{"id":914,"date":"2011-03-18T12:33:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/18\/remember-windows-mobile-6-5unfortunately-i-do\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T12:33:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:33:29","slug":"remember-windows-mobile-6-5unfortunately-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/18\/remember-windows-mobile-6-5unfortunately-i-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Windows Mobile 6.5&ndash;Unfortunately I do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just read Richard Tubb\u2019s post called <a href=\"http:\/\/tubblog.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/18\/remember-windows-mobile-6-5\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Remember Windows Mobile 6.5?<\/a> I felt compelled to write this. You should probably go and read Richard\u2019s post first\u2026.go on, I\u2019ll still be here when you\u2019re done. <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In summary, Richard has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htc.com\/europe\/product\/hd2\/overview.html\" class=\"broken_link\">HTC HD2<\/a> running <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Mobile_6.5#Windows_Mobile_6.5\">Windows Mobile 6.5<\/a>. He loves the device and HTC use their HTC Sense software to hide a lot of the Windows Mobile 6.5 side of things, so much so that when his contract runs out he has no plans to upgrade it yet. <\/p>\n<p>I remember feeling very envious of Richard\u2019s HTC HD2 when he first showed it to me. I\u2019d only had my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htc.com\/uk\/product\/touch2\/overview.html\" class=\"broken_link\">HTC Touch 2<\/a> a few weeks and when I spoke to my operator (T-Mobile) for my handset upgrade I was told the HTC Touch 2 was the only Windows Mobile 6.5 they had and there were no plans in the pipeline for any more in the near future\u2026the HTC HD2 was announced by T-Mobile a few weeks later \u2013 how annoyed was I?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 7px 12px 7px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"217\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My contract is also coming around to upgrade time and I\u2019ll be honest <u>I can\u2019t wait<\/u>. <\/p>\n<p>See my phone doesn\u2019t come with HTC Sense. It has something called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TouchFLO\" class=\"broken_link\">HTC TouchFlo<\/a> which is basically a today screen plugin which is useful in some respects but lacks the integration of Facebook, Twitter, mail, texts and contacts that HTC Sense has. <\/p>\n<p>This means I have to interact with Windows Mobile 6.5 a lot more which I\u2019ve just had enough of. <\/p>\n<p>6.5 was very much an upgrade from 6 meaning there are some areas of the operating system which really are still suited to a stylus and while the phone comes with one I don\u2019t want to keep switching between that and my finger so generally end up selecting the wrong option and spending ten minutes on a text message trying to use the on screen keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>If I <strike>steal copy <\/strike>use Richard\u2019s list for inspiration<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My Touch2 isn\u2019t particularly fast and it frequently will grid to a halt. Whether is down to the device or the software is probably open to debate. <\/li>\n<li>The camera is ok, but not good enough that I use it a lot. <\/li>\n<li>Battery life is one of the plus sides. I can get a day\u2019s heavy use out of it quite easily and if i turn off wireless, bluetooth and direct push when I\u2019m not using them I\u2019ll get three or four days use easily. <\/li>\n<li>E-Mail works great with Exchange and GoogleMail and Hotmail (with an additional Microsoft application installed) <\/li>\n<li>GPS \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htc.com\/uk\/product\/touch2\/specification.html\" class=\"broken_link\">The specs<\/a> list an internal GPS antenna but it\u2019s never worked when I\u2019ve needed it. <\/li>\n<li>Social Media is only available through apps or a web browser. I\u2019ve not found a Facebook app that works well. m.twitter.com was my default option until recently but something has changed which means my browser frequently locks up on the site so I\u2019m now using the excellent <a href=\"www.panoramicsoft.com\/mobileapps\/motweets\/moTweets.php\" class=\"broken_link\">moTweets<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>You can\u2019t switch from portrait to landscape mode easily (that I can tell!). Sometimes when I\u2019m reading some text it would be easier to have it in landscape. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve also had some weird things going on with the phone recently. <\/p>\n<p>The big one is that it\u2019s been losing time. I noticed that it was about ten minutes slow so reset the clock. Within a couple of days it had fallen behind again and it\u2019s been a feature ever since. This is a pain in the neck, especially since I rely on it for the time (I haven\u2019t worn a watch on a daily basis since I started carrying a mobile phone) <\/p>\n<p>Text messages have been arriving in batches. My phone will beep and I\u2019ll notice two or three that have been sent over the last hour. I had a situation recently why Mrs P sent me a text while I was still in the office asking me to pick something up on the way home. I didn\u2019t actually get the text until I\u2019d arrived home. This isn\u2019t helpful when your married to someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\">who relies on text messages<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>When opening a text sometimes it will half open and then lock up and I end up frustratingly stabbing at screen with my finger and when i finally catches<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes if I miss a call the phone doesn\u2019t become useable for a few minutes as the caller display seems to hang. <\/p>\n<p>You probably get the point\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Based on experiences with my previous Windows Mobile I probably need to reload and start from scratch. <\/p>\n<p>So which handset should I go for? <\/p>\n<p>I really don\u2019t know if I\u2019m honest. <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t particularly want an iPhone (the reasons for which are long enough for their own blog post). As Richard also said I\u2019m also not that interested in a Blackberry which means the choice is either an Android or Windows Mobile 7. <\/p>\n<p>The other thing is that I find it really hard to get excited about mobile phones in the same way as I would other gadgets. I remember when Windows Phone 7 was launched, one of their Facebook status updates asked who\u2019d be queuing up to get one. Straight away I thought \u201cnot me, I\u2019ve got another twelve months left on my contract!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how it works in other countries but the norm here is that your handset is subsidised by the network so we\u2019re just not used to buying devices. This means if I sign up for a contract (which has gone up from 12 month to 18 months to 2 years now) that\u2019s the device I\u2019ve got work with unless I want to buy another device myself. Some people do this by selling their first device to fund the new device but I can\u2019t be bothered with that!<\/p>\n<p>This means when Apple, or Nokia or Microsoft or whoever release their latest and greatest I just can\u2019t get excited as it\u2019s only applicable to me for a very short period of time. It means I can only be interested in what\u2019s available when I\u2019m in a position to upgrade. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 7px 12px 7px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"146\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>I mentioned on Facebook earlier about one my favourite phones from years gone by\u2026the Nokia 7110.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve still got it, maybe I should just use that instead? <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wlEmoticon-smile1.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just read Richard Tubb\u2019s post called Remember Windows Mobile 6.5? 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