B166ER - Made in Cyberspace » Cellular http://www.b166er.com Technology, Science and Money Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:15:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 HTC S630 Cavalier with WCDMA Disabled http://www.b166er.com/2008/02/htc-s630-cavalier-with-wcdma-disabled/ http://www.b166er.com/2008/02/htc-s630-cavalier-with-wcdma-disabled/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:06:42 +0000 Shohat http://www.b166er.com/2008/02/htc-s630-cavalier-with-wcdma-disabled/ HTC S630A few weeks ago I have received a brand new smartphone – the HTC S630 Cavalier. Despite actually having very little use for its Internet and 3G capabilities, I figured that this kind of hardware will have top-class camera, battery and speaker. The fact that it comes with WiFi and PC syncing capabitlities also meant that it will be handy on the road, especially with the 2 Gigabyte MicroSD storage card.

To make long story short: the Speaker is next to useless. The JOGGR touch interface is absolutely horrible – I had to disable it after a week, because it makes the phone nearly unusable. There is not a person in the world that would actually use the JOGGR scrolling bar on the right side of the S630.

But the device had two even bigger downsides : Reception and Battery life. The HTC S630′s battery hits 10%-30% after barely 18 hours, while barely being used. A good friend told me that switching from WCDMA to GSM would prolong battery life and improve reception. Of course then I would have to give up on all the features I don’t use anyway, so I gladly agreed.
And it worked. By disabling WCDMA, I got exactly what I needed – a great SMS machine with a good camera and a lot storage, decent battery life and great reception.

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