T-Mobile Pulse CANCELLED

[Guest Simon O]

eh? the spica has a capacitive screen, though it's not a very good one, in my view. mainly for texting, though that could be due to samsung's keyboard. anyway, there's nothing wrong with a GOOD resistive screen - resistive is more accurate than capacitive. just because a display may be capacitive, doesn't mean it's going to be a good display. and speckles, the pulse's resolution is indeed 320 x 480 - i'd never buy a phone with a 3.5" screen that has a qvga resolution :D

The pulse has a nice screen. 320x480 Samsung LCD ;)

and it's capacitive so you can use the screen with a sausage or a banana as some people found out in another thread :angry:

[Guest JimJam707]

Ok guys, I just ordered the i7500. It's on its way hopefully.

I'll still be checking here though.

So. Yeah.

[Guest brack]

Ok guys, I just ordered the i7500. It's on its way hopefully.

I'll still be checking here though.

So. Yeah.

when I got my pulse in the end of january i had an option to get spica but chose pulse over spica because there were so many problems reported with it. I dont remember details, but maybe someone can tell how is spica practically comparing with pulse? the price is the same I believe, and cpu/ram I think was the same.

[Guest Bakes]

when I got my pulse in the end of january i had an option to get spica but chose pulse over spica because there were so many problems reported with it. I dont remember details, but maybe someone can tell how is spica practically comparing with pulse? the price is the same I believe, and cpu/ram I think was the same.

Spica feels much much faster. Much smoother, etc.

[Guest aidanj]

when I got my pulse in the end of january i had an option to get spica but chose pulse over spica because there were so many problems reported with it. I dont remember details, but maybe someone can tell how is spica practically comparing with pulse? the price is the same I believe, and cpu/ram I think was the same.

nah, the spica has an 800 mhz cpu (the pulse has a 528 mhz one), and the spica has 128 mb ram (apparently, there are conflicting reports on this, i haven't got my sister's phone at hand to check). strangely, my sister's spica seems to have no more than 30 mb ram free - same as my pulse, weird. i posted my thoughts of the pulse and spica on hotukdeals a few weeks back:

i logged in just to post. i myself am an owner of the t-mobile pulse, and, on the whole, it's great. my sister owns the galaxy spicca/i5700, and i really don't like it. my main issue with the samsung is that i find the touchscreen to be so clunky, it's not even funny. the phone is forever hitting the wrong keys - it really oes my head in. my pulse, on the other hand, is an absolute dream to use - the keyboard is as responsive as can be, and hits all of the right keys for me - a pleasure to use.

also, both the samsung and the pulse both have a 3.2 mp autofocus camera. the samsung takes better shots, but, at night time, it lags like nobody's business. samsung have always been bad in this regard, but the i5700 takes the cake. when taking a picture at night, moving the phone around will blur terribly, AS WELL as slowing the camera itself down - it takes forever to catch up, despite having a processor that's 272 mhz faster than the pulse.

next, when taking a picture with the i5700, you have to tap to focus, and then release the focus, and press the camera button again to take the picture. on my pulse, it's half press the hardware button or on-screen 'ball', fully press, and the picture's taken. t-mobile are taking forever to update the i5700 from the stock android 1.5 (might be 1.6, can't remember) to the recent 2.1 version. other countries have it already, and have done for a while.

the same is true of the pulse, BUT, the pulse has a far superior (imo) modding community than the i5700, with custom roms aplenty, if that's your 'thing'. lastly, it's amazing - the pulse has 192 mb ram - 105 mb of which is available, yet you NEVER get any more than around 26 mb free. manufacturer huawei really need to sort that out - but my pulse still does everything as fast as my sister's i5700.

as for the lg - it seems fine from reviews, by lg don't seem to have much support for it, and i haven't seen a modding community to speak of. the touchscreen is said to be very responsive by way of finger and stylus input, so that's a plus over the awful samsung. without a doubt, i'd urge anyone reading this to get the pulse, consider the lg, and avoid the i5700 at all costs. samsung just can't seem to get the hardware and software right for their touchscreen phones - be they capacitive or resistive.

[Guest Azurren]

nah, the spica has an 800 mhz cpu (the pulse has a 528 mhz one), and the spica has 128 mb ram (apparently, there are conflicting reports on this, i haven't got my sister's phone at hand to check). strangely, my sister's spica seems to have no more than 30 mb ram free - same as my pulse, weird. i posted my thoughts of the pulse and spica on hotukdeals a few weeks back:

i logged in just to post. i myself am an owner of the t-mobile pulse, and, on the whole, it's great. my sister owns the galaxy spicca/i5700, and i really don't like it. my main issue with the samsung is that i find the touchscreen to be so clunky, it's not even funny. the phone is forever hitting the wrong keys - it really oes my head in. my pulse, on the other hand, is an absolute dream to use - the keyboard is as responsive as can be, and hits all of the right keys for me - a pleasure to use.

also, both the samsung and the pulse both have a 3.2 mp autofocus camera. the samsung takes better shots, but, at night time, it lags like nobody's business. samsung have always been bad in this regard, but the i5700 takes the cake. when taking a picture at night, moving the phone around will blur terribly, AS WELL as slowing the camera itself down - it takes forever to catch up, despite having a processor that's 272 mhz faster than the pulse.

next, when taking a picture with the i5700, you have to tap to focus, and then release the focus, and press the camera button again to take the picture. on my pulse, it's half press the hardware button or on-screen 'ball', fully press, and the picture's taken. t-mobile are taking forever to update the i5700 from the stock android 1.5 (might be 1.6, can't remember) to the recent 2.1 version. other countries have it already, and have done for a while.

the same is true of the pulse, BUT, the pulse has a far superior (imo) modding community than the i5700, with custom roms aplenty, if that's your 'thing'. lastly, it's amazing - the pulse has 192 mb ram - 105 mb of which is available, yet you NEVER get any more than around 26 mb free. manufacturer huawei really need to sort that out - but my pulse still does everything as fast as my sister's i5700.

as for the lg - it seems fine from reviews, by lg don't seem to have much support for it, and i haven't seen a modding community to speak of. the touchscreen is said to be very responsive by way of finger and stylus input, so that's a plus over the awful samsung. without a doubt, i'd urge anyone reading this to get the pulse, consider the lg, and avoid the i5700 at all costs. samsung just can't seem to get the hardware and software right for their touchscreen phones - be they capacitive or resistive.

Honestly your sisters must be faulty ;)

My mothers Spica can multitask every app installed on the phone with a nice 40mb ram to spare, loading most apps are instant with no waiting and with multitasking they open even faster :D

Put it this way, when you press to open the dialer it opens instantly, setting instantly and widgets instantly :angry:

Imo The Spica owns the pulse in every way apart from the screen. But then again the 3.2 screen makes the phone alot easier to hold comfortably

[Guest onawall]

If Huawei make this phone for TMobile and TMobile aren't releasing it any more then hopefully that will free Huawei to release unbranded updates for it without going through TM.

Or maybe they'll just abandon the phone altogether.

[Guest Speckles]

If Huawei make this phone for TMobile and TMobile aren't releasing it any more then hopefully that will free Huawei to release unbranded updates for it without going through TM.

Or maybe they'll just abandon the phone altogether.

If no one is buying the phone there's little incentive for Huawei to release anything at all - why work on a device thats not going to bring you income?

If someone said to Huawei "We'll buy 10,000 of these phones if you make a Android 2.2 release" then you can pretty much guarantee they'll do it. Otherwise, the chance is very slim.