[Nottingham] What mobile to get?

[Eben]

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

IRC, emails and twitter are very minimal requirements ;) I wouldn't worry too much about this on any platform

~Eben

On Fri, 20 May 2011, 17:36:17 BST, Benjamin Crowe <sneblot at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't really mind about a physical keyboard as I have a full qwerty
> keyboard on my current phone (which isn't touch screen) so I'm used to
> the small buttons, also friends of mine have iPods and iPhones so I'm
> quite used to on screen keyboards as well. What I really want from a
> phone is for the OS to be open source, provide a really good web
> experience and have apps which allow me to get on and do things like
> IRC, email, twitter and the like. Is it true that the android phones
> still don't support flash?
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> On 20 May 2011 15:30, Camilo Mesias <camilo at mesias.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Mat Booth <mbooth at fedoraproject.org>
> > wrote:
> > > You can't   even easily tell which key your
> > > finger is over when the keyboard is that small, whereas the on-screen
> > > keyboard will show you a larger picture of the key you pressed so if
> > > you miss you can move your finger before releasing it
> > 
> > While you can't quite touch type on a phone keyboard you can usually
> > use two fingers (or thumbs) to good effect. Yes the layout isn't quite
> > the same as a desktop keyboard but once you get used to it, I find
> > it's still faster than any on screen keyboard. Having to peck out one
> > character at a time is enough to put me off using on screen keyboards
> > altogether. Although I realise it's a bit subjective, iPad users seem
> > to manage with their flat touchscreen 'keyboards' just fine...
> > 
> > -Cam
> > 
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