Mobile phone, the android sort

[whitev8stag]

hey,
i have an android phone, HTC desire to be exact, i love it, its really easy to use and its as good if not better than my previous iphone

of anyone here has one or wants help i would say head over to
http://androidforums.com/ they are great over there, there is a separate board for each model as well

[al-stag]

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I have an HTC desire too. Fantastic sofa surfer, great as a phone, sat nav, camera, e reader, too.

Al

[whitev8stag]

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yeah its a good phone, bar the camera, well mine is very bad!

if you take the back cover off and take a pic you get a much better image!!!! little tip
Al , what sort of battery life do you get???

thanks
Ben

[Tdm]

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al-stag wrote:

I have an HTC desire too. Fantastic sofa surfer, great as a phone, sat nav, camera, e reader, too.

Al

Forgive my ignorance Al - but in layman's terms (I think you and I are the same age Al) what does an "Android" phone do that a simple ordinary mobile phone (like what I have!) doesn't.
Is it a competator to the Iphone and similar?
I use my mobile phone for making calls, and occasional texting, and that's it. Am I missing something? :shock:

[Andy Rundell]

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Terry wrote:

al-stag wrote:

I have an HTC desire too. Fantastic sofa surfer, great as a phone, sat nav, camera, e reader, too.

Al

Forgive my ignorance Al - but in layman's terms (I think you and I are the same age Al) what does an "Android" phone do that a simple ordinary mobile phone (like what I have!) doesn't.
Is it a competator to the Iphone and similar?
I use my mobile phone for making calls, and occasional texting, and that's it. Am I missing something? :shock:

Hi Terry,
Android is thre name of the Operating System the the phone runs........ just like XP or Windows 7, Ubuntu etc.

Android is actually a Linux variant, bought by Google a while ago and is used by a number of phone manufacturers for their 'Smart' phones, where you have an very rich internet browser and the ability to run other applications like Sat Nav plus 000's of others

basically it is used to refer to the OS run by a number of Smart phones

hope that helps ...........Andy

[nib]

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After dropping my iphone into water after a couple of days i was given it i was reluctant to get another flash phone but my brother gave me a an HTC desire phone,just trying to get the hang of it,what worries me a bit is how easy it is to ring someone by mistake by accidently touching the screenwhilst searching for a number,any friend of mine on facebook with a phone number on thereseems to be entered on my phone as well,how i dont know,some of the people are in America,dont really want to be ringing them up like a krank in the middle of the night by mistake.

Mark

[whitev8stag]

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yeah, it one of the biggest iphone os rivals, the man difference is the open source, meaning people can hack,change and do what ever they want with it

[whitev8stag]

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nib wrote:

After dropping my iphone into water after a couple of days i was given it i was reluctant to get another flash phone but my brother gave me a an HTC desire phone,just trying to get the hang of it,what worries me a bit is how easy it is to ring someone by mistake by accidently touching the screen whilst searching for a number,any friend of mine on facebook with a phone number on there seems to be entered on my phone as well,how i dont know,some of the people are in America,dont really want to be ringing them up like a krank in the middle of the night by mistake.

Mark

i thought the same there is an app, called call guard with give a confirmation question when calling someone.....
a free app as well

(edit due to typo error )

[nib]

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whitev8stag wrote:

nib wrote:

After dropping my iphone into water after a couple of days i was given it i was reluctant to get another flash phone but my brother gave me a an HTC desire phone,just trying to get the hang of it,what worries me a bit is how easy it is to ring someone by mistake by accidently touching the screenwhilst searching for a number,any friend of mine on facebook with a phone number on thereseems to be entered on my phone as well,how i dont know,some of the people are in America,dont really want to be ringing them up like a krank in the middle of the night by mistake.

Mark

i thought the same there is an app, called call guard with give a confirmation question when calling someone.....
a free app as well

(edit due to typo error )

Thanks Ben,i will use that.

Mark

[whitev8stag]

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i must be wrong with the name, i cant find it.... ill search for it tonight

[whitev8stag]

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call confirm is the app you need

[KOY 23]

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Android, haemmeroid, both are a pain in the ........backside.

[Jeff]

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I've got the HTC Desire and still approx 95% of the time, I cannot make a phone call thanks to crap Vodafone coverage.

They want £50 to enhance my signal at home.

[whitev8stag]

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you might want to wait for the new software in 2011, called android 2.3 it allows calles over voip, like skype. and it should be free..... thats if your have wifi
i have to say though those boxes are brilliant, i had one my self....

[whitev8stag]

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KOY 23 wrote:

Android, haemmeroid, both are a pain in the ........backside.

what makes you say that?