HTC Hero vs. iPhone 3GS

IMO! iphone 3GS has the edge over HTC Hero. In US, iphone 3GS is being to compared to Motorola Droid because of latest version Android 2.0 while HTC Hero got Android 1.5 only.

I have a bias against iPhone so even if I can’t afford any of the two, I choose Hero.

iphone! iphone! iphone kami!

Hey Abe, how about a breakdown of the benefits of multitasking, and what you lose by NOT having multitasking on an iPhone? Am curious.

let’s not forget that the iphone lets you install applications until your entire capacity is used up. the hero, i believe will only allow you to install apps in its phone memory. this sorta limits you.

iphone pa din

@mr Z: that’s a great question. one can’t really appreciate multitasking in smartphones until one actually gets to use it and gets used to it. (kinda like our grandparents, who thought B/W TV was great until they saw color TV.) also, we’re coming from a non-mutitasking experience, being that most of us have probably not used a phone before that does multitasking, so our phone habits or the way we use our phones are still probably that way.

anyway, the closest analogy i could give you is to try and imagine that you can only do one thing on your PC (or Mac): you can’t play music while surfing the net, you can’t download stuff while typing a document, you can’t have your IM running while you edit your pictures, things like that. i know what you’re thinking – but that’s a PC (or Mac)! it’s different! but that’s the thing – as technology/components becomes smaller, cheaper, lighter, and more advanced, phones are becoming more and more powerful and can now start doing stuff that a regular computer does.

of course, people are different, and not everyone will want (or need) multitasking on their phones. that’s why there’s the phones like the iphone, for people who just want simplicity, ease of use, great user experience.

Halos pareho lang. Sa form, nakaumbok sa bandang baba.

hi sir yuga! i just noticed that your blog name spelled “Yugatech Philipines” :(

@Jumper
With all due respect sir (or ma’am?), maybe you’re just trying to point out what’s the opposite of multi-tasking but your analogy doesn’t quite tell the truth about what the iPhone can do as the iPhone can play iPod music while surfing through Safari, or opening the facebook app and other applications, you can make a call and browse the web at the same time, and many others. When it comes to basic multi-tasking which consists of opening major applications (quite subjective though) and basic phone operations, the iPhone can do it. Majority also of the applications I use saves my input (or instance) if I need to go open another application like when I’m trying to post a status update and exit the facebook application to access my YM or notes, when I open the facebook application my unposted status update is still there (same as having unsent messages in each conversation when you exit “messages”). I can also run voice memos while opening other applications and record sounds from the other application (ofcourse with the ambient noise of the surrounding). However these examples involve the built-in apps (some partially) of the iPhone OS. Other applications may behave otherwise especially on games (to the disappointment of gamers). If you think about it, the amount of RAM on Hero is not that big of a difference as with the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone can do multi-tasking more openly if only the OS permits. But Apple didn’t because they don’t want to hear a lot of complaints about slow performance and crashing applications like what you get with most of the other phones out there that can openly do multi-tasking (although you still get crashing applications and slowed down performance on the iPhone due to bugs which is almost always present in every application).

@iamupset – consider Samsung Omnia HD (i8910), unmatched in almost all hardware features such as 1280 x 720p HD recording, 8MP camera with almost all the digital camera features plus geotagging, 5.1 virtual dolby surround, AMOLED capacitive touch screen 16M Colors, HSDPA 7.2Mbps & HSUPA 5.76Mbps, A-GPS, DLNA compatible, 16GB on board memory plus up to 32GB expandable.

Only the O.S. is the weak point because it’s based on Symbian S60 5th edition but for me it’s ok because we mostly grew up with SYMBIAN interface.

Plus by the way, you can use this smartphone as internet modem to your laptop via blue tooth, it’s very cool feature.

@ryan – Actually, i’m having this smartphone Samsung i8910 right now and i can say everything works smoothly. Samsung finally make it right. That’s why i don’t need to carry separate camera, camcorder, mp3 player, I mean all-in-one gadget for me.

Processor speed is at 600 MHz. Fring app works fine i’m using it for video calls via skype & take note on 3G/HSDPA. Up to sawa video calls because i subscribed to unlimited internet plan here in Saudi and i just switch internet from smartphone to laptop just a click of bluetooth, it’s very convenient.

@rsa1 – I make the video calls direct from cellphone using fring app and my family members back in phils video call me from PC using skype and all of these calls are free unlimited because “all-you-can eat” internet data plan. So, i am optimizing the data plan where ever i go i use video call whether i’m in office or at home.

Now, i’m not sure if the same scheme also being practiced by TELCOs from our country Phils. which is tethering on an unlimited internet data plan.

So, we can avoid the use of smartphone for standard voice calls and 3G video calls which is very expensive.

@Andrew Mercado: Am green with envy sayo. Sarap naman video calls unlimited. Dito sa pinas, unlitxt lang masaya na kami. Babaw ng kaligayahan, no? He he

@macfanbois: Of course, the iPhone. Otherwise, magagalit ang high priest nyo from Apple. He he.

Ang winner dito ay nokia 5800. he he he. Bukod sa affordable na, e, kayang gawin lahat ng mga nagagawa ng both iphone ang htc hero, like mabilis ang browser niya, kaya ok for internet browsing or answering emails kung nasa labas ako.Laptop ko , di ko na gaanong dinadala, mabigat kasi sa shoulder bag ko. Maganda pa ang sound ng mp3 player niya, compared to my ipod at 2 days ka bago mag charge.

I’m selling my HTC Hero for 26k.. contact me if interested 0918-9123980

@jumper —

“…how everything comes together so seamlessly and awesomely – the usability, the apps – that makes for such a great user experience. if we’re talking about that, then i don’t believe there’s still anything yet out there that quite matches up with the iphone.”

— there’s BlackBerry :-)

I’ll go for iphone. Since android market has yet to be tested on Philippine soil.

;)

@adrian

We’ll just hope that they would utilize that 1GHz Snapdragon proc to the fullest and not underclocked.

Why does the Nexus One remind me of the Verizon Eris (a Hero variant)

@patrick.. hmm you can try to check 2nd hand units in ghills tiangge to feel how the device responds. I always check new units that way :D

So meron 2nd hand sa ghills? haha makapunta nga.. magkano naman kaya? hirap makahanap ng hero eh.

@topic, i sold my 3gs for the reason that i dont like itunes.. imagine:
-you cant delete photos
-you cant arrange photos
-you cant delete musics
-you cant transfer files via bluetooth
-and a lot more limitations dahil sa ITUNES!

any way, i love the apps so i bought an itouch, and now im looking for a HERO…

I’m also selling a bnew motorola milestone for Php37,000… 0918-9123980

Sorry iphone users, please don’t comment about the Hero until you experience it… The Hero is a better phone for several reasons… The Android Market is much user friendly… You can add any app with just one click.

The camera is better. The internet and Youtube is much easier and faster. the calendar is much better… The applications are more organized.

Facebook, twitter, and flickr are all synced with phone contacts. so you could just go to your phone contacts and wee the status of anyone’s profile, as well as their photo album. And this is not including the facebook application that you all have to install.. While you are talking on your phone, you can install applications. You could browse the internet, while recieving textmessages… google talk, yahoo messages, facebook messages all come to your phone in the form of texts… so it is easy to keep track of everything… you could always drag the top bar down when there are flashing alerts.. so that you can view everything that is happening on your phonw… the HTC Hero is not slow at all…

People just need to be sure to install the Advanced Task Manager, so that you will know everything that is open on your phone. eliminate the tasks that you are no longer using. the battery on the Hero is also easier to manage…

The only thing the iphone have over the Hero is that it’s sexier looking… and that more people have them because they have been out longer… and people hate to admit that there is a better phone that was never over a $1,000.00 to pay for….

just got my iPhone 3Gs 32GB and i must say it’s a winner compared with the HTC Hero…have seen Hero and actually checked its features…i think my iPhone is more user-friendly…i’m happy with my iPhone and its 172 applications…un nga lang medyo gastos sa internet esp if wala ka na sa wi-fi area talagang magbabawas sya ng load if naka-On ang 3G…hehehehe
iPhone rocks

@ Andrew Mercado: btw, my email add is cyber_ange****@****.*** in case my suggestion ka for iPhone3GS fring app…thanks though

I’ve had my droid since december but had to get a alternative because the software program ruined my cellphone when it up to date itself. So for sure having troubles & found this wonderful web site lol i do have a questio tho…my ram storage is gettin smaller & smaller..is there nethin i can do to help get sum back?

yeah too expensive talaga sa pinas. olats d2 satin kahit kelan. dapat magpasakop na lang sa bansa ng kano. mas madali pa mag punta sa bansa nila pag nagkataon.