Very much considering the Choco-Touch

Hi,

I am a Dare owner, and in March I'm eligable for an upgrade and am seriously considering the Choco-Touch.

I love my Dare, but it has a few limitations that I'm hoping the Touch doesn't.
That's why I'm here, to learn more about the Touch and see what it's all about.

I am not sure where to post this, so I'll just put it here, and if someone wants me to move it I will.

These are my problems with the Dare that I hope the Touch doesn't have.

1. You are limited to putting 2000 mp3's on the Dare, no matter how big of a MicroSDHC card you have. (I have a 16Gb card, and so I would be able to put way more than 2000 songs on the phone if not for the limit.

2. The Dare has some issues handing and sorting mp3's by their id3 tags. For example, all of my music has a genre, and it iTunes I can search by genre, but on the Dare if I search by genre, it basically says that all my songs are in the "NONE" genre, which is wrong. I've even converted my id3 tags to version 1.0 because I was told that the Dare could handle that better, but it didn't help.

3. On the Dare if you are in the middle of an audiobook or even a playlist or whatever, and you shutdown the media player, and then open it later, it does not pick up where you left off.


Does anyone know if the Chocolate Touch has these same issue or not?

I will search the forum, but for some reason this forum takes a million years to load each page on my computer. No other site is slow, just this one. I'm not sure why. But it's gonna take me a while at this rate to search the forum. But I'll try.


Thanks!

I love the looks of the Touch, and I am a musician so I love the drums and keyboard thing even if it's only a novelty. This phone looks more geared toward music than the Dare, and so I have high hopes that it will perform better in that area.

3) If you exit the player, when you return to the My Music screen, there is a circle with and "R" and a music note in the upper right corner, this will resume exactly where you left off.

I know there was a bit of a learning curve with the CT touchscreen. It seemed softer than the Krave's and less responsive. But after I found out that it is resistive not capacitive, it is actually better than the Krave. All I need to do is touch it with a fingernail and it responds. I have used the blunt tip of an inkpen as a stylus to enter appointments into the calendar. To me, it seems pretty accurate.


By the way, it does work with the LG Outlook Sync add on for MS Outlook. 

Right. You've got it. With resistive, it takes more pressure on the screen to recognize it.

The downside to capacitive, is that you must use a finger only. Styluses or fingernails will not work at all on an iPhone. But the upside is it's more sensitive.

But with a good resistive screen, it really isn't that much less sensitive than a capacitive.

Do you mean when you are opening the media player?
Because with 2000 songs, I don't have anywhere near 30 seconds lag. Maybe 5 seconds.

And once it is opened up, it runs pretty smoothly, with very little lag.

But to me, having lots of songs shouldn't affect the phone at all unless you are in the media player.

Well, I am finally upgrading. I ordered my CT yesterday. My wife is going to use my Dare when the CT gets here. I am actually using her upgrade. It's nice to have a wife who has no interest at all in having the latest greatest phones. I get new every 1 instead of new every 2, since we have two phones in our account.

Anyway, I think the CT is going to be perfect for me. I've even rigged up my car to where I can just plug one wire into the phone, and it puts the audio into my car stereo, and there is also a microphone on my visor that is hooked up as well. So I can be listening to music on my stereo from my phone, and if someone calls, I can just hit answer and start talking. I'm pretty sure it will work with the CT also. I know it works great with my Dare and even with my friend's iPhone. So I can't wait to play drums through my car stereo with some songs. lol I am a drummer anyway, and a guitarist and a keyboardist.   So this phone definitely seems like a musician's phone.

It's supposed to arrive at the house monday. I can't wait!

I'm glad to hear that you like it. Just wait until you start customizing it...lots of fun!

I'm not sure why this forum would take so long to load. I just clicked reply and it loaded in about 10 seconds. Weird...
I was referring to additional customization, but then realized that not everyone may be comfortable with using Bitpim and getting into the system files on their phone.
Using Bitpim, I have replaced the first two animations in the wallpaper folder with "flash clocks", meaning clock wallpaper that is Flash based. It has a background and a clock that pulls time data from the onboard settings (does NOT use data over the network). If you Google "LG Dare flash clocks", you should find examples of what I am talking about.