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Friday, October 24, 2008

Fight Night 2008: Diamonds vs. Androids

Posted by Rocco Augusto in "Smartphone Talk" @ 04:30 AM

EV-DO vs. HSDPA vs. Wi-Fi
This really doesn't have anything to do with the devices themselves, but their respective networks that they are on. I constantly hear people going on all the time about how fast EV-DO is. I would like to go on the record and state that while EV-DO might be considered "speedy," it is still ridiculously slow when compared to HSDPA, even on T-Mobile's newly launched HSDPA network here in Portland.

However if you can hop onto a local Wi-Fi network it doesn't matter which carrier your handset is on. Wi-Fi connectivity is blazing fast on both handsets and really easy to set up. If it wasn't for the fact that it eats away at your battery's power supply like crazy on both devices, I would just recommend leaving it on all the time.

Web Browsing and Services
Since I am discussing speed and the Interweb, I would like to point out that both devices were on par when it came to browsing the web. So much so that minus this tiny little blurb I won’t go into it at all. If you’ve used a Desktop web browser before, than you are pretty much familiar with using the browser on either of these devices. Both browsers, Opera on the HTC touch and WebKit on the T-Mobile G1, are the top of their respective classes.

Both devices have easy access to services such as YouTube, but I did find it incredibly amusing that the RSS reader that is included with the HTC Touch Diamond is already programmed to pull the RSS feed from Pocket PC Thoughts! It saved me the time of loading it up in there. Whoever was the genius that did this, you deserve a pat on the back! Good job!

Camera
Both devices took some pretty acceptable pictures but the HTC Touch Diamonds camera so far has blown the T-Mobile G1 out of the water. The images taken with the Touch Diamond are a little washed out but really nice for images taken by a camera phone whereas the T-Mobile G1's images have that classic "drown everything in orange" thing going for it like HTC cameras of old. It is nice to see that some things from HTC haven't changed over the years.


[A picture taken with the HTC Touch Diamond]


[Same picture taken with the T-Mobile G1 in the same lighting conditions]

Battery and Power
So far I appear to receive great battery power on T-Mobile's HSDPA network with the G1. The HTC Touch Diamond on the other hand is a completely different story. I played with the HTC Touch Diamond for a good half hour after turning on the device for the first time until I was notified that I needed to charge the handset. Unplugging the fully charged Touch Diamond from the wall this morning and using the device to check my email - which is just painful in the touch based version of Outlook Mobile - browsing the web and doing my usual routine of reading news, my battery was down to 73% in less than an hour! So far I have charged it twice today. Once at 11am after unplugging the device at 6am and once at 3PM. I don't know about you guys, but I work for a living and cannot afford to stop what I'm doing every few hours to charge my phone. This is just unacceptable HTC!

The T-Mobile G1 on the other hand lasted a good 2.5 hours on the initial programming charge that comes with new devices with me doing more web browsing and emailing then I was capable of doing on the Touch Diamond.

I won't know for sure which device gets better battery life until I have played with them for a few more days to a week, but so far the T-Mobile G1 appears to trump the Touch Diamond many times over in this department.


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