[sclug] OT: Two weeks with the HTC Hero and Android OS

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Keith Edmunds wrote:

> Nice write-up Alex.

Thanks!

> I'll put together some more comments based on my experience with the Hero
> later, but one comment:
>
>> No automatic retry for sending SMS.
>
> Try Handcent SMS - that does retries, and also shows icons for a)
> successfully sent and b) received by recipient.

Aha! I hadn't found any particular problem with the default SMS message app,
and so was somewhat baffled why Handcent was so popular! I figured the
(re)sending part would be taken care of my the Android Framework, so that
(mis)behaviour wouldn't change...

Thanks for the tip!

> Keith

Best Regards,
Alex