Although I have had fun with my desire, I can help but think it is now outdated. I've read about the sensation xe, what's everyones thoughts? My desire is the amoled version, do you think I will be disappointed with the sensation xe screen? Should I wait a little loner? Should I even move to the dark side and get an iPhone 5 when available?
I would be greatful for your thoughts and help.
Thank you
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It's not outdated, just flash a good rom on it. But if you don't like it, get something else. You can still sell your desire for quite some money...
Been through a few roms, currently running insertcoin, miui before that for quite a while. Phone just seems a bit slow now, plus I'm one of those people who always want the latest
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better wait the ice cream sandwhices new generation phones
if u buy a phone now, it may get outdated too soon..
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better wait the ice cream sandwhices new generation phones
if u buy a phone now, it may get outdated too soon..
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Thinking along the lines of the nexus prime? The samsung screens do look good (if its going to be made by them)
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better wait the ice cream sandwhices new generation phones
if u buy a phone now, it may get outdated too soon..
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Absoluta truth...
And the desire is not outdated, try any ROM with sense 2.1 or inclusive sense 3.0 And gingerbread 2.3.5
Im now with Leedroid 3.3.3. with sense 2.1. and works like a new one.
Wait till Christmast 4 a new smartphone
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dear Dave,
thats what I have in my weeks ago, I fed up with all there sense ROM and their lagness. considering change phone, which definitely not a htc phone,
however until I found MIUI ROM, I found out my desire phone which is lag and slow completely changed, its like a new phone, I think you should try that too,
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dear Dave,
thats what I have in my weeks ago, I fed up with all there sense ROM and their lagness. considering change phone, which definitely not a htc phone,
however until I found MIUI ROM, I found out my desire phone which is lag and slow completely changed, its like a new phone, I think you should try that too,
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I used miui until a few months ago, got a bit bored and went back to a sense rom, might give miui another go. Thanks for everyones thoughts.
Just back to one of my original questions though, my desire has the amoled screen. Will the newer slcd screen on the sensation be much different quality wise, for better or worse?
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The amoled screen has a bit better colors, but the slcd screen of the sensation is better in every other aspect in my personal opinion.
But I think best would be to look for yourself, try the sensation in phone store.
I too eventualy got bored with the desire. After playing with almost every Android phone on the market I fell in love with the galaxy s2. The screen did it for me. It is truly breathtaking. Just before I tried it I played with the LG optimus 3d and was impressed with the effect but when you compare the s2 screen to it the difference is amazing. It made my desire display look so drab and dull. The phone is super fast. Full 1080p video recording. 16meg phone memory. 2mb system memory so no more ext partitions or data to SD.
Go and play with one. Apparently there will be an s3 around the start of nov. I wanted the evo 3doriginally but delays inthe launch. Bad reviews and the locked bootloader put me off. If you like to flash roms the s2 is super easy to root. Just flash an unsecure kernel and that's it. No s off no Linux disks nothing. So that's my sales pitch done with
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xproc said:
dear Dave,
thats what I have in my weeks ago, I fed up with all there sense ROM and their lagness. considering change phone, which definitely not a htc phone,
however until I found MIUI ROM, I found out my desire phone which is lag and slow completely changed, its like a new phone, I think you should try that too,
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The new sense roms are made for much more powerful device.
If you're going for non HTC, you may as well try aosp roms. They fly on the desire
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woody_2k said:
I too eventualy got bored with the desire. After playing with almost every Android phone on the market I fell in love with the galaxy s2. The screen did it for me. It is truly breathtaking. Just before I tried it I played with the LG optimus 3d and was impressed with the effect but when you compare the s2 screen to it the difference is amazing. It made my desire display look so drab and dull. The phone is super fast. Full 1080p video recording. 16meg phone memory. 2mb system memory so no more ext partitions or data to SD.
Go and play with one. Apparently there will be an s3 around the start of nov. I wanted the evo 3doriginally but delays inthe launch. Bad reviews and the locked bootloader put me off. If you like to flash roms the s2 is super easy to root. Just flash an unsecure kernel and that's it. No s off no Linux disks nothing. So that's my sales pitch done with
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I like the spec of the SII just not the feel of the plastic , that was why i was interested in the sensation.
thanks for everyones input. think it is time to try out the phones in the shops.
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Does anyone know of a Touchwiz based rom for the Desire?
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Nope.
10char
You cannot be serious.
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I have forgotten a lot but if I recall it correctly, there is a mod for AOSP ROM to get the touchwiz.
Better ask the other more about this.
out of interest why would you want touchwiz?
almost everyone with a Galaxy S I know doesn't want it either
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out of interest why would you want touchwiz?
almost everyone with a Galaxy S I know doesn't want it either
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It is true. I have played for a couple of minutes with the Galaxy S2 and beside the speed due to better hardware, I didn't impressed at all.
I own a Desire and a SGS2 and I have to admitt that TouchWiz4 impresses me a lot more than Sense.
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It is true. I have played for a couple of minutes with the Galaxy S2 and beside the speed due to better hardware, I didn't impressed at all.
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from what ive seen, touchwizz is more functional and more customizable than sense which only 'looks nice' but i dont think it does look that nice
guess it is simply an individual matter
i never tried touchwiz, from what ive seen on videos it doesnt really make me want a SGS2.
one desire developer, baadnewz, recently bought SGS2 but he sold it very soon after and bought HTC Sensation reason: "cant live without sense"
so like i said, everyone likes what he/she likes
It's not that I don't like sense I just wanna try something different. I sometimes get tired of the look of sense and wanna try Touchwiz out. Is it just me or is sense just getting boring their are just so many devices with it on them its no longer fresh.
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If you are bored of Sense and wanna try something new, why don't you try MIUI or AOSP?
Note:
It is also true that I tend to prefer Sense over MIUI, Moto-Blur or Touchwiz.
Isn't Blur dead now?
didn't Moto even rename it?
I will also be trying MIUI after my device is able to be rooted.
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Does anyone can port Motoblur or touchwiz on Desire HD?
If exists pls tell me the link..
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Ugh! Why would you want either one! LOL can we also port over ios as well? Motoblur was okay on my laggy, slow old Backflip, and touchwiz was the first thing I wanted to lose on my Captivate.
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But both motoblur n touchwiz were upgraded...I mean motoblur(droid bionic) and touchwiz(galaxy s2). These are not old version one I'm sure that new version is better than old version..
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But both motoblur n touchwiz were upgraded...I mean motoblur(droid bionic) and touchwiz(galaxy s2). These are not old version one I'm sure that new version is better than old version..
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true, have heard touchwiz 4.0 has improved alot, but have also heard that motoblur still sux, even after updates. Had the atrix briefly this spring, and motoblurwas still terrible.
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true, have heard touchwiz 4.0 has improved alot, but have also heard that motoblur still sux, even after updates. Had the atrix briefly this spring, and motoblurwas still terrible.
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personally, TouchWiz 4 on the Galaxy is absolutely great, greatly improved from previous versions, although I would believe the hardware to be a much more vital factor in allowing better graphics and smoothness of the user interface.
I don't think you can port the full overlay of either because of the frameworks involved. I do know that the touchwiz launcher is available by itself. Just search Google. Ran into this question on galaxy forums lol. They wanted sense instead of touchwiz
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Bringin this to life in some hope of new things. Evo has motoblur with some issues link >>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1254113 <<<<
Anyone think it's possible to bring it over?
Personally think it would be great and would love to see some one do it.
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well, the new moto UI isnt called motoblur anymore, instead, it's Moto UI, and personally i felt it looked dope especially on the new razr lockscreen, although it cant access to much shortcuts as sense, but it looked dope, LOL!
You can read the full statement from HTC below.
We are excited about the latest update for Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, and are currently reviewing its features and functionality to determine our upgrade plans. Our goal for Android updates is to give every customer an improved user experience, which means balancing each phone's unique hardware, HTC Sense experience and the Android kernel. While our goal is to upgrade as many of our recent devices as possible, we are committed to maintaining every phone's performance and usability first. Please stay tuned for more updates on specific device upgrade plans
desire is NOT getting ICS update !
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desire is NOT getting ICS update !
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Well, no surprise there, since they had huge troubles updating it to 2.3
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You can read the full statement from HTC below.
We are excited about the latest update for Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, and are currently reviewing its features and functionality to determine our upgrade plans. Our goal for Android updates is to give every customer an improved user experience, which means balancing each phone's unique hardware, HTC Sense experience and the Android kernel. While our goal is to upgrade as many of our recent devices as possible, we are committed to maintaining every phone's performance and usability first. Please stay tuned for more updates on specific device upgrade plans
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Huh?
It will be great if Desire receives ICS but I doubt because of marketing reasons. The guys from HTC want to sell their new phones to old customers as well as new ones so the old Desire won't get an ICS update, as it didn't get an Gingerbread one (with new Sense).
Desire isn't a recent device anymore
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Yeah, but I think there's a bit of good will at stake too. Many people are on contract with months left and aren't willing to shell fora new device just yet.
If HTC nurture the customers that have had a good experience with the desire (I'm one of them) perhaps they won't be lured off to samsung, motorolla, lg, huwai, nokia etc come end of contract.
I reckon if they could do it with sense they would.
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Yeah, but I think there's a bit of good will at stake too. Many people are on contract with months left and aren't willing to shell fora new device just yet.
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Then you either spit moar dough when you buy it to get shorter contract, or you take a two year, and then don't whine every second about it. I won't even mention shelling two year contract in early 2011. and similar silly moves.
I think some of you are forgetting the Gingerbread update saga.
After several announcements and retractions from HTC only an unsupported developer build was released.
ICS will only ever be a custom build from the dev community.
Fingers crossed for CM9, hardware permitting
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Desire isn't a recent device anymore
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Desire was never a recent device in the first place.
If HTC could release ICS loaded with their sense experience, while leaving room in the rom for carrier apps they would. Perhaps it's naive of me, but there you have it.
Problem isn't the age, or the cpu, or even wanting to force you into a newer phone. It's the limited memory with which to drive a relatively high pixel count on the screen and a version of software that probably wasn't even dreamt of when the desire was getting her specs.
The development community will possibly be able to shoehorn ICS on, without sense, but htc is saying they don't have time to bother with that level of customisation for an older device. If it were simple they'd do it.
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nitens said:
If HTC could release ICS loaded with their sense experience, while leaving room in the rom for carrier apps they would. Perhaps it's naive of me, but there you have it.
Problem isn't the age, or the cpu, or even wanting to force you into a newer phone. It's the limited memory with which to drive a relatively high pixel count on the screen and a version of software that probably wasn't even dreamt of when the desire was getting her specs.
The development community will possibly be able to shoehorn ICS on, without sense, but htc is saying they don't have time to bother with that level of customisation for an older device. If it were simple they'd do it.
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So theoretically you are saying that phones such as Desire HD will get it as it is able to fit Sense and ICS in? Highly improbable.
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itachi1706 said:
So theoretically you are saying that phones such as Desire HD will get it as it is able to fit Sense and ICS in? Highly improbable.
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Actually, the desire HD should run ics and sense really well, cuz sensation XL is just a overclocked desire HD
If im going to buy a new phone im getting Samsung anyway
Samsung do the same for galacxy S so....
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Actually, the desire HD should run ics and sense really well, cuz sensation XL is just a overclocked desire HD
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Yes it probably will. The problem remains on whether HTC will bother to update it. After all, its 15 months old.
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Desire will not get ICS update...
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Samsung do the same for galacxy S so....
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And Sony-Ericsson, and Motorola, and LG,...
Htc needs to learn something from the xda developers they look so inmature even android 2.3 was a big problem
HTC's making money out of selling phones. The End.
Not from supporting new shinny flagship os's for "Mezozoic" phones.
Look at Apple, they support almost all new os's for deprecated phones but with small feature set and performance penalty.
Is that what you want?
Guys,
I know there are many posts like this, but to be clear some of those who prefer to stick to desire rather than one x are hoping for sense 4 including me. Unfortunately shaky discontinued his work and no one is interested so I speak for those sense 4 fanatics that we hope this project is continued again, no ETAs no nagging.
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no ETAs no nagging.
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Good luck on this. Just on the other thread I saw someone pleading for Sense 4 like his entire life is depending on it.
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Guys,
I know there are many posts like this
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most of them locked, why open another? why cant people just let it go?
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I guess some things are too much of a trouble for the devs, think audio was the main issue apart from other stuff of course. And yeah, let it go dude there are already decent ICS roms out there if u want ICS... Btw if you plan on investing in a decent budget phone with Sense 4 I would suggest the One V - bought it for my girlfriend a few months ago and she loves it! And to be quite honest it simply delivers - it is very smooth and fluid, you get the whole sense 4 experience with a very few corners cut, being a few animations here and there and the helicopter view.
I think we can port desire V rom to desire,the spec of desire v is similar than desire
Yes it was a suicide. It didn't find the sense of life.
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rommanager said:
I think we can port desire V rom to desire,the spec of desire v is similar than desire
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If you keep saying that, you'll never port sense 4.
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If you keep saying that, you'll never port sense 4.
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I try to port it but unflashable so I want someone help
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I guess some things are too much of a trouble for the devs, think audio was the main issue apart from other stuff of course. And yeah, let it go dude there are already decent ICS roms out there if u want ICS... Btw if you plan on investing in a decent budget phone with Sense 4 I would suggest the One V - bought it for my girlfriend a few months ago and she loves it! And to be quite honest it simply delivers - it is very smooth and fluid, you get the whole sense 4 experience with a very few corners cut, being a few animations here and there and the helicopter view.
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My friend said one v is super laggy and that is what I first planned to buy but already spent all my money on fixing desire motherboard :sly:
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Hey guys. If you guys planning on buying a new phone which has a higher spec than our Wonder,yet still affordable,what would it be? And what is the reason?
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AzizWahid said:
Hey guys. If you guys planning on buying a new phone which has a higher spec than our Wonder,yet still affordable,what would it be? And what is the reason?
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If you don't mind about other brands than samsung i suggest you use HTC Sensation XE. It's nice and have a better specs than ours. It has 1,5 ghz dual core processor and some usb otg if you are a fan of usb otg. Just search it on google about this amazing phone. And yes it is affordable
I choose this phone as a back up for my wonder if something happens to it, and yes it was stolen. So i change to this phone and it is awesome
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reddvilzz said:
If you don't mind about other brands than samsung i suggest you use HTC Sensation XE. It's nice and have a better specs than ours. It has 1,5 ghz dual core processor and some usb otg if you are a fan of usb otg. Just search it on google about this amazing phone. And yes it is affordable
I choose this phone as a back up for my wonder if something happens to it, and yes it was stolen. So i change to this phone and it is awesome
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Is it easily rootted like our phone? And does it have attention on xda from someone like arco or something?
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reddvilzz said:
If you don't mind about other brands than samsung i suggest you use HTC Sensation XE. It's nice and have a better specs than ours. It has 1,5 ghz dual core processor and some usb otg if you are a fan of usb otg. Just search it on google about this amazing phone. And yes it is affordable
I choose this phone as a back up for my wonder if something happens to it, and yes it was stolen. So i change to this phone and it is awesome
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wanna ask the same thing.is HTC phone easily root because my friend complaining about the difficulty to root it n no thread can be found in xda developer. n if u asked me bout upgrade mayb i choose sony phone.high spech but more cheaper price.for now i love my wonder.
what about S2?
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what about S2?
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Ya,anyone have any experience with s2?
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Ya,anyone have any experience with s2?
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My brother uses s2...is the better version of W...but still i dont think u will purchase it to use the same UI...but what can u say...it is getting jb...so its quite tricky to say if it gets a new UI with jb like s3...then i bet s2 would be great...
Edit: Guys...got HTC One X now...thanks to all for helping me in this W thread...Take Care all...
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wanna ask the same thing.is HTC phone easily root because my friend complaining about the difficulty to root it n no thread can be found in xda developer. n if u asked me bout upgrade mayb i choose sony phone.high spech but more cheaper price.for now i love my wonder.
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Its true that sony phone have a higher spec at a lower price. But have you tried one of those? Because i feel its quite laggy
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Is it easily rootted like our phone? And does it have attention on xda from someone like arco or something?
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You can check on sensation thread,arco's on sensation is bruce2728, cm 10 is 99% already perfect,redvilzz and i are using the same phone now and moved from wonder. And from those cm trees,came jellybam,pa,miui,aosp,aokp. Yet,i still having my wonder here,but for better attention, they have it on sensation
Really having hardtime for rooting,s-offing,bootlocker,but when your done,you can do whatever you want from touchrecovery,even flashing stockrom
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True as dolly said, and thanks to his help for guiding me on choosing rom, kernel, rooting and etc. :cheers: to you mate. Anyway It is an awesome phone in the upper hand of wonder. Why i didn't choose s2 because the price is around 2 times expensive CMIIW then the sensation xe. Sensation XE is only around 1,2 / 1,3 times expensive and the specs is 'almost' like s2 only very different from the screen which is not AMOLED
And about the difficulty of rooting there are a lot to do to gain the ability to flash custom rom on this 'baby'
You need to unlock bootloader, root, s-off and etc.
It is all explained in the thread. FYI after what i've been through the S-Offing way is the most difficult one for me, but after you succeeded it's smooth sailing to change all rom.
And also there are many great and good dev there like arco's which is our man . Cheers to arco :beer:
Sensation thread is in xda, just search for htc sensation. The thread is a combined version with the sensation, sensation 4g, and sensation xe, almost all the roms are compatible with every variant of sensation.
For sony yes it is cheap and have more power but almost all low prices phone that i checked didn't have external capabilities and i know yes they are better from our wonder with a little cheaper prize but yeah no external sd card capabilities? That's a pain
Try googling and look on the specs man it will amaze you with the affordable price :thumbup:
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And now I'm running on 4.2 JB custom rom from DKOSP, its very fast,faster than 4.1, not 100% perfect, but for my daily use like cam (almost all works (720 VC)),wifi,bluetooth,sound,vibration etc,and it has AOKP also to try
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İ want to buy galaxy nexus,nexus4 or galaxy s3.because they are fast and they have nice design,big and good screen and good game and general performance.
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wonder is enough and best for me with CM9. i dont play games so why i buy more expensive money.
Actually I want to buy Galaxy Nexus, but.. it's officially wiped out from the list in the Indonesian phonespace.
So I'll have to wait for the next Samsung's newest flagship Android.
as for me, i believe in rumors about new samsung nexus with android 5.0 onboard..
if it becomes not larger than 4.5" and gets nice design (w\o that s***ty pseudo-chrome around) for example comparable with our wonder, i'd make my best to get it)
A nexus of course..
This is a difficult question...
Samsung? Well, they have lately been... 'less friendly' to the dev community, to the point that Team Hacksung has declared that they will end activities on Samsung phones.
HTC? They are openly hostile to the dev community, what with the locked bootloader, unlock limits, etc. etc. etc. Not to mention that their sales are declining fast.
Motorola? Same as HTC. Although, with a new owner (the mighty GOOG himself) situation *may* change.
Nexus? No SD Card slot, 'nuff said.
That leaves only Sony, which XDA Portal itself has commended to be the most dev-friendly brand. They even provide an official bootloader unlocking page, with a helpful link to the proper forum in XDA!
So, my next phone would very likely be a Sony.
Which model? Not sure yet... I'll cross the bridge when it's time to, and not sooner (in other words, we'll see what models are available in the next 6-9 months).
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I go for Sony Xperia Z, But i dont like the battery not removable.
If I've much money now maybe I'll go to Xperia Z, but galaxy SIV specs is intriguing, with 1900mhz quadcore or 1600mhz octacore (or whatever its called, its had more than 4 cores) depending on the regions. :eek
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