Android phones, apps and tablets

just got my galaxy.

I think I will replace my iPhone with an Android device, I have until end of Q1 next year for someone to come up with a decent hardware platform.

i updated the ROM on my Hero and a lot of lag has gone. one bug that has appeared is the keypad jumps up and down when rotated in Browser.
why haven't google done an android Chrome? huh?

notable games of choice for the android:
retro defense
space physics
voxel fun

robo defense is pretty cool too.

:D

I got the hero the other week on an amazing deal £200 brand new and unlocked,
took me a few days to get used to it but I'm really loving it now.
I've found the GPS really great and useful a few times when i've gone "adventuring" on my bike or walking and finding my way back to a place i know.

http://www.satsportsgps.com/
if you ski/snowboard this app is amazing,
They also do a sports (runing/cycle walking ) tracking app and a golf one.

ha! i'll be looking to you to test new shit on it so that you don't break your own

No worries.

Am I still the only one with a Dext?

Is it a Motorola?
Yes?
You might be the only person who ever has one.

"No go, Moto"

So poor battery life really pisses me off, especially when phones promise so much, like the 420 hours standby on the spec of my HTC Magic.

So far it has been 50 hours and 18mins since it's last charge and it is down to 8% battery life.

In that time:
Voice calls have been used for 2 mins 39 secs and used 3%.
Browser was used for 5 mins 50 secs and used 3%
Display was on for 1 hour 44 mins and used 26%
Cell Standby used 35%
Phone idle used 19%

So the phone has mostly been on standby for 48 hours and it is down to 8%!! As it gets down to <30% it seems to be losing around 3% an hour! On standby!

What is the battery life on your phone? Can anyone with a Magic compare?

:-)

regarding battery life, my hero suprised me too. fully charged and fanny around with it over a day and within 8 hours (near continuous use) it was nearly dead. the problem is that with wifi on, browsing the web, 3G networks, GPS etc all burning away, yeah, you don't get long. i've now got short cuts on the home screen to switch off gps, wifi, 2G/3G at the touch of a button so i can cut back on power use as an when i need to.
i recomment Power Manager or similar that will help you set location specific settings (nice!) and save you juice. instead of one day i now get three plus of basic phone use, a little less if i leave wifi on at work.

Power consumption will be a major selling point for phones in the next few years. You can't expect to have a phone with a large colour screen, 3G, Wifi, GPS et al to run for days on end from a single charge. This could be the Achilles heel for both the iPhone and Android phones, as Linux is a server OS shoehorned into mobile devices, and low power consumption is not it's forte.

i don't think the Hero etc fair any worse than the iphone from what i've seen.

No, neither do I. But having to charge your phone everyday is something that most people are not used to so anyone who can produce a high end feature packed phone with long battery life could be onto a winner.

Battery life on all smart phones with these features in use is abysmal.
Make sure you are running the latest firmware available.
Use Switcher or desktop widgets (or Locale) to turn off GPS, turn off 3G, turn off Background Data, when not needed (ie. when I'm at work, I don't need to sync emails since I'm staring at a computer) etc.
With my Samsung, the best change I made was flashing it to Galaxo ROM and then removing some of the unused processes.

http://www.thehippy.net/nucleus/index.php?catid=3&blogid=1

Join www.androidforums.com for more answers:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/15607-secret-extended-battery-life.html

will be interesting to see if new ARM Cortex A5 devices have a better battery life/power ratio in 2010. of course, the chipset is but one of many major power drains.

Which devices use that?

Virtually all will, as ARM powers the vast majority of the worlds mobile phones these days. They license their chipset architectures to the likes of TI, STE, Qualcomm etc.

Oooooooooooo. Geek wars!

Go hippy!! Go hippy!! Go hippy!!

^^ what andyp said.

Here's ARM's take on it: http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARM-Cortex-A5.html but it's gonna be in phones from pretty much every manufacturer, and across the range of prices and phone types.

And for the high-end stuff it's gonna be the Cortex A9 http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARMCortex-A9_MPCore.html (this one can be used in devices right up to netbooks. ARM reckons its got much better power/battery life than what Intel can do with Atom, which is typically true of ARM architecture).

Oooooooooooo. Geek wars!

Go hippy!! Go hippy!! Go hippy!!

where is this "geek war"?

i can only see a polite and interesting conversation.

It was a joke. I'm sure hippy at least knew it was.

In the meantime, Vobis Computers are releasing an Android phone called the Zeus.

Everyone has found their way onto this bandwagon it seems.

It was a joke. I'm sure hippy at least knew it was.

In the meantime, Vobis Computers are releasing an Android phone called the Zeus.

Everyone has found their way onto this bandwagon it seems.

Looks like the N97

:/

and the dext

It looks like hippy.

and the HTC Touch Pro 2