[Nottingham] What mobile to get?

[Benjamin Crowe]

ts such a shame about the Palm Pre it looked like such a lovely phone when
it was first shown to the world. What a shame that it would fail so
miserably. To be honest its looking more and more like I'm gong to be going
for the Desire possibly the Desire Z with the physical keyboard, just so I
have the option of both.


Ben

On 20 May 2011 23:02, Christopher Joice <christopher at c25.eu> wrote:

> 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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