Android phones, apps and tablets

I player is on there mate. Not sure why'd you watch it on a phone though.

When I go to pick up my daughter from school (it's 5 miles away and) sometimes I'm 30 mins early. This is the only time during the day I have myself to myself. Good time to watch "QI" and "Mock the Week".

Can i stop swiftkey adding a word after a comma?

i think its to do with the action associated with the space key, if you change it to 'complete word' in setting that should fix it

Where's Instapaper? Where's BBC iPlayer and 4OD?! I miss them.

I use Instafetch as Instapaper alternative although there are a few others

**Mobile Benchmark Tests Ratings **

The Samsung Galaxy Note takes no prisoners, and surpasses all other mobiles by quite some margin. Beaten only by tablets. The next non-LTE Android phones are the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, followed by the **Motorola Droid Razr **- a good effort from Motorola. The Samsung Galaxy S II that shows first is not the normal one, for that look much further down the list to find the normal i9100 version. There are possibly 3 very different versions of the Samsung Galaxy S II, with different processors and so on. A bit odd that.

Added a text file below of the same list, but with notation of important phones that are/were GSM, or available here in the UK. Very interesting to compare the HTC Hero with modern phones.

1 Attachment

• MobileBenchmarkTables_Dec_16_2011.txt

So no one has an opinion of the Huawei Blaze, I'm thinking getting one tomorrow.

Got one last night, having trouble texting with it but I think if I change to another keyboard app it should be ok. It selects letters I haven't tapped towards the sides of the screen which is what my htc used to do before it died but for £49.95 it's a decent phone till I smashed or lose it within the the next 3 months as I usually do.

anyone tried it on the sensation?

it's brilliant. well worth the £3.

boom thats my Saturday filled then

ICS is currently rolling out for nexus s

The Archos 35 is a home phone. Seriously, an Android home phone. Blimey.

What's a home phone? My Sensation is in my home right now if that's what you mean? ;)

Think it may be the cable that you get your internetz through when you are at home, either that or a house built in the shape of a phone. Fucked if I know

I got an Xperia Ray today. Still setting it up, seems pretty decent so far, the Sony UI is quite slick. Need a decent music player though, something that does proper playlists and last.fm scrobbling. Any recommendations?

i like doubletwist, mostly for the airsyncing (over wifi), really nice.

also, been using feedly lately, great interface, so much nicer than any other reader app i've used.

[B][/B]

Huawei Blaze from phones for you does skype and has two cameras for video calling. From phones for you. See my links further up. £59 or 49 as an upgrade to pay and go on voda, t-mobile and orange.

It has the latest android and is not the best but a great cheap phone.

Has wifi too

Best advice I've received on this forum......cheers!

My brother just brought one over for me...skype works well on wifi and 3G.

Overall phone is amazing value....so much better than my previous wildfire...though yet to test battery life and GPS.

Anyone got a view on the Dell Streak 7? I just want a basic tab fro web browsing, email and skype, and at £200 they seem pretty good. Had a play with one in Currys and it was pretty fast and smooth.

I am put off by the cheaper tablets from the likes of Maplin as a couple of mates have em and the build quality is shite

I think Clefty has one- ask her opinion?

so got sense 3.0 and android 2.3.5 update on my desire hd, looks pretty fancy... still find the ring confusing, i just got used to swiping down, now i need to swipe up....

so got sense 3.0 and android 2.3.5 update on my desire hd, looks pretty fancy... still find the ring confusing, i just got used to swiping down, now i need to swipe up....

Did the same this morning.. everything seems that little bit more slick so far :)

Mums wildfire got that update too. Doubt my desire will get it though :(

my sensation hasnt either

Grand Theft Auto III

gutted, not compatible....

Sensation will got straight to ICS next

Anyone tried connecting a HRM to their Android phone here before?

Anyone tried connecting a HRM to their Android phone here before?

Yes but I haz ANT+ so it was very easy. If your phone doesn't, it should be do-able with bluetooth, and various apps support this:

http://store.endomondo.com/uk/polar-wearlinkr-transmitter-with-bluetoothr.html
http://store.runkeeper.com/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=RK&Screen=PROD&Category_Code=FEATURED&Product_Code=RK_POLAR

Does anyone have any recommendations for phones for smart phones for +60yo's.

My dad wants to be able to access his email on his phone and is talking about getting a BB. He has an old skool pop email fwiw.

Any thoughts?

Touch scene or buttons?

[cue TS and EEI jokes]