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Metropcs got the new htc wildfire s......

Prime85 said:
Who needs an FM radio when you have 4g and iheartradio
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Who needs streaming radio when you have your entire music collection on Google Music? The best part is now that it is out of beta any music you have that is in their collection doesn't need to be uploaded, and their copy is in a much higher bit rate. And to think Apple charges for this.

https://music.google.com
 
ShinySide said:
It actually has a flash too And officially supported by cm
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Wildfire S

It comes with FlashLite Plugin... You can upgrade to Flash 10.3 for arm6 devices (there is even one wrapped in a v11 wrapper) with root.
Not officially supported by CM team yet to my knowledge. Alquez has a great port for the gsm side; devs still working on a port for the cdma side, but ports they are; I would love love love to see official support for wildfire s :) [koush is on the cm team as well so we'd probably get rom manager official support then too] But alas, not yet.

Rob
 
nuttmeg said:
This phone sucks.
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It's an arm6 phone; so, it does have it's limitations. I have had a decent experience thusfar. They sold a ton for $99, no contract, $35/mo... That is hard to ignore. Oh and true unlimited internet and texts; people get sold on value around Christmas.
Better than an apple ;)

Rob
 
ShinySide said:
Heres a review from a user over at unleashedprepaids.com
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That's an honest review. Development takes time (at least for me). These phones pretty much dropped end of Oct [for the marvelc side], and he's right, there is little development...yet. That doesn't mean simonsimon34, I or others are not developing. Funny people used to s-off because they wanted to develop and help the android community; now it's seen as I should be able to pick and choose whatever I want right now [for free] or I'll write a scathing review. Doesn't bother me; weeds out the impatient users :)

Rob
 
ShinySide said:
Heres a review from a user over at unleashedprepaids.com
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lmao, development or not i wouldn't buy this crap, almost same specsas the other POS ascend everyone had, plus HTC introduces a suite of logging tools that collected information. Lots of information. LOTS. Whatever the reason was, whether for better understanding problems on users' devices, easier remote analysis, corporate evilness - it doesn't matter.
 
nuttmeg said:
lmao, development or not i wouldn't buy this crap, almost same specsas the other POS ascend everyone had, plus HTC introduces a suite of logging tools that collected information. Lots of information. LOTS. Whatever the reason was, whether for better understanding problems on users' devices, easier remote analysis, corporate evilness - it doesn't matter.
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Logging tools I don't mind; developers use them to diagnose problems [and fix] all the time. The ones that phone home like ET; that's the ones you have to be worried about. Saw the loggers you are referring to on the US Cellular stock; not so much on VM USA; and I haven't been able to peep the MetroPCS version yet. I suppose with the CarrierIQ media [security problems], its easy to lose sight of the usefullness of a basic logcat [which is also a logger]. I'll give you that manufacturers and carriers alike like to load phones down [even this memory-challenged one] with meaningless horsecrap, but that can all be remedied with about any phone as well. Honestly, if I weren't being a tightwad, I'd still be using my G2 or Incredible 2. I just didn't want a contract, and I have some familiarity with HTC phones; so, I went with the only HTC VM offers. Yes, its got an old arm6 processor, yes if you are a poweruser you'll run out of memory the first 2-3 days you have the device, yes I'm not so familiar with cdma or nand devices [so development is slow], but it's an android so I'll give it what I know, try to learn more, then move on. If I hit the lottery and didn't care about money, I'd buy a developer phone [mostly Samsung] with ics aosp, but I'm in a dinghy so I'll keep it floating along.
 
nuttmeg said:
lmao, development or not i wouldn't buy this crap, almost same specsas the other POS ascend everyone had, plus HTC introduces a suite of logging tools that collected information. Lots of information. LOTS. Whatever the reason was, whether for better understanding problems on users' devices, easier remote analysis, corporate evilness - it doesn't matter.
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It seems like a slightly/unslightly improved version of the om but esteem owns these any day :D
 
insink71 said:
Logging tools I don't mind; developers use them to diagnose problems [and fix] all the time. The ones that phone home like ET; that's the ones you have to be worried about. Saw the loggers you are referring to on the US Cellular stock; not so much on VM USA; and I haven't been able to peep the MetroPCS version yet. I suppose with the CarrierIQ media [security problems], its easy to lose sight of the usefullness of a basic logcat [which is also a logger]. I'll give you that manufacturers and carriers alike like to load phones down [even this memory-challenged one] with meaningless horsecrap, but that can all be remedied with about any phone as well. Honestly, if I weren't being a tightwad, I'd still be using my G2 or Incredible 2. I just didn't want a contract, and I have some familiarity with HTC phones; so, I went with the only HTC VM offers. Yes, its got an old arm6 processor, yes if you are a poweruser you'll run out of memory the first 2-3 days you have the device, yes I'm not so familiar with cdma or nand devices [so development is slow], but it's an android so I'll give it what I know, try to learn more, then move on. If I hit the lottery and didn't care about money, I'd buy a developer phone [mostly Samsung] with ics aosp, but I'm in a dinghy so I'll keep it floating along.
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So you are a developer right? Wouldnt happen to know about accomplishing getting root on the Esteem would ya? The new update blocked our current root process and be great if you could help us out with it. AND if you happen to know your way around CWR it'd be nice to get an extra set of eyes and the knowledge behind them to help try to figure out/ fix a 2 minute rebooting issue while in cwr that we're having.

If you wanna take a crack at let me know. It'd be much appreciated :)
 
insink71 said:
Logging tools I don't mind; developers use them to diagnose problems [and fix] all the time. The ones that phone home like ET; that's the ones you have to be worried about. Saw the loggers you are referring to on the US Cellular stock; not so much on VM USA; and I haven't been able to peep the MetroPCS version yet. I suppose with the CarrierIQ media [security problems], its easy to lose sight of the usefullness of a basic logcat [which is also a logger]. I'll give you that manufacturers and carriers alike like to load phones down [even this memory-challenged one] with meaningless horsecrap, but that can all be remedied with about any phone as well. Honestly, if I weren't being a tightwad, I'd still be using my G2 or Incredible 2. I just didn't want a contract, and I have some familiarity with HTC phones; so, I went with the only HTC VM offers. Yes, its got an old arm6 processor, yes if you are a poweruser you'll run out of memory the first 2-3 days you have the device, yes I'm not so familiar with cdma or nand devices [so development is slow], but it's an android so I'll give it what I know, try to learn more, then move on. If I hit the lottery and didn't care about money, I'd buy a developer phone [mostly Samsung] with ics aosp, but I'm in a dinghy so I'll keep it floating along.
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yes them contract sucks big time, but HTC makes good products, i have a couple EVO 3D and EVO 4G, only really downfall of metro HTC is the speed but mainly the screen as i have big fingers...;)
 
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