Android!

[Nerf]

I've got an Incredible, it lives up to it's namesake.  Luda's got an HTC Hero and it has 3-8 seconds of lag any time she tries to do *anything*, mine is pretty much instant.

Camera/video camera rocks too.

[Salamok]

Would like to have a decent camera and a solid enough computing core that I'm not hating it before the end of the contract. Good screen, the larger the better, multitouch. Solid gps with some good apps to support it (driving gps is cool but hiking gps is way cool). Not worried about 4g because we live in the 2nd world part of america. For her phone, a good tethering phone for her laptop, since that would be a big part of her usage (she doesn't have internet at home).

I think the sprint $69 plan + evo will allow you to tether at no extra charge.  Verizon charges for tethering, you could get a droid and root it or use the pdanet app to tether.

[MuffinMan]

I'm not sure if you can tether with no charge but it's $30 to have mobile hotspot with Sprint. They also gouge you an extra $10/month for "premiium data" just for having a 4g phone.

[jth]

I ordered myself a HTC Desire Z today at work (company pays), hope it will be as good as the reviews say. Another choice would have been Nokia N8, but I wanted a physical keyboard.

This will actually be the first non-Nokia phone ever for me. I have an E75 now and while it's pretty good as a phone, the display sucks, the camera is a joke and it's very poorly constructed (some pieces of the casing have fallen off already). Before it I had an E50 and that was excellent at the time though.

[Vaiti]

Teathering and mobile hotspots is the one thing I'd root my phone for in the US.
A rooted device can do both without extra charges.

[Sky]

Why would anyone use an iPhone web browser instead of the pretty kick ass mail app to access IMAP?

It's convenient. Not the iphone browser, but just using a browser in general. At work I use a client, but everywhere else I use the IMAP interface, too. It's buggy in Safari, works great in Chrome. Just work emails, for personal we use gmail and I like their web interface.

Sky, given your talking about being short money, I'd take a serious look at the Virgin Mobile plans and how their service is in your area, The Samsung Intercept isn't the greatest, I'm really not a fan of how small the screen is, but....it does everything.

Noted.

I'm not sure if you can tether with no charge but it's $30 to have mobile hotspot with Sprint. They also gouge you an extra $10/month for "premiium data" just for having a 4g phone.

It's $20/mo with Verizon. I was hoping that something like Pda net would work. (fake edit - that Salamok just mentioned, har)

[Oban]

Try the mail app out on an iDevice, I think you will be quite pleased.

[rattran]

My gf has the Samsung Intercept on Sprint, and hates it. She ditched her Palm Pre after using my Verizon original Droid, and finds the intercept slow, buggy, and inconsistent.

[Mosesandstick]

Finally got myself an android, unlocked rooted and custom rommed it. What are people using for their keyboards? I'm struggling with fat fingers.

[Vaiti]

Swype, not sure why you would use anything else. Maybe for single words.

http://beta.swype.com/

[KallDrexx]

I find swype slower for me than typing on the virtual keyboard with two thumbs

[IainC]

An actual keyboard on my Milestone 2.

[MahrinSkel]

The slider thumb-board on my Droid 2 isn't great (the top row doesn't have enough clearance from the screen), but for a guy with big sausage fingers it's a world better than using the screen keyboard.  Combined with the word anticipation options it works pretty well for texting, although I can't use that for forums/emails.  If I really need to do a significant amount of typing I tether my laptop.

--Dave

[KallDrexx]

The slider thumb-board on my Droid 2 isn't great (the top row doesn't have enough clearance from the screen), but for a guy with big sausage fingers it's a world better than using the screen keyboard.  Combined with the word anticipation options it works pretty well for texting, although I can't use that for forums/emails.  If I really need to do a significant amount of typing I tether my laptop.

--Dave

Are you saying you use the Droid 2's physical keyboard but have word anticipation with it?  Cause on my OG Droid, I don't have any spelling or anticipation features when using the physical keyboard.

[Xuri]

I find swype slower for me than typing on the virtual keyboard with two thumbs

Maybe the Thumb Keyboard is something for you then. :P Though it costs $1.35 :/

[IainC]

Are you saying you use the Droid 2's physical keyboard but have word anticipation with it?  Cause on my OG Droid, I don't have any spelling or anticipation features when using the physical keyboard.

As you type on the Droid 2/Milestone 2's keyboard, it suggests words along the bottom of the screen.

[rattran]

I prefer the real keyboard on my Droid to the stock screen one, and prefer swype over the real one. Once you tweak swype for speed vs accuracy and word prediction then get used to it, it's quite fast.

[KallDrexx]

Are you saying you use the Droid 2's physical keyboard but have word anticipation with it?  Cause on my OG Droid, I don't have any spelling or anticipation features when using the physical keyboard.

As you type on the Droid 2/Milestone 2's keyboard, it suggests words along the bottom of the screen.

Unless there is an option I'm missing, in the original Droid it doesn't do this, which is what is keeping me from using the physical keyboard more often.

[IainC]

The only thing I don't really like about the Milestone 2's keyboard is that it only has modifier buttons on one side. My old G1 had shift and alt buttons on both sides of the keyboard and there's easily enough space to have included them here too. It makes typing numbers or capitals on the left side of the keyboard a bit awkward.

[KallDrexx]

Yeah, the Droid 1 does not have that :(

[jth]

Some old news: Sony unveils Playstation Suite for Android

They're probably a bit late though, with PSX emulators for Android already in the open.

[MahrinSkel]

Remember when I said Apple was toast because Android outsold the iPhone during the iPhone 4 launch?  Well, the funeral has already been held, although the guest of honor failed to notice.  While Apple scrambled to get their phone on one more US carrier, Android passed Nokia's Symbian as the most common phone OS, with nearly 33 million units in the last quarter of 2010.

iPhone is *already* the Mac of smartphones.

--Dave

[Ironwood]

Alchemy stole two days off me.

[Vaiti]

Right when you can't think of anymore combinations, it hits you... Then one more. One more...

[Ironwood]

I got 'em all.

On replay you realise you've forgotten the basics.

[Oban]

Remember when I said Apple was toast because Android outsold the iPhone during the iPhone 4 launch?  Well, the funeral has already been held, although the guest of honor failed to notice.  While Apple scrambled to get their phone on one more US carrier, Android passed Nokia's Symbian as the most common phone OS, with nearly 33 million units in the last quarter of 2010.

iPhone is *already* the Mac of smartphones.

--Dave

...and I am just going to leave this here:

[MuffinMan]

Don't cross the streams!

[fuser]

Registration just opened: https://www.google-io.com/

It's getting hammered tho 

[Sky]

Fiancee pondered too long, htc incredibles no longer bogo, I just got tired of her waiting and bought a tracfone instead. 

[Sand]

I have a Google G1.
How do I save aps to the sd card? Im tired of getting the low memory indicator warning.

[SnakeCharmer]

Is there set of android forums that are considered 'best' or does it vary according to phone?  FWIW, I have a Galaxy S...

[Vaiti]

I normally just stick to the XDA forums. If they don't have the answer/news then it likely isn't out there.

Samsung Galaxy S I9000

edit: to add link to the Galaxy S forums

[Mosesandstick]

I used the modaco forums for everything I needed for my ZTE. Not sure how it compares to others.

[Xuri]

I have a Google G1.
How do I save aps to the sd card? Im tired of getting the low memory indicator warning.

Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> select an installed application will allow you to move some of them (whichever of them natively supports it) to the SD card. To force the ones that don't yet have it built in over to the SD card, you'll probably need any of the 200 "App2SD"-apps, which probably also requires root-access.

[Sand]

I have a Google G1.
How do I save aps to the sd card? Im tired of getting the low memory indicator warning.

Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> select an installed application will allow you to move some of them (whichever of them natively supports it) to the SD card. To force the ones that don't yet have it built in over to the SD card, you'll probably need any of the 200 "App2SD"-apps, which probably also requires root-access.

Thank you. Will play around with that when I get into the office today.