just came out a couple of weeks ago on Virgin Mobile, with whom I have phone service.I wasn't really aware of its arrival as I wasn't looking to change phones - I figured, what the hell? Every android I've owned so far has been super glitchy with horrible battery life. Might as well stick it out with the ol' Optimus Slider.
However, my partner has been in need of a new phone for quite some time so we went down to the Boost/Virgin Mobile store to check things out.
Being the gadgeteer that I am, though, I just couldn't help myself!
I found out that the shop owner would let me trade towards a new phone, so I decided to go for an upgrade.
I chose the HTC One V because, for one, I've always liked the HTC interface. This one also happens to be a nice size and weight, as well as affordable - with the $50 trade-in credit included.
The HTC One V also runs Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0). It was actually the only phone from Boost or Virgin running 4.0 in this particular shop.
Nonetheless, I was a little weary of what was to become of my new phone. In the past, I have found that androids are battery eating monsters and have a tendency towards freezing up. I decided to wait a while before singing any praise for this little baby.
But wait no longer!
This phone is amazing. It has yet to freeze or die on me ONCE!
The only trouble that I have had turned out to be a silly error on my part. One day I couldn't get any 3G signal and my GPS wouldn't work ... I was very puzzled for a while until I realized I had accidentally turned off network coverage in the settings. Gotta be careful with those touch screens :)
The camera has flash and all kinds of neat filters, which look pretty neat combined (or not) with instagram filters. It also allows you to take continuous shots by holding down the snap button.
The video quality on this phone is also amazing, and I have been thoroughly enjoying the use of my Netflix app these past few days.
I also really enjoy that my marshmallow headphones work as a hands-free device with this phone. The pick up/hang up button below the right ear piece works wonderfully and the microphone on it functions as well! This was not true of my previous android device.
This has more to do with Google software development than with Android OS, I believe, but the speech to text features on android have become amazing! Speech to text is a lot more intuitive on android that it was even a year ago. I remember trying to punctuate sentences via STT before and getting bollocks before. Fo example, if you said, "How are you today question mark," it would type "How are you today question mark" and send that as a text. Now, it knows that you want it to actually insert a question mark and relays this message instead: "How are you today?"
Isn't that nice? :P
I'm sure there are even more impressive and amazing features on this phone that I have yet to encounter, so feel free to drop me some hints or just make generally commentary!
Ello out :)
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