[T-Mobile LG G2x] kiddecks:
i can get on this

running that latest cm7 nightly, can't freaking wait til the next one- but kernel.org is impeding that... it is fun to watch http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=p999 and just keep F5'ing watching all the changes meant for our phones. I don't look into it enough to really know exactly why the changes are being made, but the sheer amount of development commits gives me a big wet one.

MIUI ran very well on it, I tested the 1.8x versions and had difficulty getting WiFi calling to work correctly. Maybe I'm dumb, that's a possibility.... but the interface, and hella useful apps Notes built in, and the messaging app was nice to, and there were browser customizations "stock" as well. It does kinda suck if it's in fact a closed source ROM, because really China? Do you know what those guys can do with a microprocessor? But putting all trust issues aside, I thought MIUI GUI was a BEAUTY! People always thought I was on an iPhone and I was like DERP DERP NOPE DUMMY! HAHAHAHA, but more subtly.

I like my phone compared to the Evo, to me the recovery mode looks the same, it's not a pain in the ass to root in the first place, you just flash one file using your computer, *BAM* recovery! then you just boot into that and flash whatever's at that link up top. I don't really get a chance to see the benefits of a custom kernel, as I wouldn't overclock, as any battery saving tricks I'd of course rather prefer.

I like my phone compared to the iPhone, ooh cool you can jailbreak it. I don't have to. I have many different versions of the same kind of app, some ad supported, some really well written. It's going to be cool when there are state funded apps. And home automation, and school automation, and wireless identification tags. They'd have to be optional tho or privacy rights activists would freak out, but then they'd get em too. Imagine the data that would produce, who does what and when? But iPhone already does that, you say.

I'm writing this on a mac, and I can plug in my phone via USB and play a movie. Or I can use that same connection to transfer that movie to my phone, and watch it. Granted, one downside to this phone is that I gotta be somewheres quiet. I tried listening to it on a plane, and yeah- that didn't happen. With headphones tho, that would be been awesome. If anyone has "last years" model of the Dr. Dre "Beats" headphones, and you want them to goto a good cause... contact me somehow. I am pretty sure that after I transferred the media file to the phone and enabled wireless tethering, a couple buddies could rip the movie to their computers or phones via 802.11g/n so that'd be relatively quick I think, I haven't tested that. Alternatively, you could have a receiver daemon running on the device, and you could wirelessly control it via GUI or command line, or with USB Host adapter integrate other technologies such as serial/ir,z-wave,zigbee pro. Since the device does 1080p you could basically use it as a media server, with expandable storage via SDCARD or network storage. It could stream. With an adapter it could control IR/Serial too... and you know what that means... Or do you? That means that you can change the channels on your television or start fans... There are a lot of cool things you can do.

It has bluetooth, so if you theoretically had 32 students in a classroom in order to take a test they have to log on and put in a code that they are physically given by a moderator, and there would be a projector at the front of the class. Do you realize how more productive kids would be if they could text to their teachers? Some would figure out a whistleblower account and lots of trouble would be saved because they could be SnitchingSafely (ha i should copyright that). Answers could be displayed on the board, 0/32 answered, 8/32,17/32,30/32 (1 min left) Involvement of the actual teacher would be limited so they could prepare the next part of the lesson. Once students were properly trained in handling the devices, perhaps they should have some kind of strap on them. People who abuse the phones have to carry around a lead weight wrapped on a string. You don't want to drop that and if you take the string off you fail. the game. There could be chatrooms that classmates can interact silently without disturbing anyone who is actually doing physical paper work, cuz penmanship is important and they can reference the look of the proper letter via a font application on their phone. DO YOU REALIZE how much cleaner people would write if they knew what the letters would supposed to look like at an early age? Mindgasm. Ok, well that's about all the thoughts that I have about this phone. I'm glad I bought it for $250 with a 2 year contrat, but I wish I could have picked it up for a lot less... I just wasn't willing to change my plans. If I were an android developer I would be picking these up as soon as they got less expensive, very good hardware and development opportunities. I hope they continue making them. Screen bleed that people are talking about is utter trash if they had the same thing as me.

TL;DR... this guy...