one of them is for the built in sync and the other is for the official app for those services.
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Android allows different applications to share data between each other, one of the benefits of this is to allow your contact application to pull up to date data about your contacts and link them.
Normally, on a stock Android phone (such as the Nexus) the Facebook application on the market would do this but it would only link certain data with your contacts.
The reason HTC have their own Facebook application is as follows:
HTC have a FriendStream application with widget which shows content from both Facebook and Twitter, in order to achieve this they need their own Facebook (Facebook for HTC Sense) and Twitter (Peep) clients.
The other main reason, is Sense drastically improves social API integration with your contacts. For example, if you click on a person in your phone book who has a Facebook account linked to them, you can click on the photo tab and quickly view all their albums. Clicking on a album will load the photo's into the phones Gallery application for easy viewing.
That way, there's no need to open the Facebook site, or application, find your friend and then wait for the albums to load.
In order to achieve the above, HTC need their own Facebook application as the default Facebook application will not provide picture album data about friends to the relevant contact in your phone book.
Personally I set up my sync accounts as follows:
Normally, on a stock Android phone (such as the Nexus) the Facebook application on the market would do this but it would only link certain data with your contacts.
The reason HTC have their own Facebook application is as follows:
HTC have a FriendStream application with widget which shows content from both Facebook and Twitter, in order to achieve this they need their own Facebook (Facebook for HTC Sense) and Twitter (Peep) clients.
The other main reason, is Sense drastically improves social API integration with your contacts. For example, if you click on a person in your phone book who has a Facebook account linked to them, you can click on the photo tab and quickly view all their albums. Clicking on a album will load the photo's into the phones Gallery application for easy viewing.
That way, there's no need to open the Facebook site, or application, find your friend and then wait for the albums to load.
In order to achieve the above, HTC need their own Facebook application as the default Facebook application will not provide picture album data about friends to the relevant contact in your phone book.
Personally I set up my sync accounts as follows:
- Facebook - Syncing turned off, there's no need to sync as Facevook for Sense does the contact syncing
- Facebook app off market -> open, go to settings and click update every four hours
- Facebook for Sense - Untick "Sync live feed" as I do not use FriendStream and use the Official Facebook application to view posts and TweetDeck for Twitter.
- Facebook for Sense - Set sync contacts to once a day. It's not the end of the world if your phonebook doesn't have your contact latest display picture
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I can't open view the phones files on my PC. It recognizes that the phone is plugged in but when i try to open the folder i get the following "Please insert disc into removable Disk (f
." I've set the phone to disk drive as well.
." I've set the phone to disk drive as well.FYI just been having a play and Kindle reader does this
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Oh cool! If you have both an LCD and an AMOLED phone handy, could you take some side-by-side photos of them?
Next charge: 24 hours on time, 5:30 awake time, 2:30 screen time, 30 mins of calls, still got 30% battery life left.
I'm getting the impression that you'd have to spend a pretty serious proportion of a 16 hour day on your phone to run it dry - and from what I've heard the battery life improves considerably over the first few weeks as the battery 'conditions' (although I'd imagine that this 'conditioning' would be better described as the device learning how to better manage its battery).
If you are happy to charge every evening then the battery life qualms seem to be pretty over-hyped imo.
I'm getting the impression that you'd have to spend a pretty serious proportion of a 16 hour day on your phone to run it dry - and from what I've heard the battery life improves considerably over the first few weeks as the battery 'conditions' (although I'd imagine that this 'conditioning' would be better described as the device learning how to better manage its battery).
If you are happy to charge every evening then the battery life qualms seem to be pretty over-hyped imo.
Oh cool! If you have both an LCD and an AMOLED phone handy, could you take some side-by-side photos of them?
Both on full brightness. (Taken on DHD) It's not quite that bad to the naked eye but still a big difference.
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Both on full brightness. (Taken on DHD) It's not quite that bad to the naked eye but still a big difference.
Woah! The bleed on the left phone is ridiculous! What is it? I take it the one on the right is an AMOLED Desire?
I was _just_ about to place an order for a Desire Z tomorrow morning but this pic really made me reconsider...
I love to use my phone for reading ebooks but LCDs really are tiring on the eye (I know cause I use my current Universal to read a lot). If your picture is anything to go by then I might be better served by an SGS (although I've tried using a friend's and typing on a touchscreen drives me crazy, which is why I wanted the DZ in the first place). Plus an AMOLED screen would probably use much less power when most of the background is black...Any chance you could photograph your DHD and Desire side-by-side?
That's not bleed, just the camera exposure using the desires screen, i.e. the lcd screen is much brighter straight on.
Left phone is a Samsung Galaxy Portal, right is an AMOLED desire.
The bleed is so bad because it's on full brightness and as I said in the the post to the naked eye it doesn't actually look that bad as the post above it's just a longish exposure, needless to say you wouldn't be using either phone at full brightness for ebook reading.I was _just_ about to place an order for a Desire Z tomorrow morning but this pic really made me reconsider...
Either way the LCD on the Portal is extremely bright, I never really had it on full brightness and it seemed a lot brighter than the Desire, so maybe it would be more comparable at a lower setting.
I'll give it a go tomorrow.
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Yeah, it would probably look better at a lower brightness setting, so if you find time to compare the Desire with your DHD it might be an idea to set it at what you normally have it at indoors - my Universal is ALWAYS at the lowest brightness setting, even outdoors, and it's still tiring to read after awhile.
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I got my desire hd on Fri. The phone is an upgrade from a g1, the features of Android 2.2 are amazing. The only downside to this phone is the poor battery life. It really is shockingly short. I'm hoping it gets better after a few more charge cycles.
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What are you doing with your phone to claim its shockingly short? I'm easily getting over a day out of it, that's with texting, browsing, playing an hour or so of angry birds, a few phone calls etc
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Well it is shockingly short, when you first get it. With all the setting up and piddling about it's suddenly dead by 5pm and you think...'wtf'.
Something has dramatically improved for me in the month I've had it. I have no idea whether anyone's proved that the DHD battery does actually improve, or if it's just a red herring caused by correct setting up and a reduced amount of fiddling (peeing about being inherent with any new phone purchase).
Tweaking the settings certainly improves battery life...for example, I had umpteen Android apps updating themselves that had been replaced by third party apps - disabling them and any accounts that you don't need to sync (hello HTC Sense / Hub) obviously helps.
Brightness was set to auto out of the box so that hasn't changed.
I run the phone with GPS and bluetooth disabled most of the time.
Having a switch widget (I use the stock one) on your homepage encourages you to switch off unrequired services.
Set screen to turn off quicker.
Disable keypad vibrate.
Uninstall any apps that you may have installed in the playing around stages that you really don't need, just in case they're sapping power somehow.
Doing all of the above and more will allow a very good day's use. Most people, I'd imagine, recharge their smartphones every night even if they think it could go another day, so as long as it lasts a day's moderate-heavy usage then that's all you really need.
When I think of what this phone does and has and then compare it to the battery life of the average laptop (my laptop dies annoyingly quickly with internet usage and I basically leave it plugged in whenever I can) with the same usage, I start to think that it's actually fairly reasonable.
As soon as an upgraded battery comes out, I'll be getting one and keeping the stock one in the cradle as a spare.
As an aside...the stock power lead is VERY short on the DHD in my opinion. If you want to use it while it's plugged in for any reason, you need to be very close to the socket.
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ALL Li-ion polymer batteries improve by up to 50% (iirc on the percentage, might be even more) after a few dozen charge cycles. It's not an urban myth, it's scientific fact!
I think it will probably improve to be better than the G1, my G1 battery life was terrible, absolutely abysmal and when I think back and comapre the two my DHD seems to be better, which is pretty good considering the massive screen.
I would give you some tips on saving battery but I'm sure you already know them all from using the G1... I would make sure that screen brightness is on auto though.
Rumoured to an announcement today according to Engadget. No substantial reports yet though.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/06/nfc-certification-program-announced-just-in-time-for-android-2-3/