HTC Legend

Mr E

Due to be officially announced tomorrow, this is the Hero's successor.
Can't say I'm too impressed to be honest. Processor is only 600MHz, and apart from Android 2.1 and a flash on the camera, its very similar to the Hero.

http://android.modaco.com/content/android-news/302666/first-press-shots-leak-of-the-htc-hero-successor-the-htc-legend-now-with-full-specs/

Zapp Brannigan

I'm more interested in the Bravo/Passion which I thought was supposed to be the Hero's successor.

squire23

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

I'm more interested in the Bravo/Passion which I thought was supposed to be the Hero's successor.

The Barvo (now called the Desire) is the Nexus One unbranded. The Legend is the Hero's direct successor

Gumbo

squire23 wrote: »

The Barvo (now called the Desire) is the Nexus One unbranded. The Legend is the Hero's direct successor

any idea when it will be available in Ireland?
and i was just about to commit to a Hero on Meteor contract but should i wait now????

squire23

gumbo wrote: »

any idea when it will be available in Ireland?
and i was just about to commit to a Hero on Meteor contract but should i wait now????

So was I. No idea yet when it's out but would imagine it could be a few months yet unfortunately

squire23

Anyone heard anything about this being released? No word from any network yet afaik

Professey Chin

Most sites are putting the release at about April 12th I think

S.M.B.

Hoping to get one of these soon but only if I can get a good deal on the handset on pay as you go.

£400 is pricey enough and would opt for an iPhone if I have to buy it unlocked.

Oafley Jones

Gizmodo have a review up. The design looks superb.


http://gizmodo.com/5488019/htc-legend-review-frankly-it-feels-expensive

Professey Chin

Its sooooo pretty

Shut up chin.you want a desire.but sooo pretty

SK1979

It gets a cracking review there. Its a pity no Irish carrier appears to be imminently offering it.

long_b

Oafley Jones wrote: »

Gizmodo have a review up. The design looks superb.


http://gizmodo.com/5488019/htc-legend-review-frankly-it-feels-expensive

Had to stop reading the review when I got to

but swaps the HVGA for a more superior AMOLED

:rolleyes:

Oafley Jones

I was going to put review in inverted commas but decided against it.

_sparkie_

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Its sooooo pretty

Shut up chin.you want a desire.but sooo pretty

my thoughts exactly.

S.M.B.

Anybody worried the desire might be just a little too big?

Might be enough of a reason for me to go with the legend ahead of it.

SK1979

Another review on cnet.co.uk.

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,39030107,49305224,00.htm

I'm assuming we'll see Desire reviews in the next couple of days anyway too.

100gSoma

S.M.B. wrote: »

Anybody worried the desire might be just a little too big?

Might be enough of a reason for me to go with the legend ahead of it.

Nope. defo not too big. The HD2 is TOO big. but the desire's size is almost identical to the nexus one (same screen) and thats perfect. not too small, not too big, just right. The desire is going to rock!

S.M.B.

100gSoma wrote: »

Nope. defo not too big. The HD2 is TOO big. but the desire's size is almost identical to the nexus one (same screen) and thats perfect. not too small, not too big, just right. The desire is going to rock!

Sold, the promise of divx is quite a big plus.

Will just wait to see carrier prices before I make a decision.

squire23

Still can't understand why Meteor aren't rushing to pick this phone up.

Oafley Jones

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/htc-legend-review/

Engadget's review is up. Much more in depth than Gizmodo's, plus its thankfully not been reviewed by Josh Topolsky.

richardlai

Oafley Jones wrote: »

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/htc-legend-review/

Engadget's review is up. Much more in depth than Gizmodo's, plus its thankfully not been reviewed by Josh Topolsky.

You don't like Topolsky's writing?

Zagato

They seem to have dramatically different suggestions for the battery life! I think it's pretty important to know whether it'll last the day before splashing out on one.

jimmycrackcorm

Clove have a £10 price difference between desire and legend - decisions, decisions....

squire23

Looks like the Legend will be coming this way via Vodafone judging by Vodafone UK's annoucement
http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/coming-soon/mobile-phones?source=AWIN&affid=78888&WT.mc_id=AFW-28-03-2006-W001&clickref=skim92X363&dfacid=1&cid=aff-aw

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/htc-legend-will-be-exclusive-to-vodafone-in-uk-coming-in-april/

Oafley Jones

Meteor have the legend as buy it now and exclusive on their website.

flynnduism

Just announced on Meteor!



Bill Pay only, from €49 to €129

Finally an alternative to the Hero in Ireland. Gonna read up on this and see if it's worth my cash!

squire23

F*ck. Yeah!

flynnduism

going to check this out at the Meteor store after work - that's if they're in stock yet...

According to their twitter, they're in-store as of today

chrislad

flynnduism wrote: »

going to check this out at the Meteor store after work - that's if they're in stock yet...

According to their twitter, they're in-store as of today

Should have arrived in stores today, plus a demo unit was shipped to most, if not all, stores so you should be able to have a play.

It's really, really nice looking, very responsive, sturdy screen.

Brian

richardlai wrote: »

You don't like Topolsky's writing?

Did you sign up to boards just to research getting Rosco drunk? :P

atech

If the Legend is the successor to the Hero how come the prices are the same?

Was just thinking of getting the Hero last week, good thing I didn't so!

chrislad

atech wrote: »

If the Legend is the successor to the Hero how come the prices are the same?

Was just thinking of getting the Hero last week, good thing I didn't so!

Generally, that's the way it works. E72 is the same price as the E71 as well.

00sully

when people get this phone - can they confirm there is no dropping of calls as per the original hero problems on meteor? I am referring to the dropping of 3g then having to set to 2g only to receive calls! would be interested if this issue was sorted still have a friend on the hero having this problem

flynnduism

Went in store to get one yesterday, they have Legends in store on Grafton St and Henry St anyways

Was told that the phone would cost €30 more than the prices quoted online because I was an existing Meteor customer - apparently the prices (€49 to €129) apply only to customer porting over to the network



Double checked the website today, it doesn't mention the extra €30 charge at all but does give a vague disclaimer in the small print

Anyways I got annoyed as being an existing Meteor customer (PAYG), I thought if anything I'd be entitled to a better deal, not a worse one. Not going to be getting a Legend while this pricing system is in place, it's unfair...

adrian522

Agreed, that would put me off getting this phone with meteor, understand its an exclusive but the desire will be out in the next few weeks so I'd just switch to whoever gets that first.

flynnduism

Yeah I think I'll just wait for the Desire now!

dinevalesco

have been following these new HTC (legend and desire) phones on gizmodo and engadget over the past couple of months.
i emailed vodafone (my current service provider) yesterday asking when they'd be available on their network.
they got back to me saying they had forwarded my query onto marketing.
so, now it turns out that the legend (which is my preference) is exclusive to meteor.

so, i'm now thinking, should i switch from vodafone to meteor just so i can get this phone?

i read up on the android OS and the android marketplace specifically (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Market) and i don't see ireland listed as a country where you can buy apps.
yes, you can download the free ones but not purchase any apps. can somebody shed any light on this for me?

also, i've had no experience with meteor before - what is the general consensus on them? i've looked at their price plans and they seem pretty good - just don't wanna commit to an 18 month contract with my eyes closed.

a final thing, surely the desire will be exclusive to meteor aswell, right?

thanks.

00sully

I think the desire is confirmed for vodafone -thats what I've read on their forums anywho - defo been confirmed for uk but then again the legend was too. I think these "exclusives" can last a month before other carriers get them.

flynnduism - why don't you (since you are payg) - switch to o2 or vodagone payg for a €5 sim or some such then switch back to meteor as a "new" customer??

dinevalesco

so, vodafone support just called me back about my queries saying two things:

1. they have no plans to launch the HTC Legend on their network

&

2. they plan to launch the HTC Desire on their network over the coming months.

ronan

flynnduism

So after protesting their pricing, I managed to get a Legend from Meteor at the advertised price rather than the sneaky 'existing customer' price

4 days with the Legend, easily the best phone I've ever had.

The optical trackball works great and the phone is a nice solid feel to it with the metal casing (not heavy though).

Battery life has been ok so far, I'm using it pretty heavily for a couple of hours each day, browsing, listening to music, tweeting and playing around with apps and though it's run low by the end of the day; there's never been a fear of running out. Defo needs a nightly charge though.

One weird issue I'm having is that many apps are not showing up for me in the Android Marketplace - free apps that I have found on other Android handsets in Ireland, so baffled as to why. I read someplace that Android have been slow configuring the Legend, and the Marketplace doesn't acknowledge that it has a camera so makes camera-required apps unavailable? That doesn't explain some of the apps that I can't locate though.

Whatever the cause it's annoying, I cannot get my hands on these (going to see if I can find them as downloads outside of the Market):

Layar
Swype
Last.fm
Spotify

dinevalesco

good work for sticking to your guns re: price - glad you got sorted.
so, are you connecting just thru Wi-Fi? and is it a pretty quick browsing experience?
the one grey are for me are the Apps, i just wanna make sure that i won't be limited to what i can actually download.
called into meteor in cork over the weekend but they didn't seem to have it.
any issues with meteor coverage? i'm guessing not in this day and age.

YIA

I've seen this with some apps.
I think the market only shows you apps that are "compatible" with your version of Android.
I think it's really just a marker in the program.
I've seen apps that were "only compatible" with 1.5 running fine on 1.6.
Since the Legend is running Android 2.1 it possible that some apps aren't showing up.

No issues with it dropping after a 2G/3G handover??

dinevalesco

flynnduism - just came across this re: swype:

Swype is also available for Android, in a preview version – although, at the moment, it only works with phones that have WVGA displays, like the Motorola Droid / Milestone.

flynnduism

I've been using WiFi sporadically, turning it on mainly when I'm at home and turning it off at work to save battery. WiFi is fine, no probs.

I was away in Leitrim for the weekend and the 3G coverage there was very patchy to say the least. Coverage in Dublin is grand

As I'm new to 3G, not sure what the dropoff issues are but I think I had one yesterday - my phone was showing no signal, and error came up saying no Sim card / select mobile operator. Was unsure how this happened, so rebooted the phone and then it was fine again - is this the infamous 2G/3G handover drop?

00sully

yeah flynnduism it is unfortunately. dang so this is happening with legend also?

more in this thread a few people are unhappy to say the least! I may have more info on this later.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055866591

flynnduism

Hmm, that's not good. If this is a reqular bug it'll get very annoying.
I'll keep an eye on how often this occurs - so far has happened once in the last 4 and a half days.

Some info on the missing Apps in the Legend's Android Market:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=683d89c4f4fd4593&hl=en

According to Layar, it's due to a camera issue: http://layar.com/layar-is-not-available-for-the-htc-legend-at-this-time/

According to HTC: it's mainly due to a copyright issue

Answer I got from HTC about this:

"Regarding the Android Market place, all the mobile networks have to be clear with Google regarding with the Copyrights policy of each single application available in the Market. Once this is sorted then Google will link up the applications to the route server for each network. Unfortunately this is something that HTC doesn't have any control over the Google Market server."

Basically, they say it's google fault entirely

Helpful article to track down the missing apps:

http://www.sigridschrijft.be/index.php/how-to-find-and-install-android-apps-that-are-missing-in-the-market/

James.m.c

flynnduism wrote: »

I've been using WiFi sporadically, turning it on mainly when I'm at home and turning it off at work to save battery. WiFi is fine, no probs.

I was away in Leitrim for the weekend and the 3G coverage there was very patchy to say the least. Coverage in Dublin is grand

As I'm new to 3G, not sure what the dropoff issues are but I think I had one yesterday - my phone was showing no signal, and error came up saying no Sim card / select mobile operator. Was unsure how this happened, so rebooted the phone and then it was fine again - is this the infamous 2G/3G handover drop?

I'm sorry for your troubles.

At first you say to yourself that you can live with it, as the phone in general is class.

I said the same about the hero. Unreal phone, except for the loss of reception.

But it keeps happening. over and over.

Its the Meteor networks version of "Chinese water Torture"

It has slowly driven everyone a little crazy

SoaringEagle

flynnduism wrote: »

So after protesting their pricing, I managed to get a Legend from Meteor at the advertised price rather than the sneaky 'existing customer' price

Hi flynnduism, I'm in the same situation as you were aobut the HTC pricing and just got off the phone with someone very unhelpful at Meteor and was wondering how you eventually got the phone at the advertised price. Thanks

flynnduism

SoaringEagle wrote: »

Hi flynnduism, I'm in the same situation as you were aobut the HTC pricing and just got off the phone with someone very unhelpful at Meteor and was wondering how you eventually got the phone at the advertised price. Thanks

Went to the Meteor store to sign up for Bill Pay, and when the price was mentioned at €30 dearer than on the site, I explained that there was no mention of this price online and that seemed a bit unfair to their existing customers.

#1 The sales guy went for a chat with the manager to see if they could 'do anything for me' and came back adamant that they had to stick to the higher price, at which I thanked him for his time and left.

#2 Next day I repeated the same process in a different store, this time the salesman came back from the chat with the manager with the go ahead to give it at the rate they offer customers of other networks.

So it's a bit of a lottery - just stick to your guns, point out the flaws/unfairness of their pricing and look like you won't be buying if they charge you more than is fair.

It's not being sneaky, it's their pricing that's sneaky - argue this with the salesman and you should get your way.

SoaringEagle

Thanks flynnduism

I'm off to try my luck in Dundrum now!!!

I'll let you know how I get on.

Cotts

good to see people on the meteor forum suggesting to upgrade the hero to the legend for all the trouble its been causing