While I'm waiting for the servers I'm working on in Falun to get restarted after some electrical work is being done, I'm going to write a little about my latest acquisition, an HTC Hero mobile phone.
It's a smart phone based on the Android OS, which is in turn based on Linux, and produced by Google.
I had to decide between that and an iPhone. It was a very close thing, but the Android/Google/Linux thing swung it in the end. It is a more open platform than the iPhone, which means that no one company can decide if an application is allowed to be supported, which is the case for the iPhone. It also has a more multitasking nature to it, although I'm not completely convinced that that makes any actual difference!
During the first few days I noticed, even when I'd stopped playing with it a lot, that the battery consumption was rather bad, on the first night it claimed to have about half charged battery when I went to bed, and had stopped before I got up!
After a bit of googling I discuvered that there is a known bug in the built in SMS program that stops it from going to sleep once you've sent a message! The solution/work-around is to disable that program and install any of the several alternative SMS programs. Since doing this it has behaved much better.
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