Reply to: HTC Windows 7 Smartphones & HTC Sense

[fullyautomatix]

Beware: Nokia lumia does not yet support tethering or wifi hotspot functionality as other win phones do. I returned mine...

Would that not be a feature of Android ? Are you saying Nokia are disabling that feature ? I really am looking to move to Nokia/WP7 and need to know the plus and minus.

[chef]

well by the time you do get round to it the ice cream sandwich rom should be ready for general use!

[15.Jan.2012] NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.3-CM9 V1.1 - xda-developers

did you upgrade to ICS yet spaceman?

I was thinking about upgrading my desire z currently with gingerbread 2.3.3 to ice cream sandwich 4.0 but in order to do that it seems i need to downgrade to froyo in order to root the phone then upgrade to ics. As far as I can see this means once I start there's no going back to what i currently have as it's not possible to fully backup the phone without having root access.. I think I'll leave it a while for now until I can convince myself that ICS is worth the upgrade.. hmm

[rsingh]

Beware: Nokia lumia does not yet support tethering or wifi hotspot functionality as other win phones do. I returned mine...

[Spacecadet]

Nope.

I've too much on at the moment hence no time to do this or even visit CUK.

well by the time you do get round to it the ice cream sandwich rom should be ready for general use!

[15.Jan.2012] NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.3-CM9 V1.1 - xda-developers

[Clippy]

Have you done anything about this?

Nope.

I've too much on at the moment hence no time to do this or even visit CUK.

[Spacecadet]

Have you done anything about this?

[Spacecadet]

The reason it looks so involved is that you need to update a the bootloader (probably more than once), the radio software, wipe the phone completely and then load and install the new OS

[Spacecadet]

I'm sold on WP7 but the install process, at first glance, looks involved and is why I never got round to doing it in the first place.

However, I'm getting seriously bored with my phone so have re-visited doing this.

It took me about an hour to install Android, but that didn't include reading everything very carefully, and downloading all the software I needed.
That hour was pretty stressfull as for about half of it my phone was in a state it wouldn't be able to recover from should anything had gone wrong.

I'm still glad I did it though

[Clippy]

Its still running Android and almost* flawlessly to boot. Only problems is that the andriod market place doesn't let me buy apps through the market place app (but I can pay for them through the web portal) and the camera is a bit washed out

this is the XDA Developers Rom thread I used:
[07 Nov 2011][MAG/cLK]TyphooN CyanogenMod 7 Nightly v3.7.5[2.3.7][A2SD][tytung r13] - xda-developers

Install at your own risk - read all instructions thoroughly and get everything downloaded and ready before you start

Found a handy desktop application which syncs outlook contacts and calender with google mail which was nice

*it did have a little hiccup the other day and I ended up having to uninstall and reinstall opera

I'm sold on WP7 but the install process, at first glance, looks involved and is why I never got round to doing it in the first place.

However, I'm getting seriously bored with my phone so have re-visited doing this.

[Spacecadet]

I know you briefly upgraded your handset to Android but did you bother upgrading to WP7?

Its still running Android and almost* flawlessly to boot. Only problems is that the andriod market place doesn't let me buy apps through the market place app (but I can pay for them through the web portal) and the camera is a bit washed out

this is the XDA Developers Rom thread I used:
[07 Nov 2011][MAG/cLK]TyphooN CyanogenMod 7 Nightly v3.7.5[2.3.7][A2SD][tytung r13] - xda-developers

Install at your own risk - read all instructions thoroughly and get everything downloaded and ready before you start

Found a handy desktop application which syncs outlook contacts and calender with google mail which was nice

*it did have a little hiccup the other day and I ended up having to uninstall and reinstall opera

[Clippy]

Friend of mine has the HTC HD7 - it doesn't have sense on it.
Windows Mobile 7 runs smoothly on it (at least I didn't see any problems when given a quick tour)

Ta.

The reason for the question is I'm finally thinking of upgrading my HTC HD2 to WP7.

However, I quite like HTC Sense and currently rarely venture past its interface so wondered if it was available on WP7.

I know you briefly upgraded your handset to Android but did you bother upgrading to WP7?

[Spacecadet]

Does anyone on the board have a HTC smartphone which was purchased running Windows Phone 7?

If so, can you advise if it also came with HTC Sense on it?

I suspect not but wanted to confirm from someone who has one.

Ta muchly.

Friend of mine has the HTC HD7 - it doesn't have sense on it.
Windows Mobile 7 runs smoothly on it (at least I didn't see any problems when given a quick tour)

[The Spartan]

I'm thinking of getting a Lumnia, windows phone is awesome and nokia used to be the best at making phones hopefully they're on a comeback. I still have an E71 and I get two days out of it even when browsing and using email, it's a backup phone but it's so robust

[ee61re]

I get a day out of my Mozart, and that's with all the feeds side of things turned on.

That said, I don't talk much - its more of a data thing for me.

[SimonMac]

OK, thanks for confirming.

Had a play instore with the Lumia at the weekend and it was very slick.

However, I got the impression that to get the full Win Phone 7 experience, you need a constant data connection in order that the relevant feeds can be constantly updated.

And with a constant data connection your battery life will be tulip!