One week post Sprint Hero use.
I’m starting to get use to the new phone. It’s not as easy taking photos with this camera vs. the instinct due to the button position. When you have a lot of contacts, it’s not the easiest thing to search thru. Even with favorite contacts, you still have to then pick if you want their cell phone, work number, etc. so not as speedie as the instinct where you could identify a specific number.
I did figure out how to get more aps. There’s alot more than I originally thought, more than what’s on Sprint’s aps store. You have to be careful and read the comments as some will say if it will not work on the Hero or not.
Battery life seems to be the biggest issue. There are several postings that discuss this issue and how to “make adjustments”. I still have to do that, but currently, I’m lucky if I get 4 hours. Not going to cut it for needing an all day phone. Especially since it didn’t come with 2 batteries or an external charger. I could live with having to swap out the battery, but to constantly plug it into my computer or an outlet to charge it isn’t going to work.
Online there’s a few battery suggestions, but it’s unclear which version of the hero those batteries are for. All the pics seem to be the older European version, not the US version.
Other than battery life, this unit seems to be functional, some of the interfaces could use improvements, but having more aps at your disposal is worth overlooking some of it’s interfaces. Battery life though is critical. Guess I’ll be playing with the settings.
Oh BTW, once I calibrated the keyboard, I made less keyboard errors.
TechNurse