[Nottingham] What mobile to get?

[Dan Caseley]

The other half has the Desire and rates it well above any phone she's ever
had. I recently upgraded from the Hero to the Desire HD, and that too is an
immense phone.

I tried the Desire Z in the shop, but found that my thumb kept clipping the
bezel when heading for the top row of keys. That said, I've got pretty
enormous hands, so YMMV.

On the geek factor, I'm running a custom ROM built from public sources (by
someone more knowledgeable, I hasten to add), and a separate custom kernel
with recent Linux upstream changes and various Android- and handset-specific
tweaks and fixes applied.

HTH,

Dan


On 21 May 2011 17:00, Richard Hodgson <rich at dearinternet.com> wrote:

> 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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