My new phone: T-Mobile Pulse
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on Oct.08, 2009,under Computers, Programming
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Note: This is about the Dutch T-Mobile.
I ordered the brand new T-Mobile pulse a week ago and I am expecting it to arrive next week. Let me describe what made me choose this particular cellphone and make some remarks about my expectations. That will be fun to reread in a couple of month time.
History
I've never had a lot of fun with phones. Most likely that's because I'm no longer sixteen years old. But I've had 'm for some time but I seldom use the phone. Take this literally. With seldom I mean less than 20 minutes per month.
My first phone was a Siemens M55. I bought it because of the then emerging data (Internet) possibilities. The performance was horrible. It could only show real WAP sites and there were only a few of them around. Starting up the GPRS and loading the first site would take the best part of five minutes. I didn't use it a lot. I payed per kB so what the heck.
I had high hopes of the possibilities with the embedded java. I did manage to find a few games that I could download and install from within the phone. Apart from the fact that it was dead slow I was demoted by the small screen (color!). So I didn't play a lot.
This was technique in it's infancies.
Today
I have a basic Nokia, simlock free. No Internet. Phone only.
Next week
If all goes according to the promises by T-Mobile they will start shipping the Pulse from Monday October 12. Have a look at a picture:
These are the specs from the website. You find this phone at http://tinyurl.com/ydnc32q
Specificaties:
- Afmetingen: 112 x 56.2 x 14.4 mm
- Gewicht: 135 gram
- Spreektijd: tot 480 minuten
- Standby tijd: tot 750 uur
- Netwerken: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 UMTS/HSDPA tot 7.2mbps/GSM/GPRS
Functies
- Besturingssysteem: Google Android
- Scherm: TFT Touch Screen met 65.000 kleuren
- Camera: 5.0 megapixel
- Processor: Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528 MHz
- Intern geheugen: 288 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
- Games
- Handenvrije luidspreker
- HTML-browser
- MP3 beltonen
- MP3-speler
- Polyfone beltonen
- Geïntegreerde GPS ontvanger
- Video/Audio speler
- Uitgebreide agenda
- Trilfunctie
- USB aansluiting
It has everything a modern smartphone would want. But these specs are vague. Like what is the screen resolution (480 x 320). The other page on their site claims it runs the latest Android but I can't imagine it to be 1.6. The camera resolution is 3.15MP, not 5 as claimed here.
The phone really is a Huawei U8220. For those among you interested in more detailed specs, have a look at this site: http://tinyurl.com/y8r6f5z.
Money
This phone will cost me close to € 30,- a month in a one year contract. It includes darn slow but unlimited Internet (345kB/64kB) and 150 min for E.T. to phone home.
Choices
What made me decide for this one? Mainly it was money. This phone sells at € 257,- or thereabout and that's about the upper limit for both my wallet and my notion of what a phone should cost. The latest iPhone would cost me around € 1100,- for two years of fun. I would probably go for it anyway if it was only fun I could expect. But I don't like the software being closed source, the App store being controlled without an alternative store available. Even the case is closed so I can't add memory or a spare battery if need be.
If I would want to develop apps for the iPhone I'd need to pay a decent sum of money to start and next get in touch with Objective C. I am not an Apple fanboy. I simply don't want to be locked up into the fantasies of other people.
An alternative would be another phone with Android. Notably the HTC Hero. It's just more expensive. I tend to believe the specs are in the same range.
Expectations
I'll be phoning a lot more. But more important, I;ll have my mail around. And my Twitter. Being a profound bicyclist I have high expectations of the GPS possibilities of the phone. I hope it's got some tracking possibilities. I'll be making pictures and listen to music. I think it's all those basic tasks that keep me busy at least some time in a regular day. It has the potential to be used something like two hours a day when I'm not at home. I can live without it, so it's a pure gadget.
Will I be developing for the Android? Yes and no. I do think I'll be doing a 'Hello World' of some sort. I don't think I'll be doing a real app. I regularly lack inspiration. And things I do come up with are so specific I'll be my only customer. That's the outcome of many of my efforts. I really do know what I'm talking about!
I don't like Java. There Python bindings available but they need to be expanded. It is not expected to be any Python GUI bindings, so the Python part will be text based I presume.
Part of me believes this phone will be a disappointment. But that happened before. It's a glance into the future. The phones of today will turn out to be immature in a few years time. But that's the fun part of progress.
I'll take some time to write a review. I think before the end of the year.
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It would be interesting to know what application works best for managing your blog via Android.
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