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Touch HD or Hero????

I'm considering buying a new HTC phone after Xmas as my Sony Ericsson W850i is getting a bit old. I've seen the Touch HD with WM6.5 roms but I've also seen the Hero. Which one should I go for? [PS. I'm from the UK]

Come on, i will take the LEO and sell my HD to you.

As above post, why not go for latest phone 'Leo' a.k.a. the HD2 instead of both the HD and the Hero??
If you would still rather go for either the HD or Hero, then its simply down to whether you want Android or Windows

MehLon said:
I'm considering buying a new HTC phone after Xmas as my Sony Ericsson W850i is getting a bit old. I've seen the Touch HD with WM6.5 roms but I've also seen the Hero. Which one should I go for? [PS. I'm from the UK]
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I have an HD, one of my friends has a hero.
Both are awesome, it is a win win question.
do you want android or windows is the question.

CAVEGIANT said:
I have an HD, one of my friends has a hero.
Both are awesome, it is a win win question.
do you want android or windows is the question.
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I should add, most 6.5 roms stink so far.
Dutty's 6.1 has most of the feature stolen from 6.5, but with none of the crap

Fallen Spartan said:
As above post, why not go for latest phone 'Leo' a.k.a. the HD2 instead of both the HD and the Hero??
If you would still rather go for either the HD or Hero, then its simply down to whether you want Android or Windows
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Basically, I am on a bit of a budget as I am actually planning to get one pre-owned from 'Cex'. If I had the money, I would go for the Leo without another word but I can't. I'm new to the smartphone market and I've never tried Android or Windows Mobile. I just like the Sense UI on both [using a ROM if I got the HD]. Which OS should I go for?

MehLon said:
I'm considering buying a new HTC phone after Xmas as my Sony Ericsson W850i is getting a bit old. I've seen the Touch HD with WM6.5 roms but I've also seen the Hero. Which one should I go for? [PS. I'm from the UK]
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Hi, clearly i can say only:
Touch Hd - more advanced, more ability/opportunities, wm is more custom-able than android, touch hd have in development fully* working android
Hero - fastest interface, easy in use, lower resolution, no videocall's, hero housing/case is beautyfull, best quality I have seen.
Touch HD2 looks great but in my opinion too expensive atm - just wait for next gen. 1.5Ghz Snapdragon platforms

HD -> pocket-friendly, WM=heavy weight+Qualcomm/HTC hardware acceleration driver support for HD (therefore laggy), fully configurable&tweakable.
Hero -> pocket-friendly, Android=very lightweight (only sometimes laggy), consistent interface and apps, outstanding Google apps (e.g. free Street View Navigation) if you don't mind about your privacy, but may become boring if you like customizing your phone.
HD2 -> not pocket-friendly, the best and fastest (WM) phone out there.
Both HD and Hero phones are to be considered end-of-HTC-"support".
If you can afford to wait 9 more months, go for sth cheap meanwhile and take a look at the next HTC (Win7 OS and/or Tegra platforms) and iPhone generations, then consider again. If you can't wait, I'd currently go for the HD2, even though I'm very happy with my HD (but I wouldn't buy it again, it's a dying product).

HD Mini VS Aria

According to this and this, AT&T sells the HTC HD Mini under the name of Aria, and it runs Android 2.1. I’m no developer, but doesn’t that help in installing android on an HD Mini that currently runs Windows Mobile?

I think that is a HTC Wildfire (that's its name in the UK anyway), which is an Andoid QVGA phone (as opposed to the HD Mini being a HVGA Windows Mobile phone).

kdwms said:
I think that is a HTC Wildfire
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No, it's not.
Check here:
http://mobile.engadget.com/2010/06/17/htc-aria-review/

The 2 devices are similar but not identical.
The problem is that the EPROM firmware is simply not interchangable between the 2 platforms.
This topic has been discussed at length elsewhere

Aria and Wildfire are two different models.
Aria being the direct clone of HD mini, with redesigned capacitive buttons to fit into the android format.
Wildfire is like a scaled down version of Desire. They have identical specs, except for the slower processor, and a very much downgraded screen resolution.

Whould you give another 100Euros for a DESIRE HD?

I want to give another 100 Euros for a new desire hd and I'am in doubt is somebody who has both devices and say that is a huge difference betwen thouse two?

I don't have both devices, so I don't know how different a real Desire HD will be from a HD2 running a Desire HD build.
However, €100 for a Desire HD sounds like a bargain. I'd certainly go for it.

meptik said:
I don't have both devices, so I don't know how different a real Desire HD will be from a HD2 running a Desire HD build.
However, €100 for a Desire HD sounds like a bargain. I'd certainly go for it.
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I think he was talking about giving his HD2 plus 100 euros for a Desire HD which is a bit different than buying a Desire HD for 100euros
/ontopic - I would!

spastik said:
I think he was talking about giving his HD2 plus 100 euros for a Desire HD which is a bit different than buying a Desire HD for 100euros
/ontopic - I would!
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Heh, that would make a bit more sense.
Hmm... I'm not sure I would, if that's the case. Even though I hardly ever use Windows Mobile nowadays, I like the fact you can run multiple OS's on the HD2. The Desire HD is a wonderful phone, I'm sure, but for me it's not enough of an upgrade to consider moving from my HD2.

Hd2 vs desire hd
well...
HD2 vs DESIRE HD
hd2-can choose many builds..one day you can even run WP7..can use ram builds!
also desire hd builds is faster than desire hd phone!games also are playable as well as desire hd,browsing via internet has similar speed!tried it ...
Desire HD...only good for 720 p recording and downloading faster via market app..but now with ram version hd2 downloads faster!
my girlfriend has desire HD... overall HD2 is a bit faster!!
so i wouldnt trade it even for free
i like playing with my hd2

edangel said:
well...
HD2 vs DESIRE HD
hd2-can choose many builds..one day you can even run WP7..can use ram builds!
also desire hd builds is faster than desire hd phone!games also are playable as well as desire hd,browsing via internet has similar speed!tried it ...
Desire HD...only good for 720 p recording and downloading faster via market app..but now with ram version hd2 downloads faster!
my girlfriend has desire HD... overall HD2 is a bit faster!!
so i wouldnt trade it even for free
i like playing with my hd2
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Did you played with your gf phone? how is with new buttons, I heard the screen is same as hd2. And Be more clear her desire hd is a bit faster or hd2 I cant understand it perfectly?

wait untill NAND comes out. I think on the 1st of January. Then make ur dissision (or however u spell it, stupid dictionary wont correct it :O )

Ok , I°ll wait until 1 st , 2012

I can think of much better ways to spend €100.
The only people I know who say a Desire HD is better than a HD2 running a Desire HD ROM are biased Desire HD owners. I know plently that have said it's the same (if not a little worse). Yeah, they like the fact that it's a truly native Android device, but it doesn't work any better or do anything better, and it doesn't have the capabilities offered by the HD2.

johncmolyneux said:
I can think of much better ways to spend €100.
The only people I know who say a Desire HD is better than a HD2 running a Desire HD ROM are biased Desire HD owners. I know plently that have said it's the same (if not a little worse). Yeah, they like the fact that it's a truly native Android device, but it doesn't work any better or do anything better, and it doesn't have the capabilities offered by the HD2.
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But in the same way, hd2 owners are going to be biased towards saying the hd2 is better. I'm sure once you root and tweak a desire HD like the hd2 is, the desire HD will run better than a hd2. An original desire runs better than a hd2 once it's rooted and tweaked right. Personally, I still wouldn't trade my hd2 for any of them, though, because I still like being able to boot into winmo and easily switch builds, and android runs good enough for me on the hd2. You won't find a better multi-os booting phone. But if you are only going to use android, a native phone can be made to run android better than a hd2.
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zarathustrax said:
But in the same way, hd2 owners are going to be biased towards saying the hd2 is better. I'm sure once you root and tweak a desire HD like the hd2 is, the desire HD will run better than a hd2. An original desire runs better than a hd2 once it's rooted and tweaked right. Personally, I still wouldn't trade my hd2 for any of them, though, because I still like being able to boot into winmo and easily switch builds, and android runs good enough for me on the hd2. You won't find a better multi-os booting phone. But if you are only going to use android, a native phone can be made to run android better than a hd2.
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I don't think you read my post correctly.
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I have both of them, hd2 is the same as desire hd when i use Mdj froyo sense MDJ FroYo Sense Clean v. 2.4 and even faster when i use ram vertions of android.
Although i tried and the desire hd vertion in my hd2 and i must to admit that is significatly slower than Desire Hd in this occation. But if i had to chose i would chose the hd2 because it is customisable

mech5243 said:
I have both of them, hd2 is the same as desire hd when i use Mdj froyo sense MDJ FroYo Sense Clean v. 2.4 and even faster when i use ram vertions of android.
Although i tried and the desire hd vertion in my hd2 and i must to admit that is significatly slower than Desire Hd in this occation. But if i had to chose i would chose the hd2 because it is customisable
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Is your desire HD rooted and modified like the hd2 builds are? Or is it still stock? It's not really a fair comparison unless its rooted and modded.
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No because hd2 have hw buttons.

i wouldn't rather, save 100 eu for later next year..
maybe i can ask here so i don't open another thread, what do you guys think is it worth exchanging my 11m old hd2 for 1m galaxy s and then selling it and buying another hd2 with more warranty? just thinking..

[REQ][PORT]

I've found something interesting here.
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...gn=Feed:+xda-developers/ShsH+(xda-developers)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430170
Someone interested porting to?
Greeting Chriss

this android based os runs out of the box on the meizu mx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmQSnmOIfdM

+1 on that...looks interesting
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Looks like a miui theme to me.

io53 said:
Looks like a miui theme to me.
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Its Not Base on miui, Not a Theme
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I think this is a customized OS based on Android.
I owned a "Meizu M8" previously and this also had a similar looking OS. It was Windows Mobile 6 with some "apps" on top developed by Meizu (chinese cellphone company) that changed the whole look to what you see in the video above...
When I was leaving the Meizu scene there were some rumors about the next phone gen using Android as OS...
Oh and I don't recommend porting... It hasn't had that much additional functionality in the past and was full of bugs. Everytime two bugs where fixed four new ones appeared... This could be because of WM6 but I think it's also because of Meizu not being that experienced at developing (compared to Google/Apple). And of course it would be a hell of work to get this (chinese) thing adopted to western language - there were several compatibility issues although we had some very good coders working on it.

It does actually look good, anyone want to try it?
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I'd like the widgets and the lock screen but the rest would depend on how well it preforms

Looks very nice!

it´s important

looks good, i ported it to desire s there is no network issue and some other issues.
maybe i can port it to desire hd, but i cant maintain the rom because i dont have desire hd

Let the deployment beginn
proxuser said:
looks good, i ported it to desire s there is no network issue and some other issues.
maybe i can port it to desire hd, but i cant maintain the rom because i dont have desire hd
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The desire is, I would try to exact and complete the course are to say in the various stages of development may be whether it can provide the forum for disposal.
Excuse my English,
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[Q] HTC Gratia Board use in HTC HD MINI?

Can i use the Board from the Gratia in my HTC HD MINI (Photoon)
To Boot the Android from Gratia over the Screen from the HTC HD MINI?

nobody has an idea?

There are a lot of similarities between the HD Mini and Gratia, but I doubt if you can get away with a board swap. There are at least some differences between both phones, for example the use of the battery, the buttons below the screen... and there is probably more.
I am no expert, so to be sure ask an expert such as Schlund or Munjeni .

you should ask who knows about Hardware boards....
sorry to answer late, but seems no one knows about that greatly.

I have a board bought'll test the next week times. I am very curious what comes out