Hi all,
I had previously an iphone 3GS that i lost, and plan to buy the HTC desire HD. But i just tried the G Nexus One, and find the copy/paste not convenient to see the least, and sometimes even impossible.
I saw that new HTC sense had a similar text selection magnifier as the iPhone, and was wondering if the HTC Desire HD ROM new HTC sense had this feature only in HTC apps or if if it was usable accross all apps (like any text app got from some market)
Especially that i do not see any trackpad on the Desire HD, and what i saw on Nexus One is that text selection is hidden by the finger (ohh big finger hiding such tiny characters!)
Can someone put a video of Desire HD ROM it to see text selection magnifier and copy/paste in action accross other downloaded apps than the stock ones ?
Badly wanted this Desire HD, but might reconsider the excellent tactile reactions of iphone screen and copy/paste feature and buy an iphone4 then
GET DHD
it is a beast phone
yea... still waiting ...
I'll make one now
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Has anyone heard of this device? I have tried to see if there was any information on XDA about it but turned up nothing.
Any idea what kind of device it will be?
Never heard of it
Touch hd mini
I also never heared!!
Mini USB
htc touch hd mini usb!!!!
Yeah I had not heard of it but wasn't sure if something had been leaked about it, I work at o2 and saw it on one of the systems so was wondering if anyone knew anything about it
If you really work in O2 perhaps you will be delivering the news
The only place I can find info on this handset unfortunately is the up and coming device section that I have access to on the o2 intranet, this only gives me a launch date, which certainly for the HD2 slipped multiple times
I guess we don't have that long to wait, I'll check tomorrow what the launch date is. We don't use manufacturer stock codes so that will be of no use to anyone trying to find out more info on it either
surely that would be confidential info DJ_Evil are you sure you should be spilling the beans?
All I could find was this
Intriguing
HTC HD Mini is coming in Barcelona!
You guys have seen the Device already.
But under the codename... What codename I won't tell!
http://twitter.com/Xmoo/status/9051414715
Photon baby
Well for once I actually knew something before the internet did from the intranet on the inside
Yep, it's the Photon aka. HD Mini - http://pockethacks.com/htc-photon-to-be-the-htc-hd-mini/
Definately the Photon....
http://twitter.com/Xmoo/status/9094380911
http://www.youtube.com/htc#p/a/u/2/eTtCGiykDW0
I mean, seriously....let's take the best most distinctive feature of the HD2 ( the huge sharp wvga screen ) and get rid of it and call it the all new HD mini ........really ? It better be cheap....
If this does not have some form of a Snapdragon CPU then its not really an HD Mini. Does it at least have a captive screen or is it resistive?
Hi!
Just two questions after I have seen several photos of the new HD Mini (for example on neowin.net):
1. Is it possible to get exactly this colorful wallpaper as background image for the HD2 somewhere?
2. Does the HD Mini still have a page with DirectLinks/QuickLinks?
I mean the HD2 has 9 DirectLinks on its HomeScreen (by default, I know, and by applying some Mods it can be extended to even 75 DirectLinks) when sliding the finger from the bottom up. But I was not able to see such DirectLinks for applications or contacts on any of the images of the HD Mini.
Thanks in advance for your help!
DotWin
At last !
I was awaiting a phone with all the latests features but not looking like a brick. I'm sure there is a market for those like me who are little users of Internet on the phone but still want to keep the ability to surf if needed plus other things. For us, the screen size is not that important and a small, easy to carry phone is way more attractive.
Is this an AMOLED screen like the HD2 or is it something else? For some reason I think this would have been better if it was a 3.3in or 3.5in screen.
hi all
am a new Android owner with a HTC Legend.
one thing thats confusing me is that..yes the system reports the firmware as 2.1
however, of all the Android 2.1 clips I've seen...mostly of the Nexus1, there are 5 home screen pages, saw a diagonal ribbon type thing on a Doid stock 2.1 video, a button to open the apps page instead of the drawer, with the apps page being a 3d wheel kinda thing....and so on.
Now, with the Legend, once HTC Sense is disabled, i get Andoid's original (i think) Home screen. this shows up as 'Home version 7' under Manage applications.
And it's NOTHING like what i've seen of 2.1. it looks basic, not so different from one of the earliest versions that ran on an emulator on windows.
the only thing i can make of this...is that f/w 2.1 and Home version 7 are different things. much like HTC Sense is different from f/w 2.1..in that they're both just skins and can be different versions independent of the f/w as long as its supported to run.
can someone clarify?
thank you.
doesnt anyone know?
I can't seem to find the answer to this anywhere...
HTC Legend doesn't have live wallpapers.
ahh so all that I described is part of the live wallpaper?
thanks for clearing that up
HTC Legend doesn't have a trackball.
MyrdhinM said:
HTC Legend doesn't have a trackball.
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yer im aware of that........
anyway it turns out I mightve been looking at some custom launcher and mistaking them for the default home screen after all..
HTC Legend doesn't have Voice Recognition.
yer and htc legend runs iphoneOS
MyrdhinM said:
HTC Legend doesn't have Voice Recognition.
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Rofl.. That just made my day
I'm under the impression that this forum is now filled with dickheads.
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Ok so this is my first time using android os and i have to say its awesome. I about had it with windows. My only problem is the Droid x seems more like a pda then a phone. With my HTC Touch Pro 2 i could just start dialing the number on the keypad and it would narrow down my search instantly. With the Droid im stuck to using favorites or scrolling through the list.
Is this a motoblur thing and im just used to the awesomeness of HTC?
Try dialer one from the market.
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I think this is actually the Android standard (unfortunately). The EVO has this type of dial-to-narrow-down-names functionality, but I think that's something HTC added for Sense.
The HTC Android phones with Sense also have this feature. Motorola does not.
You really start to miss sense and HTC when you see all the little things that you don't have on the droid.
ssorensen said:
Ok so this is my first time using android os and i have to say its awesome. I about had it with windows. My only problem is the Droid x seems more like a pda then a phone. With my HTC Touch Pro 2 i could just start dialing the number on the keypad and it would narrow down my search instantly. With the Droid im stuck to using favorites or scrolling through the list.
Is this a motoblur thing and im just used to the awesomeness of HTC?
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This is one of the big reasons I stayed with WinMo for so long. This was default behavior for WinMo since Smartphone 2002 (my first).
I actually left WinMo when the 1st Droid came out, but took it back within my 30 days to get a TouchPro2. Despite a number of replacement dialers in the marketplace, I just couldn't replicate it effectively. I also had issues with Android 2.0 and Exchange, so it just wasn't a clean fit.
I've now dropped my TP2 for the Droid X and still kind of miss this functionality. Not enough to give up the phone this time, but I might investigate some dialers again.
-Z
dezoris said:
The HTC Android phones with Sense also have this feature. Motorola does not.
You really start to miss sense and HTC when you see all the little things that you don't have on the droid.
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They each have improvements they've added. Unfortunately can only get one or the other.
For instance, the DX has the iphone-style text selection (standard Android and HTC text manipulation sucks).
The DX's dialer has done minor pluses, like easier/quicker access to the contacts list. But the HTC dialer is nicer. Not sure I'd say that about Sense overall.
exempli_gratia said:
They each have improvements they've added. Unfortunately can only get one or the other.
For instance, the DX has the iphone-style text selection (standard Android and HTC text manipulation sucks).
The DX's dialer has done minor pluses, like easier/quicker access to the contacts list. But the HTC dialer is nicer. Not sure I'd say that about Sense overall.
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Its true it depends on what you are used to, but one things for sure if you are used to Sense or came from HTC winmo phone you won't like the Droid as much because of the missing functionality.
How is the experience with your Desire Z so far? I have had mine for 2 days and it is fantastic! Moving from WinMo to Android has been a breeze and I am loving the hardware keyboard and capacitive screen (came from Touch HD)
What does everyone use their shortcut keys for? I am thinking about using it to launch the browser or sms app.
Also, I find that the HTC Sense widgets for calendar/agenda and contacts and bookmarks take up too much space. Is there any way to make them smaller?
I think you probably want to ask this in the General forum ? You might want to PM a mod to move it
Okay, now this happens regardless of the OS on the phone - Android, Windows Mobile, or Windows Phone.
Basically, when I start trying to type quickly on the HD2, it can't keep up and starts missing out letters etc. but when typing with the same speed on another phone (e.g. an iPhone or a Galaxy SII) they have no trouble keeping up.
Now, is this a fault with my phone or is it that the touch screen just uses older technology and isn't as responsive?
try to use a "multi touch" keyboard for whatever platform you are using and see if that helps.
i think NO such keyboard exists for WM6.5.
i KNOW several such keyboards exist for Android...the HTC Sense keyboard included in most Sense-based Android roms for the HD2 is NOT multi touch, look for "gingerbread keyboard" on the market place. it also works on froyo roms!
for non-Sense-based Android roms for the HD2, most of them come with the stock gingerbread keyboard out of the box, which IS multi touch. if you are using froyo, see previous paragraph!
i think WP7 keyboard is already multi touch.
finally, the HD2 screen hardware can only handle up to TWO touches, which should be ok for typing fast, provided the keyboard is multi touch.
and, if you are already using a multi touch keyboard but desire a bit more responsiveness, consider disabling prediction, auto correction, typewriter sound, and vibration. some keyboards also support "calibration", so you can run that to see if it can learn your finger tap patterns to tune the keyboard's response.
Thanks for the information.
I've already tried the HTC Sense keyboard (currently running Sense 3.5), Gingerbread keyboard, and ICS keyboard, but none of them seem any better than each other.
I have tried calibrating the Sense keyboard, but you say that it doesn't support multi-touch anyway so it doesn't seem like it will be of much use. I don't use vibration feedback or the typewriter sound ever, but I'd find it hard not to use prediction or auto-correction.
From instinct I'd say that this seems far more likely to be a hardware problem than a software problem, so I think it is probably just that the HD2's screen is only 2-point multi-touch, whereas other phones I've tried like the Galaxy SII are 4+. So there's probably not really anything I can do to change this.
Thanks anyway though
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Okay, now this happens regardless of the OS on the phone - Android, Windows Mobile, or Windows Phone.
Basically, when I start trying to type quickly on the HD2, it can't keep up and starts missing out letters etc. but when typing with the same speed on another phone (e.g. an iPhone or a Galaxy SII) they have no trouble keeping up.
Now, is this a fault with my phone or is it that the touch screen just uses older technology and isn't as responsive?
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hi, i had the same problem before. using swiftkey X will help alot.
otherwise, try to unbox heptic feedback(vibration) on your keyboard...since its (in fact) the vibrations that cant keep up with us fast typers
btw, my girlfriend loves my fast fingers
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hi, i had the same problem before. using swiftkey X will help alot.
otherwise, try to unbox heptic feedback(vibration) on your keyboard...since its (in fact) the vibrations that cant keep up with us fast typers
btw, my girlfriend loves my fast fingers
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I bet she does
I actually bought Swiftkey X when it was on sale a while back - I wasn't amazingly impressed but I'll try it again now. Thanks for reminding me.
And yeah, I don't like using vibration on the keyboard anyway so I keep that turned off. Probably saves battery too.