Silverexpress
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OTA updates are really complicated IMO.
A 200 meg file will take a long time to download via OTA. This also bogs down the network on the towers to download the update.
There is the possibility that a failed OTA transfer will render the update process error and the device must be hard reset and started over.
There are also issues for people like me who have really low service in their area, and mostly none.
VZW and Sprint maps, even GSM maps show there is service in my area, but that is a fat lie.
I'm lucky to make phone calls, and I'm in a decently populated area.
Quit speculating on an update.
2.0 will come.
Sprint/samsung used 1.5 because sprint seems to be slacking for everything. It was noticeable with the Touch Pro and the MMS pictures stuff. They are trying ot be cheep and save money. They no longer give out deals to long time corporate customers (me, I would know) Which pisses me off. I was not able to get any deal on this phone whatsoever like I did my touch pro. Which I should have just stayed with my Mogul until this phone was released.
Now, as for a q2 update, that is just assinine. If this phone is rooted. I'm sure that devs will release a 2.0 update well before, or even a better working 1.6 update. Developers for large corporations drag their feet. If google did the developing on this stuff, this phone woulda been released with 2.0, as well as the droid.
Who cares abou the hero, that cheep piece of HTC crap.
I Speculate that the moment was released with 1.5 due to a request from sprint to prevent things like tethering and such. 1.5 limits the caipabilities of this phone. To simply release it with an outdated OS means nothing more but hinderance.
Like a state of the art PC running Windows 3.1, or some old version of linux slackware.
Software limits the hardware caipabilities. And this phone certinaly shows it.
It is obvious this phone has issues, and they are simple ones, but annoying nonetheless due ot the 1.5 os most likely being intigrated with 1.6 for CDMA compatibility.
Now, lets flame on the other idiot in here who said this phone works just fine.
YOU ARE A MORON.
Okay. I think that was simple enough for his brain to comprehend. What was his name, Silverlight? oh who cares.
This phone Does NOT work just fine.
The camera bugs out most of the time, the battery meter reads inaccuratly which screws up phone useage. The phone still lasts for friggen ever, but I noticed that its keeping the phone from charging the battery all the way. Which in turn is shortening my battery life day to day, which is annoying me.
The phone has calling issues. Phone likes to hang (stop working) while trying to end calls. Battery must be removed to reset. (which is a pain gah, I miss reset)
I'm sure there are some other basic issues. These are just the start, there is a whole thread, where most of them are isolized events due to widgets and other installs on the phone.
Pluss, somewhere in there, sprint asked samsung to make the phone start up all its sprint apps in the background and run them to suck up more battery life.
I constantly am closing the NFL crap and sprint tv or whatever.
I dont want/use this junk.
And to comment on sprint's apps being out dated.
These companies need to stop trying to develop software.
Save the money and work on your PR! Make sure your employee's are educated.
Give us better phone rates.
92 a month for me to run this damn phone.
Thats with my corporate discount. I was running 89 a month with an old buisness 1000 Plan, but thatw asn't good enough.
Why can i just not, cheeply, purchase the features I need. 1000 minutes.
Full data, texting. and be done.
Why do i haev to pay for sprint TV and NFL live. and all this other bullcrap.
65 a month seems very fair for a good minute/data plan from a phone company.
These people rake in money. 100 people with this phone.
Lets see, lets add 2 zeros.
Thats 10,000 a month, from 100 users.
i'm sure well over 1000 people have this phone already.
Thats 100,000 a month.
Wait. I'm off topic.
Sprint navigation is dumb and outdated, as is other sprint apps.
Work with companies like google to develope good software to add to these phones that is not obtrusive.
It's not people like Us who will be downfall of technology. Its the idiots who develope it and the uneducated users who get pissed off and flame the products in the media and on their blogs and myspace and crap.
Oh, look forward to my samsung moment review on Midnight Mods
I will actually try and post this one, unlike my touch pro review. OOOPS!
And WTH SEIDO! No samsung moment support? you got droid holsters in the making, but I cannot get non pouch belt clip for my moment like i did my touch pro?!
This is the only downside to a phone with a physical keyboard.
