liam cody

24 August 2009

This phone has so much potential but HTC seem to have thrown it away. On the whole the phone is really good, but there are just too many naggingpoints to make it the real iphone beater which it ought to have pitched itself as. Breifly, the most annoying "features": 1/There doesn't appear to be any way to stop it going to "sleep" when you don't touch it, and that happens all too regularly! Pretty annoying if you're using google maps for navigation! 2/The battery life is just too short, i tend to find myself, more often than not, having to charge over night EVERY night. The real shortcoming here is that if you're using it heavily, with GPS, bluetooth, phone, camera and internet browsing, then it WILL run out before the day is through! Considering it is primarily a phone this can be pretty difficult to stand! 3/ The camera is distinctly average. There is no easy way to go straight into the camera mode (HTC should have taken hints from sony ericsons side mounted dedicated camera button). Instead you have to take photos using the roller ball, which can be awkward. Further, the camera colours are pretty dull, and the camera is all but useless in the dark (if there's no flash, then a led isn't too much to ask for guys) Those are the oustanding points, there are a few other nagging points (for example, the screen auto shifts to landscape screen only in one direction - when the lip is on the right and not the left, this is a software issue but it cant have been too difficult for them to fix before release!). There are also a few more software issues. mostly to do with not being able to access settings functions, on the plus side the settings are very easy to use, but perhaps this is due to the lack of in depth control :s. All in all, a good phone, but it could so easily have been a 5 out of 5 phone. 3 1/2 out of 5