Its hard to take pictures, when you drop your camera outside Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid and the screen keeps popping out. Making sure the camera is safely buckled in before you bend to fetch the tele out of the bag is a lesson I have now paid to learn. So now that I finally have it fixed I can get at some photography again and Im looking forward to it!
Meanwhile I decided that it was time for my HTC Touch to be substituted by a new fresh and more mediasavvy phone. I looked at the Iphone, Blackberry Bold and many other models, but ended up going for the HTC Hero.
Why? Well, I must admit that while I am not Apples or Microsofts greatest fan, I do really appreciate Googles straightforward way of working. They set out to do something and they do it well and they do it for free. So Google Android was a large part of it. I wanted to try it and I wanted to see how it played together with gmail, google calendar, google maps and all the other addictive google inventions. On top of that I was growing tired of Windows Mobile and I wanted a phone with 3,5 mm jac plug, 3G and GPS.
So I have now had Hero for 12 hours and I must say I am very pleased. Setup is easy, Android Market supplies thousands of great and amazing apps, from the Twitter and Facebook widgets to Wikimobile and the funny Metal Detector.
The ability to customize the multiple desktops makes Hero incredibly fast to work with. With a single tap one can turn on or off the wireless, gps or bluetooth, and one can even make a shortcut directly to a gmail label. The Market is packed with apps for any and every interest, so soccerfans like myself can have an app just to update us on favourite matches. Thank you Soccer Livescores, thank you Google and thank you HTC for taking the new operating system in stride and not sticking to Windows Mobile!
