There may not be official release of Gingerbread from LG,
but if there's any developer cooked some custom Gingerbread for this phone,
you can still flash/install it after you root your phone.

HTC is overpriced to you simply because they are slightly more expensive compared to similar spec phones,
but do you know why? If you know you wouldn't think they're overpriced.

HTC's Android phones strength lies in their HTC Sense UI, some may say it makes the OS heavier,
but you have to know what Sense UI is capable of doing first,
it is not simply just an UI overlay, it integrates deeply into the phone.
watch this video you'll understand,

Just watch the video, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Yes, a lot of people root their phone to install custom ROMs, including me,
but custom ROM doesn't necessarily means no Sense UI,
there are plenty of custom Sense ROM particularly for HTC phones,
you can try different types of custom ROM, e.g MIUI, AOSP,
that's one of the many strength of Android, you don't like it, switch, plenty room for customization,
and yea there are people who prefer the vanilla Android UI, or even the iPhone like MIUI rom,
but still there are people who tried out these ROM and in the end found that they still prefer Sense ROM,
just take a look at Desire thread.
I'm not saying that Sense UI is the best or anything,
but just trying to tell you why its slightly more expensive than other similar spec phones,
don't blindly assume that HTC phones are overpriced.

Yes, of course, because you're not using one

This post has been edited by phantomash: Dec 11 2010, 12:57 AM

lol, fanboy?

I recommended plenty of other Android phones to other who are asking for recommendations,
especially this phone particularly, the LG Optimus One is now the best bang for buck phone for below 1k,
thus its always recommended by me, you can search my post if you want to.

you can call me a fan boy of Android maybe, but not Desire, or even HTC.
I'm simply telling why HTC phones are worth the slightly higher price,
if I'm fanboy, I'll be talking bad about Motorola Milestone xt720 by now.

the fact is you're the one who are bad mouthing about other phones, and claimed xt720 the best?
you're the one being funny here,
I respected you for having good knowledge regarding Android,
but seems like you deliberately throwing away the respect I have for you.

This post has been edited by phantomash: Dec 11 2010, 01:53 AM

if its pointless, you should have kept it to yourself in the first place.

nah, I don't need to win, you can have it.
I'm merely replying to what you started.

no RM899 the official price.

not very good, but get the job done

yup

gratz on your new phone?

this phone actually came out way long after WF though,
so its not exactly a fair comparison

I don't think its possible (at least for now)
so far 7 is the max among all the launchers available,
except MIUI launcher which is integrated into MIUI rom.

why do you need so many home screen anyway?

try vplayer

yes rooting will void warranty, even without flashing custom rom
however you may unroot it back when its time to claim warranty.

rooting is good, it grants you the admin authority to your phone,
meaning you're getting what you're supposed to get in the first place.
you can do much more things with your phone, use it to the fullest.

then that's just too bad
that's why you should always make sure that you don't mess up,
its your responsibility to ensure that, no one is to blame but yourself.

but still, it depends on how you "messed up"
most of the time if its still traceable, you should be able to unroot it back
only when the damage done to your phone is too serious, as in can't even be turned on
then you won't be able to unroot it, but that also means it can't be traced already isn't it?

This post has been edited by phantomash: Jan 24 2011, 09:54 AM

simple answer, no
without rooting you'll have to use your phone as it is how the manufacturer intend you to

This post has been edited by phantomash: Jan 24 2011, 10:59 AM

nope, why?

This post has been edited by phantomash: Jan 24 2011, 12:36 PM

when you partition SD it will auto reformat your SD card,
so make sure you backup before doing anything else.

after you root, use titanium backup to backup all your apps
mybackup to backup sms, contacts,
or you can sync your contacts to google account,
so when you flashed a new rom you just need to log in to your google account
and everything will be sync into your phone automatically.

you can always find the apk and install it yourself just saying

swype is a 3rd party keyboard, you can always install it yourself.

there are tons of keyboard options for android,
such as Swype, Swiftkey, ThickButtons, Sogou, BetterKeyboard, and many more
go check them out yourself

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