Blackberry Tour

After experimenting a lot with Symbian, Windows Mobile I have decided to switch gears to Blackberry. In my research found that Blackberry Tour is very good phone for both official & personal use. Good thing is it works in both CDMA and GSM in 3G. so we don't need to worry about the connectivity all over the world.

The complaints I heard about it are
1. The track ball does not work properly after sometime and gets stuck.
2. No wifi.

I also read lot a of rumors that the next version of BB Tours 2 (9650) will be launching during 1st quarter of 2010. This solves both the above issues with optical track pad and wifi.

Rcom.co.in is offering the current version (9630) at 27K INR. If I take this with 1063 INR (Month) plan I will have two things done
1. Blackberry with 3G connectivity
2. 3G tether modem for my laptop

So per month if would be around 1500 INR with my heavy voice usage will be reasonable. More about it after I buy this smart device.

HTC Touch Sense

Recently saw a demo from HTC site on their HERO handset (combination of Android and HTC's own Sense. I am really impressed the way they did it. I was wondering if I could port the sense part of it on my Xperia.

The guys at XDA-Developers are manzing. They ported HTC sense on Xpreia with combination of Windows mobile 6.5. Among all of them I liked itje's cooked ROM for Xperia (V11 Release).

I also liked the simplicity of Gtrab's Pure and barebone version from XDA-Developers for the people who wants their Xperia to run with Windows 6.5 OS. This ROM is very simple, stable and more efficient on battery.

Overall I would say windows mobile is coming up very well. However there are still some glitches and stability issues.

I am also eagerly waiting for HTC HD2 (LEO). The only thing is it does not have HW Keyboard. With the huge screen size it may not be a drawback. It is capacitive screen as Iphone. With HTC Sense on it with SnapDragon 1GHz chip it must be as smooth as butter. According to some reviews the Windows core (6.5) plays funny in few instances such as suddenly slowing down or freezing to death.