[Defy General] [] AL []:
my 1,000 th post on xda!!!

[Little OFF-TOPIC part here if I may...]

There we go!!

My 1,000th post on XDA - woohoo!!!

It's been quite a ride during those xx months since my first post here.

A fun and interesting one that is, where I've learned so many new things

and interesting people. From the time when a few crazy of us were flashing

and eagerly waiting for the next Quarx CM7 alpha builds to where the xda saw

the whole Defy community being one of the most thriving and exciting one to

be part of. [We (the Defy community) took the first spot of world-wide installations

of CM7 might I remind you...]

So thank you all, thank you xda!

I know I haven't been the best RC I could be these last few months - Life has its ways

that no old fool can ever hope to have control on...

But I must say that the number of posts on Quarx's CM7 (my favorite ROM that will forever

remain as my first [and almost ONLY] 'Android love') thread kind of followed the same quiet

path over that period...

And let's stop right here, please.

I wanna to take one or two lines to once more thank the 3 true Defy gods:

Quarx, Epsylon3 and Maniac103: Thanks you a million times. You guys rock!!

But here I am after 2 mod warnings, 1 account suspension, many questions asked, many of [what I hoped were]

helping replies, a RC tittle and too many of my (somehow famous) looonnnngg posts full of 80%-resized

screenshots, zips to flash and my other non-sense stuff, standing here before you today to announce that:

I will now take a break.

...wait, wait: a kit-kat break, that is. :p

BACK TO TOPIC:

I don't want to do some forum thread necrotomy here today on a thread dead for almost a year, but...

The last time I've posted here, I've mentioned S4-mini and One-mini...: skroo that !! Yes, Samsung has flagship phones with nice specs and displays and they seem to always try to innovate and find new s/w or h/w new tricks: fine! I won't complain on innovation. It's just that I will not give them an arm and half a leg for their flashy 'en vogue' products. They're just too expensive and this will catch up with them one day. HTC: most of the same - keep going guys but I've seen and heard too many bad experiences and horror stories with your products since last year.

So that begs the question: what will be my next phone then?

Answer: the Defy's big brother: the Motorola Atrix HD

Surprising!?

I'm the first to be surprised in fact. I'd never thought that I would buy again from a company that broke its promise of unlocking our Defy bootloader. I'd never thought that I'd choose a phone that has been released for what > almost 2 years ago now...

BUT:

Although, granted the phone's aging design and specs (which are basically almost identical [cpu/gpu-wise] to the SGS3 and the HTC One-X),

it has quite a few attractive selling points to me. Here's a few that cross my mind:

- very colorful [praised on every review] 720p display f- good or my aging eyes...;

- an excellent in-call sound and loud loudspeaker;

- an unlockable bootloader with expected official kitkat update release soon [TBD];

- HDMI output [how many phones still offer this these days?];

- a non-removable battery that can be easily hacked/replaced cheaply in order to more than double the capacity;

- ...and I could go on and on just going through the comparison of Defy/AHD specs sheets: just good stuff for me...

And all that for less than the price I paid just 4-5 months ago for my third DEFY (~85$) ;-P

I just cannot afford to let this little technological marvel at discount pricing go pass by me.

Time to ride the unlocked BL wave and let the good roms roll!!

So go ahead guys and bash me over the choice of this dinosaur of a smartphone choice.

But I'm convinced that the AHD will do all and much more than I expect from it for me and for a long time to come - just like

the my 3 old and faithful Defy phones did [and still do].

So I'll keep my subscriptions to the Defy threads and keep an interested eyes of what's going on here, but

you know where to find me for most of my next 1000 posts....

The good news is also that I will not stop theming. So eventually, if there's interest for it, I'll share with you guys what my I changed on my

Kitkat phone...

OK, end of this long post for today; I still got lots of reading to do over on another forum section...