Comments on: HTC Touch (CDMA)

By: Mr. M

Mr. M — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:40:40 +0000

Yes, I like mine as well. Battery life is bad. But rarely I’m to far of a hike from a charger land or in-car. It’s good to see that some blackberries have moved to it. I can see why.

One question I have is how to change the link in the TouchFlo “Triangular Prism” for music to open audio manager instead of starting Java based music store from Bell/Aliant. (I already have my music and not buying it again.

Mr M

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:46:45 +0000

I’ve had the Touch with Sprint for a few months now. I purchased from Seido a long life battery. It’s great for use with my slingbox. Mine locks up about 1-2 times a day. Have to reset to restart. Agree camera is inadequate. Love the microSD slot. Wish there was a way to modify the touch flo items tho. BTW Sprints unlimited data plan is great!

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:11:12 +0000

Hi there,
I have the Bell touch flow with unlimited browsing….I love it! The only thing I can’t seem to do is access drop downs from web sites with dropdowns. Does anyone know if it is possible if I insatll opera or are there setting I can change? Is the phone run on wap or html? I phoned twice to Bell reps and got 2 different answers..one said just a setting and the other said nothing I can do the phone simply cannot access dropdowns because it runs on wap not html, he also said I ccould not install opera browswer. Please help

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:05:10 +0000

I just got the Touch there have been a couple problems. Not sure if you’re seeing the same things:

1. Signal Strength/Reception – you alluded to this in your commentary and I find i’m having the same problems. Problems with hearing people (cutting in and out) in places that traditionally (on my old phone) had perfect reception.

2. DROPPED CALLS – this seems to happen quite a bit. Usually when it reached the 20-30 minutes range of the conversation. I have been reading a couple blogs about this but can’t seem to find out if Bell has a solution to this. I have checked the version of the hardware and have the latest offering (I just picked it up 2 days ago).

3. Definitely get Opera Mobile – it’s worth the money and pages load better. period. The unlimited browsing for $7 works great.

4. Battery Life has been mediocre at best. Set up with two email accounts (used IMAP) and checked for messages every 10 minutes. Killed the battery the first night (probably my fault for putting this setting) but I would recommend something like once/2hrs. Do you really need to know who’s emailing you in gmail?

Also interested in the keyboard that DUKER mentioned.

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:19:56 +0000

can u suggest some good good keyboard I can download as Duker

By: Vince

Vince — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:09:05 +0000

For the battery life, I turn off the beam and it helped.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:30:31 +0000

I just got my touch this wekend. I have to agree with the battery life commnent. I got the phone, charged it (after it died on the first day) fully….as instructed by the Bell store rep.

I am not through 24 hours and I already down to a single bar of battery life…..the funny thing is I have not made a single call today. I did show the phone to people I work with, picture show, sample video, etc. Just running those features killed my battery. I also found that ‘closing’ the running app doesn’t actually close it. I find myself going to the task manager to stop all apps.

However, I do like the interface and the unlimited browsing plan from bell makes this phone attractive. I am looking into getting a second battery soon

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:27:25 +0000

So I got the touch from Bell and all I can say is its an excellent device. I have Bell’s unlimited internet bundle which includes email etc. It’s fantastic. I notice the battery life is excellent and I easily get a full day’s use out of it. The main battery draw on it is talking on the phone. I recommend dropping the backlight setting down, dropping the backlight timer to lowest setting of one minute and close your programs fully when not in use. Also I use the power/sleep mode button on the top a lot all of these suggestions will give you considerably more battery life.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:58:49 +0000

I love my Touch (GSM, Enhanced) but I keep a charger in my backpack. ‘Can’t even get through a day on a charge if I really use it (e.g., talk some, listen to music, watch video, do some Web surfing).

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:25:12 +0000

WOEFUL battery life!