My Time with a Hero
August 6th, 2009 : posted by matt
I needed a new phone. My long serving SPV C550 had degraded to such a point that it had really started to annoy me, so I was on the lookout for a replacement.
Initially, I was dead set on HTC’s Touch HD. Side by side the specs looked comparable to the iPhone, which I was also considering …and it ran Windows Mobile.
Now, Windows Mobile isn’t a great OS by any stretch of the imagination, in fact its pretty much awful, but that’s what worked with my outlook/exchange setup, and I was looking for the path of least resistance.
Unfortunately in their wisdom, Orange decided not to offer me the HD on upgrade. I’m unsure why it wasn’t made an option, but I gave up trying for it and my attention wandered back over into Apple territory.
The iPhone is obviously a great phone, but the 3GS had just been launched on O2, prices were raised across the board(!), and the 24 month contract that was on offer started to seem like an awfully long time. Then the HTC Hero was launched.
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