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THEV1LL4N

THEV1LL4N

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#41
#41
these phones are looking pretty good. im in love with my G1. casey introduced me to her.

my next phone would need to have a good touchscreen with physical flip out keyboard like the G1 (because i must have keyboard, preferably 5 row. touch screen in conjunction is an added bonus), and an android powered device. just need better speakers and camera quality like the N95 again.

im going to sell my N95 for £100 today. i was so reluctant to sell it for that cheap as they were going for around £130 on ebay (with accessories/box missing).

i was going to sell the excellent condition phone, all original unused accessories, excellent condition box and 8GB microSD memory card thrown in for free at around £140ish minimum and willing to negotiate.

now im keeping the av/tv cable, giving them a 3rd party charger and usb cable, keeping the 8GB memory card, but giving them everything else for £100.

evreyones phone quality on ebay was in average condition, mine was prestine! :( i will miss that phone too. i picked it up the other day and itwas like holding a sponge compared with the G1 that ive become used to which is heaveier due to the keyboard mechanism. the dimensions were almost exactly the same except the length was slightly longer on the G1.
 
Casey

Casey

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#42
#42
Yeah, I'm in love with my G1 as well. I feel like it can just do anything.

The other day I downloaded a thermometer app lol just to prove a point to some of my cousins. They were impressed. lol.

My wife used to have a N95 before she got a G1. I couldn't fuck with it. The Symbian software was just horribly outdated. It reminded me of the Nokia I used to own 4 years ago. Seems like they haven't moved forward much.
 
THEV1LL4N

THEV1LL4N

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#43
#43
Casey Rain said:
Yeah, I'm in love with my G1 as well. I feel like it can just do anything.

The other day I downloaded a thermometer app lol just to prove a point to some of my cousins. They were impressed. lol.

My wife used to have a N95 before she got a G1. I couldn't fuck with it. The Symbian software was just horribly outdated. It reminded me of the Nokia I used to own 4 years ago. Seems like they haven't moved forward much.
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i didnt really like the symbian os on there too. i didnt have unlimited internet access bundled so had to use the wi-fi at home. not sure if the ovi store was around back then and if it was they did a "great" job of promoting it because i never knew it existed, though i could download third party apps. the only one i downloaded and never used was ebuddy.

the N95 was all about the specs, deisgn and multimedia. im still happy with my decision to select that phone over the LG viewty. let's hope i make it three correct decisions in a row when my G1 contract expires in december 2010.

when does your's expire casey?
 
Casey

Casey

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#44
#44
My contract expires next July.

The timeline for Android 2.0 is supposed to be this December. So I'm hoping by the time my contract is up we'll be pretty close to 2.5.

Btw, the official software developers kit for Android 1.6 (Donut) was officially released today. So an official Donut update will likely hit in 6 weeks or so. BUT - Cyanogen is pretty damn close to a full stable 1.6 release in his ROM already. I think us rooted folks will be running the full Donut ROM within a week, actually. Possibly just 2 or 3 days.

Here's some light reading on 1.6

Android 1.6 (Donut): SDK Available, Big Backend Updates | Android Phone Fans
 
Casey

Casey

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#46
#46
No, you'll lose root access if you do.

But there's no reason to. Cyanogen already has a full Donut ROM released. There's loads of people using it already and it's supposed to be amazing. Only reason I'm not using it yet is because it's still on the experimental branch of his ROM's which means there's still a few bugs. Once all the bugs are ironed out he'll release it as a stable ROM, I expect that to happen within 2 or 3 days.
 
THEV1LL4N

THEV1LL4N

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#47
cool, i already knew about the losing root access.

just wondering how the updates are installed/updated?

if i were to update it by downloading the ROM and flashing it again using one-click, would i lose all my data?

or if i were to use cyanogen mod updater from the market to update rom version, would i lose all my data using this method?
 
Casey

Casey

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#48
#48
If you use CM Updater from the market, you won't lose any data. That's what I do and I haven't ever lost any data. If you're already on Cyanogen Mod, you don't usually need to wipe to install newer versions. Always make a Nandroid backup though beforehand, just in case.
 
Casey

Casey

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#53
#53
The 160GB version of that Archos tablet is only $330. I would rock one of these for sure.

Word has it Archos might make an Android phone as well.
 
Casey

Casey

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#55
#55
Ustream app launches for Android. I've installed it already and it's fucking awesome!



Tonight, Google’s Android platform is getting another application that gives it functionality iPhone users can only gaze at longingly. This time, it’s Ustream, a mobile streaming application that lets you broadcast video directly from your phone. The application will be available on the Android Market by 9 AM PST tomorrow morning.

Ustream isn’t the only option available for streaming video on Android — Qik launched its own version in June. But it’s a very solid debut that comes with some features that Qik doesn’t. CEO John Ham says that one key differentiator for the new Ustream app is the way it handles latency. While competitors can build up a ‘lag time’ over the course of an extended broadcast, Ham says that Ustream uses a low latency connection and optimization both client and server side to keep this to a minimum — in other words, the lag doesn’t build up. In my testing I got a lag time of around three seconds over a 3G connection (nothing to scoff at), and perhaps more importantly the delay didn’t grow over time, which is especially important if you’re going to interact with your viewers through the app’s various community features.

And there are plenty of those: the application allows you to poll your views live during the broadcast, and also supports both Ustream’s integrated chat and Twitter chat. It also supports local recording, which lets you take higher quality video for upload later.

Another great feature: Ustream for Android lets you ‘overtake’ a currently broadcasting stream, provided you’re the owner of the account. For example, we could use the mobile application to take over our CrunchCam stream while we’re on the go and have some breaking news. Then, when we finished our mobile broadcast, the feed would revert to the camera that’s constantly streaming from inside TechCrunch headquarters (you can see a demo in the video below). Very slick.

Ustream also offers some apps for the iPhone, but these don’t let you broadcast straight to the web because Apple has restricted this functionality, despite the fact that the 3GS actually supports video.
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Casey

Casey

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#57
#57
I will be using it for sure. We already used Ustream before to broadcast a live rehearsal of the band, we had a ton of people watching it.

The "overtake" feature of this is fucking nice.
 
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