T-mobile Pulse - Android touch phone.

molinari said:
I had seen a report that T Mobile in Holland will provide an upgrade to 2.0 but not sure when that will be (or if it will actually happen).
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Its more like someone in Tmobile Netherlands said that there would be a 2.0 ROM coming out and this has been repeated ad infinitum in various forums ... however, unfortunately it appears no further confirmation (or denial) has come from T-mobile. Also ... not long after this comment a new ROM update did appear but this is just an update on 1.5 - its possible someone was either misquoted or misunderstood what was meant by a 2.0 ROM and was only saying a "second version of the Android 1.5 ROM" was coming.

Another potential negative is that it appears that Samsung have stated that they are not going to do a 2.0 port for any of their existing phones.
 
molinari said:
- The screen can sometimes be unresponsive round the edges
+ Apart from the edges, the screen is quite good
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I'm in two minds about it. It would appear to be, at least partially driver issue of some sort. For example - tin my Pulse he keyboard works much faster, is more precise and has no issues with presses around center of the screen on Huawei based modaco custom rom. Which means as soon as you get rid of the dual touch keyboard from original T-mobile rom phone is faster to type on and more responsive. You loose secondary characters on finger swipe but gain speed.

Similar issue with insensitivity on the edges, I have problem with sensitivity in bottom right corner of the screen, where backspace button is. It is by far the key I need to repeatedly press the most times to get any reponse or effect. But as soon as I put it in landscape mode the sensitivity issue affects left side of the screen (bottom in landscape mode), where the space bar is, which works perfectly well in portrait mode. The only common aspect is position of my fingers, in portrait I hold the phone in my left hand, I touch back space with an edge of my thumb, by fingernail. In portrait mode, I hold it in both hands and whack space bar with edge of my thumb by fingernail. To me it looks like either parts of my thumb don't generate enough resistance to be rekognized as touch, or resistive screen is not calibrated properly on driver level for those edge of skin/fingernail touches in furthest positions.
 
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v0n said:
I'm in two minds about it. It would appear to be, at least partially driver issue of some sort. For example - tin my Pulse he keyboard works much faster, is more precise and has no issues with presses around center of the screen on Huawei based modaco custom rom. Which means as soon as you get rid of the dual touch keyboard from original T-mobile rom phone is faster to type on and more responsive. You loose secondary characters on finger swipe but gain speed.
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You sure about this? I updated last night to the vanilla ROM. I have the secondary characters, but they are not enabled by default - go into Settings -> Locale and Text -> TouchPal Keyboard -> enable Slide Down Symbols.

Loving the phone since I changed to vanilla cupcake. I think the keyboard is much faster (used to lag a bit too much for me on the t-mobile rom). Generally the phone is faster too - eg. scrolling through lists used to stutter all the time, but no more!
 
v0n said:
Huawei, you mean?
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No, what I meant is that there is another manufacturer who appear to have made a fairly definitive statement that they are not going to upgrade their exsitng Android phone to 2.0 .... this indicates that it appears manufactures seem to be prepared to leave owners of previous models behind as they push their development efforts onto new models
 
The lack of responsiveness on edge of screen is not a pulse thing, is a capacitive screen thing, to some degree I've had it with every capacitive screen I've used.

And I personally don't see this phone getting eclair or even donut, simply because its aimed at people who don't have a clue about these things so whats the point in putting the dev effort in only to have fix a raft more bugs. I think they will just concentrate on making their cupcake build as stable as possible.
 
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Much better than the T-Mobile look :)
 
Wana get dis fone a few questions though. 1) does gps wrk like a tom tom i.e the woman speaks. Or can i dload the tom tom app 4 it? And does it use the net wen usin gps. 2) the net. Hw fast is it. Im planin 2 get it unlocked and use orange. Wil use it at work 4 forums, news, utube, etc. No dloadin. 3) hw guds the sound outa the speakers n hw much gig does it cum with. 4) can u play ne games on it n wt kind?
 
B&W said:
Wana get dis fone a few questions though. 1) does gps wrk like a tom tom i.e the woman speaks. Or can i dload the tom tom app 4 it? And does it use the net wen usin gps. 2) the net. Hw fast is it. Im planin 2 get it unlocked and use orange. Wil use it at work 4 forums, news, utube, etc. No dloadin. 3) hw guds the sound outa the speakers n hw much gig does it cum with. 4) can u play ne games on it n wt kind?
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WTF kinda muppet language is that youv'e typed? Are you 9 yrs old?

The wife uses Co-Pilot on hers and its fantastic. Web browsing is seems fine and renders pages quickly enough. Dont know about games as she doesn't play any.
 
ManCuBuS said:
WTF kinda muppet language is that youv'e typed? Are you 9 yrs old?

The wife uses Co-Pilot on hers and its fantastic. Web browsing is seems fine and renders pages quickly enough. Dont know about games as she doesn't play any.
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I didn't reply to his message because I couldn't be bothered trying to decipher it.
 
Love the above, only thing it's missing is the white bar on the wheel at the bottom that tells you where you are buy other than that it's brilliant :)

Do these actually come with the white battery covers? I assume they're better for fingerprints...
 
chrisnic0 said:
Im interested Janesy? Can I leave my email?
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Click on the messenger icon by my name and you can email me on that address.

mglover070588 said:
Jansey B: I looked at the icon pack 2.0 and it says I need open home or better cut (which are not free apps) in order to use the icons. What did you do?
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Didn't do anything :p mine is just rooted and flashed with the modaco ROM. I think you'll need to buy open home.
 
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