The_Sophist

I had the Galaxy S for half a month and it pooped out on me, so I got the Iphone 4. Having trouble with it to.

In short, **** smartphones.

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Das_Skittles

I have Motorola Flipside. Coming from having only used phones for calls and texts, it's pretty awesome.

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esther_mouse

I bought an Orange San Francisco recently (ZTE Blade). I bought it for £100 (plus an annoying obligatory £10 top up), on PAYG, then we unlocked it, rooted it, de-Oranged it ('cause Orange suck), and I use it with my O2 PAYG account. When I top up £10, I get 300 free UK texts and 500mb of mobile data, which lasts until the end of the month. If I run out of mobile data, or reach the end of the month and don't feel like topping up to get more mobile data free, it costs me a pound a day to use mobile data.

Which is a pretty good deal

And I love my phone, it's really great. I can't recommend any apps in particular, because I don't know what you like; but one that is pretty useful for 2.1 is LinkPush, which is like chrometophone. My boyfriend made it, and it pushes links from your browser (Chrome or Firefox) to your phone, provided you're logged in to your Google account. http://linkpush.appspot.com/

What other apps do I have...I have a couple of sciencey ones, which list formulas and the like. I have a scientific calculator. I have a Japanese-English dictionary, and some practise cards for kanji, I have Google Sky map, which you should DEFINITELY have a look at, because it's pretty cool (even if you're not into astronomy). Google Shopper and Google Goggles are also very cool, check those out, and Barcode Scanner is useful for identifying products online by scanning IRL barcodes and QR codes.

What else...I use My Tracks for exercise purposes; it records my route, speed, elevation, time taken, etc, and sends it to my Google account as a document and as a map, so I can save what I've done as a spreadsheet, organised by different types of activity...I can then share this with friends if I wish. That's pretty neat too.

I also have Skype installed, because hey, free calls. And Google Talk, of course...what else...I use Meebo IM for MSN, and yaaic for IRC. For reading PDF files (I read my course textbooks on my phone sometimes) I use ezPDF reader, which is the only one I've mentioned so far which is not free; Adobe Reader is rubbish and crashes.

YouTube and YouTube Remote (lets you control YouTube vids on your computer, from your phone) are pretty neat, also. Erm...can't think of anything else in particular. Oh! Important one - NetCounter. It measures your internet usage - WiFi and mobile. Pretty useful for keeping track of your allotted mobile data. I also have the WiFi reconnect widget, because with my phone, it doesn't always reconnect to the WiFi when it should.

Anyway I think that's enough app-spamming for today :| Hope that's of some use, lol.

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LordBishek

Well it's practically the same hardware, so I guess it's all worked out if you managed to root and flash android



That really is a good deal, that's pretty cheap for a really low. As for apps, I have a pretty awesome scientific calculator called handycalc, it can draw graphs too, which is impressive. I've got the Skype/Meebo thing too, as well as goggles and skymap. As for PDFs I'm using documents to go, which includes a pdf reader, but also has a word processor and a spreadsheet editor. I don't know if you read a lot of ebooks, but if you do, Kindle is a GREAT app. I haven't even bought any books off it yet, I've downloaded ebooks in .mobi format and read them in Kindle - currently working my way through Pratchett's entire Discworld series

For anybody who's interested in prettifying their homescreens, may I recommend SimiClock, Minimal Text Widget (can display time, date, weather, battery, etc) and beautiful weather. All free.

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esther_mouse

Yeah, I don't really read ebooks on my PC or my phone because the screens do my head in (I'm prone to migraines and tension headaches already). Also I'm disinclined to buy books unless they're physical copies, lol Google Books is pretty cool too, and Google Reader is useful for RSS feeds.

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LordBishek

That's true enough. Sucks about the tension headaches though.

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RampagingAcorn

I got a Droid 2, pretty awesome phone.

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physicsdummy

I have, Android is running off NAND and not SD, it's almost eerie how well it runs on the phone, feels like it was made to but HTC scrapped it last minute and went with Windows.

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blue_bogan

Thats not a monopoly then

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JimmyBanks6

So recently i rooted my desire,
and flashed on a gingerbread rom Oxygen

thing runs like a top now, insane the speed difference from sense to a practically 100% clean rom.

Definitely suggest rooting and flashing in a better rom if their is development for your type of phone



oligopoly wow, useful post bro.

just as price fixed as gasoline.

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LordBishek

Bamp, googlefags.

Just flashed CM7.0.3 - Gingerbread is fukken awesome, man.



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JimmyBanks6

hey Ash,
another sick eng app that just came out is AutoCAD WS

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LordBishek

Oh snap! *googles*

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LordBishek

Just realised I had no use for it though because I'm not a civil engineer

I tell you what, if they had one for Solidworks or CATIA, I'd be all over it though

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JimmyBanks6

lol oh okay,

its still a pretty cool app just to screw with

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Ostinattos

I have a LG Optimus One , it's got Froyo (or something) the only problem so far is that to set a .mp3 as your ringtone you need to download an app.

You should get the barscanner app since it makes easier to find the apps you want to download.

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Thrashtastic15

quoting the old post first to give a +1

and secondly to say that you can get decent plans with your phones if you or someone in your family is a long time customer with one of the companies. I got a sick deal on my phone, as did my dad, since he has been with Telus for 10 odd years or something.

@ new post, I'm running an unrooted Milestone with 2.1 "update1 (im not sure what that update was lol)". What would you recommend I do with it to make it sexier?

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Diamond Dave

yeah I've upgraded to that too, its sick hey

what theme is that by the way? and where do you get them from? I've only found some far more basic looking ones.

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LordBishek

Seconded. Google goggles will do it as well, but the barscanner is pretty good.

What ringtone manager are you using then? Ringdroid?



It's a custom theme that I made using the Ultimate Online Theme kitchen - very easy, very quick. If you have a Desire HD running CM7, I can send you the flashable zip, but I can't guarantee it'll work for other phones.



Sexier how? In terms of widgets, or theming?

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