Android phones, apps and tablets

Brilliant idea M A X - what phone do you have? I got a week out of my HTC Desire when I rooted. I'd love to see what my S2 would be like when rooted.

Clever, I will give that a go.

How does that effect things like music playing when the screen is off?

Duh, it would make the music play more slowly.

(I have no idea, good question)

I tried it and found the screen took a little longer to come on, no biggy though.

Looks like it beats the HTC One X in terms of speed tests at least. When you compare them on paper it's the removable 2100mAh battery and 50GB of Dropbox storage that stand out to me.

The screen and camera on both are more than I need, I'll be putting something close to stock ICS over the top and the design of the S3 looks fine to me. I've always said my only real complaint with my current HTC Desire is the battery life.

Clever, I will give that a go.

How does that effect things like music playing when the screen is off?

Doesn't seem to affect music playing at all. You can even have it run slower "in call" and whilst texting.

I'm using a desire z. With virtuous g-lite rom

I don't like the battery, but I'm having second thoughts about the HTC One X, based on the camera alone.

HTC One X review (by Swedroid.com - the BEST site ever for phone reviews - its very new though)

*Large comparitive camera test: **HTC One X **vs **Apple iPhone 4S **vs SONY Xperia S*.

HTC One X camera review

*HTC One X vs Samsung Galaxy S III camera comparisons Part 1 *
HTC One X vs Samsung Galaxy S III camera comparison Part 2

My Sensation is toast. Alarm went off this morning and it seems to not want to turn on any more. #arse

tried taking the battery out and putting it back in?

Yep.

No light comes on when charging, battery in or out.

Tried multiple chargers.

Sounds like what happened with my old Nexus.

Amazon sending replacement. Great service.

Sounds like what happened with my old Nexus.

I thought that was a faulty battery.

I accidentally upgraded to the HTC One X.

And as it uses a microsim rather than a sim, Vodafone cancelled my working sim and supplied a new one.

Which means I've been forced off of my Galaxy Nexus and onto the One X.

Which also means I've just installed the Android SDK and Eclipse, and am about to blow away Sense for vanilla ICS.

Just Vanilla or something close like CyanogenMod?

^^I remember sitting on the train with you and a proto-grupetto back in early '08, listening to you talking about 'google android phones' which we're going to be the next big thing, and wondering if I'd end up wanting/needing/being able to afford/having one.

It's not particularly interesting or exciting that I'm Swyping the reminiscence on an HTC 4 years later, but it feels like one of those instances where you can join two dots in the time-space continuum.

Just Vanilla or something close like CyanogenMod?

Vanilla if I can build it.

gapps I've downloaded, but I need to compile the main thing and see if I can map the hardware to the software and take care of drivers.

Bear in mind that CM9 isn't out yet, and what is available doesn't cover the One X.

I'll go to CM9 as soon as I can, but in the meantime will build my own weird thing.

does anyone know of a good way to listen to the Bike Show podcast on android?

I can't find it on Listen.

...accidentally....

O'Reilly?,

EDIT:
I'm resisting an upgrade. I'm due another in July, but I shall wait till Xmas-ish. I want to see if SONY have got a handle on the over-compression from their phone camera software, and if the Samsung I9800 has a 12MP camera, and comes with Tizen. I'm trying my best to be patient.

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I was trying to get a free phone for my dad. So I went for the upgrade, got the phone... and then they gave me a new sim and suddenly I realise I fucked myself.

That said... just booted into Android ICS 4.04 on the HTC One X.

It's fucking beautiful, I think I'm going to cry.

I like it.

Accidentally upgraded to the best Android phone available. Why do I never have accidents like this?

of course, you could always just get a micro-sim carrier and put the sim back in the nexus.... Accident problem solved!...oh, then sell me the one x for next to nothing.......

Big Question, literally : is the one x too big to hold in one hand, with the pinky supporting it, and still be able to pull down the notification bar with your thumb?

Big Question, literally : is the one x too big to hold in one hand, with the pinky supporting it, and still be able to pull down the notification bar with your thumb?

I wrote about exactly this up the thread. It's not, for me, but it's close. So for that reason, I'm out. 4.3" is the winning size for my hands.