Comments on: HTC Legend review

By: mac system restore

mac system restore — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:12:38 +0000

Quite a nice approach to attacking IPhone niche.

By: mac system restore

mac system restore — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:12:38 +0000

Quite a nice approach to attacking IPhone niche.

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By: nostriluu

nostriluu — Tue, 04 May 2010 10:10:31 +0000

No, I don't work with Android in Canada. They just post press releases. Ever since the days of Sharky Extreme, the vast majority of review sites post unstructured, inconsistent reviews, that sometimes cover this aspect, sometimes cover this one, it's different every time. The best site I've seen is Storage Review, which lets you compare anything in their database on a detail by detail basis, along with commentary. So readers like me who are looking for "The best Android device" whether to buy it or know what it is, in every category are forced to read every review, knowing they are all going to be full of wandering subjective comments. So, in my multilateral view of the web, I'll occasionally respond to posts in this manner. I understand people tend to take anonymous Internet comments personally, but it wasn't meant to be mean, I should have said "Venus and Sagittarius are aligned" to be less obscure than Tuesday. But the fact is readers take time to read articles too, and I haven't seen much evolution at all in these reviews, and rather than going through the motions of 'becoming a reviewer' I'd rather try to influence the way reviews are done. It's worked before, that's why we troll. ;)

Ultimately reviewers do influence consumers and vendors, and you can't assume someone reading your review is intimately familiar with the Hero, and without attention to detail there's never going to be a device with perfect-as-possible checklist features, it will always be good in this way, bad in this one.... but it means something very real, I have to choose whether my next device (for most people, for the next X years) has good media capture, OR a good screen, OR good battery life, OR ... I'm quite sure there's a better way.

I'd hold out hope for a decentralized CC/microformat/RDFa solution to this problem, but I realize most review sites aren't motivated to go this route.

By: John Walton

John Walton — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:05:48 +0000

My bad. I didn't realize you were providing a link to someone else's work as an example of how you think I should do things. I guess my mind reading skills are dusty. I appreciate you trying to show me how it's done though.

Perhaps you should link to some of your own content. You work with Android in Canada? If you want to have a meaningful discussion, it's only fair that you do (especially after your ridiculous "Tuesday" dig). I'll be away from the Internet for most of the next week, but I'll see your response eventually.

No, I don't really see the difference in my reviews. Like you said, there are plenty of Androids just like this one out there. I'm not a fan of repeatedly reviewing the same phone, so I covered the aspects that are different about it and the major points that those new to Android might be concerned with. I did the same thing I always do - cover what seems pertinent to me. It's a Hero with a cooler body, an optical trackpad, and Android 2.1. Did I go over all of that? I think so.

Speaking of millions of similar Androids, there are many, many reviews of this phone. Your comment reminds of one of those demands for coverage of a story because "it's posted everywhere else!" I understand the desire to get as much news as possible from a single source, but I don't understand the obsession with continually regurgitating everyone else's work.

Anyways, thanks for taking the time to write a cohesive comment this time around. It's more constructive than vague, poorly stated insults. More power to you and the objective value of your comments.

By: nostriluu

nostriluu — Mon, 03 May 2010 11:23:02 +0000

Millions of Androids are out there with checkbox features like “5 megapixel camera” which are in actual quality pretty horrible. Reviewers should be the point men (or women) for making sure these features actually means something qualitatively, to provide more context for buying decisions and help raise the bar for Android. Your Xperia X10 reviews were some of the first that really put it through its paces. Whereas this one really amounted to “it's nice.” You see the difference? When there is such a marked difference, you can expect trollish behaviour, but I don't think I'm spamming since that's simply a link to good quality detailed information (not mine) that sites need to develop (over time) to really raise the bar.

By: John Walton

John Walton — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:04:30 +0000

Well, it is tempting to knock lower end devices because they can't do as much as the latest and greatest. That's what I was referring to about capabilities: people who say this phone is slow are expecting too much from it.

BTW, it isn't Tuesday, but it is a good day for trolling and spamming, apparently.

Cheers.