Which mobile phone do you use?

[Abhas]

I got Android 2.2 working on my HTC Touch Pro (Windows mobile)!

Tell me some good apps so that I can test it out. It's laggy on my processor 528 mhz, but I'm liking it so far. The marketplace has a copy of almost all iPhone apps

I'm looking forward for the HTC Desire HD. Looks impressive, hopefully it is bug free.

 

[SciD]

I got Android 2.2 working on my HTC Touch Pro (Windows mobile)!

Tell me some good apps so that I can test it out. It's laggy on my processor 528 mhz, but I'm liking it so far. The marketplace has a copy of almost all iPhone apps

I'm looking forward for the HTC Desire HD. Looks impressive, hopefully it is bug free.

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What type of apps are you looking for?

 

[Abhas]

Anything. I want to see what Android is capable of. This will help me decide on the phone I'm likely to buy. HTC Desire HD vs iPhone4 vs Blackberry.

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It was the 2nd fastest in the world when I bought it. Shame I hardly managed to use it properly though. Doesn't work well in Australia because of the lack of 3G.

 

[SciD]

Anything. I want to see what Android is capable of. This will help me decide on the phone I'm likely to buy. HTC Desire HD vs iPhone4 vs Blackberry.

Abhas added 1 Minutes and 55 Seconds later...



It was the 2nd fastest in the world when I bought it. Shame I hardly managed to use it properly though. Doesn't work well in Australia because of the lack of 3G.

Nimbuzz - all in one messenger and Skype
Titanium backup - requires root access
K-lite mail - for mail (push and poll)
Carrom3D - A pool, carrom board and snooker game
Dropbox
Pandora - radio app
Google Goggles
CardioTrainer
DroidEmuLite
jetVD - Youtube download
neoReader - bar code scanner
PdaNet - Teethering app
RockPlayer - all video files player
PingChat - send message for free
Flashlight - Use flash as torch

 

[AngryPixel]

Buying Nokia X6 tomorrow ... Finally upgrading after 3 years from N70

 

[MattW]

Bought an LG Optimus (GT540, called the LG Loop in some places) a few weeks back to give Android a go. It is 1.6 but has a 2.1 upgrade available (haven't gotten around to upgrading as there's no official local/europe one).

It certainly isn't the best phone, but it was the absolute cheapest entry point I could get a Android handset for - $0 on a $29 cap over 12 months, with 10% off each month and three months free. The phone is $229 on prepaid, so I'm getting a year's service for $6.

I don't really like it, I hate typing on the touchscreen, I was holding out mainly to get a phone with a slide out KB, but really this makes me remember why I like the layout of my old E63, which I'm still tempted to go back to.

What is keeping me on android is that I like touch otherwise, for web browsing it is fantastic, and likewise the text is very clear for reading on (despite a comparatively poor screen compared to other models). I love the gmail integration, something my Nokia never got right, and threaded texting is good (though hardly a unique feature).

There's some good apps/widgets as well, but many are just so I can replace some of Android's missing out of the box functionality. I use my phones as an organiser, so the horrible calendar was a huge letdown. Googling some of the problems tells me I could do it within Gmail on my PC and get things I want done, but how hard would an option be for things like reoccuring events that stop on a date, or having the reminder for events keep making noise - I use those reminders to wake me up so I don't have to fuddle around with a real alarm clock - Android wanted me to use the alarm clock app and manually set it each day!

Some of those issues were sorted by apps - Smooth Calendar and Calendar Notifier got me closer to where I wanted to be - but it is frustrating how I'm either forced to the web or can't do things at all.

I still like some things about Android, but as the frustrations with the little things increase, my liking of the interface, the convenience of touch and the bigger screen will probably get outweighed. I am glad I went for the cheap option, because I'd be much more annoyed with these little things if I'd spent big.

I'll wait it out a bit longer, and do the 2.1 upgrade before giving up on Android (if it helps stop the browser/home screen crashing at random it'd be nice), but I do wish Google put more dev time in to the basic phone fundementals that I seemed to have taken for granted after two years on a Nokia.

 

[AngryPixel]

Wow.. that was some review matt... Good to see that you are active once again

 

[SciD]

Calender app on Android works without issue. I think LG messed up something.

 

[AngryPixel]

I'm getting X6 8gb for 13800 INR. Is that a fair price or am i getting ripped off

 

[SciD]

You can get 16 GB at that price. If I were you I will wait for some time as new Nokia phones are coming in festival season.

 

[AngryPixel]

Really?? That means i gotta try at some other shop. I can't wait for festival season as my N70 is giving me trouble for last few weeks.

 

[MattW]

Calender app on Android works without issue.

It isn't that it doesn't work - it is that it doesn't have features I personally depend on as standard (and it is the stock app to my knowledge). On one example, I put my uni timetable in to my phone at the start of the semester and have the events reoccur weekly at the same time. On my Nokia it had the very simple field of 'repeat until' below the option to select 'weekly', on Android, it just repeats until the end of time. Now there is the option to then go and delete the events, so instead of just setting an end date, I have to go to that date and then delete 'this and future events'. Now that would almost be okay, but I also have a mid semester break, one week where those subjects don't run - so you'd think I could delete them for that one occurance - nope, I could delete the entire series including the past weeks, or just that one and all future ones. The only thing I could do was just remove the reminder and ignore them popping up.

It isn't a 'big' thing, but that's precisely the point, what is only the addition of two options would expand greatly the flexibility of the defaults. As it stands the only other way would have been to have a Google synced calendar and set up the events online - while I haven't tried it, I'm told you do have those options there.

Little tiny issues like this are what I'm running in to across Android, which is a shame considering how much of it I like.

 

[SciD]

It isn't that it doesn't work - it is that it doesn't have features I personally depend on as standard (and it is the stock app to my knowledge). On one example, I put my uni timetable in to my phone at the start of the semester and have the events reoccur weekly at the same time. On my Nokia it had the very simple field of 'repeat until' below the option to select 'weekly', on Android, it just repeats until the end of time. Now there is the option to then go and delete the events, so instead of just setting an end date, I have to go to that date and then delete 'this and future events'. Now that would almost be okay, but I also have a mid semester break, one week where those subjects don't run - so you'd think I could delete them for that one occurance - nope, I could delete the entire series including the past weeks, or just that one and all future ones. The only thing I could do was just remove the reminder and ignore them popping up.

It isn't a 'big' thing, but that's precisely the point, what is only the addition of two options would expand greatly the flexibility of the defaults. As it stands the only other way would have been to have a Google synced calendar and set up the events online - while I haven't tried it, I'm told you do have those options there.

Little tiny issues like this are what I'm running in to across Android, which is a shame considering how much of it I like.

Deleting an event is an issue but you can compensate by using other apps for this.

 

[MattW]

Deleting an event is an issue but you can compensate by using other apps for this.

Which infuriates me. Simple things should be included by default, I shouldn't need three apps to make the calendar work the way it should do all along.

 

[nightprowler10]

I'm not missing it at all

Ah, you must not be a fan of watching live TV or dozens of TV shows episodes that are floating around the internet for free like I am then, not to mention all the free inbrowser games. You know, closer to a proper browsing experience, etc.

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Which infuriates me. Simple things should be included by default, I shouldn't need three apps to make the calendar work the way it should do all along.

Yeah, the down side with Android. They know they can afford to skimp on the basic stuff since people can just download free third party apps to make up for it, so they do just that.