darrenm

How exactly is the iphone app store better though? What can you do with it that you can't do with the Android market? Well can I ask if you have used both? My own opinion is that the App Store is streets ahead in terms of presentation and the mechanisim of downloading and paying for Apps. The Iphone and Ipad are aimed at people who want something simple to use. I have had Windows Mobile Phones and they along with Android are great because you can change how it looks and how it works to suit you really. When the Android Market comes closer to the App Store I might well look again. In terms of Handsets the Desire and Evo are much better technology wise and much better from the point of value for money. I haven't seen or used the iPhone app store so I'm intrigued as to how it works TBH. You haven't said how it's better there and I'm interested to know. The Android market mechanism of downloading and paying for apps seems very good to me and the presentation is great. I really like the way you can pay for apps and they stay on your downloads list linked to your account so if you get a new phone or wipe your own then you just reinstall. Not sure how they can really make it easier and it looks nice so I'd be interested to see how it can be better.

I thought it may have been, apparently there are still people who haven't seen it though

Apple innovation knows no bounds. First the iPod, then the iPhone, then iPad, now the Macbook Wheel

MON wouldn't be afraid to drop big names to give them a kick up the arse. when has he ever dropped 1 of our key players when out of form?? Stan Petrov. In his first full season he wasn't playing well. The crowd were getting on his back and MON gave him a chance to pick his form up by giving it a couple of games which he didn't do. At absolutely the right time MON took him out and gave him chance to pick the form back up. Stan came back a different player and has been excellent ever since. Emile - dropped midway through last season as he wasn't playing well. MON brought Carew in instead and kept him in as he was scoring. Even though Emile is obviously highly rated by MON (because he bought him) and dropping him would probably mean his chances of going to the WC would have gone out the window which is probably why he came to Villa in the first place, MON still saw fit to be pragmatic enough to ignore all of that and do whatever it took to get us the best chance of winning games. It's happened loads of times. However if someone is a top player and they're not playing well they still have more potential to change a game than bringing a lesser player in who may not. Like last season - calls from people on here for Ashley Young to be dropped as he wasn't quite as devastating as before. But he was still creating chances and was still dangerous so MON kept playing him. I'm not saying MON is right 100% of the time but to me he has the right balance between keeping a settled team and dropping players when they need to be dropped.

MON wouldn't be afraid to drop big names to give them a kick up the arse.

I'd be interested to know which Android phone you use at work.

There seems to be a kind of mass-brainwashing going on with iPhone owners. They're suddenly unable to engage in rational conversation or debate. It reminds me of the old film, 'The Stuff' where everyone was being taken over by this Yoghurt they were eating; still the same people underneath but they had this eerie soul-less emptiness when protecting their own kind.

Awesome, you can change the background now. Can you choose a ringtone yet?

ConnectBot. Absolutely brilliant. RSA key auth, port tunnelling, all the stuff you'd want.

Couldn't resist anymore. Logged into My T-Mobile and saw they were offering me an upgrade. I'm currently on £15 / month unlimited data, 100 mins / 100 texts and they've offered me a Desire for £60 locked in for 18 months on current tariff. Happy with that Not sure what to do about the G1 though. It's still a superb phone but they go for peanuts on eBay. It's worth keeping around for SSHing into servers etc.

No offence CVByrne but don't tell me I'm full of shit. There's one guy on XDA developers who claims to have rooted the X10. After months of Paul O'Brien and numerous other HTC veterans working on it and giving up. The chances don't look good, but if they do - great, I'd consider getting one because the hardware is great. SE ROM - not so much. There are no HTC fanboys on here, calm down with brand-loyalty shit, it's embarrassing.

Thinking about it, with hindsight, I'd much prefer to see Curtis Davies out there than Carragher. He'd be fighting with Dawson for a spot but I think he'd be ahead of Upson.

It makes no difference what version of Android it is, the X10 is incredibly hard to unlock. Sony Ericsson have really spent a lot of time and effort making it this way. Unless someone manages to unlock an X10 (which is looking less and less likely every day) then you'll be at the mercy of SE for your updates. How long has Eclair taken them so far? HTC are by no means innocent in this respect though. The very people who these companies don't want to piss off are the the ones they do piss off by making them unmoddable.

But you can't root an X10. If Sony had spent half the time on their implementation of Android as they did locking the phone down then no-one would need to root it.

If you don't already know then you don't want to

This isn't true, almost all of the ROMs provided for HTC phones in rooting guides are the HTC default ROM, I looked through a few when I rooted my Desire this week (surprisingly easy, by the way, took me about 20 minutes, most of that downloading the necessary files), I didn't see a single non-HTC ROM. There may be some out there, but it's completely wrong to say you'll lose the Sense UI by rooting. I've not really had any experience with ROMs outside of the ones for the G1. I'm pretty sure you used to lose it but I noticed the other day that most of the Hero ROMs keep Sense.

There's no contest IMO.

I've got a rooted G1 and TBH they have to be rooted to get the best out of them these days. It's the original development phone so it's easy to build custom ROMs for. The only other dev phone is the Nexus one. With that in mind it makes sense that Cyanogen (the most popular custom ROM builder) only supports the G1, Nexus1 and Moto Droid. The other HTC phones have slightly less of a community following as most people don't bother rooting / putting a unofficial ROM on there. There are a few things you get: * Latest Android (currently 2.1, 2.2 being worked on) * WiFi tether (turns your handset into a Wifi router to share your 3G connection to a laptop etc.) * Apps2SD (sets a partition on your SD card to be the place apps are installed to so you can installs 000's of apps.) * Performance tweaks, theming support, command-line to the underlying Linux OS (if that's your bag) etc. However you do get a few of these things with Android 2.1 (eclair) that will be dropping to the Hero soon and is already on the Legend and Desire. Plus you will lose HTC Sense which really makes a big difference to Android phones and is really how Android should be by default. Generally if you want to do it then it involves: * Flashing a new recovery image (basically the BIOS) * Once that's done you are then able to drop into recovery mode and select a ROM to flash to the phones firmware. There is a possibility that you can get something wrong and end up bricking your phone. Not likely if you follow the instructions but you never know. If I had a Hero I'd probably leave it and wait for the official HTC OTA (over the air) update to eclair. 2.2 (froyo) is likely to be the one that stabilises everything and means you can get all the nicest latest things they come out with just from the app store without having to wait for a ROM update so hopefully HTC will just roll that out to everything then not have to worry about backward-dropping new ROMs for every phone after that.

yeah, it's VLC only on Linux though. I really want an Amarok remote for Android so it looks like I'm gonna have to do one myself.

But it's nothing to do with Android?

Which is why if they don't hurry up and make a decent QWERTY phone, I'll go for a Nexus One as opposed to anything else. I've really enjoyed having the latest and greatest on the G1 for 18 months, the speed improvements in Froyo will give it a new lease of life but imagine what it will be like a 1Ghz Snapdragon..

No, he really isn't.

But I've got a real keyboard

If you're not interested in rooting and the mod community then probably the Motorola Droid. I still reckon the G1 is a great phone rooted though and very cheap now. HTC are doing a new MyTouch Slide (espresso) which should be nice http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-gets-official-04-05-2010/

eh? Where did you see that? I thought it was 4g only so US only?