htc hd2. mod it and u can boot andriod. that is one of the 2 phones that have a 1ghz snapdragon and can run andriod. i havent tried myself, as its just too complicated. dun have time to read and understand. maybe holiday period i'll try
Thanks guys for all your inputs.
I got the HTC desire. So far the impression has been positive. I'd say it is a worthy competitor for iPhone.
Everything is snappy, but granted, I haven't installed anything yet. If there is a downside compared to iPhone, is that it tends to be economical on animation, and zooming isn't as smooth and pretty. Understandably so as it lacks a dedicated graphic processor like the iPhone. The upside is its raw processing power shows when loading webpages, even when it does some flash while the iPhone do not. And once Android 2.2 is out the speed and flash performance should improve further.
I tried the Milestone XT, there is a bit of lag when scrolling the through the apps, the Desire does feel snappier, otherwise I do like the form factor.
I tried the Galaxy S a few times. For the most part, I would say it is as snappy, if not more so than 3GS, and with a gorgeous AMOLED screen to boot. But somehow not a fan of its iPhone wannabe interface, and as far as phone is concerned, Samsung left a bad taste in my mouth.
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End of production no doubt but doesn't diminish it in anyway as a very capable phone and one that will be the first the receive any new updates from Google.I would run away from any Samsung product because they're so bad at not finishing their software. You would hope that they would be better with Android, but I think it's going to be the same old story. They put so much money into hardware development that they don't have enough for software development and zero for updates.
A dead phone is a good choice.
End of production no doubt but doesn't diminish it in anyway as a very capable phone and one that will be the first the receive any new updates from Google.
worthy is an understatement. it beats the current generation of iphone flat. both speed and screen are a charm. iphone 3g and 3gs certainly can't beat the desire. perhaps with iphone4, apple gain some grounds back.
I shortlisted motorola, samsung and htc. I have very bad experience with samsung, me and my family members have used 3 different samsung phones in the last 2 years and all 3 developed some problem before the 2 year contract was up. End up we had to turn back to the old old nokia phones. I tried the motorola milestone in the shop and didn't like that it only had 3 pages for your apps compared with htc with 7. Later I learned that this was due to a htc UI on android. So after choosing htc over the other 2 it was only a matter of choosing the model. I chose the desire over legend because the price diff was only $100 and the desire has a 1ghz vs 6xx mhz. I figured that higher clockspeed would be useful for future apps.
The Milestone has a max of 9 panels and this is customizable in the phone menu.
One would hope that they would keep it alive somehow, given all the money spent on them because they were the "freedom" choice but it wasn't an amazing phone and you can bet that there won't be an successors. I would hope that Google would keep it compatible with Android OS way past 3.0 but when do they call it quits and someone's US$599 just goes away?
When it was launched it was THE android phone. The launch of the desire, incredible, galaxy S etc has taken some of the shine away from it though. In fact, part of the reason why I got the desire despite HTC not being a household name was because it was the N1's brother and that says alot. Agree that google should have kept it alive.
HTC might not be a household name but they are no stranger to the hand phone market. They were, and still are, the OEM hand phone supplier to many brand names before they started selling them under their own brand a few years ago.
When it was launched it was THE android phone. The launch of the desire, incredible, galaxy S etc has taken some of the shine away from it though. In fact, part of the reason why I got the desire despite HTC not being a household name was because it was the N1's brother and that says alot. Agree that google should have kept it alive.
One would hope that they would keep it alive somehow, given all the money spent on them because they were the "freedom" choice but it wasn't an amazing phone and you can bet that there won't be an successors. I would hope that Google would keep it compatible with Android OS way past 3.0 but when do they call it quits and someone's US$599 just goes away?
Here, there are so many smart phones now, but they're still out of reach of the majority of the population. You'd think that they'd be able to move Android to cheaper phones since it's free of charge.
It's the official hardware platform for android developers. It will be around and get all the newest OS updates well ahead of anyone else.