I'm a fan of my wildfire, which I've rooted and run Android 2.3 on in the form of Cyanogen Mod (<a href="http://www.cyanogenmod.com/">http://www.cyanogenmod.com/</a>)<br>I'd look out for the upgraded versions though, the screen res is a little too low for my liking and the processor could use a bit more poke.<br>
<br>Apps, built in Gmail client is pretty good, there are many IM clients for Jabber, IRC, MSN, Yahoo etc. Personally I run a Jabber server with gateways and just use xabber on my phone.<br><br>I also agree with the physical keyboard, I hate the on screen keyboard but love the power of the phone and apps. I tried a (3rd hand) palm pre for over a week despite hopeless battery and weak software just because the keyboard was so good.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 May 2011 19:04, Eben <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ctrl.alt.nerd@googlemail.com">ctrl.alt.nerd@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p>Nuh, as long as it has android 2.2 it has flash. I think. Definitely don't hold me to that, but I know for sure they have flash 10.1
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<br>IRC, emails and twitter are very minimal requirements ;) I wouldn't worry too much about this on any platform
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<br>On Fri, 20 May 2011, 17:36:17 BST, Benjamin Crowe <<a href="mailto:sneblot@gmail.com" target="_blank">sneblot@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<br>> I don't really mind about a physical keyboard as I have a full qwerty
<br>> keyboard on my current phone (which isn't touch screen) so I'm used to
<br>> the small buttons, also friends of mine have iPods and iPhones so I'm
<br>> quite used to on screen keyboards as well. What I really want from a
<br>> phone is for the OS to be open source, provide a really good web
<br>> experience and have apps which allow me to get on and do things like
<br>> IRC, email, twitter and the like. Is it true that the android phones
<br>> still don't support flash?
<br>>
<br>> Ben
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<br>> On 20 May 2011 15:30, Camilo Mesias <<a href="mailto:camilo@mesias.co.uk" target="_blank">camilo@mesias.co.uk</a>> wrote:
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<br>> > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Mat Booth <<a href="mailto:mbooth@fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">mbooth@fedoraproject.org</a>>
<br>> > wrote:
<br>> > > You can't even easily tell which key your
<br>> > > finger is over when the keyboard is that small, whereas the on-screen
<br>> > > keyboard will show you a larger picture of the key you pressed so if
<br>> > > you miss you can move your finger before releasing it
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<br>> > While you can't quite touch type on a phone keyboard you can usually
<br>> > use two fingers (or thumbs) to good effect. Yes the layout isn't quite
<br>> > the same as a desktop keyboard but once you get used to it, I find
<br>> > it's still faster than any on screen keyboard. Having to peck out one
<br>> > character at a time is enough to put me off using on screen keyboards
<br>> > altogether. Although I realise it's a bit subjective, iPad users seem
<br>> > to manage with their flat touchscreen 'keyboards' just fine...
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<br>> > -Cam
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