just switched over from htc hero (sprint)

[lungho]

I've read so much hype about the Hero that I actually wanted to jump ship and try it out. The Hero being a CDMA phone and not GSM was the deciding factor along with Sprint's poor coverage in my area.

[DRTigerlilly]

Originally Posted by bamf-hacker

I also made the switch from and HTC Fuze to the iPhone and I am not going back...

I could get the move from the Fuze to the iPhone, tiny screen, slow, wm 6.1 :S

I have my reservations about android, especially since you're limited to the internal memory of the phone for apps...that's just stupid....so your phone has 8gb or whatever (limited by the sd card) but the internal memory is only 256mb and that's all the space you can have for apps...that's pathetic.

[wabbit]

Originally Posted by DRTigerlilly

I could get the move from the Fuze to the iPhone, tiny screen, slow, wm 6.1 :S

I have my reservations about android, especially since you're limited to the internal memory of the phone for apps...that's just stupid....so your phone has 8gb or whatever (limited by the sd card) but the internal memory is only 256mb and that's all the space you can have for apps...that's pathetic.

iphone 3g is 128 megs, iphone 3gs is 256..... what am i missing?

[jtshurtleff]

Actually the app memory on the iPhone is limited to the version of iPhone you have. If you have a 4GB then its 4GB if its an 8GB then you have 8GB and so on, up to 32GB. A friend of mine had 8 pages of apps totaling in about 290MB.

[DRTigerlilly]

and if you had bigger apps it could be gone in much less..Uno on the iphone is over 59 mb's alone take 5 apps that size and if the iphone was limited to internal memory vs the size of the hard disk you'd be done.

[Alli]

Don't confuse storage size (the 8 or 32 GB on the iPhone) with RAM - the space you need to load/run a game.

This is one of the reasons you can't multitask on the iPhone. If you load up a nav app, that's usually your entire RAM gone and trying to load another app would either crash you or just not load.

[DRTigerlilly]

we're not discussing ram, we're discussing internal storage re the Hero. Those devices come with ram + internal storage + an external storage source like a micro sd card.

Apps can only be installed to the internal memory, which is by default quite small. Incidentally Windows Mobile with the new marketplace is doing the same thing. Apps downloaded from the marketplace can only be installed to the internal storage. Just silly.

[wabbit]

Originally Posted by DRTigerlilly

we're not discussing ram, we're discussing internal storage re the Hero. Those devices come with ram + internal storage + an external storage source like a micro sd card.

Apps can only be installed to the internal memory, which is by default quite small. Incidentally Windows Mobile with the new marketplace is doing the same thing. Apps downloaded from the marketplace can only be installed to the internal storage. Just silly.

the hero only comes with ram, and rom for the base of the os where its loaded into the ram, everything runs off the ram and its also where apps are stored. unlike the iphone or the nokia n900

[Alli]

And unlike the Windows Marketplace, the Android store will let you purchase to your sd card - if you have a device that supports a card.

[AllTheWay]

Originally Posted by jhamilton3

with Android 2.0 rolling out, the HTC Hero will be a completely refreshed/good phone!

Hero doesn't have multi-touch. Plus the browser isn't as nice...and it won't allow you to install any apps after 256mb. That seems really lame to me.