Aight guise,
I have slowly turned my interest to Android phones. I have a Crapberry 8900 and am sick of:
- The bulked up, simplified interface
- The knowledge that I can do so much more with the tech yet can't
- Lack of applications that make my life easier
- Slow and laggy
- Buggy
- Crashes so often
The list goes on...
Anyway, after realising I don't want an iPhone and as my contract is up for renewal, I was checking out Android phones, not least as their application and cracking abilities are much more widespread.
The phones I was looking at were the Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Desire as
I have a MicroSD card for my Crapberry already so it saves me a bit of money etc.
So, tell me your reccommended Android phone, and say, the top 3 applications you would want. I hate Facebook and use GPS a fair bit to plan routes etc. Anyway, just spout about good phones. I'm gonna go read the Android threads now.
Cheers!
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This is my main homescreen. I'm using a big clock widget with the weather and some temperatures built in, as well as organizing my mainly used apps below. I've also got a few buttons to press which turn on mobile/wifi data.
This is a screenshot of a folder which I've created called "Tools". It's got all my useful applications inside, such as a file-manager, barcode scanner, backup tools, SSH (connectbot), and even a speedtest app
Finally, this is an image of one of my Dropbox folders. I know you use Dropbox so this should come in handy for you. From here, I can download any Ebook I want from my Dropbox account, and then open it up in the PDF viewer which comes with the phone. Good for reading on the bus!
As for my top applications...
Internet
Dropbox
IRC
Oh, and did I mention that you can use TOR on Android too? I've got a program called Orbot (combined with Orweb) on my Desire, and it works well. Look it up!
Oh, and those last 2 screenshots above look really washed out. I dunno why that happened, but for the true colors, look at the first screenshot and use your imagination
http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC110423-0000298/Android-phones-track-users-movements,-too--Research
Also, if you flashed your phone and installed a different ROM, there's a chance that this file might not even exist. Not sure about that though.
My contract is up in August and it's a free upgrade so no extra cost. HTC Desire it is, thanks to Daddy
Dropbox, IRC (yeah you heard me), some kind of Google Maps/GPS and a few decent ebook reader/games apps and I'm sorted.
I recommend Yaaic for IRC, btw.