Get one from a reputable company, not generic hardware slapped with android.

I'd like to add on that you can also try the following:

Samsung galaxy 3
Samsung galaxy 5
Google N1
Huawei's offering
SE X10


This post has been edited by MYstombox: Sep 3 2010, 08:23 PM

Well, why not?
They dominate the 3G mobile broadband hardware market and seem to be offering pretty good hardware for phones.
Just because they're not popular doesn't mean their business itself isn't reputable.

Although I don't own any of their stuff yet, to my knowledge, I look to purchase one of their mobile broadband hardware stuff.

Not necessarily, I see legacy hardware using newer implementations of android. It depends mostly on how well the OS is implemented, and with the number of hackers around with custom rom development + step by step guides, it's up to the user to maximise the hardware and the experience.

That is entirely HTC's fault for not releasing 2.2 on the hero, mainly due to marketing reasons.
But you can install custom froyo roms on the hero, no?

Just a simple google search turned this up: http://hero-roms.blogspot.com/

The hardware supports it, and as I mentioned earlier, it's really up to the user to do a bit of searching to maximise the hardware potential.

I think what that poster meant was that the open source community will always develop roms for it and provide more up to date OS versions for android phones as long as there are people using the hardware.

This post has been edited by MYstombox: Sep 4 2010, 10:49 PM

I never 'boost' or boast about support from the manufacturer(s), I just said and have said before, that the open source community supports it. Whether or not the phone manufacturers support it is another thing. And we can still find custom roms or whatever of phones long outdated.

Of the 3 or 4 posts I made prior to this, I don't see where I said anything about manufacturer supporting legacy hardware. I only mentioned hackers, custom roms, step by step guides.

Apple supports their phone cause they don't want users to experience the OS any other way. And what can be done on 4.1 which can't already be done on jailbroken phones?

This post has been edited by MYstombox: Sep 5 2010, 09:07 PM

Er, okay.

Please tell me what is 'inferior' in terms of UI experience.
And show me proof of 'inferior' battery life.

Show some objectivity in your argument.

Let me start off,
I don't like iOS because of it's lack of homescreen widgets, I don't get my information provided to me at one glance.
In iOS i need to open up apps to view them, which is annoying. This reduces my productivity, especially when I need a quick glance at my schedule.

Widgets also allow me to have quick access to settings, turning on/off connections etc. iOS i always need to enter settings and toggle them there.

I like it that in android I can get true multitasking, in that in whatever app i am in, by pressing the home button I can have access to another app and return to the first one which is running in the background. This is especially useful when I need to search the net to find something and get back to the word document I was looking through.

For battery life, my battery life exceeds iphone's easily. With same usage habits.

Oh wait I forgot, I can buy spare batteries for android devices if I need to, unfortunately I can't change batteries if the iphone went out of juice,which happens more often than not.

No objectivity in his debates, getting rather annoying with his fanboyism.

I hope the TS can read through the smoke and mirrors from all this.

This post has been edited by MYstombox: Sep 6 2010, 08:11 PM