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[Hero, G2 Touch General] arnoldjrimmer:
That's pretty good. If you don't need all those minutes then for the same price e2save are doing an 18 month deal with 600 mins, unlimited sms and internet. It makes the monthly cost much lower.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] arnoldjrimmer:
BTW if you know someone who has bought from mobiles.co.uk they can give you a "refer a friend" link and get a cheque for £50. If you can persuade them to split it with you then it's better than the £40 from quidco.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] saquib:
I bought one from Dial A phone on Orange:

12 months on Racoon 40 (600 mins/500 txts). £40 month. 4 months @ half price.

Sums:

12 * 40 = 480

+

12 * 5 = 60 (for internet)

total 540.

Get back:

£50 from quidco (already tracked :-)

£80 from 4 months @ half price.

Therefore 540 - 130 = £410.

Big plus for me is the 12 months contract.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] trice1921:
Half of £50 is £25, thats £15 less than quidco.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] arnoldjrimmer:
Depends how good a friend they are, they might give you the lot.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
Sending my first hero back, and waiting for my second one to arrive.

Am waiting to see if it actually arrives as what t-mobile offered me seems too good to be true...

current contract ends in Jan 2010.

allowing me to upgrade way early, G2 for free, and change my contract down to Combi 15+w&w at £20 a month!

Still expecting a £150 charge in my next bill for the phone, but as the guy promised me it would be for free, i wont pay it if there is! I'm keeping the emails as proof!

as long as it actually arrives, the new contract i already got is going back (still within the 7 working day return period!) :D:D:D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] arnoldjrimmer:
Hmm my order with mobiles.co.uk is still showing as "order received" and the Vodafone deals have gone from the site. It now says "Prices have not yet been confirmed for the HTC Hero, however it is available on Orange".

Anyone know what's going on? I just tried to ring them but they're closed now. I see that e2save are still doing Vodafone deals.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Subliminal Aura:
£166 for the hero

£14 a month line rental + £2.50 unlimited net access that I've had since 2002

Not going to move off that tariff ever :D

Don't think retentions could have helped me but is worth a try I suppose.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
T-Mobile G2 for free on Flex 40 and 3GB W&W
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
well it arrived,free phone (delivery charge), £20 a month on Combi 15+1Gb internet.

Also 6 months early on the upgrade.

Malcolm Leighton at T-Mobile Loyalty department, you sir are a legend!!
[G1 General] newjaruz:
Well out of curiosity before android where did most of you come from? I myself previously had windows and sidekick devices. I want to know why you made the change if you guys want to discuss it and what you miss about your former platform... For example, Blackberry users might miss all the push email ... I have a friend who has a blackberry and he seems to think he cannot have a good experience with android because it doesn't automatically support push for other email accounts... any one went through the same thing?
[G1 General] supremeteam256:
Well you can tell your friedn that android does support push now.
[G1 General] SolemnWishing:
I used to be on the old Symbian 60 platform on Nokia smart phones, Nokia N-Gage QD to be exact. That is where my lust for smart phones kicked off.
[G1 General] Chahk:
Before Android I used to be a smartphone virgin. I always went with whatever "free" (read: heavily subsidized) handset the carrier was offering with the 2-year subscriptions. Once I had a chance to play with a co-worker's G1, I knew what my next phone would be.

As fate would have it my crappy flip-phone died a few months back. I went to a local retailer, shelled out the full $400 for an unlocked G1, added the $15 basic data plan to my AT&T account, and never looked back.
[G1 General] imbonez9:
Came from...

Sanyos

Audiovox9800(best phone verizon EVER had)

Treo 600

Treo 650

BB

Ocean(Used to work at Helio)

Shadow(had for 2 days!! hate that keyboard!!!)

7Dashes(Kept screwing up)

Wing

My baby(G1)
[G1 General] pistol4413:
lame phones!

Well to be honest the g1 is my first smart phone. B4 that I had mid line phones. U know not cheap but not expensive. I wanted an iPhone but when I say the promo site for it I reserved it for the partial discount price. But as fate would have it I had to cancel. See I have a oil heater at home and we all know its expensive to fill up. So I was sad for a bit but after seeing 2 of my friends with the g1 I said wth and ordered it again. And this time tmo gave me the full discount because I have been a costomer for over 8 years! When I got it I fell in love. **** the iphone. LONG LIVE ANDROID!
[G1 General] brian_v3ntura:
first smartphone was

Blackberry pearl 8100 tmobile(scroll ball problems)

tmobile wing(water damage)

tmobile shadow(cracked screen)

unlocked 8525(screen went white)

unlocked tilt (8925) with duttythroy rom loaded up(sold it for 150 and walked back into the mall and said i wanted to upgrade to g1 =)

and now g1 with 2.7.3 jachero.

when i had my tilt, i missed the blackberry push email and the trackball.dpad gets annoying at times.

but i love the skyfire browser and vtap on windowsmobile.. vtap on android kinda blows since it only looking up youtube vids.. and flash content on the skyfire browser was a beaut. i wish the hero rom flash capabilities could compare to skyfire =(
[G1 General] Wisefire:
The T-Mobile Shadow. The Original, not that new one.
[G1 General] Ysleiro:
This is the "friend" he spoke off on the first post..

This is the real issue down here: read what I wrote below.

I'm not sick of BlackBerry (BB). I love the whole package.

But I would like to have other options and recently I've noticed that WinMo/Android and basically no other operating system comes with the whole package as well integrated as a BB. And this is bothersome to me because at this rate I'm stuck with BB.

Guys is it possible to have at least 5 email accounts setup on a Android device (or WinMo)? Will it work as good as my BB does (AKA. Push E-mail)?

If not then what steps can I take to acquire said features (on an Android or WinMo device)? I'm willing to pay a MAX monthly fee of $30 if I have to. Which is what I'm actually paying BB at the moment for the whole "BlackBerry" thing.
[G1 General] Ysleiro:
By the way I don't think I won't have a good experience with Android. I've seen what the OS and UI behave like. I like it.

Read my post above and U'll understand what this is about. It's about me becoming so organized that I refuse to leave this unless I'm 100% sure there is a equal substitute in the platform I'm going to.
[G1 General] PurpleFries:
went from

some random samsung phone (one of those really ghetto clamshell ones that refuse to break)

to a nokia 6265, which was a great phone, but it got stolen

to a moto krzr red, the only one that was impossible to hack T.T

to a samsung sgh-d807, which i found on the ground in the snow after my krzr's screen cracked,

to my rogers htc dream
[G1 General] sblmnl:
This, minus the unlocked G1/ATT. Got it for my birthday in November.
[G1 General] hazard99:
first I had random samsungs and lg's just for the camera's and cool ringtones.

moved to an audiovox smt 5600( i think it was actually an Htc) coolest cheap phone ever!

samsung black jack... sucked couldnt even watch movies on it.

2g iphone ..no mms and no video recorder mode until modded. I hated the fact that apple had so much control.

Now loving the G1
[G1 General] skozsert:
Well I've been through several smartphones, lets see: 1) nokia 3620 2) htc c500 3) htc c600 4) htc dream. Definitely like android more than winmo or s60. I've also played with a few blackberry pearls and detested them, reminds me of the crappy symbian interface without the flexibility. As far as the gentleman wondering about push email on android. Set the gmail account to retrieve emails from your other accounts via pop, if you wish it can leave them on the other mail servers or delete them. Once the mail shows up in gmail it will push to your phone.
[G1 General] holmes901:
Early motorola phone (Dont remember I was 18 with money and influenced by a mall guy :mad: ) I never got my free case for it.

Nokia device (liked it cause of the big screen on the outside and could have pics there)

Motorola RAZR V3 Miami Ink Edition (one with dragon on it) I liked this phone and it was a true trooper. A lot of people were having issues with it being so fragile but I beat mine up and it took it with a passion.

And finally my G1. Actually the real reason I wanted it was cause of the Open Source that it featured but I am sure that I was not the only one out there. I will say this I wanted this phone cause I do webdesign and I figured that I could be different from the whole BB society. My only pep peeve is the kids that get the phone for the trend factor and not the modding factor but I guess thats just me :p
[G1 General] xsnipuhx:
Came from the BB pearl. Greatest choice I've ever made other then beer.
[G1 General] tubaking182:
my smart phone life started on a Nokia 6682, but i quickly upgraded to an 8525, and then the tilt the day it camem out. i can't stand to have a non-touch screen phone anymore so i went to t-mo and got the G1, bit of a downgrade on my service as now i only have EDGE but hopefully i can get back to 3G soon. the only way to get me to even look at a phone is to tell me it has a touchscreen and a full hardware qwerty keyboard, i don't care if it's a 4-row or 5-row, but i am liking the keyboard on this phone
[G1 General] _Kyros_:
I've only had 3 cell phones in my life so far, my first cell phone was the Sanyo SCP-8200 in silver, my second was the Nokia 5610 in white and now I have my very first smart phone...the T-Mobile G1 in white. I made the change because I saw potential in the G1 to be the best and I don't usually ride the band wagon because it's new and everybody's getting it but if it's official and exclusive like the G1 then I'm riding it to the mothasucking wheels fall off but what I do miss from my former cell phones was camera flash.
[G1 General] evilkorn:
First phone was a skytel on nextel, then had a grayscale blue moto with a flip up keyboard (forget the name), then v3, v3i, v8 (or something like that merlot slide phone similar to v9), g1.
[G1 General] amacg1:
Before android i had a windows phone the shadow to be exact the original one not that new round one before that i was a samsung fan
[G1 General] juphro:
I had a Motorola Q as my first smartphone, absolutely terrible decision on my part.

Then got a Samsung i760, awesome, fast, phone on good network (Verizon).

Owning the G1/ADP1 now and the benefits of the phone itself makes up for the network.

Love it when people say 'oh I think your G1 is somehow better than mine.' I think we all know why :D
[G1 General] hazeline:
Fell in love with smartphones after using passed down Elf. I simply cannot turn back to those phones such as Sony Erricson, Samsung....:)
[G1 General] uansari1:
Came from Windows Mobile. So far, I'm glad I switched to Android...
[G1 General] ei8htohms:
first phone I ever modded

My first semi-smart phone was a Samsung T809 (no, it wasn't smart, but it did play MP3s and had limited web browsing capabilities which was novel to me at the time).

I got a BB Pearl (8100) a month or so after they first came out ('06). I absolutely loved that phone and still miss the bullet-proof and blindingly fast email and instant messaging, decent battery life, LED flash and tiny form factor. I do not miss the severely limited browser, lack of touch-screen, WiFi, GPS (not to mention compass), etc. etc.

A friend who is always up on the latest cell phones had me watching Android development for some time before the G1 came out and when he got the earliest released US version I was jealous and jumped on board pretty quickly. I became hooked a couple month later when I got brave and rooted it and became obsessed when Haykuro starting blasting out ROMs. Long live Android.
[G1 General] bigplrbear:
Before Android, I was using an iPhone.

What happened was, I was txt messaging someone, when it started raining. A drop of water got on to my iPhone screen and rendered it useless.

I got a dev phone 1 originally because it had a touch screen AND physical buttons (unlike the iPhone), and it's unlocked (I use AT&T). I'm still keeping my dev phone 1 because I get to mess with stuff (like Donut) earlier than everyone else, and Android seems to hold much more promise in the future than iPhoneOS or Blackberry.

I think that, in a few years, Android will be on A LOT of phones. It will be the next Windows Mobile, being everywhere, whether it's necessary or not :)
[G1 General] NeoBlade:
Before Android, I was mainly on the Symbian OS S60 series. The old P900i (now THAT was a true brick), P910i, then moved to a Sony Ericsson W880i as a change... Didn't like it so went to the Nokia N95 (still one of the best phones I've ever used and had). Managed to convince a lot of people to move over to the N95 after showing them what it was capable of (it too ran on Symbian).

Before the G1 I was actually waiting for the N97 but got impatient! I don't regret it as it has exposed me to the Android platform. Its just a shame there is no native OBEX Bluetooth support so you can't send any files via bluetooth... Such a basic feature!

Now though I am eagerly awaiting the Sony Ericsson XPERIA3 - http://emagi.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/1221-sony-ericsson-xperia-rachael/
[G1 General] Casey Rain:
My first true smartphone was the Nokia 3650 (the one with the circular keypad). I got that in about 2004. That one eventually met a watery grave. I was flying to LA the very next day after that happened (in 2006) so I rushed out and bought a used Nokia 6600, which I used for about 6 months till I got myself a Sidekick 3. Had that about for about a year, then upgraded to a Sidekick Slide in early 2008. Used that and loved it until I got my G1 in December 2008! 6 months later and I still love my G1 :)
[G1 General] jashsu:
Android will have succeeded in its goal when the majority of the responders to this thread say their last phone was a feature phone.
[G1 General] rob_h:
It all started a long, long time ago:

Sony CMD-Z5

Ericsson T18, T28 & T68

Sony Ericsson P800

Orange M600

Nokia N95

iPhone 2G

HTC Tytn 2

SE Xperia

G1

Sure there are a few more but I have been a WinMob fan for the last few years but feel that MS has forgotten about it while others have been developing great OSes. Definately think Apple gave the industry a kick up the arse but the hype surrounding the iPhone is a pain in the arse and I'm not a big fan of having to ask a manufacturer what I can and can't do so Android is perfect for me.

Looking forward to the SE Xperia Rachel.
[G1 General] thecolorifix:
I started "hacking" my Motorola V3....

to do smartphone-like stuff, then I realized I just wanted a smartphone.

I got a Dash... and I immediately knew I messed up, but I was stuck with it.

As soon as I could afford it I got a BB Pearl 8100, LOVED it, but missed the qwerty from the Dash.

So I got a Curve, LOVED it.

The only reason I don't still have a BlackBerry is I heard that Google (whose products I'd always used and enjoyed) was making an OpenSource (which I am quite frond of, and I know the benefits that come with that) smartphone OS based on Linux (which I use).

I knew immediately I would be using Android for quite a while.

Edit: I also had 3 different Palm Pilots and a secondhand HP Jornada at various times.
[G1 General] Nexeo:
I used to have a windows mobile 5 phone, the Motorola Q. That thing was awful, mostly because it was WiMo...
[G1 General] crxtasi:
LOL I came a long way...here's my lists:

Nokia 5190, 6190, 8210, 8890, Sidekick, Sidekick Color 6600, N95

HTC Dash <-the phone that started it all, 2 MDAs, Wing then Tilt

now have my G1 and pre-ordered the myTouch

one game I miss from my nokia 6600 that I wish we had was a game called Mosquitoes, it uses the camera so you look around and shoot animated mosquitoes infront of the cam...:D anyone remember this game?
[G1 General] goldenarmZ:
In my sig.. HTC Wizard.. only retired cos I broke the usb socket, then broke the usb socket I replaced it with. By that point there was nothing left to solder to :(

Thank god I broke it though.. I love my G1.
[G1 General] AbsoluteDesignz:
Samsung Flip phone E something, Samsung Slider T809, T-mobile Dash (my baby which I gave to my sister so she could proceed to completely destroy the thing and lose it), and now the T-mobile G1.
[G1 General] Shatterz:
Had 2 cheap moto phones b4 my G1. The v551 and then the v360 (which is actually better, donno why they would number them like that)

both were flip, both were hacked.
[G1 General] brandenk:
I used to solder in white LEDs to replace the OEM green LEDs in the old Nokias.

I flashed firmware on old Samsungs and various PDAs.

Then the flood gates opened up when I got an AT&T 8525 (HTC Hermes) used off CL. I learned all I could about the basics but never got into creating things, just using what other people created.

And then the first coming of Android! I knew it was time to switch to the G1 because I like new things and I like Google so voila, here I am. The main reason being I wanted to get into the community at the beginning because it makes learning everything so much easier if you are part of it.
[G1 General] jcohenlv:
I started in the old analog days, so this is gonna be a list....lol

Analog AT&T $29.99 a month for 30 minutes

Nokia 100

Nokia 636

Nokia 232

Nokia 8110 (The Matrix Phone)

Nokia 9000 (The First Smart Phone)

Nokia 252

The move to digital $29.99 a month for 60 minutes

Nokia 2160

Nokia 6110 (The phone in the X Files movie)

Nokia 9000i (The digital version of the 9000)

Nokia 8810 (The zippo, silver slider)

Nokia 7160 (Calendar, and Organizer, Predictive Text, WAP)

The Move To T-Mobile

Nokia 3310

Nokia 8290

Nokia N-Gage

Nokia N-Gage QD

Moved To Verizon

Motorola Razor

Palm Treo 650

Palm Treo 750

Back to Tmobile

Android G-1

Out of the bunch the G-1 is still me fave. The nokia 9000i gets props for being WAP enabled long before anyone else. The phone must have weighed 5 pounds and the battery lasted like 3 hours ...lol

The 8810 also gets props for being small and cool, everyone thought it was a zippo lighter which was great fun at bars. "Hey man your zippo is ringing?" and then the puzzled looks .... lol
[G1 General] jaboswell:
My first smartphone was the Tmobile (HTC) Shadow (1st version)....loved it, but knew that my next move was a G1...got the G1 in March 2009!!!!

Before that I just used whatever messaging phone there was.
[G1 General] nickmgray:
I've been using HTC handsets for the past 4 years. Had the imate JAM and the HTC Touch, but I'm really loving android so far. I sold my Touch when I got the G1. However, I did just purchase a refurbished Touch Pro for $175 so that I have a WM handset to play around with and test out all the cool stuff the developers are going with WM 1.5 and the new version of TF 3D.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lordje:
Hello there,

I have the problem that I can't use Computer-to-computer network using my SE Xperia (X1i) and mij Laptop.

Just a Wifi network.

I thought it must be possible but I don't know how to setup such a network.

Anybody who could help me a bit?

Thanks in advance!
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Firefall!:
What do you want to do? I don't get your point. Do you want to be able to access the files on your phone as with ActiveSync, but using Wifi? And vice versa?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lordje:
I can't use Active Sync 'cause I'm using Vista.

But what I want is being able to access my computer with my phone using Wifi and vise versa.

Besides that I want my phone to be able to use the internet connection of my laptop...

Is this possible and how?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sandrinopi:
No issue for ActiveSync under Vista and even Windows7 (I'm using them both). Both operating systems will allow you to connect the Internet using the USB connection and Windows Mobile Device Center (native app in Vista and Win7).

Regarding the Wifi connection to the Internet, this has nothing to do with your PC and its OS; all you need is to connect to the Wifi router. The only thing for which you could need a PC in this case, is to connect to the router to verify the network settings and use them in the phone.

Regards

S
[General Questions and Answers] br4nd0nh347:
I know this will sound stupid, but is there a way to install WM (.cabs) on an android phone? (or port a program somehow)
[General Questions and Answers] stephj:
Basically, nope!

Probably, same phone, same hardware, but the difference is, different operating system.

The only way to port stuff over, as yet, is to get hold of the source code and re-engineer it into the other OS. Not for the faint hearted, although it can be done.

The question to ask is, 'Is your App worth that amount of effort?'

'Where is the source code?', for starters.

If the App was written in .NET then a MONO CF for Android could be a solution. Anyone written it yet?
[G1 Android Development] Obsidiandesire:
Hi, I'm beginning c++ Development, Done a little stuff with OpenGL but love challenging myself with command line stuff. For this, I mostly use gcc, and either geany or nano.

I did have debian on my G1 so I could use nano and gcc. It worked well, but the only way of getting files to and from would be via ftp.

I was wondering if people who had experience compiling command line stuff for android (Hasn't Bash recently been ported?) could help or give me some tips? nano + gcc would be awesome, though gcc is a must, I'd be able to copy my app to my g1's SD card and have my terminal apps on the go, great for long journeys and stuff.

I'd even be tempted to look at writing an IDE in Java (though I've not much experience in GUI development, I have in programming theory).

Plus, are there instructions for actually compiling linux apps for android, I don't seem to have found any anywhere, and It'd be good, that we could maybe compile more apps like rtorrent and such.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mastermarv:
Hi,

i have to use the reset button quite often. unfortunately everytime the phone hangs i have to remove the back cover in order to reach it.

has anyone ever tried to drill a hole in the cover at the position of the reset button. if yes, is it save or is it likely that the the cover breaks during that procedure? is there a replacement cover available in case one does not succeed?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Phurious:
Not having one myself (yet) I cannot speak intelligently about the modification. There is a replacement cover available though:

http://www.expansys-usa.com/d.aspx?i=179102
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] AlCapone:
yes, you can buy replacement cover.

and yes, drilling will work fine, just pre-drill with small drill first, like max 1mm, before moving on to whatever you wish.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] quark1980:
hi all,

i have acces to x-ray equipment, and couldnt resist the urge to check up on my beloved device..

so no question from me here... but just wanted to share some pics i made of my diamond, in a way few will be able to see his/her diamond.

note that plastics seem transparant, and metal opaque..

front bezel:

mid section:

back section:
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] film42:
I ordered my G1 and I was planning on giving someone my IMEI # and get the unlock pin. My question is, once I do that, do I have to enter the pin in every time I reboot the phone? Or do I enter it once and it's permanently unlocked?

If someone could clear this up I'd really appreciate it! :)

Thanks,

film42
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supremeteam256:
It will be permantly unlocked
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] film42:
Wonderful!

I keep seeing all these youtube videos of people showing there tmobile sim then swap it for something, then unlock it. It just looks like you do it after every reboot or sim change :P

And I was really hoping I dont need to tape a piece of paper with my pin on it to the battery, lol.

Anyways, thanks for clearing this up!