[Nottingham] What mobile to get?

[Christopher Joice]

I'm a fan of my wildfire, which I've rooted and run Android 2.3 on in the
form of Cyanogen Mod (http://www.cyanogenmod.com/)
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.

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.

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.

On 20 May 2011 19:04, Eben <ctrl.alt.nerd at googlemail.com> wrote:

>  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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