[Nottingham] What mobile to get?

[Richard Hodgson]

I got a T-Mobile G1 a few years back thinking I wanted a physical keyboard,
and found the onscreen keyboard so good after a few days that I barely used
it, meaning that my phone had a lot of wasted bulk.

I've got an HTC Desire now, with CyanogenMod installed, so I get Android
2.3.4, and it's awesome. Flash is currently up to 10.3 for all those who are
interested.
On May 21, 2011 8:25 AM, "Benjamin Crowe" <sneblot at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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