How is your Artemis??

[firstime911]

I have some quetion to ask.. since i'm going to purhcase this phone very soon.

1. How is the sound quality.. Ring volume.. good?, Loud?

2. Is their any lack or slow or bug errors ... in opening standard programs..

3. How is the GPS works? is this work well and fast?

4. Any other problems for this Artemis lately??

Thank you very much for your answer..

The reason is PPC, when is first launch always has some problem.. with normally can be fix by the next firmward, so i just want to make sure that this work well... (Not like ATOM when is first launched)

[consono]

I have some quetion to ask.. since i'm going to purhcase this phone very soon.

1. How is the sound quality.. Ring volume.. good?, Loud?

2. Is their any lack or slow or bug errors ... in opening standard programs..

3. How is the GPS works? is this work well and fast?

4. Any other problems for this Artemis lately??

Thank you very much for your answer..

The reason is PPC, when is first launch always has some problem.. with normally can be fix by the next firmward, so i just want to make sure that this work well... (Not like ATOM when is first launched)

1. Sound quality: I would give it a 3.5 out of 5. Reception is very good. Ring volume: excellent! Too loud for my taste in fact. I NEVER use the maximum setting because it is, well, too loud!!

2. Nothing significant regarding bugs. Speed is more than acceptable. I still cannot believe that it's using "only" a 200MHz CPU. It simply doesn't show. I guess this is due to excellent implementation on their part (AKU and all). Also it is VERY easy to overclock and get significant improvement (if you so desire...) but I haven't found this to be necessary.

3. The best GPS implementation I have ever seen. State of the art in my book.

4. I was looking to get Nokia N95 but I'm glad I didn't. HTC has hit the jackpot with this one I think.

[nixonm]

I agree I hardly notice the difference between my shiny new XDA Orbit and my 2 yo XDA IIs, apart from not having to carry around a brick!

This was my biggest concern, top marks to HTC!

[boardy]

I have to say this thing blows the Exec out of the water. I got crashes when messaging, freezes while looking at pics, and a whole host of other little niggles with my Exec. The O2 XDA Orbit which I picked up yesterday has been an absolute beauty. It's a lovely size, really light, and the controls are very easy to use. The only thing I'm slightly concerned about is my battery has gone from 56% down to 6% in about 10min, which is a little bad but aparently is just my battery so changing that tonight.

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[jstubbings]

I have had the MDA compact III for a week now and I think its great, if you want a brick then its not for you... ok it could have done with 3g and wifi (I have had it confirmed through a friend who works for HTC that the wifi Chip (hardware) was removed on the MDA) but at the end of the day who turns on there wifi? I havent on any other device...

All in all you choose the device for your needs, I had a M3100 and got rid of that for this... my main needs are tomtom, e-mail and phone in the smallest form factor I can get.... this device does it!....I have two and my partner has one also ... got them from the t-mobile shop £20 for each phone then £15 a month and 6.99 for the Web and Walk .... Bargain!.

Mouse - I prefer the roller on the M3100 but I do like the inovation and have played a bit with it but I do like it.

[jvg]

It's awesome. I have the the HTC with Wifi, but also without Wifi it's an excellent device

All the points that you ask have a 5 stars for me, compared with my old HTC Himalaya

Nothing is perfect anyway, a cradle available is my desire :)

[raven2000]

I am also seriously considering getting this phone. My only concern is reception and voice quality. Anyone who has used HTC Magician please compare phone function of these two phones?

Also, does this have a2dp?

[Perjan]

I am also seriously considering getting this phone. My only concern is reception and voice quality. Anyone who has used HTC Magician please compare phone function of these two phones?

Also, does this have a2dp?

Reception is good gps faar out and voice quality better than the magician (s100)

Good Device (still trying to get rid of the t-mobile shit) using mda compact III with wifi. by the way the device supports RDS (many people where asking this on the forum so here's your anwser

When is the free unlock available and htc roms (tmobile roms are fully branded and hardreset softreset doesn't affect this much....

[psargent]

This phone is the best I have owned. I upgraded from a PDA2k and see no appreciable lag between that device's 400mhz and the 200 in this little beauty - other than Voice Command taking just a little longer to beep after button press. It plays video like a champ (although converted to divx) - but who uses non-converted video anyway? Too much space on the mem card!

My only desire is that the memory card would be easier to get to. Sending large files to the card via Usb or Bluetooth takes forever. I hate the fact that I have a card reader built right into my laptop and I can't make use of this functionality with my PDA without taking out the battery and lifting the sim card holder. I guess since it uses MicroSD and those cards are easily damaged, HTC figured that hiding it away would protect us from ourselves!!! Hey, deeper in the device means less dust, right!? Just get a 2 gig and forget about it.

I have noticed that the battery is a little weak; I had an extended battery on my 2k and it lasted forever - but talk about bricks!!! I see that they are making an extended for the Artemis too, but I am hesitant to bulk up such a remarkably perfect form factor.

By the way - I concur that the wifi is solid and the GPS is fantastic (and well managed by the OS). I can walk around INSIDE my house and not loose my fix!! As far as Rollr is concerned, it takes some getting used to, but after a while I now don't think I could live without it! Read on:

If anyone wants to try a great configuration, try this: Use Double Launcher 2.11 and you go from having 6 hardware buttons and 2 softkeys to having 16 functions available via button! DL doesn't see the start menu button or the OK button on the Artemis, but it will give you 4 options on each of the other four keys. I had Vito Buttonmapper on my 2k, but it didn't seem to function well on the Artemis. DL is much nicer on this device. Then I used the registry hack by travegliaesogno posted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=281487&page=2&highlight=mousemode to get the mouse mode to turn on using a button rather than the HTC icon on the Today screen. I used 40c2 (as this is the startmenu key which I never use for that function). The best thing is that the hack survives soft reset! Now I can get the mouse to appear within applications when I need it and make it disappear when I don't without having to minimize and go to the Today screen to activate/deactivate it!!! :D The mouse takes a little practice, and I wouldn't be surprised if the ROM updates for this device will make it run even more smoothly as time goes on.

I was really considering the Trinity when it became more and more likely that it would eventually have GPS, but now that I know the Artemis is as zippy as it is and my new love affair with Rollr, I'm glad I took the plunge with this lovely gadget! High marks, HTC!!!

Oh yeah,
I am also seriously considering getting this phone. My only concern is reception and voice quality. Anyone who has used HTC Magician please compare phone function of these two phones?

Also, does this have a2dp?

Voice quality is excellent - no "sweet spot". Sounds good everywhere on your ear. Reception has been fantastic on Cingular in Virginia, USA. Sorry, can't comment on A2DP since I don't have bluetooth earphones yet. Okay, I'm done.

[raven2000]

psargent, thanks for your mini-review, it was very helpful and removed my doubts about the device.

[firstime911]

Thank you very much for your coment on this Artemis..

So.. should say that this is the most perfect phone HTC ever build.. :)

one more question, is this phone capable of 2g microsd?

Anyway i'll buy it.. wait until it release in THailand...

[tmaxx]

Yep, its a fine phone/pda. Ringer is loud, im glad to say, nice ringtones too, none of the normal crap tunes they put on all the phones these days. Tomtom seems slow to get the sats up but once it gets going its great. Its amazing what you can get on a 1gb card. I have 2 full length films and tomtom with space to spare. Unreal picture quality too. Well happy:D

[debully]

I have the 2gig sandisk card from www.mobymemory.com and it works fine.

[ID64]

2 Gig Sandisk ULTRA also works well

[RicardoC]

...WiFi chip was removed on the MDA, but at the end of the day who turns on their wifi? I havent on any other device...

I cant believe you just said that LMAO.

[RicardoC]

I still cannot believe that it's using "only" a 200MHz CPU. It simply doesn't show. I guess this is due to excellent implementation on their part (AKU and all)....

I havn't looked at this in detail but dont forget you can only compare the clock speeds of CPU's with similar architecture. Intel XScale chips usually have sky high CPU clocks (500MHz) but their architecture means a different CPU at 200MHz could potentially have more number crunching ability. One thing is for sure though more MHz = more battery juice.

Checkout the current crop of PC CPU's, Pentium 4's have clocked upto 3.8GHz but the new Core 2 Duo's running at 2.6GHz are way more powerful because of their architecture.

Its good to know that HTC's 3300 at 200MHz matches older 400MHz designs though so thanks for your input, I had been reading lots of posts about "BUT ONLY 200MHz - WHY!!?" etc etc I thought they were talking boll**ks now I know they were.

[vlad69uk]

Does anybody know if the O2 Orbit is actually locked to O2. I'm so tempted to go and get one right now, phone shop is only 10 minutes away, but i need to put a Vodafone sim in it.

Thanks for your help.
Paul

[ezman]

mine wasn't locked at all. orange sim worked with no probs...

[vlad69uk]

FANTASTIC!!!!!! I'm off to get one right now ;-)

[gameon]

Got one tues without copilot but can't get gps to work, if you get one can you let me now if yours works vlad69uk? 02 say it only works with copilot!

[debully]

I'm running TomTom 6 no probs.

[gameon]

Thanks debully, Mine is going back then, I am also having probs using activesync, must be a duff one.

[vlad69uk]

O2 are talking out of their **** holes. I installed visual gps ce (freeware) to test the gps signal. Set the com port to com4 in visual gps ce. Go to the contral panel and into the gps settings. set the shared gps port to com4, and the hardware port to com3

This worked ok for me. I find it hard to believe that o2 would lock just the gps to a specific application. i'm still waiting fir the micro sd card to arrive, i'll test tomtom then

[Innovator]

Absolutely perfect sound quality, gps, wifi, cam.
Only bug i found is that i set off the alarm for waking up and it was still in the memory or something.

Everything works perfect+perfect pocketsize gsm like. Only have to test the TMC with route 66 & headphones, or buy a 3,5mm plug with antenna. Tmc worked on my Eten G500. Should work here also (not with tomtom ofcourse or you need to have an account & pay per gprs!).

I think this will be my first pda-phone to use till it won't work anymore. Waited a year for the QtekG200 all in one, and it was renamed to HTC P3300.