HTC Touch HD aka Blackstone

It has been almost a month now since I first own this phone. I promised another review and here it is.

So far I had flashed 4 different ROMs from different developers. They’re all competitively good but I decided to stick with Dutty’s Xtreme ROM. There is great potential in the phone, but sadly there’re limited support to it, therefore community developers are really appreciated on the xda-developers.com.

wow…. haha

It’s been more than a year since I have this phone. The Dopod D810 is one of the first PDA phones which integrates all the functions that I desire. It is a PDA, which able to install alot of useful applications, a mobile phone, a notepad, a Global Positioning System (GPS) device, a music player, an Internet Browser and many more.

My white Dopod D810

I just came back from few good games of badminton, and of course dinner as well. I miss those time that I played with my friends. Learned a lot from them back then.

Back to the topic, yea… couple days ago I got myself the very first PDA phone in my life!! I’ve been patience for more than 4 years to have this phone!! I wanted a PDA phone so much but it’s too pricey and I can’t afford it, and it always doesn’t not have ALL the function I expected.

My previous dream phone was actually O2 XDAII, but the time when I can afford one of those, 3G is hitting the network and I feel pointless to get it.

I don’t know why I always wanted a PDA phone, it always been the ultimate gadget to me, nothing else, not computers, not graphic cards, nope.. it’s this.

…a Dopod D810

This is the third day I’m using it now, the new Sony Ericsson K610i. This phone is relatively simple to use, but it lack of customizations. Nowadays users like us do not like to adapt to using a new device. We more likey to tweak or customize the phone to what how we want it to be. E.g. The K610i doesn’t let you rearrange your menus, it is hard to get to the menu you frequently use, in that case they had decided to add a shortcut key to access your most frequently used menus.

Again about customization, Sony Ericsson doesn’t let you to set different ringtones for different profile, it only let you choose one ringtone for all the profiles regardless of where you are. Comon’ it’s ridiculous!! If you are a teenager who want’s to brag your friends that you have the newest ringtone by Akon – I wanna Fuck you, you can’t possibly use that same ringtone while you’re at dinner with your parents, right??

First of all, no doubt that the phone has the looks, really like it, which is the culprit that made me chose it. The reason why I’m saying this is because of the lousy camera. It’s really far from what I expected from a Sony Ericsson camera phone. It really disappoints me. I compared it with my Motorola V3x, it might not be at the same range of phones but these are what I own, a new and an old phone. I really don’t know how to describe the lousiness of the picture quality produced. A picture worth a thousand words, see for yourself.

Both camera phones does not have auto focus and it’s 2.0 mega pixels. This is why I always tell my friends, high mega pixels doesn’t mean the camera is good. The Motorola V3x comes with macro mode and flash which the SEK610i lacked of. I have nothing more to say, I’m already very disappointed and have no mood to test other features anymore, maybe some other time. Can’t complain much though, this is what you get when it’s FREE!