Got this before Raya. It was an easy choice between WM and Android, and I'm not subjecting myself to the misery of WM anymore. ROM flashed to the MoDaCo version 2.2 "enhanced", and together with the "Market Enabler" I'm able to purchase "Jewellust" and "Advanced Task Manager" as well as download tons of free apps from the Android Market. I was half-expecting the stuttery crappiness of the Touch Pro, but was pleasantly surprised to see how smooth the swipe, flick and other multitouch interface aspect of it. The app selections are pretty much subdued and paltry compared to the iTunes AppStore, but I'm sure it will grow.

This is definitely a keeper. Will use it alongside my 32GB iPhone 3G[S], now just need to wait for normal working days to start after this holiday to subscribe to service provider for wireless broadband. The device is dead without it. Probably will choose Maxis Prepaid Broadband.

My last WM device was years back with the Atom XDA. Never going back to that pile of feces ever again. My contacts were transferred from my Mac, sync into the cloud to MobileMe and Google Contacts, and synced back to Hero wirelessly through the Google single sign-in login.

Thanks you. It is easy actually. Single click, and everything's wirelessly synced in.

Thank you for this. Safe-keeping it in case of the warranty call. I'm not ever going back to the stock ROM again, enjoying too much of the Android Market to let go of it.

I generally dont need to sync anything using my Mac. All the details needed to sync resides in the coud, and with the integrations between Address Book--Google Contact and iCal--Google Calendar, they exchange information between themselves and the Hero syncs back the data to itself from the cloud.

The only other usage of the HTC Sync program is application installation, but once you've rooted the Hero and enabled Android Market, you can easily install and file manager app, and run the .apk installation file from there. I'm using Linda File Manager myself.

In the age where Google handles pretty much all my data synchronization need, the HTC Sync program is pretty much redundant. Furthermore, on my Windoze laptop, it memory-hogs the system to the point that the laptop crawls.

Probably due to its location. Go to Settings and under the "Location" drop down, make sure both entries("Use wireless network" and "Use GPS satellite") are checked. I also have the "Date & Time" setting, and under "Automatic" not checked, which in itself says it uses the network-provided values. To me ,this is network specific, and seeing how the massive problem with our telcos these days, I'd rather have the phone internals figure it out. I never had any problems from Day 1. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised that that weather widget changes even according to the specific area I am in. For example, it is now showing "Ampang" as "Intermittent Cloud" and while I was at work in KLIA 3 days back, it changes to "KLIA" by itself.

By the way, on that picture, that representation is correct. It shows "10:34pm" so it should be showing the moon.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Sep 26 2009, 11:44 AM

That's just a Hero against the Mac OS X iTunes artwork screensaver.

If you do care about your Hero, DO NOT put any Micro SDHC card Class 2 in it. I suspect that 16GB card given with the package is Class 2, because that is the only available card when I went looking in Lowyat Plaza. Access and read/write speed is horrible, and this will affect the experience and your applications running later. Some may even run erratic or simply refuse to run.

Bought lots of apps through Android Market already. Ultimate Doom, Linda File Manager and Jewellust are most recommended. I am especially impressed with the built-in A-GPS on this, it is even better than my iPhone 3G[S], picking up signal even while I'm inside the house. Not possible previously with the iPhone. Using this together with NDrive and CoPilot Live 8 is a joy, but map accuracies are way off since maps for both apps are supplied by TeleAtlas, and last updated in 2007 IIANM.

However, I'm still sticking with the iPhone because of the unavailability of certain apps that I use for work. Particularly the app called ForeFlight. I need that for work, and Foreflight on the iPhone is an indispensible tool for me to get prepared for flight duties.

I hardly use the entertainment side of Hero, all my MP3s are tagged to work proper on the iPhone, transferring them over to the Hero results in me having to retag and embed album artwork back into them, and tagging thousands of songs is not my idea of fun. Ditto for video as well. However, I am excited to utilise the Footprint app, as its ease of use, complete with tags on Google Maps is a great feature. This will rekindle my love of exploring the places I visit during work, and probably will entice me to revisit the places I've been before.