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Noob want to buy Universal

hi all
I had been here for a while, I got the impression that the best HTC device is the o2 exec. so I am getting one.
I would glad if you can clear out the following points from someone who already owns one:
YOU DONT HAVE TO SAY HOW TO DO IT, SIMPLE ANSWERS WILL DO
1- does skype work fine like the pc version, if yes then does it work over Wifi and gprs?
2- can you play high reolution videos, since I would like to watch movies on my exec, can you divx, at what resolution\ bitrate.
3- is there a problem with tom tom 5?
4- now the most important question, how well does the exec handles games. I am mainly looking at worms, might be playing some 3d games.
and mainly will be playing playstation one emulator.
5- is it possible to unlock the phone i.e. using diffrent networks? how much would it cost?
thanks for your time
edit: mod feel free to move it if its in the wrong place

Hi I went for the XDA exec because it looked better in black then the other SP versions.
answers for you.
1- does skype work fine like the pc version, if yes then does it work over Wifi and gprs?
>>Yes have used it over WIFI not used it via GPRS- quality is still not all that.
2- can you play high reolution videos, since I would like to watch movies on my exec, can you divx, at what resolution\ bitrate.
>> Yep I use The Core Media Player (TCMP) works great for Divx etc
3- is there a problem with tom tom 5?
>> You can get tomtom5 working but needs alot of tweaking, loadz of info on the forums.
4- now the most important question, how well does the exec handles games. I am mainly looking at worms, might be playing some 3d games.
and mainly will be playing playstation one emulator.
>> I play worms world party works a treat no freeze ups or lags.
Havent tried another realtime stratgery game (cant remmber the name sorry) worked great.
5- is it possible to unlock the phone i.e. using diffrent networks? how much would it cost?
>> Most of the Execs that have been bought come already unlocked I bought mine from o2 online and it was unlocked, but mate bought his from the store and it was sim locked, so depends on were you buy it from, dont know if the ones now being sent from o2's website are sim locked or not.
I belive O2 charge between £20-25 for the NUC- but not to sure on the price.
There is work being done on this site for an unlocker.
thanks for your time
>>My pleasure mate iv got no complaints so far on my device and im geting my monies worth out of it.
N2h

thanks for your reply,
can you clarify on the video quality, does it work at 640x480 @ 30fps without glitches, the best way to describe the video quality by knowing the maximum bitrate it can play.
As for games, if anyone can share his experiance with PSX games that would be appreciated.
if unlocking cost around 25 pounds I dont mind paying it.

mmmalas said:
can you clarify on the video quality, does it work at 640x480 @ 30fps without glitches, the best way to describe the video quality by knowing the maximum bitrate it can play.
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I had to play with the settings initially to avoid a 15 secondly pause of a few secs, but I notice no problems now - couldn't tell you if it's keeping up with that bitrate or not, all I can say is that I was playing the latest ep of E-Ring on it this morning and it was gloriously lovely. Alternatively, when you stream the movie over wifi, which I did for something I'd forgotten to install to SD card, the bit rate goes down when there is a lot of movement, but not uncomfortably so.
With a screen that small though, you could probably re-encode it with tempest or something, and have it play at 320x240 with little visible loss of quality and 30fps regardless of wifi.
This device really does do it all... all I need now is remote control for my PC winamp via wifi, and I'm sorted...

Skyfie update!!!! 800x480

SkyFire Update, www.skyfire.com

Youuuuppppiiiii !!
Iphone is dead

Still it hasn't a native WVGA resolution.

Native WVGA or not. It does what it says on the box. Just watched a video review of a bmw on Whatcar's website (an embedded wmplayer video). Video doesn't seem to maximise resolution (much like watching mobile tv from Orange france) BUT didn't notice any lag. Pretty cool! Will play around with it for a while and see what else it has to offer

LordDeath said:
Still it hasn't a native WVGA resolution.
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It's true it isn't really WVGA quality (more like streched out vga). However, it is great to be able to see flash based websites..
Hope a true HTC HD version comes out soon..

would love to try it if it ever got passed the screen i attached (below) lol. Looks great on the video, jsut doesnt seem to work on my HD

Had the same problem until I removed and installed again.

Just installed it. Got it working but all the content is very pixelated. It's kinda like it's stretched VGA like was said before. Uninstalled it, I'll wait for native WVGA.

This 0.9 version is much better than the 0.8 version I had. Still some work they need to do (real WVGA for one) but it still is better than anything else I've tried.

It's nice to finally be able to use Skyfire on our HDs. I didn't notice any major improvement since beta 0.8 (which I used to run on my former KS-20). Actually, videos don't seem to be as smooth as they to be on my old phone and moreover, there is no sound at all. The little speaker logo (to mute/unmute sound) which was displayed on the bottom right corner is not here anymore. And yes, the rendering is not as nice as Opera's, it's more pixellated.
But besides that, Skyfire is still a great browser, and I'm looking forward the future releases.

Love deezer work
But Keyboard still not here on theweb page, Deezer for exemple it's impossible to search or login without keyboard ....
Soory for me English

mallman said:
would love to try it if it ever got passed the screen i attached (below) lol. Looks great on the video, jsut doesnt seem to work on my HD
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me too....
and reinstalling it doesnt work....
Mau

works like a charme here, but indeed, the pixalation is to much...
hope they really bring out an wvga version....then this is absolutly good!!

Anyone using this on edge?
Anybody in North America using skyfire on edge connection to stream videos? Hulu, maybe?
Quality is reasonably good on my Athena and i-mate 6150, but that's at 3G. This is my major concern about the Touch HD not having U.S. 3G bands.
Any feedback about your experiences will be greatly appreciated.

on my danish HD is skyfire very slow

knudsen81 said:
on my danish HD is skyfire very slow
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On my dutch HD too... to slow to use with fun

Still got no sound on mine

skyfire care about touch hd user that's cool

evermore said:
Anybody in North America using skyfire on edge connection to stream videos? Hulu, maybe?
Quality is reasonably good on my Athena and i-mate 6150, but that's at 3G. This is my major concern about the Touch HD not having U.S. 3G bands.
Any feedback about your experiences will be greatly appreciated.
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yesterday i used my hd with only 2 bars of E to stream my fiances college basketball game.... im not sure if there was suppose to be video or not cuz i did not read it, but the sound was good.... sometimes my signal faded so it was a signal problem but the streaming of audio with E was pretty good... and i feel for you man, been using H on my fuze for some time now, and it hurts not having at least 3g on our touch hd... but its a hell of a phone and so worth it!

wtfbbq said:
On my dutch HD too... to slow to use with fun
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yes your right..... but desktop youtube with stream works

Freeview tv

Can you get Freeview tv on the desire?
If so how do you get it?
I have unlimited Internet with T-Mobile

You can get an app called Beebplayer, which is all of the BBC Channels, and Radio station, plus the have catchup on there too.
As for full freeview, I don't think we'll get that until Flash 10.1 is available to us, the you should be able to use the TVCatchup.com services on their website.

neowlchaz said:
As for full freeview, I don't think we'll get that until Flash 10.1 is available to us, the you should be able to use the TVCatchup.com services on their website.
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Talking of which, I read on their forums that there was talk of an Android app/version/something but with now ETA to date.

Nope - to receive Freeview the phone would need a DVB-T receiver and decoding chip, and it has neither. It maybe be possible to stream some of the Freeview channel in various ways (flash through the web browser, or with apps like beebplayer), but its not really the same. A slingplayer app could possible achieve this too (again by streaming the channels, but in this case from your own TV/PC etc), though I doubt if there is one for Android yet.
An external freeview tuner would be great, but I'm not holding my breath.

mobile tv
I think you better use this one is BEST
http://www.yamgo.com/watch-mobile-tv.html
It is designed for windows mobile

or see the other post about TVCATCHUP.COM, they now have a bigger tv stream compared to YAMGO and also better quality.

kazgor said:
or see the other post about TVCATCHUP.COM, they now have a bigger tv stream compared to YAMGO and also better quality.
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I find that TVCatchup doesn't really work too well. but Yamgo is fine.
YMMV of course.
Regards,
Dave

So, when can we expect some hot APK's from the Desire HD/Z?

Since the device and the ROM are out. Shouldn't we be getting some hot APK's heading our way?

There aren't any really...not on the stock ROM

Even the DLNA remote app "Conntected Devices" is a disappointment, Twonky (free server) and Remote Media (server and client) apps provide this much better. HTC Locations ("powered by Route66") online navigation is not replacing Gmaps either.
One can assume that if there were any interesting apps they would have made it to the Desire already

I would like HTC Locations on my Desire.

So it packs the exact same stuff as on our Desire...? Couldn't we like atleast get the improved media player with equalizers?

kekkle said:
So it packs the exact same stuff as on our Desire...? Couldn't we like atleast get the improved media player with equalizers?
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all the sence .apk's media player, wigets, camera ect arnt compatible with our version of sence anyway.....

All the new apps can be used on a Desire HD Rom port.
They are all HTC apps so require sensev2 frameworks to run anyway.

Damn... Too bad..

Lucas0511 said:
Even the DLNA remote app "Conntected Devices" is a disappointment, Twonky (free server) and Remote Media (server and client) apps provide this much better. HTC Locations ("powered by Route66") online navigation is not replacing Gmaps either.
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Twonky works for you? It keeps crashing on open when I try it.

Yes, Twonky works perfect for me on RCMixHD 0.7a SenseHD ROM. BTW with the next update of HTC Locations Tomtom will take over online map display, with routing (turn-by-turn navigation) offered as a premium feature, for Europe and Asia only. I guess the TT Android navigation app announced over a year ago will not materialise then.

Lucas0511 said:
I guess the TT Android navigation app announced over a year ago will not materialise then.
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i was holding out for TT for a good couple of months, then i got fed up and thought id try sygic... asides from being *slightly* less "im driving make it simple", i think overall its a better navigator.
only the ETAs are a bit retarded on sygic, TT always was pretty damn close. sygic doesnt allow for traffic or lights i dont think.

I would like Htc likes and HTC HUBS apk ported to us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzch9Kej674

[Q] HTC One X syncing issue

Hello everyone. Im new to this site and i would like to ask a couple of questions about my new HTC One X.
1) Is there anyway i can sync my phone to a Apple Macbook Pro? Using the iTunes and general sync?
2) There is 5 metal dots in a line on the back of the phone what is this for? Docking station?
Help with this would be magic!
I look forward to your replies!

the metal dots are indeed for a docking station. Can't help you with the Macbook thing though since I'm a Windows user.

daveny80 said:
Hello everyone. Im new to this site and i would like to ask a couple of questions about my new HTC One X.
1) Is there anyway i can sync my phone to a Apple Macbook Pro? Using the iTunes and general sync?
I look forward to your replies!
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Best app for sync music and video in itune is AirSync. But since you have Android phone, might as well setup Google music. You can upload up to 20,000 songs at 320 kbps aac quality. Might take up to a week, but it is worth it as you can access it anywhere with internet connection.
P.S. Google Music is currently only works in the US, but google it and you will find detailed instructions on how to get it working in the UK.