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Anyone Else Pleased with the Trophy?

I have to say that I am pleased, overall, with the Trophy. The battery life could be a bit better, but the interface is slick, the phone is fast to respond, and the apps work nicely!! Plus, the XBox Live integration is great (and will only improve with mango). The camera, though, could be a bit better. But I'm not much of a "take a picture on my phone" person anyway.

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chudster94

I count myself as one that's very pleased with the phone so far. I've had it since Thursday morning and I can't say I have any major complaints about it.

hopmedic

Personally, I wish VZW would have chosen better hardware to bring to CDMA (That Samsung Focus is SWEET), but I am excited about the OS.

JG69

rman0099 wrote:
I have to say that I am pleased, overall, with the Trophy. The battery life could be a bit better, but the interface is slick, the phone is fast to respond, and the apps work nicely!! Plus, the XBox Live integration is great (and will only improve with mango). The camera, though, could be a bit better. But I'm not much of a "take a picture on my phone" person anyway.

When you say the battery life could be better, could you elaborate further on this? How much usage time are you getting out of a single charge? I currently have a Droid Charge and am thinking of swapping it as I'm growing tired of having to charge it every 5-6 hours.

Thanks...JBG

Arbee

I'm loving mine! I was really concerned since there was no choice of another WP7 from Verizon, but I've been pleasantly pleased. My batteries been holding up well. I had to recharge after 10 hours of which about 3 hours was playing Pandas vs. Ninjas!! Wish I could have got this sooner. Now I can't wait for Mango!

jimho

after two weeks, this phone is exceeding my expectations- I thought the hardware was limited, but I've had no issues with speed or functionality.

The camera is OK - could be better but not bad...fine for quick snapshots and sharing.

I don't expect a 3/8 of an inch lens on any phone to compete with real cameras and I don't understand why others do....

As a business user, I like it better than my wife's Droid X, and as a gamer, so does my 6 year old.

DriveSlow

i have mixed feelings so far about this phone.

William_M

complaints about cameras on cell phones is also something I've struggled to understand. I can appreciate the need for flash on a camera, don't get me wrong because that was a COMMON complaint amongst almost everyone you asked about the iPhones camera up until iPhone 4. I do however not understand why people take pictures from 40ft away and go "Oh that's so washed out". I'm one of those "it's a phone idiot, not a camera" people.

ericreinhardt

I have to say I am one of those very satisfied people. I sold my Verizon iphone to get this phone and I have to say it is great. Just wish Verizon would come out with some accessories for it.

jimho

ericreinhardt wrote:
I have to say I am one of those very satisfied people. I sold my Verizon iphone to get this phone and I have to say it is great. Just wish Verizon would come out with some accessories for it.

What accessories do you need? Batteries with as much as 3600 mAh can be found, plenty of gell cases and hard cases are avaialble from 3rd parties. Custom skins can be ordered from Zagg and others, there's a nice aluminium shell available either brushed or black, screen protectors from everyone are available, and the custom charging cradle/spare battery charger for the T8686 should work for our phone as well...

What other phone specific accessories do we need?- everything else is generic and can be connected via USB or bluetooth...

I'm happy that I don't need to spend another $250 for custom hardware accessories...

What I'd like to see is Microsoft working with 3rd party AV manufacturers (particularly automotive) to provide better wireless integration and control of our phones without having to sync the address book, ideally Ford SYNC without the Ford.

SteveBMe

I'm an older person, and had a wm6.1 phone before.

It took me a while, but after getting a 16gb micro card, I found myself in hog heaven.

I had the tools I wanted, could use the calendar as I needed, move files back and forth, bluetooth things off/on the phone, etc.... I had a great library I could listen, read, etc.....

My only real complaint-- and I had a few-- was that the screen was smaller than my eyes liked.

I finally gave in last week after my old phone became corrupted and was no longer usable. Multiple failed attempts at removing the files so I could hard reset failed, so I got the new Trophy.

1- very nice interface. I think they call it Metro UI.

2- great speed/app access.

3- nice camera.... I'm liking this. My last one was only a 1.3mp cam. shoddy pics/videos.

4- ease of use.

5- lots of free goodies on the marketplace.

cons----

cannot do anything I used to take for granted on my wm6.1.

Can't set customized calendar recurrences to the degree I could before.

can't bluetooth files off/on device.

can't import contacts/calendar/tasks to new phone from outlook pro.

can't use active synch/windows mobile device center

can't use device as a storage tool to cart files of own choosing around.

To many newcomers, apparently these are non-issues, and I'm happy for them.

I however require a tool more than I do a pocket-sized entertainment center.

I had both a tool and a not entirely impressive entertainment center in my pocket with the old phone.

I've just spent the last hour attempting to reset my old phone, and nothing is working. If I ever figure it out-- I'm really considering going back until I can find a phone that does what I actually need it to do, instead of what someone tells me I'm supposed to want it to do....

Overall-- I give the trophy a 5.

Impressive for entertainment, but sucks in tool-design.

I'll try it for another couple of weeks, and see if I can convince myself it's worth the time I'm now beginning to get increasingly frustrated over.

It wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't gotten use to the old tool stuff I could do with the wm6.1 phone. I really did find myself taking that for granted.... and enjoyed it immensely!!!!

chudster94

You can use the Outlook Connector to sync your Outlook contacts and calendar with the Trophy. I've done this and it works great. Here are the instructions:

http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/how-to-sync-windows-phone-7-with-outlook

Currently WP7 doesn't support Tasks but this functionality is supposed to be added with the Mango release later this year. Not sure if these will also sync with the Outlook Connector at that time.

It's true that WP7 doesn't allow direct access to the file system but there are several ways you can transfer files to and from your Trophy. The first is to use SkyDrive. This is Microsoft's free cloud based tool for storing documents and pictures. Once you set up a Windows Live account you should have access to SkyDrive. For syncing music, podcasts, videos and pictures, you can also use the Zune application which is also available for free as a download from Microsoft.

SteveBMe

Thanks Chud,

I have numerous private contacts which I was explicitly told to not give out/make public.

The store clerks, and MS answer's people have already told me about this one....

This is actually one the things which bothers me about the contacts issue.

I had a few contacts on my live account-- emails-- which automatically downloaded to my phone. When I finally figured out where they'd come from, and went to delete them, I got a message which stated those would be deleted from my hotmail account as well....

Why in the world would anyone FORCE you to have contacts all in a single location, when you were content having them as they were?

to me this is.... a totally impolite phrase here....!!!

While I haven't been into the web side of my live account, I'm guessing at this point, those 3 contacts are gone. What I'm now curious about is-- is their "friend" status gone as well because I removed them from my phone, on Live.com?

I have my contacts where they are for an explicit reason. I do not like having to be forced to do something I do not want done. It's ridiculous!!!

So, thank you for the information, knew about it already-- do not want that.

jimho

SteveBMe wrote:
Thanks Chud,
I have numerous private contacts which I was explicitly told to not give out/make public.
The store clerks, and MS answer's people have already told me about this one....
This is actually one the things which bothers me about the contacts issue.
I had a few contacts on my live account-- emails-- which automatically downloaded to my phone. When I finally figured out where they'd come from, and went to delete them, I got a message which stated those would be deleted from my hotmail account as well....
Why in the world would anyone FORCE you to have contacts all in a single location, when you were content having them as they were?
to me this is.... a totally impolite phrase here....!!!

While I haven't been into the web side of my live account, I'm guessing at this point, those 3 contacts are gone. What I'm now curious about is-- is their "friend" status gone as well because I removed them from my phone, on Live.com?

I have my contacts where they are for an explicit reason. I do not like having to be forced to do something I do not want done. It's ridiculous!!!

So, thank you for the information, knew about it already-- do not want that.

I'm still pretty happy with mine- there are times I wish the screen were bigger. Steve- Age has nothing to do with it. I think most of your issues stem from a desire to use your phone as a companion to your PC as opposed to another way to access your information. The paradigm shift has already occured- the prefered mechanism for sharing data between devices is through the web via web services- connecting to your desktop to sync is not only no longer necessary, it's undesirable.

You seem to be a bit confused here, and clearly frustrated- I read your other post regarding syncing contacts as well... you described what you did, but not what you were trying to accomplish.

Why would your contacts become public by importing them into your live or hotmail account? I have 5 accounts with separate contact lists and separate calendars. It integrates beautifully with Windows phone. My contacts are not public and they are not in one location - please clarify your comment.

Are you talking about making them visible to your friends on facebook (something completely different). Putting asside what you've done and been told....

Exactly what is it you are trying to do and how and why are you worried about exposing contacts to the public?

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