won't its too thin to have one,plus they might do a keyboardless mytouch then one with a keyboard, and continue that trend or maybe not, but personally I don't want a physical keyboard, especially for the fact that cases look better.
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I wouldn't get this or any other MyTouch device for that matter. I got the slide because it was the newest Android device with a physical keyboard T-mobile had to offer. But I was disappointed, build quality is horrible and I can't believe HTC actually made this (seems more Tmobile than HTC influence). Feels like a cheap toy cell phone, and has no grip whatsoever. My next device will be whenever Tmobile decides to get a real HTC device with a keyboard, maybe the rumored HTC Vision? Was about to go for the Vibrant but I heard build quality isn't so good on that either, and it has GPS issues. So I guess I will wait. I have another year on contract and then I'm free to jump over to another carrier. AT&T and Verizon not looking too bad about now.
But anyway, if this device is what's next from T-Mobile, then I'm not interested. Looks like a slide that got sat on and stretched vertically. Still cheap looking, trackball is flat and isn't easy to use, and it just looks like a fail waiting to happen.
Having said all of that, this is my first Android device so anything is better than what I was experiencing with Windows... The HD2 was the greatest device HTC built for Windows IMO, and it was still lacking. It finally proved that even with great specs, a Windows phone is a Windows phone and will always give you the same problems.
I wish i new about this before, i would have waited for it instead...But i guess this sort of thing is inevitable these days...
@ace me too lol
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I would love for it to have these features
My touch 2 HSPA+/My Touch HSPA+(Codenamed HTC Unstoppable)
*New Sense UI you have the option to turn HTC Sense off or take out bubbles
*8mp/11mp
*1ghz snapdragon/1.5/2 with very good battery life
*Android 2.2/Gingerbread
*Comes in white, red, and black
*Loads of accessories
*3.7-4.0 screen SLCD screen with Atmel maXTOUCH sensors
*Includes 8/16gb micro SD card expandable to 32gb
*8g/16gb internal storage
*Touch Sensitive track pad like the my touch slide but you will able to calibrate the sensitivity
*HSPA+ Device
*3.5mm audio jack
*Camera/video takes 720/1080p HD resolution
*Xenon Flash/Dual Led Flash
*Camera in front 1.3/3mp
*Very slim
*Pre-loaded with Flash 10.1
* default on-screen keyboard is swype,
*My modes
*Genius Button
*Faves Gallery
*7/9 customizable screen
*Mini HDMI output
*Has four hard key buttons, Menu, Genius Button, Back, and home
*more features
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http://www.tmonews.com/2010/08/wait-project-emerald-is-both-the-g1-blaze-and-mytouch-hd/
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Check this out
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/08/so-what-do-i-think-project-emerald-is/comment-page-1/#comment-149910
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Check this out
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http://www.tmonews.com/2010/09/myto...s-toward-ffc-and-americas-largest-4g-network/
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Drzfr3shboialex said:
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/09/myto...s-toward-ffc-and-americas-largest-4g-network/
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That thing looks worse than the slide, whatd they do to the buttons, it looks strange.
I like it better though its more of a powerhouse
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Engadget has added new pics, seach HSPA on t-mobile's website or mytouch to see the new hd although you aren't able to see the pictures, and also engadget has new pictures.
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I am trying to get peoples opinions about on which phone I should get... I have a Samsung Vibrant and I hate the phone... I have narrowed down to the two options, 1) Mytouch 4G or 2) G2. I don't know which one i should get or if any of those two are for me at all. If everyone could give me their opinions that would be awesome!
Slide out keyboard over front facing camera anyday... g2
Its personal preference. Both have advantages over the other. The MyTouch4G has a front facing camera, 256MB more ram and is slimmer. The G2 has a full physical keyboard, more solid design, better dev support.
the mytouch series is a joke. they're for people who dont really know what android is and its capabilities.
g2. any day.
or if its your cup of tea, wait for the nexus s.
Nexus S. Buying a mt4g is a joke right now.
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I would take the mytouch 4g over the nexus s. It has more features and the hardware is better. It may not be as pretty as the nexus s but it's not ugly.
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nivlac978 said:
I would take the mytouch 4g over the nexus s. It has more features and the hardware is better. It may not be as pretty as the nexus s but it's not ugly.
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Well when I think about it:
4G MicroSD 720P Recording LED Notification
Nexus S No No No No
MyTouch Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sooo its kind of tough to recommend the Nexus S over the MyTouch
Vandam500 said:
Well when I think about it:
4G MicroSD 720P Recording LED Notification
Nexus S No No No No
MyTouch Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sooo its kind of tough to recommend the Nexus S over the MyTouch
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Its true.
But it wasnt long ago the ORIGINAL MyTouch got a Froyo update.
So you already know how TMO will be treating updates for the MyTouch 4G.
Its very possible you wont get Gingerbread till after Honeycomb is released.
You have to decide what you want in a phone.
I just moved from the Nexus One to the G2 this weekend to give it a try.
The G2 is faster but I may jump back to the N1 so I can have Gingerbread.
I like the faster updates personally.
I wont get a Nexus S for a few months after they are released.
I'll wait till they start showing up on Craigslist for $200 less than the
price of a new one.
Vandam500 said:
Well when I think about it:
4G MicroSD 720P Recording LED Notification
Nexus S No No No No
MyTouch Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sooo its kind of tough to recommend the Nexus S over the MyTouch
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Except T-Mo 4G is not 4G... its just HSPA+, but the Nexus S doesnt even have HSPA+.
The G2 has the same connection speed as the MT4G, and is just as powerful, if not more so especially with the crazy overclocks it can pull.
bradleymor said:
Except T-Mo 4G is not 4G... its just HSPA+, but the Nexus S doesnt even have HSPA+.
The G2 has the same connection speed as the MT4G, and is just as powerful, if not more so especially with the crazy overclocks it can pull.
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Well it may not be real "4G" but I get 4G like speeds
going_home said:
Its true.
But it wasnt long ago the ORIGINAL MyTouch got a Froyo update.
So you already know how TMO will be treating updates for the MyTouch 4G.
Its very possible you wont get Gingerbread till after Honeycomb is released.
You have to decide what you want in a phone.
I just moved from the Nexus One to the G2 this weekend to give it a try.
The G2 is faster but I may jump back to the N1 so I can have Gingerbread.
I like the faster updates personally.
I wont get a Nexus S for a few months after they are released.
I'll wait till they start showing up on Craigslist for $200 less than the
price of a new one.
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Remember the G2 has full support from the ROM makers. It will get Gingerbread pretty soon via XDA. I say matter of weeks, maybe days after the Gingerbread source has been released
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Except T-Mo 4G is not 4G... its just HSPA+, but the Nexus S doesnt even have HSPA+.
The G2 has the same connection speed as the MT4G, and is just as powerful, if not more so especially with the crazy overclocks it can pull.
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Yeah so sick of this argument. NOBODY has real "technical" 4G. But its faster than 3G, so that makes it 4G. Its a new generation of data speeds, get over the semantics. I do agree that its lame to exclude some of the things excluded on the Nexus S, including 4G.
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G2 if you type a lot and want almost stock Froyo
Mytouch4G if you want a front facing camera and don't mind TMobile's HTC sense
But then again this is XDA, you can root and get whatever lovely ROM a developer has cooked up on your phone. So it just comes down to hardware if you want to root it.
sinistersai4d4d said:
Yeah so sick of this argument. NOBODY has real "technical" 4G. But its faster than 3G, so that makes it 4G. Its a new generation of data speeds, get over the semantics.
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Not to mention at current speeds (whatever you want to call them) it's very easy to eat through your entire monthly bandwidth cap in an afternoon. Given this, wtf is the point of more speed? I'd take a higher cap over more speed any day of the week at this point.
sinistersai4d4d said:
Yeah so sick of this argument. NOBODY has real "technical" 4G. But its faster than 3G, so that makes it 4G.
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EDGE is faster than GPRS (2G), so did that make it 3G ? HSDPA is faster than 3G, so should we call that 4G ?
HSPA+ isn't "4G", so I don't think it's helpful to label it as such. Bad T-Mobile !
I got the G2 and my wife picked the white MyTouch 4G. Personally, I think the G2 is better (obviously). It has a hardware keyboard, better dev support, stock Android (with a *really* easy HTC Sense port, since the Desire Z is the same hardware).
Preferences aside, the MyTouch line is really.....plasticky. When I use her phone, the plastic squeaks like crazy - that annoys me like no other, especially on such a 'high-end' phone.
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EDGE is faster than GPRS (2G), so did that make it 3G ? HSDPA is faster than 3G, so should we call that 4G ?
HSPA+ isn't "4G", so I don't think it's helpful to label it as such. Bad T-Mobile !
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Thank you. Peoples need to understand this. 4G by ITU-R standards is only available through networks with IMT-Advanced, and trust me....NO network has that capabilities yet......
With that aside,I'd go with the G2!! More industrial feel, not plasticky like samsung and mytouch 4g. Even the nexus S won't feel as good as the G2, even with the better hardware.
I wish Google would have stayed with HTC for the second Nexus.
keyboard or NO keyboard, that is the question..
I went with the Desire Z for a few reasons:
Great Developer Support
GREAT Build Quality - I HATE phones that are made of any plastic/cheap material
QWERTY Keyboard - I send upwards of 100 Messages a day between SMS and Email
New Generation Processor - The 800mhz was a disappointment to me when I read the specs, but after reading of its over-clocking capabilities and having run mine at 1.4ghz for the past few weeks, this is a huge advantage of the G2/Desire Z.
So after having my G2 for around 10 months I'm getting kinda bored of it now...haha
Is there any other new android phone that is comparable in any way? I've been looking at the sensation 4g and it seems to be the only phone that catches my interest.
The things I find lacking in the g2 is mainly the speaker and camera quality, a better screen would be nice too (those samsung amoled are awfully pretty)
Any info about the sensation 4g we should know or other recommended phones?
G2x, Sensation, and Nexus S are about the only tmobile phones nicer than ours. Other than your either staying in the same realm or downgrading. Mytouch 4g slide = garbage.
I also am interested in the Sensation but I feel like there this year more T-Mobile phones will be released. I would hold off until after the ATT deal finishes
I have to agree with steven, the mytouch *g slides have been traditionally awful.