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Offline Scarzy

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« on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 09:25:19 »
Or cells for your americans.

What do you use? What network provider are you on? How do you find their service?

I'm on a Nokia 3510i at the moment, my Sony Ericcson K850i broke at the weekend but it has prompted me to purchase a Nokia N900 which I have wanted for months. Network is vodaphone. Looking forward to being on the geekhack IRC nearly every hour of the day.

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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #1 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 09:42:06 »
Sprint, HTC Evo 4G.  Go Android.  Root it, and have a field day.
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Offline steeef

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« Reply #2 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 09:47:26 »
G2 (aka HTC Desire Z) on T-Mobile, after suffering with an aging G1 for 1.5 years. This phone's much faster, has a nice amount of internal space, and the build feels nice and solid.

I tried to resist, but after only about a week of owning it, I rooted it. Haven't made the switch to a different ROM, as T-Mobile's clean Google ROM suits me fine (after removing crappy bundled apps, of course).
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« Reply #3 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 09:50:14 »
I'm running a stock (or as stock as it can be) version of Gingerbread.  I also run MIUI a lot, too.  I NANDroid one or the other when I want a change of pace.
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Offline CeeSA

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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 10:24:03 »
HTC HD2 running Android, works fine.
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Offline AndrewZorn

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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 10:26:12 »
I love my Epic 4G, but Samsung/Sprint ruin it by still not having an official 2.2 ROM.  It's 2011.  **** companies.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 10:30:29 »
Quote from: AndrewZorn;277906
I love my Epic 4G, but Samsung/Sprint ruin it by still not having an official 2.2 ROM.  It's 2011.  **** companies.


This is why I root.  Some of the developers (like Cyanogen) put out better stuff than the manufacturers.  That said, there is a lot of garbage out there, too.  Unfortunately, WiMAX isn't (quite) available yet in AOSP ROMS, but it's close.  The CyanogenMod team has figured it out, but there are a few, mainly interface, kinks to work out.
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Offline Jerri

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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 10:30:41 »
Got a Nokia 6500 Slider, which is almost always off ;).
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Offline firestorm

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« Reply #8 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 10:39:17 »
I don't get a choice.  I have an LG Chocolate 3.  It's ridiculous that 5 other people in the company have company provided smart phones, but the on-call 24x7 Network Administrator gets an LG Chocolate.  I do finally have Verizon again, after years of suffering with a Nextel.
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Offline Daniel Beaver

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« Reply #9 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 10:45:21 »
Nokia N79. Plays music well enough, along with Audible.com audiobooks, and will take a picture or video in a pinch. Everything I need, really. Terrible software, though.

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Offline Apocrypha

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« Reply #10 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 11:00:10 »
Nexus One running stock 2.2.1 Froyo on Wind Mobile. Although we're /supposed/ to be getting gingerbread soon >.>

Haven't bothered to root it because I don't have a compelling reason to do so yet.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #11 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 11:03:09 »
The Nexus One and Nexus S I might not root, but there are a couple of file managers and backup programs that need root to do their thing.  The one thing I do like about the Nexus series is that they have a stock ROM with no manufacturer or carrier garbage added.
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Offline BlueRain

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« Reply #12 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 11:56:39 »
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If you hold a LG Chocolate near a Noopoo do you get a signal?


You get a mini signal?

Samsung Focus on at&t
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Offline Apocrypha

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« Reply #13 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 12:49:55 »
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The Nexus One and Nexus S I might not root, but there are a couple of file managers and backup programs that need root to do their thing.  The one thing I do like about the Nexus series is that they have a stock ROM with no manufacturer or carrier garbage added.


That's one of the main reasons I got the Nexus One in the first place. Except for the Amazon mp3 app, there's nothing on my phone I would want to get rid of.

That and in order to be with Wind Mobile (same bands as US T-Mobile) it was just about the only phone I could pick at the time.
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Offline AndrewZorn

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« Reply #14 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 12:51:39 »
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This is why I root.  Some of the developers (like Cyanogen) put out better stuff than the manufacturers.  That said, there is a lot of garbage out there, too.  Unfortunately, WiMAX isn't (quite) available yet in AOSP ROMS, but it's close.  The CyanogenMod team has figured it out, but there are a few, mainly interface, kinks to work out.
Not a solution.  I rooted and installed a custom ROM the first time I turned on my phone.  I've been on Cyanogenmod since the day it was available.  Still full of bugs, and the team just announced they aren't going to work on it anymore until an official Froyo kernel... because the kernel is part of the problem (I disagree, as most of the bugs aren't found on other releases, but whatever).

So yeah, now it comes back to Sprint/Samsung again.  The community cannot overcome the laziness of these huge corporations.

Struggling to get 2.2, and there's already a 2.3 out for so many people.  Best hardware there is, ruined by ****ing money grabbers.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #15 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 13:04:42 »
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Still full of bugs, and the team just announced they aren't going to work on it anymore until an official Froyo kernel... because the kernel is part of the problem (I disagree, as most of the bugs aren't found on other releases, but whatever).


The kernel has the drivers for the device, so if the kernel's a hack-job, that might be the bugginess you are seeing.  The Evo has been around a little longer, so the kernels for it are pretty mature, and CM is a hoss on the Evo. The CM team needed an official Evo to get some of the new revision hardware working correctly.  Once HTC released the kernel code, it was put into CM's kernel, and it fixed the bugs some people were having with BT and the camera.

Long story short, the kernel can make all the difference in stability/bugs in a ROM.
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« Reply #16 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 13:12:38 »
Samsung Reality (Black) and Verizon.  iPhone is coming to Verizon soon, so I might get one of those.
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« Reply #17 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 14:26:24 »
Using a Nokia n95 8GB, I would like to replace it with a n900 or n9, depending how the n9 turns out.
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Offline Lanx

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« Reply #18 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 14:53:50 »
rooted 2.2 droid (do i need to update to 2.3 yet?) on verizon, course i overclock, just cuz i can. (pro tip uninstall all "task killers" if your on 2.2 and you'll get a speed increase, idk why)
share the family plan with fiancee, she has a lg envy2, and today she just became eligible for an upgrade so i think we'll do iphone4 for her. I know i hate the iphone also, but she says my droid is ugly and iphone looks nicer, she'll just have to get used to a virtual keyboard. She also has a BB bold worldphone for work, best holster i ever bought was the seidio holster for the droid, that thing is awesome (it's sold out on amazon for the droid for now). She destroys everything! this seidio holster is a champ, note most ppl know seidio as a protective case + holster combined, but they also sell just a different bare holster that will work w/o a case on the phone.
Oh and she recently stole my jabra extreme bt headset so i had to get a samsung wep 870, both of these headsets support a2dp to stream music over the bt headset, great for podcasts.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #19 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 15:09:46 »
2.3 is a nice graphical upgrade, but I haven't really seen anything under the hood that is very different.  MIUI is great option for change of pace.  It's based on 2.2 and looks a lot like the iPhone OS, but way more flexible.  It's also very fast, and battery life is money.
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Offline AndrewZorn

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« Reply #20 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 16:04:26 »
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The kernel has the drivers for the device, so if the kernel's a hack-job, that might be the bugginess you are seeing.  The Evo has been around a little longer, so the kernels for it are pretty mature, and CM is a hoss on the Evo. The CM team needed an official Evo to get some of the new revision hardware working correctly.  Once HTC released the kernel code, it was put into CM's kernel, and it fixed the bugs some people were having with BT and the camera.

Long story short, the kernel can make all the difference in stability/bugs in a ROM.

Right, so since Samsung/Sprint still haven't released 2.2, CM team is still working off a beta kernel.  It's pathetic.
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Offline stuiees

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« Reply #21 on: Thu, 13 January 2011, 17:01:50 »
The good: iPhone 4
The bad: at&t

At least I live in so cal where 3G coverage is everywhere
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« Reply #22 on: Sat, 15 January 2011, 01:47:48 »
iPhone 3G. I don't really use my phone for anything other than texting or Pandora Radio. So I'll probably stick with it till it dies a long, functional life.
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