Polaris is better than Blackstone (Touch HD)

[igoivo]

For those who might be interesting in buying Touch HD:
1) "Today" at HD works in portrait mode only. (I used only landscape in Polaris)
2) Scroll wheel in Polaris is very convenient. I missed it in HD.
Regards.

[stt57]

Hi I can't agree with your opinion.
I've changed from Polaris to HD 5 days ago,
Today screen works also in portrait and landscape mode!
Scroll wheel I never needed on Polaris.
I prefer the large display instead of the scroll wheel.

[halorin]

I don't know, man. Claiming the Polaris beats out the HD is a very hard sell. I know if they sold one with US 3G bands I'd be ALL over it without looking back, heh.

[sedde]

I don't know, man. Claiming the Polaris beats out the HD is a very hard sell. I know if they sold one with US 3G bands I'd be ALL over it without looking back, heh.

about that, i dont use 3g at all, will buying a device from the states work here in europe ? since i am flying in 2 days for san diego ?

[igoivo]

Hi I can't agree with your opinion.
I've changed from Polaris to HD 5 days ago,
Today screen works also in portrait and landscape mode!
Scroll wheel I never needed on Polaris.
I prefer the large display instead of the scroll wheel.

1) "HTC Home", which I meant, does not exist alone in HD. It is included in "TouchFLO 3D", which still works in portrait mode only. Neither Gyrator 2 nor Gsen (unstable at HD) can rotate "TouchFLO 3D" (actually Gyrator 2 can rotate it, but when in "lock" mode only -- looks damn anyway). Known attempts to install alone "HTC Home" at HD are failed.
Thus, most time you are locked in portrait mode at HD.

2) I use scroll wheel each time when I read news (RSS) or texts in Polaris. The scroll wheel is very ergonomic in Polaris (although RSS code does not scroll correctly after the official WM6.1 upgrade, but the upgrade by NewsBreak (RSS V2) restores the functionality).
HD screen has noticeably larger, than in Polaris, screen length. The total screen length in HD is nearly the same at the sum of Polaris's length plus its scroll wheel area.
Thus, I have to use the "scroll wheel" area in HD anyway and found it inconvenient because:
1) anyway, you cannot scroll close to the edge of the screen because of presence of the ruler, which "naturally" moves in the opposite (to the finger) direction;
2) In 50% cases the finger marks the text instead of scrolling -- most inconvenient;
3) and what's about the fat traces at the HD's screen in the "scroll area"? -- I had to clean HD screen every evening.

3) There are few hardware improvements in HD:
a) you can lock the device by inserting the stylus back to its holder.
(i.e. keep the stylus out the device when you are using it actively, ha-ha). Fortunately, this feature can be disabled.
b) automatic adjustment of the backlight. Great, but what's about "floodlight" into your eyes when you just awoken (by wakeup alarm) in the dark room ?
Fortunately, this can also be disabled.

Regards.
PS: I returned back to Polaris.

[hambola]

Yeah sort of a hard sell, I like my phone but the HD is a sweet device. If the HD came with quad band GSM and triband 3G, same frequencies as the Polaris, I would be all over that.

What did you do with your HD? Selling it?

[igoivo]

Yeah sort of a hard sell, I like my phone but the HD is a sweet device. If the HD came with quad band GSM and triband 3G, same frequencies as the Polaris, I would be all over that.

What did you do with your HD? Selling it?

Christmas toy to my child. Hope he will find how to improve it by himself.

[leftkats]

i suppose is just a matter of getting used to anything new... i suppose if you did use the HD for a while, you wouldnt change back to the polaris... unless you dont like changing in your life...

i found it difficult to get used to every new phone i bought, apart from the excitement in the beginning.... but in a few days i would be allready settled on my new phone, even if i did miss some of the bits of my previous one... you allways get round it....

question: Why did you even bother buying it, since you allready knew there wasnt a scroll button??

[SomethingWicked]

The very INSTANT I have the $$$, my trusted Polaris will retire, and a new HD will be in my hand :) I will still use my Polaris for 3g tethering, tho...

Edit: Ha!! My new HD will be shipped Monday (Nov 17th) morning!!!

[igoivo]

i suppose is just a matter of getting used to anything new... i suppose if you did use the HD for a while, you wouldnt change back to the polaris... unless you dont like changing in your life...

i found it difficult to get used to every new phone i bought, apart from the excitement in the beginning.... but in a few days i would be allready settled on my new phone, even if i did miss some of the bits of my previous one... you allways get round it....

question: Why did you even bother buying it, since you allready knew there wasnt a scroll button??

1) I cannot live with obsolete portrait mode (I did not know that HTC Home became a part of portrait-only TouchFLo in HD). "portrait only" software from the producer of the high-tech device with in-build g-sensor -- does not it sounds strange?
2) scrolling by finger is better (natural) in iphone;
3) I did not know that there is still no hardware video support in HD

[eddyther]

1) "HTC Home", which I meant, does not exist alone in HD. It is included in "TouchFLO 3D", which still works in portrait mode only. Neither Gyrator 2 nor Gsen (unstable at HD) can rotate "TouchFLO 3D" (actually Gyrator 2 can rotate it, but when in "lock" mode only -- looks damn anyway). Known attempts to install alone "HTC Home" at HD are failed.
Thus, most time you are locked in portrait mode at HD.

2) I use scroll wheel each time when I read news (RSS) or texts in Polaris. The scroll wheel is very ergonomic in Polaris (although RSS code does not scroll correctly after the official WM6.1 upgrade, but the upgrade by NewsBreak (RSS V2) restores the functionality).
HD screen has noticeably larger, than in Polaris, screen length. The total screen length in HD is nearly the same at the sum of Polaris's length plus its scroll wheel area.
Thus, I have to use the "scroll wheel" area in HD anyway and found it inconvenient because:
1) anyway, you cannot scroll close to the edge of the screen because of presence of the ruler, which "naturally" moves in the opposite (to the finger) direction;
2) In 50% cases the finger marks the text instead of scrolling -- most inconvenient;
3) and what's about the fat traces at the HD's screen in the "scroll area"? -- I had to clean HD screen every evening.

3) There are few hardware improvements in HD:
a) you can lock the device by inserting the stylus back to its holder.
(i.e. keep the stylus out the device when you are using it actively, ha-ha). Fortunately, this feature can be disabled.
b) automatic adjustment of the backlight. Great, but what's about "floodlight" into your eyes when you just awoken (by wakeup alarm) in the dark room ?
Fortunately, this can also be disabled.

Regards.
PS: I returned back to Polaris.

How can I disable the locking device when inserting the stylus?

Thanks!!!

[igoivo]

1) Disabling stylus can be done with Gyrator 2
2) Correction of wrong HTC's auto light calibration can be done with G-light.
Actually it is the light sensor hardware problem in HD. Namely, it reports almost zero light signal in a quite broad light conditions from full dark till twilight. Thus, the scale should not be uniform.