{"id":296,"date":"2011-08-30T09:42:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T09:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2011-08-30T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T09:42:06","slug":"htc-sensation-vs-blackberry-9780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"HTC Sensation vs BlackBerry 9780"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been comparing a HTC Sensation with a BlackBerry 9780. There are plenty of reviews and comparisons on the web about the merits of various devices. I am going to list the pros and cons I have noticed of the above two devices:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BlackBerry 9780<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pros:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More business oriented with associated security policies and features<\/li>\n<li>Tight MS Exchange and Lotus Domino integration<\/li>\n<li>Actual keyboard makes typing easier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Small screen and keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Relies on centralised server model &#8211; BlackBerry and carrier infrastrcture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HTC Sensation<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pros:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Larger screen and touch sensitive makes application usage easier<\/li>\n<li>Larger application market place and hence more functionality on the go<\/li>\n<li>Inbuilt IMAP \/ POP client<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Large screen makes single-handed handling difficult<\/li>\n<li>Touch screen results in error touches esp with using the camera<\/li>\n<li>Poor battery life<\/li>\n<li>No alarm functionality to wake phone when turned off (I&#8217;d like to be able to turn off to save battery overnight)<\/li>\n<li>No &#8220;always on&#8221; or &#8220;auto-reconnect&#8221; VPN option. You need to re-authenticate to VPN server frequently<\/li>\n<li>No task list \/ notes synchronisation with MS Exchange<\/li>\n<li>Inbuilt IMAP client does not support the INBOX prefix option (work around possible)<\/li>\n<li>Large market place results in many gimmicky apps<\/li>\n<li>No sync of Exchange tasks or Exchange notes<\/li>\n<li>Not possible to create repeating appointments with an end date<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Overall I like the HTC. That said, it&#8217;s clearly not designed as a &#8220;phone and mobile Outlook&#8221; device with apps as second priority like the BlackBerry. The HTC (and most Android devices to be fair) are clearly about applications and &#8220;the cloud&#8221;*. The HTC Sensation is a little big for sticking in a pocket and the battery life is worrying &#8211; having to charge it every day with not much usage is a tough sell.<\/p>\n<p>So for the moment I am sticking with the 9780 as my &#8220;main device&#8221; for phone etc but I am still evaluating the HTC \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* I hate the term &#8220;The Cloud&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s just a new word for the Internet really&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been comparing a HTC Sensation with a BlackBerry 9780. There are plenty of reviews and comparisons on the web about the merits of various devices. I am going to list the pros and cons I have noticed of the above two devices: BlackBerry 9780 Pros: More business oriented with associated security policies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}