First Night with the TBolt
OK, sorry for the long delay, but tonight was my brother-in-law's birthday, so my wife "banned" me from playing with the phone.
Also, my VZW Account Mgr. never had the form and basically said "Hey, I won't say anything if you post stuff... besides, there are tons of people that have posted pics and videos of it, so if you want to talk about it, go ahead!"
Now that I have played with it. HOLY SH___ this thing is flippin' awesome!
I charged the battery up in the car and got it back to 100% by the time we sat down for dinner. I transferred and installed all my apps and accounts (I use Touchdown for my work email, plus I have a personal POP and personal Exchange email address that I use the stock Mail apps for). For most of the 5 hours it was in my pocket during dinner, desert, etc. By the time I got home and took it out to play with it, the battery was still at about 90%.
My first recommendation would be to turn the "auto brightness" off and turn the screen down to about 20 or 30% brightness... that is what I did on my Droid X and that lasts an entire work day for me and then some. If this thing had a battery issue, they must have fixed it because this acts like a typical Android phone battery.
As far as the speed of the phone, everything seems to fly on it... screen changes, web browsing (even on 3G only), even the apps loading seem to take a lot less time than my Droid X.
The other thing I had to do was uninstall ADW Launcher. I love ADW on my Droid X, but on the HTC, not so much... I think that HTC Sense is a fantastic experience, has the best widgets, etc.
Size/weight: It's a bit shorter than my Droid X, just about the same left-to-right, and it is as thick as the "bump" on the Droid X where the camera is located. It's definitely heavier than my DX.
I haven't really played much more with it and am about to go to bed. I plan on spending more time with it tomorrow looking at different things... anything you want me to check for you, please reply and I will try to get to it.
Two things I also noticed when I hooked the USB cable into my laptop: 1) There are a bunch of options: Charge Only, HTC Sync, Disk Drive, Internet Connection Mode, Media Sync, and Internet pass-through. 2) When I first connected the phone, it asked me if I wanted to install a piece of software on my laptop. When I clicked "Yes, my PC asked if I wanted to allow "TL Bootstrap" to install. Hmmmm
For #1, the Internet Connection Mode appears to act as a tethered modem, using the phone as the modem. For Internet pass-through, it says "connect phone to internet via PC," which I would assume you could use in a place where there is no WiFi or Verizon signal but you have a wired internet connection on your PC.
I will try to find out what the TL Bootstrap is all about tomorrow.
So far, this phone is living up to my expectations and then some...
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