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People gained a lot when the capacitive touch screen came. This allowed finger gestures, like sliding and screen tapping that was not previously possible with stylus based input on resistive touch screens. This also opened up the doors to multi touch technology, and of course pinching!
What was lost was the precision of stylus input and handwriting recognition.
HTC knows that some people still like having the option of using a stylus for input commands, for various reasons too. The stylus is thin and precise, allowing people to literally write onscreen in certain applications. This also ...
The HTC Hero, an Android powered mobile phone, has always had what felt like a slightly slow response time to its "Sense" interface – not so slow that you want to smash the handset, but slow enough that you will feel frustrated for a moment before the phone catches up with you.
Which is why many users will be thrilled to hear that Orange has just released an upgrade to the Hero's firmware which will provide some small tweaks to the handset, including a much longed for increase in speed.
One thing that you absolutely must note before performing the upgrade is that installing the new firmw...
Since the decision was made several years ago to include MP3 playback on mobile phones there has been a push to cram devices with as much multimedia capabilities as possible. This has seen then the release of phones with video playback, streaming internet video and even 3D hardware accelerated games. With the inclusion of all these features mobile phones have become more than just phones, they are games consoles and walkmans also. One of the areas that has lagged behind with many manufacturers has been headphone sockets, with many feature filled phones requiring the use of specially designed p...