Android Phone

[Jairo]

Hi All,
I'm just starting to experiment with Android, and also I'm thinking to
buy An Android phone. I'm based in UK. Which one would you recommend?
I can see HTC G1, G2 Touch...etc. Do they all come with the latest
Android OS. I could possibly buy one with an old OS, that wouldn't
include the latest addons, and features? I need your advise.
Regards

[Carl-Gustaf Harroch]

Hello Jairo,

I have tested the G1 and G2. I heard very good things about the hero. I would recommend the latter but did not really try it out. The G1 is the dev phones (keyboard/trackball and so forth) but a bit clumsy and big. The G2 is very nice IMO but the hero - from videos and comments - rocks.

./C

2009/7/30 Jairo <jamal....@gmail.com>

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Carl-Gustaf Harroch

Sent from Slough, Eng, United Kingdom

[Carl-Gustaf Harroch]

BTW in terms of development, it does not really matter which one you choose. People tend to hack the G1 (several images/root access etc...) but I believe we will see this happening on other phones.
Samsung is the newcomer: http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/samsung-i7500-oled-handset-powered-by-android-dreams/ looks nice but can't comment to much

2009/7/30 Carl-Gustaf Harroch <char...@gmail.com>

[Jamal Romero]

Hi Carl,

Thanks for the advice. I'll keep looking, it looks like there are many options. One more question please. Why the emulator is so slow. I got 2G ram, I'm using Eclipse plugin. I've seen lots of comments about this problem on forums. Is there any way to overcome this problems?

Thanks again.

[Carl-Gustaf Harroch]

Well the emulator is a full fledge OS running on top of qemu. 2G of RAM is the minimum I would suggest and a powerful processor is needed as well. For slow machine, I would suggest using your phone as test device - as long as you have one :)

2009/7/30 Jamal Romero <jamal....@gmail.com>

[Makoto]

Hi.

I bought HTC Hero from Orange last week, and I am quite happy with the
device.

Here are what I lov, like, ok, and hate

#Love it
* Teflon coated body(http://gizmodo.com/5302637/htc-heros-teflon-
coating-makes-the-iphone-feel-like-junk).iPhone owners gave me
complement.
* 5m pixel camera with zoom and auto focus

#Like it
* 3.5 mm jack
* Multi touch (not as good as iPhone though).
* Facebook & flickr integration. It tightly integrate with your
contact list, and you can see their contact info, update, and even
their photos. It's a bit annoying to link contact info and sns account
though.

# ok
* Twitter (it's just same as normal twitter client)
* Flash (I haven't used much yet)

# not much
* Battery (it might be better than G1, but still not as long as my
dumb Nokia phone, nor iPod touch)
* Multi Scene. I watched
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn8XAeMzLZo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ephonedog%2Ecom%2Fcell%2Dphone%2Dvideos%2Fhtc%2Dhero%2Dbrowser%2Dscenes%2Dand%2Dthe%2Dkeyboard%2Easpx&feature=player_embedded
to flip different scenes. I don't find much use myself, and also took
a few seconds to flip between different scenes.

# Hate it.
* Even London Flagship Orange store did not have real phone(only
dummy), so could not try out in advance.
* Online purchase side. it's a bit cheaper to buy it online, but I had
all sorts of trouble and took almost 1 week for whole process to
complete. Also, they only deliver to your home address where your
debit card was registered. They even screwed up arranging my delivery
time, so I ended up staying home longer

Hope this helps.

Makoto

On 30 July, 23:36, Carl-Gustaf Harroch <charr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well the emulator is a full fledge OS running on top of qemu. 2G of RAM is
> the minimum I would suggest and a powerful processor is needed as well. For
> slow machine, I would suggest using your phone as test device - as long as
> you have one :)
>

> 2009/7/30 Jamal Romero <jamal.rom...@gmail.com>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi Carl,Thanks for the advice. I'll keep looking, it looks like there are

> > many options. One more question please. Why the emulator is so slow. I got
> > 2G ram, I'm using Eclipse plugin. I've seen lots of comments about this
> > problem on forums. Is there any way to overcome this problems?
> > Thanks again.
>

> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Carl-Gustaf Harroch <charr...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >> BTW in terms of development, it does not really matter which one you
> >> choose. People tend to hack the G1 (several images/root access etc...) but I
> >> believe we will see this happening on other phones.
> >> Samsung is the newcomer:

> >>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/samsung-i7500-oled-handset-powered...nice but can't comment to much
>
> >> 2009/7/30 Carl-Gustaf Harroch <charr...@gmail.com>

>
> >> Hello Jairo,
>
> >>> I have tested the G1 and G2. I heard very good things about the hero. I
> >>> would recommend the latter but did not really try it out. The G1 is the dev
> >>> phones (keyboard/trackball and so forth) but a bit clumsy and big. The G2 is
> >>> very nice IMO but the hero - from videos and comments - rocks.
>
> >>> ./C
>

> >>> 2009/7/30 Jairo <jamal.rom...@gmail.com>