Why HTC?
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One of the reasons we love HTC products is because, thankfully, the designers at HTC enable the development community (primarily at XDA-Devs) to really build some awesome & cool customizations. This is in stark contrast to Motorola which really locks down the bootloaders and other such system-level tools required to load custom roms & software.
For example, thanks to the efforts of many developers and the developer communities, we are able to load Android 2.3 on the HD2 – previously a Windows Mobile 6.5 device. We can even load the new Windows Phone 7 on that same unit. This is after 100s of ROMS were already available for that Awesome device, taking the OS to new levels of customization and flexibility.
On the Android front, HTC Devices continue to dominate in terms of customizations & flexibility. Currently, we are running Android 2.3 Gingerbread w/HTC Sense on the new HTC Inspire, months before AT&T is planning on releasing it. The HTC EVO has a great custom rom from Fresh that is really clean, slick & bloatware free. All these ROMS are ready for the real-time, some of them much more stable than releases from the carriers themselves. Certainly, the ROMs that we offer our customers are all vigorously tested for power-users to enjoy.
For these reasons and more, we appreciate the flexibility and openness that HTC has built into their products, and the efforts and innovation of the hundreds of developers making our day-to-day experiences so much more pleasant and fun!
Enjoy your new HTC WP7 or HTC Rooted Android phone to the max!
-Dovid
February 12th, 2012 on 12:16 pm
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March 9th, 2012 on 2:10 am
Thanks, man, lelray lelray vivid instruction for some rookie like me. got one question here about rom manager here, hope you can help it a little. I was just wondering if i understand correctly about adb evo-recovery.zip and rom manager. for adb evo-recovery.zip , after i root’d evo and renamed that PC36IMG.zip, i have to install android sdk and ADB drivers on my pc, and have to run recovery-windows.bat everytime i enter RECOVERY MODE from HBoot. is that right?As to ROM Manager, after i root’d, I just need download Flash Clockwork Recovery and Reboot into Recovery, then i can do NAND backup/restore and flash customized roms. so no pc sdk and driver and command window anymore. Right? if so, do you have some video already to show those operation details?again, lelray appreciate your patience and time there, i know how much effort you put into there. Thank you so much for that.
March 8th, 2012 on 10:21 pm
(Wireless Phone) To give you the perspective that I’m comnig from, I’m not a dedicated techie. I upgraded to the EVO from a Treo Centro (sorry Palm OS!). Though I know what a Snapdragon processor is, my review won’t be on that level of expertise. I’d rate my ability to adapt to new technology as fair-to-middling. Here goes: The phone itself is classy looking. When off, it reminds me of the black stone monolith in 2001, A Space Odyssey. When on, the screen is bright, and has VERY sharp detail (again, I’m comnig from the perspective of my Centro). The pinch and spread function (to contract or spread the picture on the screen) works very smoothly and consistently. The flick function, used to scroll through apps, is wonderful, don’t know how I did without it before. The screen is QUITE sensitive to touch, requiring a bit of getting used to for someone who does not count manual dexterity amongst my assets. Though the phone is big (4.2 inch screen)it is very slender, not heavy, and I don’t find it cumbersome in the least. It is comfortable in the hand. The camera: first, it has two: the heavy duty one (8 megapixel) faces out the back, a 1 megapixel on the keyboard side. In a 4G area (I’m not, yet), this allows video phone calls, I’m told. The camera has autofocus and a surprisingly bright flash. Picture quality seems good to very good. Sound: I’m a bit hard of hearing, no problems at all with this phone. The sound quality is the best I’ve ever had on a cell phone. EVO has very few buttons, but it does have a very easy to use up and down volume buttons on the upper left side of the phone, works great. Keyboard. Well, hmmm. My Centro had a manual keyboard, and if there is anything that I really miss with the EVO, it’s actual keys. Though the virtual keyboard is BIG when the phone is tilted to landscape mode, many functions on the phone (including entering contacts!) only allow the portrait keyboard for Qwerty. The phone has three keyboards to choose from, so if you’re a whiz with the standard cell phone keyboard that kids are miraculously good at texting with, you can choose that format. I’m getting better, but still quite a few errors in keying. Speed: in a word: fast. Very little lag between functions, even when more than one function is chugging along. Voice recognition: the Google search by voice is (for a novice like me) nothing short of a miracle. Say Quilt stores , and the phone takes into account your GPS location, in seconds a list of quilt stores (or Starbucks, or mountain biking trails)is at your disposal. SO cool! The directory search for phone contacts by voice is a bit more hesitant, could stand some spiffing. Apps: Holy Cow! Again, I’m a novice, but the very accurate GPS, in conjunction with entertainment apps such as Yelp! and Flixter, is mind-boggling. Touch Flixter, and this very smart phone instantly (NO input required) brings up all theaters, movie times, trailers, Rotten Tomato ratings, AND, all the restaurants in the area of your chosen movie, AND turn by turn directions to the theater thanks to Google Maps. Basically, get off a plane anywhere in North America, you’re ready to roll! The GPS. Eerie, when combined with Google Maps. To navigate, you don’t have to enter your starting place, the phone already KNOWS where you are. With a function called layers , while navigating from point to point you can incorporate a satellite view, giving you an awesome (and distracting!) view of all the territory/buildings around you, for miles, depending on the scale that you choose. Get a (free) sports app, and the GPS/accelerometer kicks in to tell you exactly how far you’ve gone, maps the route you’ve taken, tells you how much elevation you’ve gained (!), and how many calories (incorporating your weight) that you’ve burned. Crikey, what fun! I used the GPS first day out with my EVO to find a restaurant, than used the voice turn by turn (it does call out specific street names, not just turn left or turn right ). It was flawless, and VERY up to date with recent construction in the area. WiFi, signed on to my home network without any trouble. Ability to personalize: terrific, many options to make it your own . Synchronization with multiple functions: terrific. No trouble setting up e-mail accounts (you MUST have a Gmail account for full function). I calendar with the online Google calendar on my laptop, the transfer to my phone calendar is automatic and virtually instantaneous. Bad stuff: they lie if they say that getting all your Palm OS data is going to transfer accurately. Argh. But I’m getting it straightened out. In the Someday category: EVO does not support Netflix instant play yet, nor Hulu. I’m a family doc, it DOES support Epocrates, an essential pharmacology data base. Battery life: