Cingular 8525 aka HTC Hermes
Initial thoughts on the HTC TyTn / HTC Hermes / Cingular 8525.
It is slightly thinner than the 8125, a little more square, and maybe 1 or 2 mm larger in foot print. Out of the box, I am having problems connecting to HSDPA/UMTS. It keeps connecting at GPRS and not even EDGE. Also, you can no longer manually select a network as you could in the 8125 in the phone settings.
Another annoying thing is out of the box, it will not work with Cingular MediaNet. Even the links in the Explorer browser don't work. Instructions don't tell you anything. What you need to do is go to the Settings/Network/Connections and change it from MyISP to MediaNET before any of that will work. Not documented anywhere that I can see.
Also annoying is that the keyboard no longer has a $ and you need to go to the 'symbols' menu to get to it. The camera now has a MACRO mode which is AWESOME. Half the time when I was trying to get information down with the Wizard/8125, it would be useless and fuzzy. No you can almost read a barcode if you put it into macro mode before taking the shot with the 2mp built in camera.
Why can't HTC standardize on a memory standard? I had the HTC BlueAngel (SX66) which used a SD card. Then with the HTC Wizard (Cingular 8125) I had to go and buy mini SD cards. Now with the HTC Hermes (Cingular 8525) I have to go out and get Micro SD. Ahhh... the quirks.
The battery is NOT interchangeable between the 8125 and the 8525. They are a physical different size. The 8125 has a 1250mah battery while the 8525 has a 1350mah battery.
Also gone on the 8525 is the standard 2.5mm headset connector. Now you need a USB connecter stereo headset (which it comes with one).
I will have to see if the 8525 supports it, but the Moto Q support A2DP so you can play music over a bluetooh stereo headset. Interesting on the 8525 is that when you press the 'PTT' button, a popup says this feature is not yet active. In the docs, it says sometime in 2007.
Also added is the much needed "windows" and "ok" keys. Very nice. Device does seem to be snappier. However, there are still some quirks with Java which appear to be related to the midlet that it's using. It will run java apps, but they are very slow. Google Local doesn't work well, as you cannot display satellite images just like the 8125 (error says device does not support jpg). Also GMail client is funky. On the flip side, Google hosted mail works, but Google hosted calenader does not (both via the web browser).
Both devices can play shoutcast streams (very good).
It is slightly thinner than the 8125, a little more square, and maybe 1 or 2 mm larger in foot print. Out of the box, I am having problems connecting to HSDPA/UMTS. It keeps connecting at GPRS and not even EDGE. Also, you can no longer manually select a network as you could in the 8125 in the phone settings.
Another annoying thing is out of the box, it will not work with Cingular MediaNet. Even the links in the Explorer browser don't work. Instructions don't tell you anything. What you need to do is go to the Settings/Network/Connections and change it from MyISP to MediaNET before any of that will work. Not documented anywhere that I can see.
Also annoying is that the keyboard no longer has a $ and you need to go to the 'symbols' menu to get to it. The camera now has a MACRO mode which is AWESOME. Half the time when I was trying to get information down with the Wizard/8125, it would be useless and fuzzy. No you can almost read a barcode if you put it into macro mode before taking the shot with the 2mp built in camera.
Why can't HTC standardize on a memory standard? I had the HTC BlueAngel (SX66) which used a SD card. Then with the HTC Wizard (Cingular 8125) I had to go and buy mini SD cards. Now with the HTC Hermes (Cingular 8525) I have to go out and get Micro SD. Ahhh... the quirks.
The battery is NOT interchangeable between the 8125 and the 8525. They are a physical different size. The 8125 has a 1250mah battery while the 8525 has a 1350mah battery.
Also gone on the 8525 is the standard 2.5mm headset connector. Now you need a USB connecter stereo headset (which it comes with one).
I will have to see if the 8525 supports it, but the Moto Q support A2DP so you can play music over a bluetooh stereo headset. Interesting on the 8525 is that when you press the 'PTT' button, a popup says this feature is not yet active. In the docs, it says sometime in 2007.
Also added is the much needed "windows" and "ok" keys. Very nice. Device does seem to be snappier. However, there are still some quirks with Java which appear to be related to the midlet that it's using. It will run java apps, but they are very slow. Google Local doesn't work well, as you cannot display satellite images just like the 8125 (error says device does not support jpg). Also GMail client is funky. On the flip side, Google hosted mail works, but Google hosted calenader does not (both via the web browser).
Both devices can play shoutcast streams (very good).
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