Would you swap your omnia for a HERO?

[Guest geeky]

Pretty much as per the title really guys. My contract with Tmobile uk is about up and I am thinking about swapping my omnia for a HERO. Omnia has definatly been the most happy i have been with a smartphone but I keep finding myself being drawn to the HERO.

(If it helps i use my phone for ususal phone/txting/ email/ gmail calendar - gmail / some googlemaps / mobile internet and Igo)

Thanks

[Guest smilegod]

Pretty much as per the title really guys. My contract with Tmobile uk is about up and I am thinking about swapping my omnia for a HERO. Omnia has definatly been the most happy i have been with a smartphone but I keep finding myself being drawn to the HERO.

(If it helps i use my phone for ususal phone/txting/ email/ gmail calendar - gmail / some googlemaps / mobile internet and Igo)

Thanks

I really like HERO's finger friendly interface , integrated apps , i really like android e.t.c. , but WM is more costomizible , there are more apps for it.

If you whant a stable nice looking and simple phone choose HERO

If you whant hightly customizible, with a lot apps to download and roms to flash keep Omnia (or buy Omnia II Diamond II or any other new WM device)

:)

Edited July 24, 2009 by smilegod

[Guest lorin.bute]

I'm very tempted by the HERO. But smilegod has a point. The device itself is great, the software and the community needs to be mature enough to be a clear drive for me to buy it.

[Guest bobobird]

Suggest you read the reviews first about it poor overall performance.

HTC have a habit of using a cpu that is not quite capable of handling the functions of its phones.

[Guest Zealster]

I would just for that game "Parallel Universe." That game looks amazingly awesome. I really wish they'd come out with a WM version though, because it looks quite fun to play.

[Guest geeky]

Suggest you read the reviews first about it poor overall performance.

HTC have a habit of using a cpu that is not quite capable of handling the functions of its phones.

I am a bit worried about the poor cpu performance, but i figure it cannot be much different to my omnia (which sometimes is painfully slow). Im not into mega customisation - ROM flashing etc (mostly as i run linux on everything and its too much hastle to flash roms without windows).

Im also hoping that as im not bothered for facebook or twitter on my phone that the cpu should be able to cope with my demands. I am hoping that android will have a larger community soon, I would miss some of the excellant WM applications that are around but I cannot help but think that unless MS pull out something special WM is a dieing platform.

I guess i need a "hands on" myself to work it out, i was lucky with omnia, i ordered it without every touching one and was not let down, although i still find the speed / screen frustrating sometimes.

(I have never worked out why the messaging application gets bigger everytime you recieve or delete a message but if you stop it and restart it ends up at 400k instead of 3.5mb!).

[Guest punkmonkey1984]

HTC Hero theme right here for winmo check it out

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread...481#post4061481

[Guest lorin.bute]

7 days with the HERO:

(first day, from here you can find the rest of the videos).

[Guest Tim-H]

HTC Hero theme right here for winmo check it out

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread...481#post4061481

Wow that looks cool.

[Guest thierryyy]

Definitely the HTC Hero.

[Guest Cbroph]

I think I'll stick with my Omnia, this persuaded me: http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/23/htc-hero-review/

[Guest geeky]

Im going to try and get hands on with one, only way i will now for real. I just cant see it being any more laggy than an omnia with a few applications running. I am not bothered about running faceparty, but just have had it with my touchscreen on the omnia not responding as i would like.

Thanks for the input, i will report back on what i end up with!

[Guest new2city]

me, I am keeping an eye on Andromnia... :)