{"id":1614,"date":"2011-03-07T10:49:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/blog\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2011-03-07T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:49:01","slug":"technology-a-new-smartphone-for-my-wife-part-ii-htc-inspire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/technology-a-new-smartphone-for-my-wife-part-ii-htc-inspire\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: A New Smartphone for My Wife: Part II (HTC Inspire)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As I noted in Part I<\/a> of my “A New Smartphone for My Wife” series, I am in search of the best smartphone for my wife. She is\u00a0NOT a techie and just came from a Palm Centro without a data plan, so getting a\u00a0smartphone is big technological step up for her. And, despite all of the Apple love out there, neither my wife nor I were impressed with the iPhone.\u00a0\u00a0So, I decided to test drive the new HTC Inspire from AT&T. And I really like it!<\/p>\n

It really is just a big version (4.3\u201d screen) of my HTC Aria, which I love. It runs Android 2.2 Froyo (and, for those techies out there, it has already been rooted and has custom ROMs available on xda-developers.com<\/a>). The Inspire is a quality build that has what you would expect of an HTC Android phone.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t anything flashy about the Inspire and it really isn\u2019t cutting edge in its specs or technological accoutrement<\/a>. So if you\u2019re looking for a leader-of-the-pack phone, this isn\u2019t it. But if you want a rock-solid phone that is customizable, yet easy to navigate, this is a great phone. Plus, at just $99, you get a lot of phone for the buck.<\/p>\n

A few things I don\u2019t like about it. First, both my wife and I find the Inspire too big. Clearly, there is a trend toward bigger smartphones, but it seems to me that if you want a really big smartphone, you should just buy a tablet. And the “fit in the pocket” factor diminishes greatly.<\/p>\n

Also, access to the battery and the SIM\/SD cards through two separate \u201cdoors\u201d is a real pain. I actually bent the SIM\/SD cards cover trying to wrestle it off, but got a new one from the AT&T store. Opening the battery door is a real struggle. The battery life seems fine, but the battery is pretty low capacity (1230 mAh). Also, it didn\u2019t come with a wired headset. And no front-facing camera for video calling (which I think will become de rigueur in the next year or so).<\/p>\n

Is the Inspire the keeper for my wife? Doesn’t look like it. A key for me is that I want her to have a smartphone that will still be \u201cin the game\u201d in a year or more. And size matters for my wife. I don\u2019t think the Inspire fits that bill.<\/p>\n

The Motorola Atrix just came out, so I\u2019m going to check it out. Now that smartphone, based on its specs, is one ahead-of-the-curve piece of machinery.<\/p>\n

So, the saga continues. I\u2019ll report back on the Atrix and our final decision in Part III of my series.<\/p>\n

P.S. My greatest fear is that my wife will, in the end, decide to keep the iPhone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I noted in Part I of my “A New Smartphone for My Wife” series, I am in search of the best smartphone for my wife. She is\u00a0NOT a techie and just came from a Palm Centro without a data plan, so getting a\u00a0smartphone is big technological step up for her. And, despite all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}