The register has just published a TD review at "http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/08/review_htc_touch_diamond/"
Generally well balanced and pretty positive - gives the phone an 80% rating
That's an interesting review considering many peoples negative comments on here.
Hopefully I'll be able to confirm the review later this week!
Note from the review that they had the device for 10 days - so they gave it much more than a quick once over
I submitted videos to a contest at webosroundup.com and they are giving away free Palm Pre's. I would really like to win one and here is how you can help.
All you have to do is watch these two commercials my wife and I made and submitted. If you are feeling generous you can share the videos on twitter/facebook/whatever so I get more views. Round 1 of the "voting" is soley based on Youtube views so the more people that watch the videos the better chance I have.
Here are the videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZtNEZkLHHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLUwHlkthBU <-- My wife's is better than mine
Thanks in advance and I will report back when round 2 voting has started.
This is a bump because the 2nd round of voting has started. My video didn't make it to this round but my wife's did. Please go ahead and vote for her video in "Most Original" and "Overall" categories. Thanks a ton!
http://www.webosroundup.com/2010/05/palmspot-finals-vote-for-your-favorites/
BTW the voting is cookie based so you can vote from multiple browsers if you have them installed.
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This is a bump because the 2nd round of voting has started. My video didn't make it to this round but my wife's did. Please go ahead and vote for her video in "Most Original" and "Overall" categories. Thanks a ton!
http://www.webosroundup.com/2010/05/palmspot-finals-vote-for-your-favorites/
BTW the voting is cookie based so you can vote from multiple browsers if you have them installed.
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It’s been a while since we’re reached out for help, but now that Windows Phone 7 is taking off we’re looking for some additional help on htcsource.com to cover WP7 related news. We’re hoping to find one or two writers who would be able to contribute 2-3 stories a week. This is a paid blogging position. Compensation starts at $5 per post and increases gradually over time as an incentive to keep writers for more than just a few months
Blogging requirements:
You must own a new HTC Windows Phone 7 handset
Submit 2-3 news stories per week (150-300 words long)
Properly cite sources for each article
Tag articles with keywords
If you are interested in the blogging position, please send us a short bio about yourself which includes your history with HTC phones, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 background, and any writing experience you may have. We would also like you to include a 200-250 word sample article covering a recent WP7 news story to give us a taste of you writing style.
Please send your information and any questions to nick @ htcsource.com
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Ooh I would love this
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Hey guys, wanted to post this publicly because I think we can throw ideas around, not just between people on XDATV but with anyone interested. Basically, I want to share some of the things I've learned from youtube over the years about optimizing the impact of our videos. If we work together on this, everyone benefits.
I assume everyone wants to see their view count go up. We make videos for people to watch, and the view count says how many times they've been watched. So that's the goal, and these ideas are all about achieving that goal. For each idea, I'm putting what we'd do, and then explain why.
1. Post only on your designated day--or if you must, on a day when no one else is posting--so there is only one video posted per day.
Most of the views come from that Latest Video on XDATV box on the right hand column on the portal. At the very least this idea is a courtesy to one another because we aren't taking time on that prime real estate away from each other. Our videos shouldn't compete with our other videos. We're working as a whole, however disjointedly. I wouldn't post more than one video a day even on my own channel for the very same reason. Actually, that's not true... I have posted more than one video in a day on my youtube channel before, with the explicit intention of burying the first. Because that's what posting more than one video a day does.
Videos do not work like blogs. Especially not when the videos are time-sensitive, as many of our videos are. And looking on every other tech blog that also makes videos, you'll see they do this too. The reason the first video gets so few views is because even the most dedicated viewers tend to check Youtube only once per day. Also, the longer a video goes before the next is posted, the more views it gets. Something to keep in mind if you want to post more in a week than your timeslot allows.
2. Tell the viewers to subscribe to the youtube channel, or at least to check out more of our videos.
Currently, our videos are averaging more views than the xdadevelopers youtube channel has subscribers. While that's a good indication of future growth, it still means that more people are watching than are subscribed. Often, people just forget to do it. Given the linear growth in subscribers versus the radically varying video views, it means that we aren't building a steady viewer base, we're mostly getting one-time views in passing.
Now, I know we're here more or less to provide a service to the forum, and if that's all we want XDATV to be, then there's no reason to follow this idea. However, XDATV could be a great marketing tool for xda-developers, which would make the relationship between XDATV and the forum less parasitic and more symbiotic. Bad analogy, but I can't think of a better one right now. I can't think of any reason why we wouldn't want XDATV to bring people to the forum and likewise, instead of only the forum bringing people to XDATV. Our subscriber count means nothing on the forums, but on Youtube, subscribers mean baseline views. (And if videos are getting far fewer views than the channel has subscribers, something went very wrong. That's the case with my channel, went on too many hiatuses.) Building it needs to be a big focus.
3. Provide links, article titles, tags, and video titles with each video.
For the most part we all provide article titles and links, but the more, the better. Internet searches pick up on everything in the video description, so the more detailed it is, the more traffic your video will get. Tags and video titles are the same, but we don't do them. Tags provide keywords. You know this, I'm just reiterating. Imagine every reason you can that someone might need your video. Your tags should be all the words you think they would search to find your video.
Lastly, the video titles. When I find tech videos for other sites, if it's news they title it with one or two of the biggest headlines, put ambiguously. That way people searching for any related headlines will be more inclined to watch. Stuff like "NEW EVO 3D!!!!" or "Xperia Mini Revealed!" And so on. And trust me, people click it. If it's a tutorial, review, or even interview, the title tends to be what you can do with the info in the video. Chad sorta did that a bit ago, but it should be simpler. Something like, "Root Your Desire HD". Shawn, your interview with Mendozinas could have been titled "Make Your Own Themes on Android". The titles are relevant, but capitalize on what people can get out of it, rather than what it's about or, as we're titling them now, what it is. And then, providing these things for Svetius will make his job a whole lot easier.
I was pretty sure I had more, but I forgot for now. So go make words below this post, preferably in some coherent order and pertinence.
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Werd. Agreed. I don't give XDA as much love as I give the other two sites I work for. I might start soon.
Azrienoch, the podcast should also pick up the viewing count and any description added to the files, so such information is always good, particularly links.
I just hope that we can get the update process sorted out so you guys can do your encoding and then update the podcast without any effort on your part. I'm not sure what we need to do to submit the podcast to iTunes etc, but I am reluctant to do so until the podcast is updated promptly (I guess I could open it up for other users to upload the videos instead, but that creates other issues).
At the moment, there will be a two week gap in updates as I won't be able to do it until the end of the month.
There are still some adjustments I want to make to it (icon, description etc), so if you guys want anything altered or changed then let me know. Most parts are adjustable (I've noticed that meltwater is in the copywrite bit - it only showed up on my GoogleReader, I'll remove it when I can - it is because I'm using my FeedBurner version of the youTube feed to get around my access issues...which I setup a while back).
If we want to move it to a common account or something then it will have no effect on the podcast link itself (as you just update feedburner account). Also we can set-up a common feedburner account too if you guys want to view the stats.
As of Today, the stats are: 896 views of 34 items
If only youtube would re-enable the rss feeds directly and then the podcast would also count on the viewing count too. I can also add a podcast item about subscribing to the channel too, but not everyone wants to use data-plans to access content on the go.
A better line of communication with the news team and owners/maintainers of the site wouldn't hurt, either. At the present time it's like a 5 story office building, and the door is locked to each floor, so you have to call and request it to be opened over intercom.
Today's stats are: 1,446 views of 34 items
Shame as it is just starting to grow, it won't be updated for a while.
meltwater said:
Today's stats are: 1,446 views of 34 items
Shame as it is just starting to grow, it won't be updated for a while.
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No worries, man. We're in this for the long haul.
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No worries, man. We're in this for the long haul.
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Shall look forward to the new videos when I return! Cheers.
Great tips, Jeff.
With all the negative press lately, I'd like to see just how many people are unhappy with their device, or if it's just a vocal minority. this will only take about 30 seconds. Thanks in advance to everyone who participates!
Survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1...azHGoROgFFSL5w_QwTKp_gRw/viewform?usp=sf_link
I'll post the results here when I get them
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With all the negative press lately, I'd like to see just how many people are unhappy with their device, or if it's just a vocal minority. this will only take about 30 seconds. Thanks in advance to everyone who participates!
Survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1...azHGoROgFFSL5w_QwTKp_gRw/viewform?usp=sf_link
I'll post the results here when I get them
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Done, spoiler alert : like the OP5 a lot
Done, only major complaint is that auto brightness dims the screen too much at night, to the point that I can't read anything and have to manually increase brightness
Done
Done and I really like it.
Done. *Very* happy with my OnePlus 5. Just sold my Pixel XL today. Oneplus 5 is smaller, lighter, faster, louder. Same screen... to me. The Twrp & custom rom pace is amazing! And it doesn't have those weird dual partitions.
The OnePlus 5 launch was a great sales event and I think it may have drawn some sales from folks that maybe were not as committed after the event ended.
Their promised shipping turn around was ambitious and I expect they met their promise on the vast majority of their shipments. But like some, my delivery was 1 business day later than promised - and because that meant I could not play with it over the weekend, I was disappointed - but I didn't complain. I blamed that on the success of the launch and a good price/product. If you monitored the shipping thread, you saw there were people that were saying they were going to return theirs as soon as it arrived. The reported "jelly" effect, was icing on the cake.
Bottom line: great phone; great price; great expectations.
Thanks for the responses -- 133 participants so far
Pretty cool watching this data line up. Overall it seems people are extremely satisfied with their Oneplus 5 purchase so far. The only measures that people have scored as "moderately satisfied" with are the camera (at 3.5/5) and the price (at 3.6/5).
You may find the full results by following the link below. Please note that they will continue to update as responses come in. Also note that I'm hosting these on my personal website, as I'm not sure of a better way to do it, but if you know of a better way please let me know. I will post a final set of results (in a more digestible format) once I receive more data.
https://realworldtechreviews.wordpress.com/oneplus-5-survey-results/
Looks like we made good purchases
Coming from a iPhone this is my first Android experience not to familiar with all the tricks yet but the experience for me has been smooth camera takes good quality photos battery life is great getting 8-10 hrs sot and as far as mods I like the fact that you can add whatever you want whenever making it a unique device just for you. 9-10 .
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goingonstrong2 said:
With all the negative press lately, I'd like to see just how many people are unhappy with their device, or if it's just a vocal minority. this will only take about 30 seconds. Thanks in advance to everyone who participates!
Survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1...azHGoROgFFSL5w_QwTKp_gRw/viewform?usp=sf_link
I'll post the results here when I get them
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The OP5 is a great phone for people who know how to use it. It surprises me that many people just rant about a problem, not because it affects them, but cause someone told them that there's some problem with their phone.
Jelly effect would have gone unnoticed easily had thw Google engineer not brought it up. Personally, I think it doesnt affect much at all.
I dnt know another flagship phone at this cost, which is as customisable as this OP5.
Let's see what the poll says.
I love the device, having used iPhone and OnePlus One before.
Results are up!
Here is my reddit post where I break down the results:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/6mftpa/results_from_a_500person_survey_evaluating_user/
And here are the raw results for you to sift through on your own
https://realworldtechreviews.wordpress.com/oneplus-5-survey-results/