james's blog

Battery Pack Pro, Pocket Zen Phone, Magic Button

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:29:14 +0200

I tried out Battery Pack Pro for a few days. While all of the stuff on there looked cool, I started getting annoyed at the lady with a British voice letting me know that my "Memory Is Low" and so forth (I never found a way of disabling this). I also found myself having to do soft resets several times daily because the device would lock up and figured that this program was the problem. I uninstalled it and I haven't had to do a reset since. I can't seem to get it to work properly. I'm wondering if anyone has had a pleasant experience with this program or perhaps some tips on getting it to function properly.

HTC Wizard camera photos

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:56:56 +0200

The image quality from the camera is quite impressive for a phone/PDA. It will never replace my 'real' camera, but I am certainly finding myself using the camera function all the time for moblogging and emailing friends and so forth. My pics taken w/ the camera can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jameth/tags/mobile/

Battery life

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:03:57 +0200

The only gripe I have about this device is the poor battery performance. I went to a local T-mobile store and inquired about an extended life battery. The salesperson had a look of shock in thier eyes and informed me that the battery shipped with the HTC Wizard _is_ an extended life battery. I usually need to recharge it in the late afternoon because the battery gets below 10%.

Then again, I talk on it a lot, I use the Internet (usually T-mobile's GPRS system and not always wi-fi, which I know drains battery life), I take lots of pictures, I read/write lots of email, and I use Agile messenger all the time. Maybe I'm using it too much. :)