Herald or Hermes ?

[sylvester_k]

Hi all,

For those who have the experiences/luxury to tried on
both Herald and Hermes, can you pls share your experience
between the two ?

I am had a hard time deciding which to get.
Hermes is selling at much lower price than Herald over here.
Herald does not seem to be picking up here.
Also O2 Zinc in also about to be avaliable in matters of weeks.

I get the general feedback that Herald is much more
responsive than Hermes despite slower speed processors -
a big factor of consideration for me.

Specifications for both devices is OK for my usage/applications.
What I need is actual user feedback in comparision of the
2 devices such as

- actual battery life performance?
- skype performance?
- device stability ... etc ?
- third party devices accessories - e.g. dual sim card add on....etc ?

Thanks in advance.

[s4vva]

I was in the same predicament, it came down to the fact that because i have a crappy data plan i would have no use for 3G, so I went for the much smaller and better looking (IMHO) herald. Very happy with it.

[Applestar]

does the Herad has the same freeze issues ?

This would be really important for me since 2 resets a day with my TyTN/Hermes is just too much...

[meisterlampe2000]

I have to restart it once every 3 days or so, using the Herald very very often !

But this always depends a lot on which Software you have currently installed on your device !

[bugmenot]

I would assume this would change with XV6800(verzion version of the Herald with rev a 3G) since it has 256 of memory and aku 3.5?

[OHERBERT]

Hey,

I get my Herald today. Since today I used an TYTN.
First: Herald impressed me with they good performance and better looking.
Tomorrow I start to test it with all my programm from TYTN.
The TYTN has at the end problems with freezing.

I give you update
Oliver

[bugmenot]

what is the update?

[OHERBERT]

Hello,

after 6 days using the Herald and play a lot of programmes on my Herald i can, say: Herald ist top, no freezing, good performance and it feels good.
I use it with an alucase and this ist the very much better with the TYTN. No problems to switch on camera, Com Manager....... The buttons on Herald are well placed (better than the TYTN). The Keyboard is better than the TYTN (no uncontrolled outcoming).
+ Better Keyboard
+ No freezes
+ Good inital Quality
- Performance a little bit slower than TYTN (but its OK)
If need to buy an HTC, at the moment I would buy an Herald (But I think after Herald generation there will come an Herald with 3G and a better CPU like the Samsung with AKU 3.X, thats my next HTC "Herald")

Oliver

[Applestar]

Thanks for the update. Funny enough I mananged to get my Hermes running without any freezes: I am quite sure it is the SD card reading that can cause some lock-ups. So I maanged to get just every frequently used app on my internal memory. And the eMails & attachements as weel. I managed to use my hermes since 96 hours without freeze now.

Well, the Heradl seems quite nice - I will probalby get it as a second device and test it thoroughly.

Regards,
Apple*