John
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How are you getting on with them?
I love my E71 but I'm finding myself using the internet on my phone much more in work and as much as the internet is brilliant for the size of screen more screen real estate is obviously better.
I'm considering trading in for a Magic, hero is far too expensive to buy sim free atm.
Experiences, pros cons etc, how is android in general?
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jamez_zz
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Brilliant phone mate, Ive had a Blackberry storm, Blackberry Bold and an iPhone 3G and i would take the Magic over all of them every time. I havent heard a bad word said off anyone about them tbh.
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John
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What about the touchscreen for typing?
I had an HTC something or other when it first came out last year and just didn't get on at all with the touchscreen, I like good old fashioned buttons.
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DaveyLC
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The touch screen is the same as the iPhone so its perfect and natural feeling for on screen keyboards etc.. Cant use a stylus.
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jamez_zz
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Yeah as Dave said, its the same as the iPhone for typing, and you can use it landscape too.
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John
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I'll need to find a good forum for them, I like playing about with stuff, ie hacking the nokias to install unsigned programs and general geeky stuff, which from what i've seen of android so far there is plenty of.
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Reecemac
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forum.xda-developers.com is really good. Ive got the HTC Dream (G1) but got the hero rom on it at the min and it really is a great phone spend all day browsing the net at work, left it at home one day and was the longest most boring day ever.
[Edited on 20-07-2009 by Reecemac]
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John
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G1 is a Dream, net is my one and only reason for changing so if that's good that's quite a long way towards fitting me needs 
[Edited on 20-07-2009 by John]
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jamez_zz
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Theres some really good Apps for the Magic mate, and there all free 
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Doug
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Awesome phone! I cant stop playing with mine. Any questions just give me a shout
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John
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Can I get my gmail pushed and whats the GPS like, only google maps support atm?
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jamez_zz
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the Gps is pretty good, especially on street view. and i have a gmail set up but dont use it.
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John
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I'm still mulling this, looks like it'll cost me the best part of 300 quid for one.
Anybody rooted theirs yet?
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Doug
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Yeah mine is rooted:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=517948
And running a super fast ROM 
I got mine for £265 delivered inc a 16gb memory card. Bargain! It was only 2 weeks old :-D
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John
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Was that ebay? I'm keeping my eye out but it'll be next week at the earliest because I want to get my E71 away first.
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Doug
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I bought mine on AV Forums:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/mobile-phone-classified-adverts/1030145-sale-htc-magic-16gb-card.html
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John
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Where have you seen them for £250 brand new 
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Cavey
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The touch HD at the top no good for you john?
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John
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I fancy having a go at android.
I've had windows mobile before and although I do like messing about, wm didn't function well enough as an actual phone, phone functionality seemed tacked on at the end.
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Cavey
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Fair enough
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John
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You've got me reading reviews of the touch HD now  
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Cavey
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Seemed a decent price on there for brand new. I'm after a new phone, if i sort my credit repot i should get a decent one on O2, got a decent rating now, but screwed up about 6 years ago on an o2 contract and they dont like me now
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John
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I only got my contract a couple of months ago so thats me for 18 months, have to buy the phone myself if I want it unfortunately.
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ash_corsa
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I have a Magic, what is Rooting??
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by John
I fancy having a go at android.
Give it a go: Android ported to a liveCD. I was looking at this last week.
p.s I found that download very slow and eventually got it from a torrent site.
It just allows you to play with the Android OS on your laptop
*edit* for me it was similar to the Iphone OS, but the android came accross as very mickey mousey and I personally didnt like the feel compared to the Iphone.
[Edited on 21-07-2009 by Bart]
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