Android phones, apps and tablets

PSX4Droid

well it works thats as much as i can tell you i managed to get a couple of games working pandemonium or something and die hard trilogy work fine but things which require fast bottun presses are a little difficult to play due to the touch screen controls...

Basically you have to download the psx4droid emulator then find the bios file that lets you play games... then download the games from somewhere..

the app is legal....
the bios is illegal
the games are illegal unless you own the hard copy...

not sure what the forum rules are about legal media so dont really want to point anyone to websites and piss off Velocio.....

does the htc desire come with google talk installed already... cant find it on my gf's handset...

I had to dl it from the market

Yeah, it was on my stock 2.1 Desire and is on the stock 2.2 Desire.

http://www.google.com/mobile/android/

World speed texting record broken by 9 seconds, on a Galaxy S.

Motorola shows official Froyo update path for its phones.

Vodafone HTC Desire gets Froyo tomorrow.

anyone know an over the air sync function for android...

i want ther same functionality as microsofts myphone for windows mobile...

it syncs contacts/txts/emails/pictures and videos or any that you select from that list..

anyone?

Android already syncs OTA with Google accounts. Assuming you're not using Google for email, pictures, etc... what are you using?

im using my google account for OTA sync of contacts etc, but MS myphone syncs everything else as well so essentially you can restore contacts emails txts pictures etc on any given handset....

im using my google account for OTA sync of contacts etc, but MS myphone syncs everything else as well so essentially you can restore contacts emails txts pictures etc on any given handset....

Flickr / Picassa for image backup.
SMS Backup copies all your sms/mms' as emails to your gmail account, with the tags "sms" and "mms" so they are easy to get at

I have a picassa drop box on my phone that came installed already and it's attached to my gmail

so I have read this whole thread which took a long, long time...

pretty sure I want an android based HTC, just not sure which one

desire is the obvious choice but not cheap - wildfire looks like a good cheaper option, gets good reviews, billed as a 'mini desire'. I know the screen is smaller and not as good and the processor is slower (same as in the hero) but sim free from a retailer a wildfire is about £230, which is about £200 less than the desire

is the desire really worth that much more?

yes yes yes.

You can get a NOS hero or magic for about the same money as the wildfire, which would be a better bet (same processor, better screen, better community support) but if you can spring for the desire it is leaps and bounds ahead.

alternatively wait for the next wave of multi-core phones to hit in a couple of months and then get the desire at knock-down prices ...

Desire. Get it.

regardless of what everyone says, the Nexus One still rules.

Also, no Android 3 support for less than 1Ghz cpu's... So Desire will get it, Wildfire won't.

regardless of what everyone says, the Nexus One still rules.

It rules so much, that even though it's not for sale ... they managed to sell out of the Dev ones just last week! :)

android 3 will be hacked onto anything with an alright community, the same as every version has been so far

I knew you'd say that =)

I will be buying sim free hippy you'll be pleased to know

I looked at the AMOLED v. S-LED images and can't work out which I'd want yet (seems like amoled seems better generally but s-led better in daylight and maybe slightly sharper), am I right in thinking if I buy ASAP I'll probably get the amoled while if I wait for a bit s-led is more likely (and prices may drop a bit)?

regardless of what everyone says, the Nexus One still rules.

It should do, it's the most expensive option. What does it have over the Desire though, really? I have 2.2 so it's pretty even.

I was thinking of getting a Nexus One for Mal and to use as my dev phone because it's so much faster than the i7500 but still too £££.

more expensive is bad for me, struggling to justify a desire, but can justify it to myself as a better long term prospect and the point of a smartphone is it's smart, not slow, right

I wouldn't ever go back to <1Ghz cpu now, put it that way.

oc'd hero + 2.2 seems to be plenty fast enough IMO, but YMMV

thanks - off to look at sim free desire options now, any tips gratefully received

I got my from play.com for £399. I think they might have gone up since (once they heard I bought one and the fans would be following...)

buy one three months ago when t-mob had decent deals ...

on a serious note, giffgaff sims - on o2's network, £5 for a months worth of ultd texts, internet and 100 mins

http://giffgaff.com/

oc'd hero + 2.2 seems to be plenty fast enough IMO, but YMMV

http://www.greenecomputing.com/apps/linpack/linpack-by-device/

Have your run linpack on it? I've got 33.386 MFLOPS out of the stock 2.2 ROM

0.563 MFLOPS on the Samsung i7500 running Galaxo 1.6.3.3 OCd