Yeah but some people are clumsy. There are any number of reasonable gel cases on Amazon, I'm using the Samsung official flip case on mine, expensive for what it is but does the job okay. Replaces the back plastics with something slightly thicker, mind.
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'I'm pro life. I'm a non-smoker. I'm a pro-life non-smoker. WOO, Let the party begin!'
I went 1 year and 6 months wondering the same thing, then I dropped my phone 3 times in the same week.. its not an iPhone though so its fine.Originally Posted by Zekk Pacus
My numero uno app to install is SwiftKey. Fuck swype
Been annoyed at swype lately, giving swiftkey a try now.
WoT: Redglare[VPG]
Wow, that's just creepy how accurately swiftkey predicts what I'm trying to say. Its reading my thoughts right through the reynolds hat! I still like using voice input though; nothing like speaking to my phone so it will type something for me to send to my contact as text so that they can play it back with text to speech rather than just fucking talking to them.
Last edited by CastleBravo; July 18 2012 at 05:57:48 PM.
I think there may be a version of swift key with swype coming out soon(tm)
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Apparently I got a spare Nokia Lumia (800?) for free.
I have a HTC Desire running CM 6.1.1 which has been fine for years now (as is already evident from the ancient build of the ROM obviously), so should I even bother upgrading? Only good thing seems to be the offline map capability.
Spoiler:
It's pretty? The screen is better (higher res and Nokia's nice ClearView stuff). Camera's almost certainly better than the Desire too. Battery life should be better. Also WP7 is pretty cool (ymmv). Cons are mostly in the Google / App / lack of multitasking department (crappy background gchat, no background Skype, etc).
(Looking to sell it?)
Domination.
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Trying a new phone could be fun, but there should be stable jelly bean roms out for desire soon, it was pretty popular back in the days. I just flashed my htc hero with cm 7.2 (elelinux). It's 3 years old but still feels rather snappy and fresh with gingerbread, faster than ever before. Ordered 2 new batteries + charger from hong kong for $8, so once they arrive I will be set for a few more years. I've spent the last days tinkering with it and it's just sexy.It's pretty? The screen is better (higher res and Nokia's nice ClearView stuff). Camera's almost certainly better than the Desire too. Battery life should be better. Also WP7 is pretty cool (ymmv). Cons are mostly in the Google / App / lack of multitasking department (crappy background gchat, no background Skype, etc).
(Looking to sell it?)
I'm hoping samsung announces the note 2 on the 15th, but I'll still be torn on actually buying a new phone.
Ok, I'm putzing with my phone right now (Galaxy S3) and looking at apps, and have a couple questions...
1) Is swiftkey worth it? I don't (generally) like prediction, as I find it usually slows me down, even on a touch screen.
2) Know any really good calendar apps? I've tried a bunch, but none have done quite what I want.
3) what other (android) apps should I look at? (i.e. what apps do you consider "indispensable"?)
Very funny, Scotty, now beam down my pants.
1) The s3 comes with some sort of swipe keyboard. Try that before spending money.
2) What do you want it to do?
3) Tapatalk.
I got my S3 yesterday. I'm unable to import messages from my old phone (using an app that backs them up). I don't know if that's the phones fault or message formatting differences.
Coming from 18 months of using Cyanogenmod 7.1 on a Desire HD my first impressions are that this thing is quite sluggish. I don't believe it's anything to do with the hardware but rather because of the way Samsung have set things up. On CM7 everything reacts instantaneously but on the S3 there are totally unnecessary delays all over the place, particularly when pressing the home button. The placement of the power button is dumb as hell.
The absence of the massive array of options is also hurting me, everything is very simplified and I'm stuck with the Samsung doctrine unless I want to root the thing. I'm not sure if I want to do that because custom ROMS usually have one or two niggles that spoil the whole show, often a non working or feature light FM radio which is actually a big deal for me (the FM radio app is really good). Oh and there's a load of non removable Samsung bloatware in there such as their own personal app market loaded with overpriced crap.
All the other obvious stuff that's been praised in reviews is present and correct. Basically I'll be waiting until cyanogenmod 9 comes out and seeing what it's got. The stock android FM radio app is ok right?
Prediction slows me down too. I'm not obsessed with using perfect grammar and punctuation in texts and I use a lot of slang and abbreviations so it usually causes more mistakes than it fixes.
All I want is a simple scrollable grid calendar widget that will open the built in google calendar when I touch it. Can I find that? Not a hope. Good luck to you.
My non obvious indispensable apps
Adverts.ie (buy and sell type website, there should be an equivalent for your own locale)
Online app for my bank, obviously not every bank will have this.
Astro file manager
Calculator widget free
Hotmail
FM radio, yeah I know you can get radio streamed now but coverage, data speeds and data caps are sketchy over here so I need this to work and work well.
Google maps and navigation
Notepad (the one developed by banderlabs)
Paypal
Quickpic
TV listings app
Wallpapers HD
Last edited by Spawinte; July 25 2012 at 02:41:12 PM.
Thanks for the list, I'll check them out.
As for the calendar... after trying about 30 calendar apps, I found two.
Touch Calendar, which is not bad, but doesn't have a day/week view, but the month view is scrollable and zoomable. I didn't end up using it because it didn't know how to handle multi-day events.
aCalendar, which I actually quite like. Has decent widgets, has a good month, week and day view. Doesn't show tasks on the calendar, but I don't want it to. I'm using the "Tasks" app to sync with Google tasks.
Other calendars that I tried:
Jorte - didn't like the view
Business Calendar - Month view shows no detail, just color bars indicating that "something" happens there.
sPlanner - samsung's default calendar - is OK, better view than Jorte or Business calendar, but not as good as aCalendar. Syncs with Google calendar, but oddly the tasks don't synch with google calendar's tasks.
And a bunch of others.
Also, why does it seem that there are more "menstrual calendars" than actual calendars on Google Play?
Very funny, Scotty, now beam down my pants.
Because menstrual calendars are pretty popular apps, at a guess. I really don't understand why phone manufacturers insist on replacing default apps that work perfectly well with their own interpretations, that link with their own services that don't work.
'I'm pro life. I'm a non-smoker. I'm a pro-life non-smoker. WOO, Let the party begin!'
I have business calendar, you can toggle text in month view. I think it's nice, the only one I found with good widgets when I looked a year ago.
Got SwiftKey recently. I never liked prediction, but I do with this. It has good options for how much you want it to interfere.
Another app favourites is transdroid.
Got pansi sms and quickpic this week when I flashed a new rom, I like so far.
just got a nokia lumia 610, for music etc its p great, cant complain
Agenda Widget
Edit: didn't notice you said "grid". This is a list, but still fairly nifty. And only scrollable on launchers that support scrollable widgets ofcourse.
Speaking of Luminas, i've got a couple of 800's into our office to try to replace our horrible blackberry infrastructure with something a little more modern and impressive.
So far as a phone i really like it, the UI is really 'cool', and it is integrating well into office infrastructure. But, i've not yet tried to manage them remotely.
Time will tell!
No. A Rhinoceros is not a fat Unicorn.
Yeah, I ended up ditching the Lumia, I could never use something without proper multitasking after having used Android for years
Spoiler:
So i figure this might be the right thread for my question:
I want a new phone ... smartphone. I'm looking for something up to 150€. I want to surf occasionally on failheap and leave a witty "tapatalk" under my unimportant posts. I also want to use it in my car for navigation or when i go on a bike-tour as a map (i'd like to use this for example: http://navigatorfree.mapfactor.com/en/ ). So a good built-in gps is a must.
I never owned a smartphone before ... only a cheap "you can call ppl with it"-thing.
I heard the Samsung Galaxy S 9000 is good.
So ... what to get?
ad.: I'd also like it new and not void my warranty right at the start. So no "get this for less money and overclock it" ... if this is even possible.
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