I’ve not posted about the state of Android for over a year. In my last post I see we were on the verge of Gingerbread and I was using a Desire HD, well, much has changed since then!
Shortly after that I moved on to a Samsung Nexus S, which lasted me around 3 or 4 months until I moved on to my first dual core CPU phone, the Samsung Galaxy SII. Continue reading Ice Cream Sandwich & Androids Progression
I can’t be denied that the iPad brought tablets very much into the spotlight. They still have a huge share of the market (up over 90% at the moment I believe) but of course, the iPad’s not for me.
Last year I started the exploration for a decent Android tablet when I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab, the first main stream Android tablet on the market, but at only 7 inches I found it too small. It was very portable, sliding easily into the inside pocket of my coat, it took it’s own SIM card meaning you didn’t actually need a phone with it, but it was too close to a phone in size, meaning there wasn’t enough to differentiate it and make it worth while.
Continue reading The Tablet For Me
So I’ve had an Android device for around 18 months now. Starting with a HTC Hero, moving on to the Nexus One, dabbling with the HTC Desire and Dell Streak before moving on to the Samsung Galaxy S and no on to the HTC Desire HD. I’ve been very happy with each one and the Android OS is moving from strength to strength. In that time the OS was on 1.5 and it’s moved to 1.6, briefly 2.0 then 2.1 and now FroYo 2.2, with Gingerbread 2.3 on the horizon.
Two weeks ago, my Orange contract finally came to and end. I had already bought my Desire HD SIM free, but I was able to upgrade to another free DHD and lower my monthly payments! This extra DHD was then sold covering all by £30 of my costs. It was funny to think Orange thought I was still on a HTC Touch HD, an old Windows 6.1 device…
Continue reading Android Explosion
As part of my duties for hemorrdroids.net, I went along with some collegues to the HTC London event being held in Farringdon last night. Partly encouraged by the promise of some free phones, partly just really looking forward to playing with the new HTC Desire HD and Zed, we got their nice and early at 3pm. Not surprisingly, we weren’t the first there…
The Facebook event had around 1,000 confirmed attendees, so we half expected there to be 100 there already but in fact there were only 4 or 5 people there before us though. Luckily there were two seats, of which I took one of so no knee and back aches for me!
Earlier this year I upgraded my phone to a Nexus One. Not my first Android device, but my first on a big screen. I took the plunge as I was fairly confident there wouldn’t be any better hardware released in the next 6 to 10 months. It wasn’t long until the HTC Desire was then released here in the UK. The Desire is pretty much HTC’s version of the same devise that I have, but with a couple of changes. They use their own Sense UI interface that I loved on the Hero and it has physical keys. Losing Sense UI was something that kept me with the Hero for a month after the Nexus One was released…
Continue reading HTC Desire vs Nexus One
I resisted for so long… but last week I caved and order myself a Nexus One, direct from Google. I’ve been very happy with my HTC Hero for the past 7 or 8 months, but the lure of a super fast processor and a nice big AMOLED screen was too much for me. On Wednesday I place the order, I got an e-mail around 11pm saying it was being shipped, it landed around 9pm on Thursday and went to collect it from DHL Friday morning.
I’ve now had it for 6 days and I’m thoroughly loving it! There are few things missing from the Hero, I’m in the camp that SenseUI is a good thing and of course that’s not incorporated in the Nexus One. The jazzy bits and peices like rolling the numbers when selecting a date or time are not there. The contacts widget on the home screen, which I used to use quite a lot, is not there. That’s pretty much where the negatives finish though. Continue reading Nexus One