Comments on: Sprint Hero & Moment To Get Android 2.1

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:57:36 +0000

I don’t know what you are talking about saying the Moment is clunky. Sure, it’s a hefty phone. What do you expect with a qwerty slider? Sure, the Droid is thinner, but IMHO the thumb board SUCKS. The moment’s thumboard is much better. Trade offs. There’s always trade offs. I love my Moment. Except it won’t connect with my Freedom Pro keyboard, but the Android drivers are coming so all is cool.

By: Shuralee

Shuralee — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:22:58 +0000

Hey all,

Any rumors on 2.1 having prper support for the Bluetooth keyboards? I mean, real Bluetooth support a.k.a. HID, not an SPP such as KeyPro?

It’s a shame – I had Bluetooth keyboard working with Treo 700WX years ago. The thumb typing just does no cut it with a full corporate email so we have to carry laptops. Like many, I am stuck with Sprint through my company’s account and I really need to use my Microsoft 6000 keyboard with the Hero.

thx!

By: Kyle Poole

Kyle Poole — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:36:53 +0000

Patience my brotha patience… when the update comes u will be satisfied beyond belief!! .. the iphone is a childs toy. . The android is a MANS PHONE!!!

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:19:14 +0000

I just switched to the hero from the iPhone and the only reason i did so is because my bill from att was extremely expensive… in my opinion nothing compares to the iphone for many reasons. My main reason is that apple is consistent with software updates i think it is ridiculous that a so called competitor has several phones out all with different running software versions. If google ever wants to stand a chance in this market they need to make constant updates and for all phones and carriers, i am actually considering switching back because of the lack of consistency

By: Kyle Poole

Kyle Poole — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:06:44 +0000

I just spoke with another sprint rep and he told me the same (sometime in febuary). He also told me that the moment 2.1 update was most likely complete because he spoke with samsung and that’s what samsung told him… he said the only thing keeping the moment update from being released is the fact that sprint is waiting on htc to finish testing 2.1 for sprint hero so they can launch both of there phones at the same time…I hope this is rite!!!

By: Kyle Poole

Kyle Poole — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:53:07 +0000

Guess wat!!! I don’t know if its true… but I went to the sprint store to get the samsung moment cl14 update… and the sprint rep. Told me that android 2.1 WAS COMING OUT SOMETIME IN FEBUARY GARUANTEED… don’t qoute ME, qoute the sprint rep that EXACTLY WAT HE SAID… I HOPE HE’S RIGHT… I’M SO EXCITED.. GO ANDROID!!!!

By: chrisleonard

chrisleonard — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:21:24 +0000

@madmatt – htc sense doesn’t give you google map navigation? I know it doesn’t come from the sense UI, but my 1.5 hero has google maps navigation. Can you clarify?

By: lloyd

lloyd — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:07:59 +0000

The moment does have a lower res camera and only an HVGA screen, but I hardly think that means it is lagging behind other smartphones in terms of hardware. It’s 800MHz processor beats pretty much everything else out there (except maemo’s, which I think are competitive), the HVGA screen just looks AMAZING, and the keyboard is very well designed and well worth the extra thickness for me.

In terms of performance, I’m able to flawlessly tunnel encrypted RDP connections with bi-directional audio over already encrypted SSH connections (connectbot + Remote RDP Enterprise).

By: Sandmanwv

Sandmanwv — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:07:56 +0000

I guess Nextel is the proverbial rear end of the horse. They have no plans to upgrade our HTC Hero’s that I can find, and I have searched for hours. Only thing I can find is “Hero is here and available”
I wonder if the Sprint upgrade would work and where I could get it?

By: Cellular South HTC Hero to get Android 2.1 first half of 2010 | Android Phone Fans

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:51:29 +0000

[...] glad you know it is coming? If you haven’t noticed, this is also roughly the same time that Sprint’s Hero & Samsung Moment should be getting their 2.1. Seems about right considering Cellular South’s Hero is basically the same as Sprint’s [...]

By: juan

juan — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:34:28 +0000

Just one question… Can they open TIFF files? my moment doesnt.. the droid doesnt.. tried to open file from website and none of these great machine could do it.. i was able to do it with my treo 700p.

By: Pope Innocent II

Pope Innocent II — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:47:09 +0000

FFS, will Sprint/HTC just get this upgrade complete within 1st QUARTER and not 1st HALF? These posts are getting redundant, and, though the Hero is a nice phone, I’m starting to feel the bitter bite of buyer’s remorse when all these fancier phones equipped with the latest Android OS are being released within the same quarter as when the Hero was released.

By: StuKuz

StuKuz — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:28:19 +0000

It seems that even when the Moment gets updated to 2.1, it’s hardware will be lagging. 3.2Mpixels vrs 4.9-8 on other machines, 320×480 vrs 800×480 screen res, and I don’t know how the Samsung motor compares with the Qualcom. Maybe we might see a new Samsung model coming out? Pretty crazy that a 2 month old model is lagging ….

Be well all
-Stuart

By: 9ooyan

9ooyan — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:14:14 +0000

@maddmatt02: i agree. the Moment DOES have a good keyboard, it’s just so thick and clunky compared to the droid. don’t get me wrong, i hated the droid keyboard too and didn’t go for it for that and some other reasons, but it was thin with a great screen (no AMOLED, but still pretty darn good). i mean, i’ve been waiting months and months to turn in my HTC hermes (aka ATT 8525), and for me, the moment just didn’t seem to be worth all that waiting. But then again, I’ve resigned myself to virtual keyboard at this point for the sake of the Nexus 1 when it comes out…so having a thin phone is a major plus for me.

By: maddmatt02

maddmatt02 — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:09:03 +0000

@ 9ooyan, I havent held the moment in my hands yet, but I have held the droid. I actually wanted the moment but if it is worse than the droid (feel wise), I dont want the moment. I would never want a droid. I dont like the feel of that slider, and I absolutetly HATE the keyboard. I dont think ive ever used a worse feeling hardware keyboard. every samsung Ive used so far, the keyboard felt FAR better.